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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the 14.4" Surface Laptop Studio 2, offering Intel's 13th Gen i7 H chips, Nvidia's RTX 4050 or RTX 4060, and up to 2TB of storage, for $1,999+ — Microsoft just showed off its new high-end convertible laptop, the Surface Laptop Studio 2, at its launch event in New York City.
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Threads: @tomwarrenuk. X: @pauliharman, @zacbowden, @zacbowden, @patrickmoorhead, @patrickmoorhead, @bobodtech, @surface, @shanselman, @tomwarren, @daniel_rubino, @ijustine, @parkerortolani, @greengart, @ijustine, and @markhachman
Forums: r/gadgets, r/hardware, r/Surface, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Surface Hub 3, offering 50" or 85" 4K PixelSense displays with anti-glare, smart rotation, and portrait mode, available later in 2023 — Microsoft has revealed the Surface Hub 3, the latest version of the company's all-in-one collaborative touchscreen device.
More: Microsoft Tech Community, ZDNet, MobileSyrup, MSPoweruser, and Neowin
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| Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching on September 26 across all its apps and services, including Microsoft 365, Edge, and Bing — Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th. The new “AI companion,” …
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LinkedIn: Kevin Peesker and Satya Nadella
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release its next Windows 11 update, 22H2, on September 26, with an AI-powered Copilot and Paint, a redesigned File Explorer, and more — Microsoft will release its next big Windows 11 update on September 26th. The update will include the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release Microsoft 365 Copilot on November 1 for Microsoft 365 customers on certain business and enterprise plans for $30 per month per user — Microsoft's 365 Copilot AI assistant will be available starting on November 1st for Microsoft 365 customers on certain business and enterprise plans.| Bloomberg: |
Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk in cash for $157 per share, a 31% premium on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B — - Acquisition is largest deal ever for networking stalwart — Cisco is trying to lessen dependence on one-time sales
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts YouTube Create, an app that lets creators edit videos, adding effects, GIFs, royalty-free tracks, and more, in beta on Android in eight markets — YouTube this morning introduced a new app for creators, YouTube Create, that will offer a suite of easy-to-use and free tools … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon releases Mastodon 4.2, which makes it easier for users to get started, use its network even when logged out, more easily search for content, and more — As changes at Elon Musk's X continue to push former Twitter users to seek alternatives, the open-sourced, decentralized social network Mastodon …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta now lets Facebook users create up to four extra profiles and switch between them without logging out and back in; the profiles don't support all features — Basically, Meta is embracing finstas but for Facebook. — “Whether you're new to Facebook or a longtime user … | Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Snap says Snapchat+ now has 5M+ subscribers, up from 3M in April 2023; the $3.99 per month tier launched in June 2022, after an industry slowdown in ad revenue — Snap Inc. has gained more than 5 million subscribers for its paid service, an offering that gives users early access to new features … | Ashley Stewart / Insider: |
Sources: Panos Panay's abrupt departure came after Microsoft made budget and staff cuts, canceled products in his division, and discussed reorganizing the unit — - Microsoft this week announced Chief Product Officer Panos Panay left after nearly 20 years.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
South Korea-based game publisher Krafton says Striking Distance Studios' CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new horror game flopped — Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months …
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| Ella Creamer / The Guardian: |
Amazon limits authors to self-publishing three books per day on its website, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material listed for sale in recent months — The company announced the new limitations after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale but said that ‘very few’ publishers will be affected
More: Ars Technica. Mastodon: @DarkSideGeek@techhub.social. Bluesky: @epro.social. X: @quinnypig. LinkedIn: Harm Ellens
| Wired: |
Docs: up to a dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects had to be euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk said no primates died because of the 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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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/technology, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Tether confirms resuming lending its stablecoins to clients, less than a year after committing to end such loans; $5.5B of its assets were loans as of June 30 — Cryptocurrency issuer had said it would cut loans to zero in 2023 — Tether Holdings resumed lending out its own stablecoins to customers …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Apple's failed plan to cut out Qualcomm and develop its own modem chip for the iPhone 15 lineup; sources say 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, The Information, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Insider, BGR, iMore, TechRadar, Gizchina, Cult of Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, ExtremeTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, and Supercharged
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/technology, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Nnete Matima and Joël Carter, two Black ex-TikTok staff, file a civil rights complaint alleging ByteDance fired them because they spoke up about discrimination — TikTok's parent company was accused of racism and retaliation by Black former employees in a complaint …
More: NPR, The Information, The Hill, Techdirt, Washington Post, and CNN
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Facebook's “identity system”, including a logo with a “more confident expression” of the “core blue color”, and refines Facebook's emoji Reactions — Meta is updating Facebook's “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo.
More: Design at Meta and Android Police
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mesh, which helps its customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, raised a $22M Series A led by Money Forward, bringing its total funding to $32M — Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Bastian Lehmann's TipTop launches an app that scans for past purchases in users' Gmail and Amazon accounts and offers to buy their used products at a fair value — Billed as a “reverse Postmates,” TipTop has launched its first app, TipTop Cash, with the promise to help shoppers resell products like used iPhones.| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
Data-labeling firms like Scale AI and Appen are hiring poets and writers with humanities backgrounds to improve the literary quality of their AI writing tools — Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.| Chris Miller / Financial Times: |
SMIC used DUV lithography, not EUV, for its 7nm chip, which isn't a breakthrough but does show progress and reaffirms China's commitment to domestic production — The advances in domestic chipmaking suggest western controls will be far from watertight — What is the significance of Huawei's new smartphone chip?
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