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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Apple says the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air have Memory Integrity Enforcement, “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection”, like Microsoft and Google offer — Memory Integrity Enforcement is always-on safety protection designed to make life harder for spyware developers.
More: Apple Security Research, MacRumors, ZDNET, CyberScoop, The Hacker News, AppleInsider, Cyber Security News, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada, The Cyber Express, Stuff, Blockonomi, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Cyber Kendra
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Bluesky: @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, @tomwarren.co.uk, @migueldeicaza, @crawshaw.io, @markmx, @durumcrustulum.com, and @darthbluesky. Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @ela@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/jailbreak, r/hardware, and MacRumors Forums
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, with an aluminum unibody design, vapor chamber thermal management, Ceramic Shield 2 glass, and three 48MP rear cameras — Apple has officially unveiled the new iPhone 17 Pro. It comes in a bold new orange color, features an aluminum unibody design …
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Threads: @thomashayden, @becca.farsace, @scentmystyle, and @heaney_555
Forums: r/technology and MacRumors Forums
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces the iPhone Air, with eSIM-only worldwide, a 5.6mm design, an A19 Pro chip, an N1 chip for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a Center Stage front camera — Apple has officially announced the thinnest iPhone ever: the iPhone Air. The iPhone Air is made from titanium and measures in at a stunning 5.6mm design.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Spotify plans to roll out lossless audio at 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC to Premium users over the next two months in 50 markets, without needing a pricier subscription — Subscribers will be able to enjoy 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC as part of their Premium plan. … It's been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping — Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
More: RSL Web Standard, Ars Technica, Search Engine Land, PCMag, TechCrunch, ZDNET, and The Medium Blog. Forums: r/artificial
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta's TBD Lab team sits in an area near Mark Zuckerberg's desk that needs special badge access, and their names are not on the company's org chart — An influx of highly paid researchers has created new status divisions, even as some recent hires have already left their jobs| Anders Melin / Bloomberg: |
Larry Ellison becomes the world's richest person for the first time, at $393B, overtaking Elon Musk at $385B, as Oracle's stock jumps 40%+ after beating Q1 est. — Larry Ellison has become the world's richest person for the first time, ending Elon Musk's nearly year-long reign in the top spot.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Reddit removes subscriber counts from subreddit pages, replacing them with past seven-day metrics to show how many users visited and made how many contributions — Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.| Dan Moren / Six Colors: |
iPhone 17 event tidbits: the new MagSafe battery is iPhone Air exclusive, the Air likely uses binned A19 Pro chips, and older AirPods will get Live Translation — Apple crams a lot into its keynotes, but almost as notable is what it chooses not to talk about.
More: MacRumors, Appleosophy, T3, PCMag, Android Headlines, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, The Economic Times, Tech Times, Daring Fireball, TidBITS, MacRumors, The Verge, and Wired
Bluesky: @paleofuture, @lauridonahue, and @gloriasin
| Ben Funk / HotHardware: |
Arm launches four Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils its new Mali G1-Ultra GPU — As the smartphone market has matured, the workloads that consumers expect from their tiny in-pocket mobile computers has increased drastically.| Océane Herrero / Politico: |
Memo: Apple's March update to its AI training guidelines for data annotators marked DEI as a “controversial” topic and removed intolerance as “harmful” behavior — Two months after Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down at Donald Trump's inauguration, several hundred employees … | Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire video platform Vimeo in an all-cash deal valued at ~$1.38B, set to close in Q4; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges — Bending Spoons, one of Europe's largest mobile app developers, has agreed to buy the video platform Vimeo in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.38 billion.
More: The Information, Vimeo.com, Inc., TechCrunch, Reuters, Tech.eu, Yahoo Finance, and TVBEurope
Bluesky: @hunterwalk.com and @johnvoorhees.macstories.net
| Financial Times: |
How AlphaFold2 and the rise of generative AI kickstarted a new AI drug discovery boom after a spate of startups from the mid-2010s failed to live up to the hype — In the mid-2010s, a spate of start-ups hoping to transform the laborious process of finding new drugs launched with big promises.| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon is developing consumer AR glasses codenamed Jayhawk with microphones, speakers, a camera, and color display, set for late 2026 or early 2027 — Amazon is developing a pair of augmented-reality glasses for consumers, say two people with knowledge of the plans.| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing a 62% share of the premium market — - The global premium smartphone market's unit sales grew 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1.
| Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood announces a feed where users can follow and copy verified trades of other investors and public figures, rolling out in beta to ~10K users in Q1 2026 — Robinhood Social will allow users to post their trades and track those of public figures, like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
More: Benzinga, Business Insider, Finextra, Axios, TheStreet, Tech Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Fortune
| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June — Amazon and Netflix are two of the major competitors in Hollywood's streaming wars, but in at least one instance, they're ready to team up.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
A US Treasury Department document says “digital content creators”, including podcasters, social media influencers, and streamers, are eligible for tax-free tips — A U.S. Treasury Department document includes podcasters, social media influencers and streamers among occupations eligible for tax-free tips.
