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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU's General Court annuls a €1.49B antitrust fine imposed on Google in 2019 for abusing its dominance to prevent websites from using non-AdSense ad brokers — Europe's second-top court on Wednesday backed Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google's challenge against a 1.49 billion euros …
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Sources: Google tried to end an EU antitrust probe by offering to sell its ad marketplace AdX, or Ad Exchange, but European publishers rejected the proposal — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google took a major step this year to end an EU antitrust investigation with an offer to sell … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max review: a very incremental upgrade with new tone control in camera and a useful but a little fiddly Camera Control button — I'm not saying you should buy a new phone for a single camera setting... but I'm not not saying that, either.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple iPhone 16 and 16 Plus review: a reliable camera, a handy Action Button, and more RAM, but a standard refresh rate screen and Camera Control is a mixed bag — It's a good year for Apple's basic iPhone, even if its AI is MIA. … Over the past few years, Apple's standard iPhone looked a little neglected.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube integrates Google DeepMind's AI video generation model Veo into Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds and 1080p six-second clips — The main attraction of YouTube's Made On event on Wednesday morning was, you guessed it, artificial intelligence.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube adds an Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app that lets creators use AI to generate video concepts, create titles and thumbnails, and write scripts — Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google's entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company's newest tech … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
More: YouTube Official Blog, PCMag, TechCrunch, Android Police, Android Central, Business Insider, and Dexerto
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
More: YouTube Official Blog, Android Police, How-To Geek, and TechCrunch
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
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| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of devices worldwide last week that was operated by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon — The FBI led an operation last week to disrupt a global botnet with connections to the Chinese government … | Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
HTC unveils the $999 Vive Focus Vision, a VR headset with built-in eye tracking, two 16MP stereo color front-facing cameras, and more, available for preorder — It's no Quest 3 competitor, but it could appeal to businesses and VR fanatics. — HTC Vive is following up its intriguing …
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
X changes how it delivers its site in Brazil, evading Brazilian ISPs' digital roadblocks set up in recent weeks; a source says X's approach relies on Cloudflare — Elon Musk's social media platform used a technical maneuver to restore service for many Brazilians after a court blocked it.
More: Reuters, BBC, The Verge, Associated Press, The Brazilian Report, and The Gateway Pundit
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots — Are we at peak social media yet? It's an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple pulls the iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro models after bricking complaints, working “to resolve an issue that is impacting a small number of devices” — Apple stopped signing the iPadOS 18 update for the M4 iPad Pro models, which means the new software is no longer available …
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
LinkedIn confirms it's training its AI models on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out — LinkedIn is using its users' data for improving the social network's generative AI products, but has not yet updated … | Rod McGuirk / Associated Press: |
Australia, Europol, and more say they infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted communications app developed for criminals, arresting dozens, including its alleged admin — Australian police said Wednesday they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests.
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| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in the creation of its movies and TV shows — Hollywood studio will give the tech company access to its library of movies and shows in exchange for a custom-built AI model
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
T-Mobile announces a multi-year partnership with OpenAI that includes building IntentCX, a customer service system powered by AI agents — - The companies say that the model is already showing promise in analyzing customer care call transcripts and identifying pain points that could be addressed better.
More: T-Mobile, Wall Street Journal, How-To Geek, PCMag, CNET, and Constellation Research
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| New York Times: |
US prosecutors say Caroline Ellison provided “extraordinary cooperation” in the Sam Bankman-Fried case, signaling that she should receive a lenient sentence — Ms. Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried's former girlfriend and a top executive in his empire, is set to be sentenced on Sept. 24 … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
| Juliet Chung / Wall Street Journal: |
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100M to boost US cybersecurity: $50M to protect infrastructure and $50M to educate people about safeguards — Donation brings Craig Newmark's charitable commitments to around $400 million — Craigslist founder Craig Newmark believes hacking …
More: CBS News, PYMNTS.com, and San Francisco Business Times
| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
Intel's decision to delay new Germany and Poland plants by two years is a blow to the EU's goal of making 20% of the world's chips by 2030, up from ~9% in 2022 — BRUSSELS — The European Commission's landmark 2022 chips strategy has collapsed just as it laid out a new team to fix the bloc's competitiveness.
More: Intel, Total Telecom, WinBuzzer, Global Construction Review, Notes From Poland, and Bloomberg
X: @davidheniguk and @pieter_haeck
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages between Android and iOS; Google is working to bring cross-platform E2EE to RCS chats “as soon as possible” — E2EE prevents third parties, like your messaging service or cell carrier, from viewing your texts.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
How a trademark fight led to a new version of Flappy Bird by a crypto-adjacent game developer, 10 years after Dong Nguyen pulled the original from app stores — Decadelong trademark fight culminates in new game hinting at “Web3 innovation.” — Fans of ultra-viral mobile gaming hit Flappy Bird …
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Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Washington Post: |
Researchers: GPT-4 generating a 100-word email uses 1,468ml of water at its Washington data center, 925ml in Arizona, 464ml in Illinois, and 235ml in Texas — AI bots generate a lot of heat, and keeping their computer servers running exacts a toll. — Roughly a quarter of Americans … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
SiFive unveils the Intelligence XM Series, its latest RISC-V-based chip blueprints for AI data center workloads, autonomous machines, and at the network edge — Open-source semiconductor design company SiFive Inc. today unveiled its latest chip design blueprints, the SiFive Intelligence XM Series …
More: DatacenterDynamics, VentureBeat, and SiFive, Inc.
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