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| Brave: |
Researchers detail an indirect prompt injection flaw in Perplexity's Comet AI browser, letting attackers manipulate it into performing unauthorized actions — The threat of instruction injection — At Brave, we're developing the ability for our in-browser AI assistant Leo to browse the Web on your behalf, acting as your agent.
More: BleepingComputer, Engadget, ZDNET, The Register, and The Hacker News
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and Beehaw
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's three-year iPhone redesign plan, starting with iPhone Air this fall, foldable with Touch ID in 2026, and a curved-glass “iPhone 20” in 2027 — Apple is weeks away from its big product launch event, where it will lay the foundation for a once-in-a-generation iPhone overhaul.
More: Moneycontrol, MacRumors, Livemint, Appleosophy, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, Neowin, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, Benzinga, PhoneArena, PhoneArena, iClarified, PhoneArena, MacRumors, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Digital Trends, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @pbeisel, and @markgurman. Bluesky: @parismarx.com
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Gaby Hinsliff / The Guardian: |
An interview with Nick Clegg about Zuckerberg's “masculine energy”, Silicon Valley's “cloying conformity” and “combination of machismo and self-pity”, and more — When Britain's former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world.
More: The Guardian, The Guardian, Implicator.ai, TechCrunch, and Business Insider
X: @carolecadwalla, @carolecadwalla, @carolecadwalla, @salisburyplain_, @_andyburrows, @wi_john, @andrewrsorkin, @flynny123, @russincheshire, @mattrosoff, @riptari, and @alfonslopeztena. LinkedIn: Neville Hobson
Bluesky: @mja66, @drgeophysics, @faduda, @stephenfarrow, @gj19eighty, @emmalbriant, @rossmcnally, @catanonim.me, @jonathancohn, @helenebismarck, and @fascinatorfun. Threads: @nickclegg
Mastodon: @johnquiggin@aus.social and @dharmadan@aus.social
Forums: r/LabourUK, r/BillBurr, r/ukpolitics, r/technology, r/Foodforthought, and r/siliconvalley
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
xAI releases the weights of Grok 2 on Hugging Face, under the Grok 2 Community License Agreement; Musk says Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months” — Elon Musk's xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 …
More: xAI on Hugging Face, Reuters, Engadget, TechEBlog, Tech in Asia, The Decoder, Livemint, and TestingCatalog
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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/grok
| Wall Street Journal: |
Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say the US-Intel deal won't solve Intel's real issue: a lack of external customers for its foundry unit — The Chips Act wasn't about raising revenue, and an equity share wouldn't enhance national security.| New York Times: |
A look at FoundHer House, an all-female hacker house in San Francisco that has become a hot spot for dinners and panel discussions sponsored by a16z and others — FoundHer House, a home in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood, is the rare all-female hacker house where residents are creating …
Bluesky: @hunterwalk.com
| J. Edward Moreno / Sherwood News: |
Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on developing AI-powered features like Wingman and A-List, Grindr's new telehealth service Woodwork, his RTO mandate, and more — Wall Street has a hard time understanding Grindr, a gay dating and hookup app whose yellow mask icon and distinct notification sound … | Bloomberg: |
The US CFTC staff describe chaos, cutbacks, and an atmosphere of resentment and paranoia as the agency prepares to take on new crypto regulatory duties — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is poised to take on vast new responsibilities. Staff describe chaos, cutbacks and an atmosphere of resentment and paranoia.
More: Bitcoinist.com
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
How Spotify's Discovery Mode has become the new normal in music marketing, five years after its 2020 launch when it faced a backlash and “payola” accusations — Spotify's Discovery Mode allows rightsholders to boost their songs in exchange for a lower royalty rate. Most everyone is using it.| Beth Rose / BBC: |
How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a woman's voice, lost to motor neuron disease, from just eight seconds of audio on a VHS tape — “After such a long time, I couldn't really remember my voice,” Sarah Ezekiel tells BBC Access All. “When I first heard it again, I felt like crying.
More: Tech Xplore, New York Post, and BBC
LinkedIn: Matt McCarty, The 10,000 Brains Project, and Son V Truong
| Forbes: |
UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 — Revenue from Chinese social media giant ByteDance's short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.
More: Social Media Today and Khaama Press
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
A journalist recounts shipping code as a vibe coding engineer during a two-day stint at Notion, working alongside engineers using AI tools like Cursor — I spent two days at Notion and saw an industry in upheaval. I also shipped some actual code. — I asked my editors if I could go work at a tech startup.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accelerate loan application and origination processes, raised a $29M Series A led by Canapi Ventures — A startup called Cascading AI Inc. said today it has closed on a $29 million Series A funding round to support the expansion … | Lane Florsheim / Wall Street Journal: |
How Raya, a privately held dating app with a waitlist of 2.5M people, found success through its rigorous user selection process and Fight Club-style rules — The privately held company has attracted an A-list clientele and even gotten Gen Z onboard with online dating.
X: @tjtaylr
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