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Sources: Apple and Sony could add PlayStation VR2 controller support to visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K Vision Pro units since its February 2024 debut — Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Apple faces a lawsuit accusing it of failing to implement a system that detects and removes CSAM from iCloud, despite initially developing such a tool in 2021 — A 27-year old former child sexual abuse victim photographed anonymously with her mother. Her lawsuit against Apple claims …
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launched a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials — The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM — ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software …
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| Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
The rise of generative AI will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps — I'm addicted to Apple's Vision Pro. It's a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be lighter.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Study: gTLDs like .shop and .xyz, which had 11% market share for new domains, accounted for ~37% of cybercrime domains reported between Sep. 2023 and Aug. 2024 — Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number … | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant — An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future
Bluesky: @dannygroner. X: @psiquantum, @wsj, and @alexmmmack
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| Ryotaro Yamada / Nikkei Asia: |
Dell'Oro Group expects global investment in data centers to rise ~30% YoY to $463.7B in 2025, with about half coming from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta — LAS VEGAS — Global investment in data centers is expected to outpace the cost of sending humans to the moon by about 50% next year … | The Guardian: |
An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M — FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government
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| Andrew Williams / Wired: |
A look at the opportunities India provides for smartphone companies, including its growing market for premium phones and as a manufacturing hub outside of China — A quarter of all iPhones could be made outside China by 2025, most likely in India—a rapidly growing market with hundreds of millions of potential customers.
More: Notebookcheck and The Diplomat
| Bloomberg: |
How the US-China fallout is fueling boomtowns in Vietnam and Malaysia, as startups and governments rush to build out AI, chipmaking hubs, and access to compute — An accelerating influx of tech investment is transforming local economies in Malaysia and Vietnam.| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Chatbot Arena, which now ranks 170+ AI models; the two UCB researchers who launched the project in April 2023 hope to grow it into a Wikipedia for AI — Ranking AI is tricky, so two students developed a way to make the best bots battle — BERKELEY, Calif.—Record labels have the Billboard Hot 100.| Gillian Tett / Financial Times: |
As digital assets go more mainstream, memecoins like PNUT, named after euthanized pet squirrel Peanut, show how the information ecosystem is changing in finance — Ordinary investors need to pay attention to new information flows online — Dead squirrels normally do not feature in financial history.Sponsor Posts
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