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Sources: Apple spent billions of dollars developing a modem chip for the new iPhones to cut ties with Qualcomm, but the chip was slow and prone to overheating — The company set out to design a silicon chip that would allow it to cut ties with Qualcomm, a longtime supplier and bitter foe
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Verge, TechRadar, Gizchina, Supercharged, BGR, and Wccftech
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Forums: r/hardware, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk for $157 per share in cash, up 31% on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B — Cisco will pay $157 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement Thursday. That represents a 31% premium to Splunk's previous closing price on Wednesday.| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Korean game publisher Krafton says Dead Space developer Striking Distance's CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new game flopped — Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months …
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Game Developer, Engadget, PC Gamer, Gameranx, IGN, TechRadar, Wccftech, Push Square, GameSpot, Game Rant, Press Start, Video Games Chronicle, Eurogamer.net, Gamereactor UK, and GamingBolt
X: @glenschofield, @devteaml, @franmirabella, @mlpcampos, @megamattx86, @jasonschreier, @gigawattconduit, and @sephamus
Forums: r/Games, r/TheCallistoProtocol, r/kindafunny, r/XboxSeriesX, r/PS5, and r/pcgaming
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple's FineWoven accessories and iPhone cases are really bad: they are expensive, quickly show wear, and scratch very easily, leaving seemingly permanent marks — Apple's new FineWoven iPhone cases and accessories are bad. Like, really bad. I've been puzzling over them for the past week, looking at them from different angles.
More: The Sun, MacRumors, Wccftech, TechSpot, MobileReviewsEh on YouTube, Framework of Tech, and Engadget
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Bluesky: @edbott.com and @epro.social
| Wired: |
Documents show that up to a dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects were euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk says no primates died due to implants — Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink's implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics …
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| Mariam Sunny / Reuters: |
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI teases DALL-E 3, which can be summoned and controlled using ChatGPT, and plans to make the tool available to ChatGPT+ and enterprise customers in October — OpenAI is offering an early look at DALL-E 3, the next version of its image generation tool.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Facebook's “identity system”, including a new logo to confidently express the platform's “core blue color”, and refines Facebook's emoji Reactions — Meta is updating Facebook's “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo. — Just kidding!
More: Design at Meta, BetaNews, TechRadar, and Neowin
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub expands Copilot Chat beta in Visual Studio and VS Code to individual subscribers, after launching the tool for business users in July 2023 — Three months ago, GitHub launched Copilot Chat, its ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, out of private preview by making it available … | Bloomberg: |
The DOJ removes public access to Google's emails, charts, and internal presentations that had come out as evidence in the antitrust lawsuit against the company — Trial is already limited in visibility to those who personally attend court … Google had challenged the government's posting … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Layer 2 blockchain Optimism sells 116M tokens worth $157M to seven buyers in a “private” sale, after airdropping 19.4M tokens to 31K+ users earlier this week — The token sale was described as a “planned event.” — The foundation behind layer2 blockchain Optimism … | Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
Data-labeling firms like Scale AI and Appen are hiring writers and poets with humanities backgrounds to improve the literary quality and creativity of AI tools — Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.| The Verge: |
Everything Amazon announced at its product event: Alexa Emergency Assist for $6/month, the Alexa Eye Gaze accessibility feature, the $50 Echo Pop Kids, and more — Amazon is kicking off its annual fall product announcements at its HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Tether confirms resuming lending its stablecoins to customers, less than a year after saying it would end such loans; $5.5B of its assets were loans on June 30 — Cryptocurrency issuer had said it would cut loans to zero in 2023 — Tether Holdings resumed lending out its own stablecoins to customers … | Keisha Oleaga / nft now: |
A look at AI-generated geometric art crafted using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet, a neural network structure that adds extra conditions to diffusion models — This past weekend, a new kind of artwork made waves across the Internet: AI-generated spiral art.
More: Ars Technica and WinBuzzer
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
In its Prime lawsuit, the FTC alleges that three Amazon executives played key roles in enrolling customers unwittingly and making canceling subscriptions hard — Federal agency alleges Amazon executives were aware of enrolling customers unwittingly and erecting intentional hurdles to cancellation
More: Federal Trade Commission, The Register, TechSpot, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, American Economic …, CNBC, and The Messenger
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Amazon's Eero announces the Eero Max 7, its first router to support Wi-Fi 7, offering 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz and “up to 4.3 Gbps” wireless throughput, for $600+ — Eero has announced a powerful new top-of-the-line router called the Eero Max 7. It's Eero's first router to support …
More: Digital Trends, Wired, BetaNews, guru3d.com, About Amazon, Liliputing, TechRadar, 9to5Toys, and T3
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Google has extensively discussed dropping Broadcom for AI chips as early as 2027 to design its own TPUs, aiming to save billions of dollars annually — Google executives have extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as a supplier of artificial intelligence chips as early as 2027 … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
PayPal says select Venmo users can now purchase its stablecoin PYUSD, with a rollout to more users in the coming weeks, in addition to BTC, ETH, BCH, and LTC — PayPal announced on Wednesday that Venmo users will be able to buy PayPal's new stablecoin, PayPal USD, increasing the number …
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