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June 28, 2024, 12:05 PM

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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
TeamViewer warns that its corporate environment was breached on June 26, and attributes the cyberattack to the Russian hacking group APT29 aka Midnight Blizzard  —  The remote access software company TeamViewer is warning that its corporate environment was breached in a cyberattack yesterday …
Eliza Gkritsi / Euractiv:
Margrethe Vestager says Apple's decision not to launch its AI features in the EU is a “stunning, open declaration” of the company's anticompetitive behavior  —  Apple's decision not to launch its own artificial intelligence (AI) features in the EU is a “stunning declaration” …
Wired:
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so  —  AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple launches the Vision Pro in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, the first time the device has been officially available outside of the US  —  Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing headset today arrived at Apple Store locations across China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.
The Information:
Sources: Apple may use electrically induced adhesive debonding to make batteries easier to replace, starting with one iPhone 16 model, to comply with EU rules  —  Under pressure from regulators in Europe and elsewhere, Apple in recent years has taken small steps toward making the iPhone easier for consumers to repair.
Yasemin Saplakoglu / Quanta Magazine:
An in-depth look at the development of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which had the biggest AI breakthrough in science by accurately predicting protein structures  —  When Google's public relations machine churned the news out to the world, the media went wild.  Headlines claimed that AlphaFold2 “will change everything.”
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Q&A with the VP of Amazon Games on focusing on AAA games over mobile games, Amazon's transmedia IP strategy, AI's effect on the industry, monetization, and more  —  Amazon Games has been quiet for the past few years.  So quiet you might not have even known Amazon was working on video games …
Emilio Parodi / Reuters:
Sources: Italy opened a probe into Google in December 2022 over €1B in unpaid taxes and penalties from 2018 to 2022, after settling another tax dispute in 2017  —  Italy is asking Google to pay 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) in unpaid taxes and penalties, three sources with direct knowledge …
More: Benzinga
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Meta releases LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Code Llama specifically designed for code optimization tasks, available in 7B- and 13B-parameter sizes  —  Meta has unveiled the Meta Large Language Model (LLM) Compiler, a suite of robust, open-source models designed to optimize code and revolutionize compiler design.

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