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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765 — Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding. As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive …
More: TechCrunch, Mashable, Ars Technica, The Verge, PCMag, Engadget, Telegraph, Livemint, Reuters, Mashable, Washington Post, MobileSyrup, The Apple Post, Android Headlines, and Insider
Twitter: @x12345678998765, @jweimermedia, @princessmissdee, @xnewsdaily, @pt, @tictoctick, @crimefish, @mattbinder, @jamestitcomb, @xnewsdaily, @islandthembo, @everythingooc, @imprisonedemily, @0xgaut, @adamamcbride, and @halomancer1. Threads: @mgsiegler. Forums: r/Twitter
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, ExchangeWire.com, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, Platformer, and Bloomberg
Twitter: @elonmusk, @xnewsdaily, @ericliptonnyt, @aaronguhreen, @joelwenger, @thefinancerebel, @digiphile, @chetta_cheetah, @commuternyc, @danprimack, @pt, @patrickcoffee, @moguldom, @keithdsouza, @kimcrayton1, @pkafka, and @noahcrothman. Forums: Beehaw
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models” — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation
More: The Keyword, OpenAI, Microsoft On the Issues, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Tech Monitor, CNN, PYMNTS.com, Silicon Valley Business …, EnterpriseAI, Business Post, The Guardian, Engadget, CNBC, Neowin, Reuters, TIME, Axios, Washington Post, Cointelegraph, BigTechWire, WinBuzzer, and Tech Xplore
LinkedIn: Gianluca Varisco, Paul Roetzer, and Mark Montgomery
Twitter: @bcmerchant, @mer__edith, @bradsmi, @jonasschuett, @anthropicai, @sebkrier, @googlepubpolicy, @demishassabis, and @openai. Forums: Slashdot
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others write a paper for EU policymakers encouraging support for open-source AI models ahead of the final EU AI Act — In a paper sent to EU policymakers, a group of companies, including GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others …
More: The GitHub Blog, AI News, WinBuzzer, CryptoSlate, and VentureBeat
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
More: The Information, Yoshua Bengio, GovInfoSecurity.com, and TechCrunch
Twitter: @robertwiblin, @g_lajoie_, and @anthropicai
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Flip5, offering a larger 3.4" cover screen, up from 1.9" on the Z Flip 4, a new hinge, 256GB storage, and more for the same $999 — The Motorola Razr Plus' reign as the best flip phone might be short-lived. — The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is officially here …
More: Samsung Newsroom, 9to5Google, PCMag, Android Police, Thurrott, Digital Trends, Techlusive, Associated Press, TechSpot, ZDNet, Phone Scoop, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, The Verge on YouTube, and Mashable
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
More: Forbes, iClarified, GSMArena.com, Pocket-lint, Laptop Mag, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, Stuff, TechRadar, Gizchina, Sammy Fans, and Android Police
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft starts rolling out a new Xbox Home UI, offering more space for backgrounds and quick access to store, search, and settings, after 10 months of testing — Microsoft first started testing a new Xbox Home UI nearly a year ago, and the company is now ready to deliver it to all Xbox owners.| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The FBI's seizure of Mastodon server Kolektiva.social in May, part of a raid over unrelated charges, should serve as a wake-up call to fediverse users and hosts — We're in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
More: PCMag and TechCrunch
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @hrefna@hachyderm.io, @eff@mastodon.social, and @evacide@hachyderm.io
Forums: r/privacy, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
The Overture Maps Foundation, formed by Meta, Microsoft, AWS, and TomTom, releases its first dataset with 59M “points of interest” donated by Meta and Microsoft — - A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and TomTom is releasing data that could enable companies …
More: Overture Maps Foundation, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, Dexerto, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, and MacDailyNews. Twitter: @overturemaps
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 hands-on: essentially the same displays and some nice upgrades, but Samsung seems to be wasting its advantage and $1,800 is ludicrous — Even with a new hinge, a brighter display and improved multitasking, the Z Fold's rivals are catching up.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
More: XDA Developers, Laptop Mag, SlashGear, Android Central, TechEBlog, HotHardware, Stuff, XDA Developers, The Guardian, Android Authority, Droid Life, Trusted Reviews, IGN, Android Central, The Independent, TechRadar, British GQ, Laptop Mag, The Verge, Samsung us, and Pocketnow
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| The Guardian: |
UNESCO calls for a global ban on smartphones in schools, saying intensive technology use negatively impacts student performance and increases disruption — Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices
More: UNESCO, Computerworld, Silicon Republic, UNESCO, Fast Company, 2023 GEM Report, TechRadar, and The Guardian
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/europe
| Will Knight / Wired: |
How a US Navy task force is using AI to police the waters of the Gulf of Oman for pirates, a glimpse of increasingly capable autonomous systems transforming war — Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence … | Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian: |
A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity — Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence - but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
Mastodon: @Weizenbaum_Institut …, @skarthik@neuromatch.social, @joningold@mastodon …, and @bentarnoff@mastodon.social
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: CrowdStrike is in advanced negotiations to acquire Bionic, a security posture management platform for cloud services, for between $200M and $300M — It sounds like another M&A deal is about to go down in the world of cybersecurity. Sources tell TechCrunch that CrowdStrike … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the $300+ Galaxy Watch6 and $400+ Galaxy Watch6 Classic, powered by Wear OS 4, reviving the Classic's rotating bezel, and more — The Classic's rotating bezel is back — and the display bezels are a lot thinner all around. Oh, and here comes Wear OS 4.
