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Apple approves Spotify updating its app to show in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the EU starting today, after Spotify's yearslong legal battle — Spotify will begin showing in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the European Union starting today, following a yearslong legal battle against Apple.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says app developers can offer NFC contactless transactions using the iPhone's Secure Element, separate from Apple Pay and Wallet, starting with iOS 18.1 — Apple has announced that it is opening up the iPhone's NFC chip using the Secure Element to allow for third-party contactless payments …
More: Apple, Thurrott, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Apple Must, and BGR
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| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X review: the Zen 5 flagship chips are fine for highly threaded productivity workloads, but the gaming issues need to be fixed — Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X.
More: The Verge, Hardware Unboxed on YouTube, Tom's Hardware, Chips and Cheese, Gamers Nexus on YouTube, Club386, Phoronix, Forbes, VideoCardz.com, XDA Developers, Windows Central, HotHardware, Guru3D, JayzTwoCents on YouTube, igor'sLAB, Wccftech, TechSpot, PC Gamer, The FPS Review, PCMag, PCMag, CGMagazine, and Digital Trends
Forums: r/hardware and Beehaw
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with improved reasoning, available to X Premium and Premium+ users, and plans to add them to its API later in August — Elon Musk-owned launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta today with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images …
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| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
AT&T says it won't carry Google's new Pixel 9 Pro Fold, after selling the original Pixel Fold from 2023; the network will carry the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL — The second-generation Google foldable isn't heading to AT&T. The carrier told CNET that it will not be offering Google's newest Pixel Fold to its customers.
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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Access Now and Citizen Lab: Russian spy agencies are using deep knowledge about opponents, reporters, and human rights groups to target them via phishing emails — Traditional phishing attacks aimed to break into organizations advocating for Russian dissidents, among others.
More: The Citizen Lab, Access Now, The Record, Forbes, The Guardian, The Verge, CyberScoop, and Bloomberg
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| Troy Hunt: |
A look at the National Public Data breach, first noted in April 2024 and posted publicly last week, and why it's unlikely that “nearly 3B people” were exposed — I decided to write this post because there's no concise way to explain the nuances of what's being described as one of the largest data breaches ever.
More: Los Angeles Times, CNET, and BleepingComputer
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ considers its options after the Google monopoly ruling, like forcing a breakup of the company or requiring it to share more data with rivals — - Antitrust enforcers soliciting input from outside companies — Judge ruled Alphabet unit monopolized online search, ads
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent says it and Apple are exploring ways to offer in-app transactions via iOS' payment system, the first acknowledgment of talks with Apple to take a cut — The Chinese company is exploring ways to offer in-app transactions via Apple's iOS payment system, Chief Strategy Officer James Mitchell told analysts on an earnings call.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
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| Ben Dowsett / Wired: |
How the English Premier League plans to use 28+ iPhone 14 or newer cameras at stadiums to call offsides later in the 2024/25 season, ditching its VAR system — Later this season, the UK's top soccer division will replace its controversial VAR offside-detection system in favor of a whole bunch of Apple's smartphones.
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| Dara Kerr / NPR: |
Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three months before the US election, in favor of the Meta Content Library; Mozilla says 50K+ petitioned against the move — Meta has been bombarded by academics, researchers, politicians and regulators about a tool called CrowdTangle, which most people probably haven't heard of.| Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 48+ people detail Snowflake and Databricks' intense rivalry, jockeying to be the dominant platform for organizing AI data, and fear of Microsoft — Secret codenames, pugnacious billboards and deal drama mark the competition for data supremacy — Snowflake Inc. was looking for acquisitions.
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| Financial Times: |
How Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are using accounting techniques to hide their growing emissions, while working to influence pollution disclosure rules — Critics say a proposed change could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions — By its own account, Amazon is a green business leader.
More: The Verge and Action Speaks Louder
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LinkedIn: Jimmy Jia, Nick Stansbury, and Chris Hilson
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Hands-on with the Google Pixel 9's AI camera features: Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, and Zoom Enhance reshape reality, plus Video Boost and panorama get better — Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, and Zoom Enhance—these camera features allow you to alter your photos with zero technical know-how.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
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Threads: @technicallymims. X: @joannastern, @joannastern, @googledeepmind, @drjwrae, @google, @geminiapp, @mishaalrahman, and @ssamat
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
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Forums: r/singularity and r/singularity
| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to ~$48B and net profit up 6% YoY to ~$1.08B, above ~$1.04B est., on strong AI server demand; its stock is up ~18% in 2024 — Quarterly revenue rose 19% from a year earlier — Foxconn Technology Group reported a 6% increase in quarterly net profit …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Intel sold its 1.18M Arm shares during Q2 2024, which would have raised ~$147M for Intel based on the stock's $124.34 average price in the quarter — Intel Corp., which is slashing jobs and expenses in a bid to turn around the business, sold its holdings in chip technology creator Arm Holdings Plc during the second quarter.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The main takeaway from the Google Pixel event is Android's primacy, and Google's integration with Android is worth preserving if the goal is spurring innovation — The original Pixel was released in 2016 at the end of interesting, at least when it came to smartphones.
More: SlashGear
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
EliseAI, which offers AI property management tools for landlords, raised a $75M Series D led by Sapphire at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $140M — EliseAI, a company developing a suite of AI-powered property management tools for landlords, has raised $75 million in a Series D round that values the startup at $1 billion.
More: EliseAI, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, PitchBook, and VentureBeat
| Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: |
MIT releases a database of 700+ unique AI risks, based on 43 existing taxonomies, including peer-reviewed articles, preprints, conference papers, and reports — As research and adoption of artificial intelligence continue to advance at an accelerating pace, so do the risks associated with using AI.
More: TechCrunch, MIT Technology Review, and ZDNET
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