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An interview with Tim Cook on Apple's pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030, the Vision Pro, return to the office, why Apple still advertises on X, and more — In Brown County, Texas - flat, dry, near the geographical center of the state - Apple has invested in a joint venture to power 100,000 homes with clean energy.
More: 9to5Mac, CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube, Same Brain on YouTube, The Wrap, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and The Verge
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Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman on LLMs becoming more controllable, “interactive” AI after generative AI, AI regulation being achievable, and more — DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat.
More: Insider and BigTechWire
Mastodon: @adamdenoon@universeodon.com. X: @rvawonk, @mustafasuleyman, and @rvawonk. LinkedIn: Scott Novack
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/technology
| Elliptic: |
North Korea-tied Lazarus Group stole nearly $240M in crypto in the past 104 days, ramping up hacks and shifting focus from decentralized to centralized services — The elite North Korean hacking group Lazarus appears to have recently ramped up its operations, conducting a confirmed four attacks against crypto entities since June 3rd.
More: Security Affairs, Cointelegraph, iTnews, The Hacker News, DL News, Decrypt, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, and The Record
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Spotify and other streaming services have transformed the sound of music: songs are shorter, albums are longer, and artists collaborate more across genres — To succeed on Spotify and other services, songs are getting shorter, albums are getting longer, and artists are collaborating across genres.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
One year after Ethereum's Merge, developers approve a change to slow down staking, which has emerged as one of the few reliable ways to earn returns in crypto — - With validators piling in, the network risks getting clogged — Ethereum developers approved a software fix to that Thursday
More: Ethereum Improvement Proposals, Ethereum Improvement Proposals, DL News, The Crypto Associate, CoinDesk, Decrypt, NewsBTC, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoin News, tina_connects's Substack, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, NewsBTC, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, and Finbold
X: @timbeiko, @dapplion, @timbeiko, @dankrad, @dapplion, @monetsupply, @timbeiko, and @timbeiko. LinkedIn: Kelvin Low
Forums: r/Buttcoin, r/CryptoCurrency, and r/ethtrader
| Edwin Chan / Bloomberg: |
KKR agrees to buy 20% of Singapore-based Singtel's regional datacenter business for ~$807M at a ~$4B valuation, with an option to raise its stake to 25% by 2027 — - It's making its latest bet on Asian digital infrastructure — Demand for datacenters and networking surging because of AI
More: The Register, Business Today, and Tech in Asia
| Taylor Lyles / IGN: |
Q&A with Apple execs Jeremy Sandmel, Tim Millet, and Kaiann Drance on gaming ambitions for the iPhone 15 Pro, MetalFX's upscaling, game controllers, and more — Apple is really leaning into the “Pro” aspect of the iPhone 15 Pro. — Apple finally announced the iPhone 15 earlier this week, and pre-orders are now live.
More: iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, BGR, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, MacRumors, and The Verge
X: @aapltree, @bengeskin, @taynixster, and @videotechx
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Amazon's bets across industries, including health care, as some analysts and investors question the company's scattershot efforts and its poor returns — The tech giant has built three wildly successful businesses. It's been toiling for years to find a ‘fourth pillar.’ — The team atop
X: @scienceisstrat1 and @jessefelder
| New York Times: |
TikTok's US staff complain about a new internal app to track office attendance; TikTok requires most staff to be in the office three times per week from October — The company is requiring many employees to use an app that tracks their in-person attendance.
More: PCMag and Insider
X: @ebakerwhite, @anthonymamore, @jigolden, @sapna, @nytimestech, @nytimesbusiness, and @nytimes. LinkedIn: Matthew Boyle. Forums: Hacker News
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and other UK broadcasters announce Freely, offering linear TV channels via the internet, available on new smart TVs starting in 2024 — Freely will be built into next-generation smart sets, in effect taking Freeview platform on to internet| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Thoughts on Apple's Wonderlust event, including the Mother Nature skit, FineWoven iPhone cases and Watch straps, the iPhone 15 lineup, and the AirPods Pro 2 — Was Tuesday's “Wonderlust” event mostly predictable? Yes. Does that mean it was boring? For some people, yes.
More: Inc.com, MacRumors, and 500ish
Threads: @giorgio_sol. Mastodon: @davemark@mastodon.social. X: @cjonoski, @jmspring, @vegan, and @grissini. Forums: r/apple
| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
More: TechCrunch, Daily Mail, The Drum, and Engadget
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, whose OpenAI-or-bust strategy rankled some staff who found their AI projects pushed aside and their resources curtailed — Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott spearheaded the tech titan's unlikely partnership with OpenAI — In the tech industry's artificial-intelligence race,
More: Wall Street Journal. Threads: @dseetharaman. X: @livemint, @schrep, @cityofthetown, @hadip, and @wsjtech. LinkedIn: Bobby Yerramilli-Rao
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Prosus and Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk steps down and plans to remain as a consultant for a year; Prosus executive Ervin Tu will temporarily take over as CEO — Bob van Dijk, the chief executive of Dutch e-commerce investor Prosus and its controlling shareholder Naspers, has stepped …
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, TechCabal, Inc42 Media, Moneycontrol, and TechCentral
| Rod McGuirk / Associated Press: |
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