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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 …
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LinkedIn: Natalie Christman. Twitter: @x12345678998765, @adamamcbride, @0xgaut, @jweimermedia, @princessmissdee, @xnewsdaily, @pt, @tictoctick, @zackstanton, @crimefish, @mattbinder, @jamestitcomb, @xnewsdaily, @islandthembo, @everythingooc, @imprisonedemily, and @halomancer1. Threads: @mgsiegler
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/offbeat, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/elonmusk
| @esthercrawford: |
More: Insider and The Verge
Mastodon: @ben@werd.social. Twitter: @kidehen, @rakeshlobster, @blader, @malaparte, @maileprmedia, @arodericks, @lilly_smith48, @pitdesi, @julesterpak, @mikegehrke, @faizsays, @sspencer_smb, @tomhowardau, @eghosao, @littlemissjacob, @agoldmund, @stse, @edzitron, @joshconstine, and @stevesi
| 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, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Fortune, Engadget, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, Tech Startups, CNBC, Tech Monitor, ZDNet, EnterpriseAI, The Guardian, Cointelegraph, BigTechWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, WinBuzzer, WRAL TechWire, Washington Post, Axios, Bloomberg, and Washington Post
LinkedIn: James Dyett, Gianluca Varisco, Paul Roetzer, Mark Montgomery, Karen DeSalvo, and Eric Horvitz
Twitter: @bradsmi, @jonasschuett, @anthropicai, @sebkrier, @googlepubpolicy, @demishassabis, @bcmerchant, @openai, and @mer__edith
Forums: r/slatestarcodex, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Meta Investor Relations: |
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META up 7%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023. — “We had a good quarter.
More: Search Engine Land, CNN, CNBC, The Messenger, Telegraph, Quartz, Deadline, Financial Times, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Seeking Alpha, Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia, MarketWatch, Forbes, Variety, and Hollywood Reporter
Mastodon: @dme@mastodon.online. Twitter: @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @ghadjia, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @eric_seufert, @jason_kint, @ramahluwalia, @mikeisaac, @swiftstories, @macton93, @divestech, @divestech, @thetranscript_, @richlightshed, @supbagholder, @jason_kint, @ericjhonsa, @zerohedge, @munster_gene, @supbagholder, @mikeisaac, @ophirgottlieb, @kobeissiletter, @stockmktnewz, @conorsen, @3peakstrading, and @rihardjarc
Threads: @carnage4life and @carnage4life
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta's Reality Labs reports Q2 $3.7B operating loss, vs. $3.5B est., and expects losses to “increase meaningfully” due to investments in VR/AR and its ecosystem — - Meta's Reality Labs unit, which develops virtual reality and augmented reality technologies …
More: TechCrunch, Blockworks, The Information, and Tech Startups
Twitter: @mikeisaac, @ibogost, @ibogost, @ldrogen, @mdbaccardax, @kingfazir, @metacriticcap, @crusoniac, and @thekantoarbot
| 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
More: U.S. Securities …, BleepingComputer, Reuters, The Verge, CSO, CTV News, Engadget, Dark Reading, CNBC, The Record, Nextgov/FCW, Reuters, and ZyCrypto
| 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.
More: Xbox Wire, PayPal Newsroom, The Verge, Android Authority, MobileSyrup, Video Games Chronicle, Game Rant, SlashGear, TechRadar, Eurogamer.net, Kotaku Australia, Gameranx, Thurrott, TrueAchievements, Windows Central, BGR, GameSpot, Pure Xbox, and Neowin
Forums: r/xbox, r/Games, r/xboxone, r/XboxSeriesX, and r/XboxSeriesX
| 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, Fierce Wireless, Droid Life, and RCR Wireless News
| 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.
More: The Verge, Tom's Guide, Pocketnow, Android Police, ExtremeTech, SlashGear, Trusted Reviews, Mashable, TechRadar, Digital Trends, XDA Developers, Laptop Mag, Android Central, Stuff, Forbes, Stuff, ZDNet, Techlusive, Ars Technica, Windows Central, CNET, Android Headlines, Tom's Guide, AndroidGuys, Android Police, and Gizmodo
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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Twitter: @groundedtech and @pramitbasnyat
| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Waymo says it will slow the development of autonomous trucking as it moves its focus and investment to ride-hailing — Waymo, the self-driving unit owned by Alphabet Inc., is slowing the development of autonomous trucking that's being done by its Via subsidiary.
