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Apple touts its device longevity in a white paper and says True Tone and battery health data will be available for third-party replacement parts later in 2024 — Apple's putting renewed focus on its repairability efforts today. … But perhaps more interesting is the fact that Apple …
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands its diagnostics tool for self-service repairs from the US to 32 European countries, including the UK, and plans to launch in Canada in 2025 — Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair is now available in 32 European countries, the company announced today.| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way the Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms, overturning a lower court's 2023 decision — The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate …
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| Jessica Lyons / The Register: |
Researchers: polyfill.io, which offers JavaScript polyfills, is being used to infect 100K+ websites with malware, after a Chinese CDN bought the domain in 2024 — Scripts turn malicious, infect webpages after Chinese CDN swallows domain — The polyfill.io domain is being used to infect …
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| The Information: |
Slides shown to Chinese sellers: Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like section featuring cheap items that ship directly from China to overseas consumers — Amazon plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: YouTube is in talks with Sony, Warner, and Universal to license their songs for AI music generation tools coming in 2024 that mimic artists' music — Licensing negotiations come as industry wrestles with legal and creative impact of artificial intelligence
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Sources: AU10TIX, an ID verification service that handles ID photos and is used by TikTok, Uber, X, and others, exposed admin credentials online for over a year — A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces …
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Researchers in Rabbit R1's jailbreaking community say Rabbit left critical API keys hardcoded in its code, which would let hackers use Rabbit's internal systems — Members of a community focused on jailbreaking and reverse engineering the Rabbit R1 AI assistant device say that Rabbit left …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
NBCU says an AI-generated voice of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on its streamer Peacock — Legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on Peacock — well, an AI-generated Al Michaels voice will.| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6% — WATCH NOW — It's been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet's YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn't really know what to do with it.
More: CNBC on YouTube and Business Insider
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Intel shows off a fully integrated bidirectional optical compute interconnect chiplet, which enables higher-bandwidth data transfers for AI workloads — Intel Corp. said today it has achieved another key milestone as it strives to make integrated photonics technology for high-speed data transfers a reality.| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Animoca Brands, which was valued at $6B in 2022, is considering an IPO in Hong Kong or the Middle East in 2025, four years after it was delisted in Australia — Animoca Brands, a crypto gaming and metaverse conglomerate valued at $6 billion in 2022, is considering a public listing in Hong Kong … | Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
Meta says “an error” is causing Instagram and Threads to turn on a setting that limits political content from people who users don't follow, upon every app open — After Democratic strategist Keith Edwards urged Threads users to check the Instagram setting limiting political content …
More: Engadget, The Daily Dot, Benzinga, and FWIW
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Activist investor Jana Partners announces an investment in Rapid7; sources say Jana plans to push the cybersecurity company to sell itself — Jana working with investment firm Cannae Holdings — Activist investor Jana Partners has a stake in Rapid7 and plans to push the cybersecurity company …
More: The Information, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
At Nvidia's first shareholder meeting since the recent stock surge, CEO Jensen Huang laid out Nvidia's strategy to maintain its position amid rising competition — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that the company's advantage in artificial intelligence chips was due to a bet …
More: Business Insider and DigiTimes
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Onehouse, which offers a fully managed data lakehouse that helps companies deploy Apache Hudi, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M — You can barely go an hour these days without reading about generative AI. While we are still in the embryonic phase of what some have dubbed the … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google is testing facial recognition tech for campus security at an office near Seattle; people entering the building will not be able to opt out — Google is testing facial recognition technology for office security “to help prevent unauthorized individuals from gaining access to our campuses … | Zak Butler / The Keyword: |
An overview of China's Dragonbridge multiyear disinfo campaign that uses AI-generated content and spans several social networks to target geopolitical rivals — The most prolific PRC-linked influence operator continues to lean into US social wedge issues, Taiwan and major news events …
More: SC Media, Stack Diary, SecurityWeek, and SiliconANGLE
X: @billyleonard, @mel_lombardi, and @royalhansen
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
How Google and others have carefully rewritten their terms and conditions to include words like AI, as tech companies look to train their AI models on user data — Last July, Google made an eight-word change to its privacy policy that represented a significant step in its race to build the next generation of artificial intelligence.
| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Atos says a consortium led by its largest shareholder, Onepoint, has withdrawn from bailout talks and that EPEI has expressed interest in restarting discussions — - Billionaire Kretinsky's EPEI is interested in restarting talks — Atos still aims for a refinancing deal with creditors in July| Benjamin Taubman / Bloomberg: |
Kaiko: spot bitcoin ETFs' launch in the US helped Bybit double its market share to 16% in March, crossing Coinbase to become the world's second-largest exchange — - Bitcoin ETFs helped Bybit's market share rise, Kaiko says — Binance remains biggest exchange even after losing share| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, and other AI training datasets form the Dataset Providers Alliance to advocate for “ethical data sourcing” — OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Creatio, which offers a no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, raised $200M led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1.2B valuation — Creatio, the no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, on Wednesday announced that it has raised a $200 million funding round led by Sapphire Ventures.
More: Crunchbase News, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, AIN.Capital, Creatio, Tech Funding News, Enterprise Times, Reuters, and CIO Dive
LinkedIn: Bogdan Svyrydov and Derek R. Kelliher
| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
BCG, McKinsey, KPMG, and other consultants see rising demand for AI advisory services; BCG earns 20% of its revenue from AI-related work, vs. 0% two years ago — Rattled by tech's latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Formation Bio, which uses AI to co-develop drugs with biotech and pharma companies, raised a $372M Series D led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $600M+ — Formation Bio, a startup focused on applying AI to drug discovery with backing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has raised …
More: Formation Bio, FinSMEs, and VC News Daily
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Fetcherr, which wants to help airlines provide dynamic pricing by using AI to forecast demand, raised a $90M Series B, bringing its total funding to $114.5M — The airline industry is headed for record revenue this year — $996 billion — as the demand for travel soars. But the margins remain razor-thin.Sponsor Posts
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