More: Engadget, XDA Developers, PCMag, Wareable, Droid Life, TalkAndroid.com, Mashable, New York Times, T3, ZDNet, Techlusive, Android Headlines, Android Central, Android Police, PhoneArena, Samsung Newsroom, Engadget, SamMobile, Inverse, Sammy Fans, and Digital Trends. Forums: r/gadgets
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google says 2B+ logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, up from 1.5B+ in June 2022, and YouTube is reaching 150M people on their TVs in the US — Google said today that more than 2 billion logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, giving it an edge over competitors like TikTok and Instagram Reels.| Alphabet - Investor Relations: |
More: PYMNTS.com, Mobile Dev Memo, New York Times, Search Engine Journal, Coinspeaker, Tubefilter, CIO Dive, Snap, KNSD-TV, CNBC, Silicon Canals, Search Engine Roundtable, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, Constellation Research, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, Search Engine Land, Neowin, Constellation Research, and CNBC
Twitter: @eric_seufert, @wexboy_value, @levynews, @patrickmcgee_, @cnbcovertime, @scobleizer, @rihardjarc, @stocktalkweekly, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, and @thetranscript_. Threads: @crumbler. Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
As droughts spread across Spain, the US, and elsewhere, communities are battling water-hungry data centers; Meta expects a €1B facility to use 665M liters/year — With drought spreading around the globe, battles over water are erupting between AI companies seeking more computing power …
More: Bloomberg, TechNewsWorld, and DatacenterDynamics
Twitter: @oliviasolon, @oliviasolon, and @jon_boone
| Lauren Tara LaCapra / The Information: |
Former employees detail how the Apple Card partnership between Apple and Goldman Sachs soured; a source says Apple Card had ~10M users as of earlier this year — Apple and Goldman Sachs were in test runs before embarking publicly on one of the biggest-name partnerships ever between tech and finance.
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Apple Post, iMore, The Information, The Verge, and AppleInsider
Twitter: @kylebrussell, @9to5mac, @jonyiveparody, @appltrack, @sarthakgh, and @nickwingfield
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Shopify announces new features: AI chatbot Sidekick to help users redesign websites and analyze data, Shopify Credit for corporate credit cards, and more — Shopify Inc. today debuted Sidekick, an artificial intelligence chatbot that can help retailers redesign their e-commerce websites and analyze sales data.
More: ZDNet, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Shopify, and The Logic
| Bloomberg: |
New rules approved by the SEC require publicly traded companies to file details of a cyberattack within four days of identifying that it has a material impact — - Delay possible if public safety or national security at risk — Some business groups argued that deadline was too short| New York Times: |
Despite not being in SAG-AFTRA, many influencers are passing up deals to promote movies and TV shows to avoid being barred from the guild and online criticism — Despite not being in the actors' union, many content creators are passing up deals to promote films or TV shows … | Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Alibaba plans to let business customers use Meta's Llama 2 to build apps, the first Chinese company to do so; companies with <700M MAUs can use Llama for free — Alibaba's (9988.HK) cloud computing division said it has become the first Chinese enterprise to support Meta's (META.O) …
More: South China Morning Post, Cryptopolitan, Coinspeaker, Dataconomy, Wired, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, and Insider
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
T-Mobile rolls out ultrafast 5G capable of 3.3Gbps, first in a few US markets for Samsung Galaxy S23 users only, then nationwide in “the coming weeks” — / T-Mobile's new wireless tech is live in a few markets and will be available nationally in ‘weeks.’
More: T-Mobile, Android Authority, Droid Life, RCR Wireless News, Sammy Fans, CommsUpdate, and TmoNews
| Nick El Hajj / Associated Press: |
As Saudi Arabia spends $38B to become the “ultimate global hub” for gaming and esports by 2030, critics point to its anti-LGBTQ laws and question its intentions — Saudi Arabia, the new home of some of soccer's biggest stars and a co-owner of professional golf … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Protect AI, which offers security tools for AI systems, raised a $35M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners, taking its total funding to $48.5M — Protect AI, a startup building tools to harden the security around AI systems, today announced that it raised $35 million in a Series …
More: VentureBeat, FinSMEs, GeekWire, BankInfoSecurity.com, and SiliconANGLE
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