An Apple support document and a compliance page reference an “iPhone 14 Max”, suggesting Apple changed the name to iPhone 14 Plus at the last moment
Newly discovered references to the iPhone 14 Plus as “iPhone 14 Max” on Apple's website suggest this was the name originally intended …
Meta confirms taking “enforcement actions” against The OG App, which offers ad-free Instagram feeds, as developer UN1feed says Apple removed the App Store app
A third-party Instagram app, called “The OG App,” which promised an ad-free feed more like the original Instagram experience …
Sources: Apple tells suppliers to pull back from increasing the supply of iPhone 14 models by ~6M units in H2, instead aiming for 90M units, on par with 2021
Bloomberg :
Amnesty International: Meta's algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook that incited violent hatred against the Rohingya in Myanmar
With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that's been his home since 2017 … Source: Amnesty International .
Microsoft plans to end support for SwiftKey on iOS and delist the app from the App Store on October 5; Microsoft will continue to support SwiftKey for Android
Questions about what's going on with Microsoft's support of the predictive SwifKey keyboard app for iOS have been bubbling up over the past few weeks.
Meta details its text-to-video AI generator, Make-A-Video, which can produce up to five-second videos without audio; Meta is not giving access to the AI model
AI text-to-image generators have been making headlines in recent months, but researchers are already moving on to the next frontier: AI text-to-video generators.
Google announces new Maps features, including the ability to visually soar over some areas, 250 more landmark views, enriched neighborhood info, and AR search
Google is gearing up to launch several new updates for Maps in the coming months, the company announced today at its Search On event.
An investigation shows the CIA failed to secure its messaging system used by Iranian spies, often hidden within websites, leading to capture, torture, and death
The spy was minutes from leaving Iran when he was nabbed. — Gholamreza Hosseini was at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran in late 2010, preparing for a flight to Bangkok.
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the US candidate for secretary general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union, beats Russia's candidate by 139 to 25 votes
BUCHAREST — A top U.S. official won a massive majority to lead the United Nations agency that sets global standards for telecoms and tech infrastructure.
Researchers detail Chaos, a new cross-platform malware that infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including routers, FreeBSD boxes, and servers
Small office routers? FreeBSD machines? Enterprise servers? Chaos infects them all. — Researchers have revealed a never … Source: Lumen .
Meta permanently bans Pornhub's Instagram account for “repeatedly violating” its policies, after a three-week suspension and ToS breaches accruing over 10 years
Pornhub claims its account was “fully PG,” and cites the uneven treatment of mainstream celebrities like Kim Kardashian …
OpenAI removes the waitlist for DALL-E, giving everyone immediate access; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says a public release is essential to develop the tech safely
None of these photos were taken by a camera. — All of these images were created by the artificial intelligence text …
Amazon encourages some customer service staff to work from home, sources say to cut real estate costs; source: Amazon plans to close multiple US call centers
Amazon.com Inc. is encouraging customer service employees at some US call centers to work from home, signaling the company's preference …
A look at Botometer, which claims to identify the likelihood that a Twitter account is a bot and has been cited by Elon Musk's lawyers in the Twitter lawsuit
In the battle over Twitter's future, the number of bots on the platform is a key issue. Problem is, nobody knows how to count them.
Saudi Arabia's Savvy Gaming Group says it plans to invest $37.8B in gaming companies to expand its role in the sector, including $18B for minority investments
Saudi Arabia's government-funded gaming conglomerate The Savvy Gaming Group will invest $37.8 billion in gaming as part …
Experts say the Optus hack could cost parent Singtel $420M to $560M for the 2.8M worst-affected customers; Singtel made $1.44B in profit in its fiscal year 2022
The cost for Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to make good customers exposed to one of Australia's worst data breaches risks wiping …
Sources: SoftBank begins laying off Vision Fund employees, with cuts expected to impact over 150 people, or 30%+ of its staff, following a record $23B loss
SoftBank Group Corp. has started laying off employees at its loss-making Vision Fund and is expected to cut at least 30% of its staff …
Amazon unveils the $340 Kindle Scribe, an Oasis-like device for reading and writing with a 10.2" E Ink display and two stylus options, available to preorder
Block's bitcoin-focused TBD subsidiary and Circle partner on open standards for cross-border remittances and self-custody wallets that hold USD stablecoins
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk :
Jakarta-based Traveloka, Southeast Asia's largest online travel startup, raised $300M from BlackRock, Allianz, and others; Traveloka was valued at $3B in 2020
Traveloka has secured $300 million in new financing from investors including BlackRock Inc., as Southeast Asia's biggest online …
Meta opens NFT sharing to Facebook users in the US and to all Instagram users in 100 countries, including the US, where digital collectibles are available
Users can now connect their crypto wallets to Instagram as part of the app's new digital collectible feature, which the tech giant has been testing since May.
