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| Will Knight / Wired: |
YouTube lets some Shorts creators test Dream Track, a new DeepMind-powered AI tool to generate and remix music in the styles of nine artists, including Sia — YouTube creators will get to test a new AI tool that generates and remixes music in the style of several famous musicians, including Sia, Demi Lovato, and T-Pain.
More: Google DeepMind, YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget, YouTube Official Blog, BBC, The Guardian, Mashable, Billboard, MSPoweruser, Cryptopolitan, and Music Ally
| K.J. Yossman / Variety: |
Embracer reports Q2 net sales up 13% YoY to ~$1B, layoffs impacted 900 employees, or 5% of its workforce, and 36 fewer games are in development than Q2 2022 — “Lord of the Rings” owner Embracer Group has reported a 13% increase in net sales year-on-year in Q2, in part thanks to its intensive restructuring program.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases Apple Music Classical on iPad as part of a v1.1 update, the first major update to the app after its release in spring 2023 on iPhone — Apple Music Classical, included as part of a standard Apple Music subscription, launched as an iPhone only app in the spring ... but is now available on the iPad too.
More: App Store, TechHive, The Verge, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, iMore, MacDailyNews, Mashable, NewsBytes, MacRumors, Supercharged, BGR, The Indian Express, Cult of Mac, and The Mac Observer
| Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: |
Elon Musk replied “You have said the actual truth” to an X user who, replying to a “Hitler was right” inquiry, accused Jewish groups of “hatred against whites” — The billionaire amplified a post Wednesday accusing the Jewish community of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites”
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| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$31B, beating ~$30.9B est., a ~$3.8B net income, up from a ~$3B loss in Q2 2022, and calls off its cloud spinoff — - The decision marks a dramatic reversal on a signature move — Alibaba's historic six-way restructuring is now in doubt| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Threads tests tags, a way of categorizing posts similar to hashtags without the # symbol being visible, initially in Australia and other countries “soon” — Instagram's Threads app has been duping Twitter/X in a number of ways and today it's adding one more feature that's been core …
More: Mashable, T3, The Verge, Android Headlines, NewsBytes, Engadget, 9to5Mac, and Social Media Today
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| Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
The Wireless Power Consortium says the first Qi v2.0 devices are arriving in time for the holidays and over 100 are in certification testing or waiting in line — Qi2 — the next version of the wireless charging standard, now with more magnets! — is more almost-here than ever.
More: Wireless Power Consortium, Ars Technica, T3, Android Headlines, 9to5Google, MacRumors, NewsBytes, O'Grady's PowerPage, Android Authority, Trusted Reviews, SamMobile, guru3d.com, Phandroid, Engadget, TechSpot, Redmond Pie, Android Police, Droid Life, CNET, iClarified, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and 9to5Toys
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft launches a Windows App on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Windows, and the web, letting enterprise customers stream a copy of Windows, available in preview — Microsoft brings Windows to non-Windows devices. — What you need to know — Microsoft is launching the “Windows app” …
More: Microsoft Learn, The Verge, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Economic Times, Redmond Pie, NewsBytes, Ghacks, Gizchina, Neowin, TechRepublic, XDA Developers, Petri IT Knowledgebase, and MSPoweruser. Forums: Hacker News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
GitGuardian: nearly 3K of the 450K projects submitted to PyPI exposed at least one credential in code, like API keys, including some from “very large companies” — Many transgressions come from “very large companies that have robust security teams.”
More: GitGuardian Blog, Schneier on Security, SecurityWeek, Infosecurity, and Security Boulevard
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| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
TikTok joins Meta in challenging its EU DMA “gatekeeper” status, saying the service is “arguably the most capable challenger to more entrenched” rivals — TikTok on Thursday joined Meta (META.O) in appealing against the “gatekeeper” status under the Digital Markets Act … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
At its conference, Unity says the company plans to launch Unity 6 in 2024, details Unity Muse, an AI suite for content creation, and announces Unity Cloud — Unity, the global game engine and monetizationplatform, said that its Unity 6 platform will launch in 2024 with AI innovations and platform updates.
More: The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, TechCrunch, Pocket Gamer.biz, Game Developer, Business Wire, and Unity on YouTube
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google's Search Generative Experience adds shopping tools to help find niche or unique items and expands virtual try-ons to men's tops from hundreds of brands — Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) is behind a bunch of new shopping features that aim to help users find niche … | Niamh Rowe / Wired: |
Some companies providing Microsoft, Google, and others with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring minors, often exposing them to traumatic content — Companies that provide Big Tech with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring young teens to work on their platforms, often exposing them to traumatic content.| Music Business Worldwide: |
Stability AI VP of Audio Ed Newton-Rex resigns, saying he disagrees with the company's view that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is fair use — Ed Newton-Rex has quit his role at Stability AI. In an exclusive op-ed, he shares why.
More: TNW, Engadget, Sifted, UKTN, Metaverse Post, Silicon Republic, Cryptopolitan, Decrypt, The Register, Music Ally, and Bloomberg
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out Bard access for teens that “meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account” and use English, with safeguards in place — Following the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in September, Google is rolling out Bard access for teens with safety guardrails in place.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Neowin, MSPoweruser, BitcoinWorld, Engadget, The Economic Times, SamMobile, Phandroid, and Mashable
| Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: |
Pew: 30% of US adults regularly get their news from Facebook, 26% from YouTube, 16% from Instagram, 14% TikTok, 12% X, 8% Reddit, and 5% Nextdoor and LinkedIn — Facebook may be ready to divorce the news business, but it's still the No. 1 source of news on social media for Americans.
More: Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, Engadget, Washington Post, Social Media Today, Deadline, Forbes, Axios, and Reuters
Threads: @mergesort and @technicallymims
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Proton Mail CEO Andy Yen announces Key Transparency, a tool built on Proton's private blockchain to let high-profile users verify email addresses, in beta — Proton Mail, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency … | Khari Johnson / Wired: |
Common Sense Media's first ratings for 10 chatbots and AI services warn parents that Snapchat's MyAI, Dall-E 2, and Stable Diffusion may not be safe for kids — Common Sense Media's first ratings for chatbots and other AI services warn parents that AI image generators and Snapchat's My AI chatbot may not be safe for kids.
More: Common Sense Media and Washington Post
| Connor Jones / The Register: |
Security researchers detail the largest cyberattack against Danish critical infrastructure, which involved Zyxel zero-days and affected 22 companies in May 2023 — Zyxel zero days and nation-state actors (maybe) had a hand in the sector's worst cybersecurity event on record
More: Infosecurity, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, SektorCERT, Bloomberg, The Record, DataBreaches.net, Help Net Security, and Dark Reading
LinkedIn: Charles Durant and Achim Brinkmann
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Fitbit Charge 6 review: practically a “Pixel band” with good fitness and health features but the side button is haptic and the Fitbit-Google transition is bumpy — Google's fingerprints are all over this casual fitness tracker. … Fitbit, what are you doing?
More: Pocket-lint
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Investigation: Amazon backs three advocacy groups working to thwart Microsoft's government cloud contracts; an Amazon executive wrote a public FTC comment — Amazon is the driving force behind a trio of advocacy groups working to thwart Microsoft's growing ambition to become … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
AI chip startup Sapeon, backed by South Korean conglomerate SK Group, unveils the Sapeon X330, claiming 4x the X220's performance, for mass H1 2024 production — - Korean conglomerate SK Group hopes to build Nvidia alternative — SK Telecom split off Sapeon to accelerate AI chip development
More: Hindustan Times, Reuters, Metaverse Post, and The Korea Herald
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