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June 22, 2023, 7:42 PM

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Anja Karadeglija / National Post:
Meta will remove news content from Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada after the country's Senate passed the Online News Act, which goes for Royal Assent  —  With Bill C-18 on the verge of becoming law, Canadians could soon see news removed from their Facebook pages and Google searches
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas steps down after five years at the company to refocus on “entrepreneurial passions”  —  TikTok's Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas has quit, Pappas told staff on Thursday, according to an email viewed by The Information.
Anton Shilov / AnandTech:
Argonne and Intel say they installed the Aurora supercomputer, announced in 2015, which will come online later in 2023 with 2 ExaFLOPS of processing power  —  Argonne National Laboratory and Intel said on Thursday that they had installed all 10,624 blades for the Aurora supercomputer …
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Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica:
DuckDuckGo releases its browser in public beta on Windows, over a year after its private beta on macOS, offering Duck Player for YouTube without ads and more  —  No extensions yet, but it can fight spam, tracking, and YouTube's algorithm.  —  Privacy-focused firm DuckDuckGo has released …
CoinDesk:
BitGo ends its bid to acquire rival Prime Trust, which in turn halts all deposits and withdrawals; a judge dismissed BitGo's lawsuit over the failed Galaxy deal  —  Prime Trust has been losing clients and deposits to competitors for weeks amid mounting concerns over its business, a source at one former client told CoinDesk.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Elon Musk tweets that he is “up for a cage fight” with Mark Zuckerberg, who replies “send me location” in an Instagram story; Musk suggests the Vegas Octagon  —  Here we go.  —  After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg …
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Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
New York-based Captions, an AI-powered video editing app, raised a $25M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $250M valuation, bringing its total funding to $40M  —  The video editing software, designed for “talking videos,” has been used by 3 million creators to date and stands at a $250 million valuation.
Amrita Khalid / The Verge:
As Spotify's podcast strategy of focusing on exclusives and celebrity hosts continues to falter, the company seems to be shifting its attention to selling ads  —  The company is entering the ‘next phase’ of its podcast strategy — but will it learn from its mistakes?
Bloomberg:
a16z, Accel, Bain, Bessemer, Kleiner, and, sources say, Coatue and Tiger are increasingly buying startup shares on the secondary market, often at cheap prices  —  It's a bargain-hunter's dream, and for sellers it's sometimes the only good option left.  —  Secondary markets …
Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters:
Micron plans to invest up to $825M in its first DRAM and NAND assembly and test facility in India, with construction in Gujarat expected to begin in 2023  —  U.S. memory chip firm Micron Technology, Inc (MU.O) said on Thursday it would invest up to $825 million in a new chip assembly …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
AWS is investing $100M in a new program to help companies use generative AI by connecting them with AI experts, with Highspot and Twilio among its first clients  —  - Amazon's cloud unit said Thursday that it's allocating $100 million for a center to help companies use generative artificial intelligence.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Microsoft aims to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years, after claiming to have created scalable and stable qubits using Majorana particles in 2022  —  Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company's researchers …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Figma expands its Google for Education partnership to Japan and now lets all US K-12 students access its design tools for free on education Chromebooks  —  Figma is expanding its partnership with Google for Education in a bid to introduce more school-age students to its product design and collaboration platforms.
Bob Mehr / New York Times:
A look at Dolby Atmos, supported by 15 music streaming services including Apple Music, which has heavily invested in Atmos, and the future of immersive audio  —  True believers in the immersive audio format say it could restore a musical appreciation lost to a generation that has come up during the streaming era.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases visionOS SDK for creating Vision Pro apps and plans to open applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits and developer labs in July 2023  —  When Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC, the company promised to make a robust set of tools available for developers.
Glenn Gamboa / Associated Press:
Google pledges $20M in grants to support and expand the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, aiming to introduce US students to potential cybersecurity careers  —  Free medical clinics and legal aid clinics, where college students and their instructors help their communities while also learning …

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