Report: corporate expense management tool TripActions, valued at $7.25B in October 2021, confidentially filed for a US IPO in Q2 2023, seeking a $12B valuation
TripActions is said to have filed confidentially to go public in the third quarter of next year at a $12 billion valuation. Source: Insider . Tweets: @yoda and @bayareawriter Source: Ben Bergman / Ins...
Square launches support for Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers in the US, available within its Square Point of Sale app for iOS on the iPhone XS or newer
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors :
Amazon increases its average starting pay for front-line US staff to $19+/hour, up from $18/hour; warehouse and delivery workers will earn $16/hour to $26/hour
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Tel Aviv-based Ox Security, which improves software supply chain security, raised a $34M seed from Microsoft's M12 and others, and says it has 30+ customers
The rise in software supply chain attacks, like the SolarWinds hack, prompted last year's executive order from the Biden Administration …
BMW plans to use Alexa's tech to build a voice assistant, coming to cars launching within the next two years; BMW started offering Alexa in some cars in 2018
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Amazon unveils the $140 Halo Rise, a bedside sleep tracker that uses contactless sensors, coming later in 2022 with a free six-month Amazon Halo subscription
An investigation details China's crackdown on its $47B chip self-sufficiency “Big Fund”, including 12+ executives investigated or disappeared in three months
Financial Times : Tweets: @simonbchen , @michaelxpettis , and @edwardwhitenz Tweets: Simon Boyi Chen / @simonbchen : Corruption is inevitable when doing big business (or running a military) in Red Ch...
SWIFT is working with blockchain data provider Chainlink on a cross-chain interoperability protocol to let SWIFT messages instruct on-chain token transfers
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk :
Google announces new US shopping features, including a “Shop the Look” display of complementary products, 3D images, trending items, and more personalization
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Google plans to expand its Google Lens multisearch tool, which lets users search using an image and some text, to more than 70 languages in the next few months
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Amazon unveils its fifth-gen $50 Echo Dot and $60 Echo Dot with Clock, which double as Eero mesh Wi-Fi extenders and have a temperature sensor and deeper bass
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge :
OneKey, which claims only its hardware wallet has a certified secure chip and 100% open-source code, raised a ~$20M Series A led by Dragonfly and Ribbit Capital
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
Amazon's $1,000 Astro robot gets pet detection, the ability to check specific windows and doors, Ring camera integration, and an SDK for three universities
Dyson, Mazda, and others suspended Twitter marketing campaigns because their promoted tweets appeared alongside tweets publicly soliciting or selling child porn
Amazon unveils a refreshed Fire TV Cube media player with Wi-Fi 6E for $140, Fire TV Omni QLED Series for $800+, and a refreshed Alexa Voice Remote Pro for $35
Pornhub tests a chatbot in the UK that sends users searching for CSAM to a service where they can get help; the bot intervened 173,904 times in its first month
Matt Burgess / Wired :
A look at Portugal's Meia Praia beach, a haven where crypto supporters gather, creating a bubble of optimism about digital currencies amid crypto's downturn
Adam Satariano / New York Times : Tweets: @diditaihuttu , @alleenbrown , and @satariano Tweets: @diditaihuttu : Yes @BamBamBeach is helping people to understand the evolution of money into #Bitcoin d...
Google unveils search results with a “Discussions and forums” section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and machine-translated news coverage, set for early 2023
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
New Jersey-based Sitetracker, which offers a cloud service to manage critical infrastructure projects, raised a $96M Series D, $66M in equity and $30M in debt
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
Amazon debuts Amazon Roadside Assistance, accessible from the Alexa app, Echo Auto, and other Echo devices, for contacting a local roadside assistance provider
Alexa gets smart home features like a multi-view stream and scheduling; Amazon says Alexa triggers 30%+ of smart home interactions without users saying anything
DocuSign plans to lay off 9% of staff as part of a major FY 2023 restructuring, incurring charges of $30M to $40M; DocuSign had 7,461 employees in January 2022
Sources: GV shelved its algorithm, which for years served as a gatekeeper for new investments, suggesting that human judgement can't always be automated away
Dan Primack / Axios :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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