More: Bloomberg and USA Insurance News …
| Financial Times: |
Quantum startup PsiQuantum raised $1B led by BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford at a $7B valuation, up from $3.2B in 2021, for a 1M-qubit computer by 2028 — PsiQuantum backed by BlackRock, Temasek and Baillie Gifford as investment race intensifies — PsiQuantum has raised $1bn … | Forbes: |
Brain Co., co-founded by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, and others to help enterprises and governments use AI, comes out of stealth with a $30M Series A — Kushner teamed up with prolific solo investor Elad Gil and Luis Videgaray, the former Mexican foreign minister, to launch Brain Co. …
Bluesky: @seanokane
| The Verge: |
iPhone Air hands-on: very thin with rounded edges reminiscent of previous iPhone designs and a camera “plateau” that flows smoothly into the back of the phone — We've held Apple's new thin and light iPhone. … Apple just announced the iPhone Air, which, as you might guess by the name … | The Verge: |
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X: @chriswelch, @kylebrussell, and @neilcybart
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple Watch's hypertension notifications and sleep score will come to some older models with watchOS 26; Apple expects FDA clearance for the notifications soon — New hypertension notifications are coming to the Watch Series 9 and up. … Apple just announced a bunch of new health-tracking …
More: Apple, PCMag, ZDNET, iThinkDifferent, Benzinga, Appleosophy, Cult of Mac, ZDNET, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
Forums: r/AppleWatch, r/technology, and r/apple
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Amazon's Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, letting riders hail its toaster-shaped cars between specific destinations in the city's 4.2-mile Strip — The driverless car group launches to the public in challenge to Waymo and Tesla over the future of ride-hailing
More: Forbes, CNBC, Reuters, Associated Press, Fortune, The Verge, TechCrunch, Electrek, Yahoo Finance, CNET, Bloomberg, and Wired. X: @zoox
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft will use Anthropic's models for some AI features in its Office 365 apps, after finding Claude Sonnet 4 beats OpenAI's GPT-5 in some tasks — Microsoft is taking its biggest step to lessen reliance on OpenAI's artificial intelligence by embracing the startup's bitter rival Anthropic …
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Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Replit raised $250M led by Prysm, nearly tripling its valuation to $3B; its annualized revenue grew from $2.8M to $150M in the past year and it has 40M users — AI coding startup Replit Inc. has raised $250 million in a funding round that nearly triples its valuation to $3 billion … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft partners with Ann Arbor-based May Mobility to let Atlanta riders request an autonomous minivan, with a safety driver, starting in a seven square-mile area — The vehicles from May Mobility will have safety drivers who will ‘drive manually during initial trips,’ the companies said.
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Reuters, Axios, The Driverless Digest, Wall Street Journal, CNET, and KrASIA
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli chip monitoring startup ProteanTecs raised a $51M Series D led by IAG, with participation from Arm, Samsung, and more, taking its total funding to $250M — The Israeli company has now raised more than $250M, expanding global footprint across automotive, cloud, and telecom. — ProteanTecs| Bloomberg: |
Amsterdam-based Nebius Group plans to raise $2B in convertible notes and $1B in equity to help it expand after signing an up to $17.4B+ deal with Microsoft — Nebius Group NV plans to raise $3 billion in convertible notes and equity to help it expand in the wake of a major deal …
More: DutchNews.nl
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed — Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok on Wednesday won their legal fight against a European Union supervisory fee imposed …
More: Euronews, Politico, Courthouse News Service, Euractiv, Ukrainian National News, WinBuzzer, and BMI
| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
CuspAI, which develops AI foundation models for materials discovery, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA and Temasek, a source says at a ~$520M valuation — CuspAI, a startup developing AI models for chemistry that counts several AI luminaries among its scientific advisors, has raised $100 million in new venture capital funding.
More: Sifted, Implicator.ai, EU-Startups, Silicon Canals, and Business Weekly
| Bloomberg: |
In a letter to FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence” leading to hospital operator Ascension's breach — US Senator Ron Wyden says glaring cybersecurity flaws by Microsoft Corp. enabled a ransomware attack on a US hospital system …
More: Becker's Hospital Review
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Uber plans to add Blade helicopter rides as soon as 2026 via a partnership with electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation, which acquired Blade for $125M in August — Uber is tackling a new form of ride sharing: helicopters. — The ride hailing company on Wednesday said it will launch Blade helicopter rides …
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