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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's “Wonderlust” event on September 12: four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9 with a new chip and sensors, and more — Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches.
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X: @brianfagioli, @jonyiveparody, @rsgnl, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @jasonhiner, and @markgurman
Forums: r/LQMT, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox unveils Roblox Assistant, a conversational AI assistant that lets creators enter prompts to generate virtual environments, get help with coding, and more — Roblox announced a new conversational AI assistant at its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) that can help creators …
More: Roblox Blog, Roblox on YouTube, CNET, The Information, PCMag, Axios, Reuters, Mashable, and GamesIndustry.biz
Threads: @jaypetersplus. Mastodon: @BrendanSinclair …. X: @petergyang, @roblox, @evanzir, @autismcapital, @sturman, and @rbxnews_
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: Wired, Neowin, and Mashable
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A US appeals court finds the White House, the CDC, and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies' moderation on COVID-19 posts — The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General's office's contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms' content decisions
More: Reuters, NPR, The Hill, Associated Press, Bloomberg, New York Times, Fox News, The Daily Beast, and United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple no longer plans to launch any MacBook models with an M3 chip “before the end of this year” — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has bad news for Apple fans hoping to see a lineup of M3-powered Macs this year. According to Kuo, Apple is no longer planning to release …
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| Bloomberg: |
An FTC judge rules that Intuit misled consumers with its ads claiming that TurboTax is free when most customers need to pay to use the tax preparation software — - Judge orders company to stop advertising TurboTax as free — Intuit to appeal ‘flawed and highly questionable’ decision
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Trade Commission, The Messenger, MarketWatch, CNBC, and Reuters
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| Alan Rappeport / New York Times: |
The IRS says it has started using AI to investigate complex cases of tax evasion at multibillion-dollar partnerships, large hedge funds, PE groups, and others — The tax agency is opening examinations into large hedge funds, private equity groups, real estate investors and law firms.
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| Peter Kiefer / The Ankler: |
Sources: Apple spent $5M on the film rights for Michael Lewis' book about Sam Bankman-Fried; at least eight Hollywood projects on SBF are in the works so far — Apple paid $5M for Michael Lewis' book, a Nanette Burstein doc is underway, and a who'll-finish-first race is afoot as the crypto con projects pile up| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
X sues California over AB 587, which requires social networks to share moderation rules, arguing it interferes with X's editorial calls protected as free speech — Elon Musk's X Corp. sued California over a law requiring social media companies to explain how their content is moderated.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X is showing some ads in users' Following feeds without an “Ad” label, indicated only by clicking on the three-dot menu, which could attract the FTC's attention — X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been caught running unlabeled ads in users' Following feeds …
More: Social Media Today, Engadget, Mashable, and 9to5Mac
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| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits — Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/CryptoCurrency
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit can now translate posts into eight languages, including Spanish and French, when viewing them on its mobile apps or on the web while logged out — Reddit can now translate posts into eight different languages when viewing them on Reddit's iOS or Android apps or on the web while logged out … | Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
Apple releases macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS updates to address two zero-day flaws that Citizen Lab says were used to deliver NSO Group's Pegasus spyware — Apple released software updates on Thursday to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers said were used …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push — Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks — Spotify plans to test …
More: The Verge, MSPoweruser, The Information, Android Headlines, 9to5Mac, BGR, BigTechWire, Gizmodo, and Music Ally
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Ant Group unveils a financial LLM for wealth management and insurance services, powering two tools: Zhixiaobao, for consumers, and Zhixiaozhu, for professionals — - Firm uses ChatGPT-like tech to power two financial apps — Joins race against Baidu, Tencent for artificial intelligence
More: Reuters, Ant Financial Services Group, PYMNTS.com, and Metaverse Post
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google releases its relevance and measurement APIs for Privacy Sandbox in general availability, making them available in Chrome without browser flags or trials — Google's Chrome browser is now one important step closer to its goal of phasing out third-party cookies by the end of 2024.
More: Ars Technica, The Privacy Sandbox, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Android Police, ExtremeTech, MobileSyrup, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, WinBuzzer, Security Boulevard, Android Headlines, and 9to5Google
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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