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The US arrests and charges former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky with six counts, including wire fraud; the SEC, CFTC, and FTC sue Mashinsky and the crypto company — Alex Mashinsky, the former chief executive officer of Celsius Network Ltd., was accused by prosecutors of orchestrating …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Google updates Bard with support for 43 more languages, including Arabic, and releases the chatbot in Europe and Brazil after adding new privacy features — Latest version to also include a privacy hub for all users — Google is betting a new version of its artificial-intelligence chatbot will say hallo …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Document: the FTC sends OpenAI a 20-page demand for records on the risks of its AI models and a March 2023 security incident over payment-related information — The agency's demand for OpenAI's documents about AI risks mark the company's greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date
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| The Verge: |
The FTC files to appeal a US court ruling that cleared the way for Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard; the existing TRO expires at 11:59pm PT on July 14 — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it is appealing a recent US federal court order that cleared the way for Microsoft to purchase Activision Blizzard.
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| Washington Post: |
In June, the US State Department told Microsoft that its emails in Azure were hacked; attackers stole a Microsoft key and hacked ~25 organizations' emails — The State Department discovered the Microsoft vulnerability, which affected unclassified government systems, last month
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK, starting with Revolut and Tyl by NatWest as the first platforms, following the US, Australia, and Taiwan — Apple has announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in the United Kingdom, allowing independent sellers, small merchants …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple updates macOS Sonoma to bring iCloud Keychain passwords to non-Safari browsers for the first time, expanding on a Chrome extension — The macOS Sonoma update that is in testing allows Mac owners who opt to use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or another browser to use Apple's Password Manager for filling passwords.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub launches support for passkeys in public beta, letting users who opt in upgrade from security keys to passkeys, and use those in place of password and 2FA — GitHub announced today the introduction of passwordless authentication support in public beta, allowing users to upgrade from security keys to passkeys.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta plans to release a commercial version of LLaMA imminently and will make the AI model more widely available and customizable by companies — Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google are surging ahead in Silicon Valley development race — Meta is poised to release a commercial version …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sony plans to spend ~$2.13B on gaming R&D for the FY ending March 2024, accounting for ~40% of its total R&D expenditure and surpassing electronics and chips — Japan electronics giant to ramp up live-game titles to catch up to Microsoft — Sony is aiming for 60% of game development costs … | Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Sony plans to release its PS5 accessibility controller on December 6, with preorders starting July 21, for $90 in the US, £80 in the UK, and €90 in Europe — The highly customizable Access controller comes with several button and stick caps. — Sony has revealed …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
The AP signs a two-year deal with OpenAI, under which the AP will get access to OpenAI tech and license some of its archive dating back to 1985 for AI training — The Associated Press on Thursday said it reached a two-year deal with OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, to share access to select news content and technology.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds bilingual support to Siri, starting with Indic languages like Hindi and Telugu; Google Assistant got multilingual support in 2018 and Alexa in 2019 — Apple released its first set of public beta versions of iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma on Wednesday.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Telly begins shipping its free, ad-supported, dual-screen TV as part of its “public beta program”; users must submit demographic info, viewing habits, and more — Start-up says it received more than 250,000 sign-ups from U.S. consumers … The start-up, which plans to ship … | Tom Hals / Reuters: |
A US judge says Ripple's institutional XRP sales constituted the unregistered sale of investment contracts and sends the case to trial to decide SEC claims — U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres said Ripple Labs Inc's institutional sales of its XRP digital token violated federal law …
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| Adam Crafton / The Athletic: |
How Apple expanded into sports, starting with MLB in March 2022, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him — In 2019, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, the Apple senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, was asked the extent to which he … | Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
A writer details using AI startup Writer's LLM to generate text in his writing style and says that most of the tool's “insights” felt hollow or approximated — A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Xbox tests reactive voice chat moderation, letting Xbox Insiders report 60-second audio clips of inappropriate voice messages for the Xbox safety team to review — Rolling out today to Xbox Insiders, the new reporting feature will allow players to capture and submit 60-second audio clips …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Twitter asks a US federal court to terminate an FTC order that puts restrictions on its data security practices and to stay an FTC deposition of Elon Musk — The company asked the federal court to terminate an order with the agency hours before Chair Lina Khan testified on Capitol Hill
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stability AI debuts Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool that uses the Stable Diffusion model to generate “visually pleasing” artistic renditions, on ClipDrop — Stability AI, the startup behind the image-generating model Stable Diffusion, is launching a new service that turns sketches into images.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Nothing Phone (2) review: neat light strips, useful always-on display, and four-year software support, but only splash resistant and not certified on Verizon — Form, function, and a good midrange phone. … The Nothing Phone 2 is better than the Phone 1 in a lot of small ways.
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University challenges a ban on TikTok on state devices in Texas, saying the law hurts research and teaching — A lawsuit filed on Thursday says that Gov. Greg Abbott's ban is compromising research and teaching at public universities.| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
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