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Monica Chin / The Verge:
Hands-on with Windows-powered $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with an 8.8" QHD+ screen, AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, and detachable controllers, available in October  —  Every company and its mother seems to be putting out handheld gaming PCs these days, and Lenovo is next to the plate.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Ahead of child safety group's campaign to pressure Apple to scan iCloud for CSAM, Apple says such sans may lead to a “slippery slope of unintended consequences”  —  Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
A person managing the .ai TLD for British territory Anguilla says the island will bring in ~$30M from domain registration fees in 2023, up from $7.4M in 2021  —  Anguilla is expected to make millions this year from a surge in demand for web addresses ending with .ai, thanks to the frenzy around artificial intelligence.
Monica Chin / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils Legion 9i, a $4,400 gaming laptop with liquid cooling, a 16" Mini LED screen, 13th Gen Intel Core i9, and a GeForce RTX 4090, shipping in October  —  Lenovo has announced a new Legion 9i, and it might just be the wildest thing I've ever seen from the Legion line.
Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide:
Lenovo unveils $329 Legion Glasses with 60Hz displays, equivalent to a 27" monitor, that work with Legion Go, Android phones, iPhones, Macs, and Windows PCs  —  Finally, a gaming face peripheral that doesn't give me a headache  —  Gaming on the go is easier than ever …
New York Times:
Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators  —  The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restrict Meta's data-collection practices.
Dan Primack / Axios:
Robinhood says the company paid nearly $606M to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of Sam Bankman-Fried, set up via an agreement with the US Marshal Service  —  Stock-trading app Robinhood on Friday said it paid nearly $606 million to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of jailed crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried.
Reuters:
Canada tries to address C-18 bill concerns, saying Google would pay ~$126.6M and Meta would pay ~$44M a year to publishers; Meta says it will keep blocking news  —  Canada unveiled draft rules on Friday for a law to compel internet giants to pay news outlets, saying it was addressing …
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
Honor says its foldable phone Magic V2, launched in China in July 2023, is coming to Europe, the UK, Latin America, and other markets, except the US, in Q1 2024  —  The Magic V2 will come to global markets roughly six months after the Chinese launch.  Ouch.  —  •  —  TL;DR
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Sony unveils the Xperia 5 V, with a 120Hz, 6.1" display, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, a 52MP sensor, and a heat diffusion shield, shipping in “late September” for €999  —  It also has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor and heat diffusion shield for gamers.

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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal

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David Heaney / UploadVR:
Magic Leap tells its customers that the Magic Leap 1, which launched in August 2018, and the AR headset's apps will “cease to function” on December 31, 2024
Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press:
A US judge temporarily blocks an Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to create social media accounts, which was set to take effect on September 1

Earlier Picks

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
A US judge grants a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that would have required age verification to access adult sites
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Dell Q2: revenue down 13% YoY to $22.9B, vs. $20.8B est., Client Solutions down 16% to $12.9B, and Infrastructure Solutions down 11% to $8.5B; DELL jumps 20%+
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
University of Zürich and Intel researchers reveal Swift, an autonomous drone trained via deep reinforcement learning to beat human champions in FPV drone racing
New York Times:
A look at Starfield, a game by Microsoft's Bethesda with 1,000 explorable planets, set for September 6 after a 10-month delay, as Microsoft needs an Xbox hit
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta releases FACET, an AI benchmarking tool for evaluating the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect things in photos and videos, including people
Walter Isaacson / Wall Street Journal:
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography details Musk's decision to buy Twitter and how his moods fluctuated wildly before the official closing
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Binance plans to “gradually” end support for its BUSD stablecoin by February 2024, as “Paxos halted minting of new BUSD” after an NYDFS order in February 2023
Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says X users will be able to make video and audio calls without sharing a phone number, as X “is the effective global address book”, but gives no date
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