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A look at the iPhone's upcoming Lightning to USB-C transition; sources say the revamped iPad Pro's Magic Keyboard coming in 2024 will have an aluminum top case — Also: The company confirms the date of its Sept. 12 iPhone 15 event and aims to overhaul device production with 3D printers.
More: Daring Fireball, MacRumors, Business Today, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Supercharged, Six Colors, Ghacks, Forbes, iMore, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, mjtsai.com, PhoneArena, The Verge, Wccftech, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Benzinga, PCMag, iThinkDifferent, The Apple Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fast Company, and Lifewire
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| James Clayton / BBC: |
EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation since 2022 and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew in 2023 — Social media companies have failed to stop “large-scale” Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has said.
More: Washington Post, Publications Office of the European Union, and Insider
Mastodon: @redfrog@mamot.fr. X: @daphnehk, @euromaidanpress, @daphnehk, @daphnehk, @akinunver, @zerohedge, @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, @tech_oversight, and @erikdelareguera. LinkedIn: Felix Kartte
Forums: r/FoxFiction and r/worldnews
| Yiwen Lu / New York Times: |
The San Francisco Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise denies any fault — Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.
More: SFGATE, Forbes, The San Francisco Standard, SiliconANGLE, and CNBC
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
After ADL's CEO noted talking to X CEO Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts — Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours. — Over the past 24 hours …
More: Media Matters for America and The Daily Beast
Threads: @eladnehorai and @eladnehorai
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X: @elonmusk, @marietjeschaake, @mattbinder, @elonmusk, @krassenstein, @elonmusk, and @esqueer_
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam and r/Liberal
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X updated its privacy policy to let the company use collected data to train AI models; Elon Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private” — X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job …
More: Stack Diary, MediaNama, X, Howie Town, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Decoder, BBC, Times of India, English Jagran, The Messenger, Bloomberg Law, The Hindu, ABP Live, Pixel Envy, Engadget, ZDNet, Mashable, Insider, Cryptopolitan, and Tech Startups
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LinkedIn: Stephen Pieraldi, Omar Bashir, and Bob Moldoff
Forums: Hacker News and r/technews
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A look at the endless battle being waged by a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists to banish stalking forum Kiwi Farms from the internet — The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider
More: Electronic Frontier Foundation and Reclaim The Net
Mastodon: @nitashatiku@mastodon.social. X: @stealthygeek, @dropkiwifarms, @jessesingal, @hackingbutlegal, and @esqueer_
Forums: r/technology and Beehaw
| Insider: |
As Instagram and other social media feeds get swamped with influencers' professionally created content, average users move to private posting and closed groups — Group chats and messaging apps killed it … Tati Bruening, a 22-year-old content creator and photographer, just wants to share memes and post about cooking green beans.
More: Analytics India Magazine. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @pkedrosky, @arperelli, @arperelli, @howie0417, and @mattnavarra
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as it's no longer under active development — Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development …
More: The Verge, Microsoft Learn, Thurrott, Livemint, The Register, The Economic Times, TechSpot, Mashable, Windows Latest, HotHardware, WinBuzzer, PC Gamer, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, Windows Central, XDA Developers, MSPoweruser, Ghacks, Appuals.com, BetaNews, and OSnews
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @nateb@freeradical.zone
Forums: Hacker News, r/Windows11, and r/technology
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Senior YouTube staff express concerns that Shorts is drawing audiences away from longer-form videos, which produce more revenue but are “dying out” as a format — Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform's longer-form videos
More: The Economic Times and The Verge
Threads: @dhowell and @noise.in.vacuum. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @neilcybart. Forums: Hacker News
| Mark Townsend / The Guardian: |
Emails: some UK Home Office officials lobbied the ICO to act “favorably” towards Facewatch, which is rolling out facial recognition cameras across the country — Officials reflected policing minister's enthusiasm to roll out controversial technology across the country, particularly in retail settings| Emma Green / New Yorker: |
A look at Optima Academy Online, an all-virtual school launched in 2022 that lets US parents opt out of public school by putting their kid in a Meta Quest 2 — It's 6 a.m. A little girl, who looks to be about ten years old, hits the button on her alarm clock.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires — We can already detect fires from space, soon after they start. Here's why we don't yet have a nationwide system for alerting us when they do—but could someday.
More: New York Times
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