More: Waypoint, TechCrunch, FreightWaves, Engadget, 9to5Google, Reuters, SlashGear, and The Last Driver License Holder
| 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, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, USA Today, Android Police, Bloomberg, KnowTechie, PetaPixel, SamInsider, Engadget, Phone Scoop, Gizchina, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Associated Press, SamMobile, Techlusive, PCMag, Digital Trends, Mashable, The Verge on YouTube, 9to5Google, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, and Gizmodo
Mastodon: @dcseifert@mastodon.social and @rbrome@mastodon.online
| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The FBI's seizure of Mastodon server Kolektiva.social in May should serve as a wake-up call to fediverse users and hosts to protect their privacy — 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/RedditAlternatives, r/Mastodon, r/privacy, r/stupidpol, r/technology, and Beehaw
| CNN: |
US prosecutors ask a judge to detain Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering allegations, saying he leaked Caroline Ellison's personal writings to the NYT — New York CNN — — US prosecutors asked a federal judge to detain former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried over allegations of witness-tampering.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The CISA warns US federal agencies to secure their systems against an Ivanti flaw that's been exploited as a zero-day to hack Norway's government systems — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned U.S. federal agencies today to secure their systems …
More: Cybersecurity …, TechCrunch, Security Affairs, and SC Media
| 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, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Android Authority, TechRadar, MacDailyNews, Engadget, OnMSFT.com, 9to5Mac, Dexerto, and WinBuzzer
Twitter: @cbed32 and @overturemaps
| Medha Singh / Reuters: |
Dish partners with Amazon to sell a Boost Infinite postpaid wireless plan with unlimited talk, text, and data services at $25/month for Amazon Prime subscribers — Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) is partnering with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell wireless postpaid service plans through its platform …
More: The Verge, The Information, BGR, Boost Infinite, PCMag, PhoneArena, and Fierce Wireless
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, an open-source text-to-image model that can yield 1MP resolution images “in seconds” in multiple aspect ratios — AI startup Stability AI continues to refine its generative AI models in the face of increasing competition — and ethical challenges.
More: Stability AI, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Unite.AI, and The Decoder
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
AWS debuts HealthScribe, an AI-powered tool to summarize patient visits, and is working with partners rather than selling it directly to hospitals and doctors — Amazon Web Services is unveiling AI services for doctors, business analysis and chatbots as it aims for Microsoft and Google
More: About Amazon, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, Forbes, Neowin, TechCrunch, CNBC, Forbes, and Constellation Research
| 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 … | 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, DatacenterDynamics, and TechNewsWorld
Twitter: @crawf34, @_felixsimon_, @oliviasolon, @oliviasolon, and @jon_boone
| 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
Twitter: @johnpmerrick, @yohannk, @erocdrahs, and @cabitzaf
| 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 … | 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, 9to5Mac, Neowin, UNESCO, Fast Company, 2023 GEM Report, and The Guardian
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/europe
| 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: 9to5Google, Android Police, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Samsung Newsroom, Android Central, New York Times, Wareable, ZDNet, TalkAndroid.com, Techlusive, PCMag, Android Headlines, Mashable, T3, PhoneArena, SamMobile, Inverse, Sammy Fans, Droid Life, and Engadget. Forums: r/gadgets
| 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, ZDNet, The Apple Post, Cult of Mac, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, The Information, and AppleInsider
Twitter: @appltrack, @kylebrussell, @9to5mac, @jonyiveparody, @sarthakgh, and @nickwingfield
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
Despite not being in SAG-AFTRA, many influencers are passing up deals to promote movies and TV shows to avoid online criticism and being barred from the guild — Despite not being in the actors' union, many content creators are passing up deals to promote films or TV shows … Sponsor Posts
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