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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple now lets third-party browsers add web apps to an iPhone's Home Screen using their own custom engine in the EU in iOS 18.2 beta 1 — Apple last year introduced the ability for third-party web browsers to add web apps to the iOS Home Screen, a feature that was previously exclusive to Safari.| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Apple adds an iMessage child safety feature in iOS 18.2 beta 1 in Australia that will let children report nudity material sent to them to Apple — Change is part of a beta release in Australia that expands on existing detection defaulted for under-13 users
More: The Verge, MacRumors, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, NewsBytes, The Independent, and Six Colors
Mastodon: @1br0wn@eupolicy.social. LinkedIn: Connor Beckett McInerney. Forums: r/australia, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says “we have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning”; rumors suggest new M4-powered Macs — Apple may not be doing a formal product event this October, but the company is teasing a “week” of Mac announcements starting Monday morning.
More: MacRumors, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, How-To Geek, Macworld, The Independent, AppleInsider, Engadget, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Neowin, TechRadar, Laptop Mag, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, TweakTown, Wccftech, Stuff, Redmond Pie, BGR, iClarified, MacDailyNews, BNN Bloomberg, and The Shortcut
Mastodon: @jsq@mastodon.social. X: @gregjoz, @parkerortolani, @vadimyuryev, @markgurman, @dylanmcd8, @brandonbutch, @neilcybart, @lukemiani, @parkerortolani, @mbrkhrdt, @uwukko, @raywongy, @markgurman, and @tomwarren
| Bluesky: |
Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, and plans a subscription for features like higher quality video uploads — Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we've shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, and Werd I/O
Bluesky: @jay.bsky.team, @jay.bsky.team, @grantjallen.bsky.social, @kyleor.land, @kelseyhightower.com, @jaz.bsky.social, @retr0.id, @xeiaso.net, @emilyliu.me, @haileyok.com, @rose.bsky.team, @rose.bsky.team, @bsky.app, @pfrazee.com, and @justinoaksford.bsky.social
X: @blockchaincap and @anay_sim
| Ian Curran / The Irish Times: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission fines LinkedIn €310M over using personal data for behavioral analysis and targeted ads under GDPR, after a 2018 complaint — Penalty relates to social media platform's processing of its members' data for targeted advertising
More: Data Protection Commission, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, LinkedIn Pressroom, The Record, International Business Times, The Independent, Windows Central, Neowin, Cybernews.com, Silicon Republic, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Irish Examiner, Engadget, Business Plus, WinBuzzer, Wall Street Journal, Nairametrics, The Cyber Express, Irish Independent, RTÉ, The Verge, TheJournal.ie, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Daily Sabah
| New York Times: |
Sources: in 2005, Intel CEO Paul Otellini proposed buying Nvidia for $20B, but the board resisted due to concerns over the price tag and integrating Nvidia — A photo illustration of a silicon chip, mounted in a picture frame, on a shelf with cobwebs around it. Kevin Van Aelst
More: Tom's Hardware, Quartz, TVNewsCheck, and Reuters
Bluesky: @brandonshreve.dev. X: @mikeisaac, @donal888, @stevelohr, @markhachman, and @markhachman. LinkedIn: Don Clark. Forums: Slashdot
| New York Times: |
How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan's detention in February 2024, which US officials said hurt the two allies' relationship — The United States and Nigeria often collaborate. But the arrest of an American worker strained their diplomatic relations.
More: Wired, Reuters, The Crypto Times, The Record, Nairametrics, Blockworks, DeviceSecurity.io, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, The White House, Financial Express, CoinGeek, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin Insider, Blockhead, DL News, Semafor, CryptoGlobe, Fortune, Decrypt, Politics Nigeria, and Bloomberg. X: @a_greenberg
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches an analysis tool to help Claude write and run JavaScript code, perform calculations, and analyze data from files, in preview — Anthropic's Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. — Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond …
More: Anthropic, Tom's Guide, Neowin, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, and Android Headlines
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities — Private Cloud Compute is a cloud intelligence system that Apple designed for private artificial intelligence processing …
More: Apple Security Research, 9to5Mac, The Independent, Apple, SecurityWeek, and Apple on GitHub
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
The Biden administration issues the first-ever National Security Memorandum on AI, detailing how the Pentagon and intel agencies should use and protect AI — A national security memorandum detailed how agencies should streamline operations with artificial intelligence safely.
More: Washington Post, The White House, Bloomberg, The White House, DefenseScoop, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Al Jazeera, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Nextgov/FCW, Infosecurity, Fox News, Axios, The Hill, Defense One, Tech Xplore, The Record, and DataBreachToday.com
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| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi unveils the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ in 13 and 26 TOPS versions in partnership with Hailo, after announcing branded SSDs, micro SD cards, and a bumper — Raspberry ‘AI’ — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Fortinet discloses a critical FortiManager API flaw being exploited in 0-day attacks to steal sensitive files, after warning customers privately over a week ago — Fortinet publicly disclosed today a critical FortiManager API vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-47575, that was exploited …
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Mastodon: @catc0n@infosec.exchange. X: @mandiant, @richi, @dinosn, @s0ufi4n3, @ryanaraine, and @uk_daniel_card
Forums: r/fortinet and r/cybersecurity
| Sara Ruberg / New York Times: |
As Kroger and Walmart roll out electronic shelf labels, US lawmakers worry that the tech could allow for dynamic pricing; both deny plans to add dynamic pricing — Some members of Congress have expressed concerns that stores will monitor customers and raise prices.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Goodreads' co-founder Otis Chandler launches Smashing, an AI-powered app that aims to create a community around web content and has an AI Questions feature — Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A profile of ZachXBT, a twentysomething X user with 650K+ followers who tracks down crypto scams and thefts, and has received $1.3M+ in donations since 2021 — He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Microsoft: Russia, China, and Iran are stepping up cyber-influence efforts on the US election; China has focused on down-ballot candidates and Congress members — Russia, Iran, and China are targeting the US election with an evolving array of influence operations in the last days of campaign season.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, PCMag, Associated Press, TechSpot, Fox Business, Metacurity, CSO, TechRadar, Cybernews.com, Associated Press, Recorded Future, The Hill, CNN, Wall Street Journal, US News, Times Of India on YouTube, India Today, Newsweek, Politico, The Indian Express, Benzinga, Neowin, Nextgov/FCW, Semafor, and CBS News
X: @irnaenglish, @senatorheinrich, @brianjliston, @recordedfuture, @msftissues, @msftsecintel, and @msftsecintel. LinkedIn: Tom Burt
Forums: r/technology, r/ParlerWatch, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/inthenews, r/politics, and Slashdot
| Catherine Belton / Washington Post: |
More: Election Law Blog and Dark Reading
Threads: @brian.fishman.5. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social. X: @simonateba, @nickkristof, @catherinebelton, and @shayan86. LinkedIn: Jan Kallberg, Ph.D.
Forums: r/Intelligence, r/RussiaLago, r/craftofintelligence, and r/politics
| Financial Times: |
General Catalyst raised $8B, the most by a US VC since March 2022, and will put $4.5B in its core funds, $1.5B in creating startups, and $2B in other businesses — General Catalyst has raised $8bn, the largest amount by a US venture capital group in more than two years …
More: Crunchbase News, General Catalyst, MobiHealthNews, TechCrunch, VCCircle, FinSMEs, Tech Funding News, YourStory.com, and STAT
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU's Court of Justice sides with Intel over a once-record €1.06B antitrust fine, ruling that regulators failed to prove it gave illegal rebates to PC makers — - Top court sides with chipmaker in landmark EU competition case — Separate appeal over a revised EU penalty is still ongoing
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| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Vinod Khosla on Elon Musk, AI, climate tech, Harris and Trump, the US economy, tech regulation, Silicon Valley's Trump supporters, taxation, and more — “Climate debt is much harder to pay off than economic debt,” Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, says on this week's episode of Zero.| FinSMEs: |
Nimble, which helps companies automate their warehouses using logistics robots, raised a $106M Series C led by FedEx at a $1B valuation — Nimble, a San Francisco, CA-based AI robotics and autonomous e-commerce fulfillment technology company, raised $106M in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation.
More: Nimble Robotics
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Concentric AI, which helps companies secure and track sensitive data, raised a $45M Series B, bringing its total funding to $67M — Enterprises have a data inventory problem. The amount of data they're collecting and storing is increasing, and that data is being spread across disparate storage buckets.| Reuters: |
At an event in Mumbai, Nvidia announces tie-ups with Indian companies including Reliance Industries, and launches a 4B-parameter small language model for Hindi — Chip behemoth Nvidia expanded tie-ups on Thursday with India's big firms, such as Reliance Industries, and launched …
More: The Economic Times, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, Oman Observer, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, Livemint, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, Cryptopolitan, The Economic Times, News18, The Statesman, Yahoo Finance, South China Morning Post, Channel NewsAsia, ThePrint, DNA India, Inc42 Media, Firstpost, Business Standard, CNBC, MEDIANAMA, Moneycontrol, NVIDIA, The Indian Express, Business Insider, AIM, BNN Bloomberg, VentureBeat, and Notebookcheck. X: @technology
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