Meta unveils the $500 Quest 3, “the first mainstream headset with high-res color MR”, slimmer and over 2x the GPU performance vs. the Quest 2, coming this fall
Coming this fall! https://www.youtube.com/... #metaquest #meta #virtualreality #technology Ankita Chaturvedi : Very excited and proud to share the most powerful and affordable VR headset Quest 3 with...
Twitter's VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin says she has resigned from the company; Irwin joined in June 2022 and took over T&S when Yoel Roth resigned
Twitter's head of trust and safety Ella Irwin told Reuters on Thursday that she has resigned from the social media company.
Current and ex-employees: Meta staff generally aren't using the Quest 3, especially for meetings, and even those in the VR unit don't use it regularly for work
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The Daily Wire claims that Twitter canceled a deal to premiere What Is a Woman and threatened to “throttle” the documentary over two instances of “misgendering”
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The FSB claims Apple helped the NSA hack Russian diplomats' iPhones; Kaspersky: unknown malware leveraged zero-click exploits on iPhones running up to iOS 15.7
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is accusing U.S. intelligence of hacking “thousands of Apple phones” to spy on Russian diplomats.
Meta updates its policy to require employees assigned to an office to start coming in three days per week starting September 5; remote workers are exempt
Change will take effect Sept. 5 for employees already assigned to an office; remote workers' status won't change
Sources: Apple is planning 53 new, relocated, or remodeled retail stores worldwide through 2027, including 15 new stores across the Asia-Pacific region
Apple Inc. is working on plans to expand and revitalize its retail chain, aiming to push deeper into China and other parts of Asia …
What to expect at WWDC: Apple XR headset that a source says is part “status symbol” and part “future of the computer”, 15" MacBook Air, iOS 17, watchOS 10, more
Apple Inc.'s most significant product launch event in nearly a decade kicks off Monday …
A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Elon Musk of insider trading by manipulating Dogecoin; Musk allegedly sold ~$124M in DOGE after Twitter's logo change
Elon Musk is being accused of insider trading in a proposed class action by investors accusing the Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) …
Microsoft updates Windows 11's built-in Teams app with Discord-like communities, available on mobile since December 2022, and AI art tool Designer in preview
Microsoft is greatly improving its free version of Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 today. The built-in Teams app will now include support …
Sources say Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish Network, and AT&T to offer low-cost or possibly free mobile phone service to US Prime subscribers
Amazon.com Inc. has been talking with wireless carriers about offering low-cost or possibly free nationwide mobile phone service …
The US Defense Department plans to buy Starlink satellite terminals and services for use by Ukraine's military, after a funding dispute with SpaceX
The Pentagon is buying Starlink satellite communications terminals and services from billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX for use by the Ukraine military, the Defense Department said.
Meta cuts the Quest 2's price to $350 for 256GB and to $300 for 128GB, and plans a software update to boost the Quest 2 and Quest Pro's CPU and GPU performance
Challenger report: US tech companies have announced 136,831 layoffs in 2023 so far, more than in any full year since 2001, when job cuts reached 168,395
US companies have announced more job cuts this year than during all of 2022, according to executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.
A look at Voyager, a Minecraft bot created by an Nvidia team using GPT-4, which obtains over 3x as many items and builds tools 15x quicker than other AI bots
The bot plays the video game by tapping the text generator to pick up new skills, suggesting that the tech behind ChatGPT could automate many workplace tasks. Tweets: @animaanandkumar , @jrsyjmy , and...
Airbnb sues New York City over a new law the company calls a “de facto ban against short-term rentals”; the city plans to begin enforcing the law in July 2023
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Motorola launches two new Razr phones, including the $999 Razr Plus with a 3.6" outer display, a 6.9" inner 165Hz 1080p panel, and a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset
and it may be the flip phone of my dreams Tweets: Ross Young / @dsccross : DSCC expects the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra to be the first foldable clamshell with color on encapsulation (CoE) technology, sign...
Artifact, the news app founded by Instagram's co-founders, will use a GPT-4 model to rewrite the headlines of articles marked as clickbait by the Artifact team
Last month, the Artifact news app introduced an option for users to flag an article as clickbait.
Apple denies the FSB's NSA cooperation claim, saying the company “never worked with any government to insert a backdoor into any Apple product and never will”
Sources: Microsoft agrees to spend potentially billions of dollars on CoreWeave's products; the GPU cloud provider raised $200M, bringing its Series B to $421M
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges over the company keeping Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data collected from children for years
Natasha Singer / New York Times :
Instagram details how the app ranks Feed content, Stories, Reels, and more, and tests more user controls, including an Interested button for recommended posts
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Tether's USDT circulation surpasses its $83.2B all-time-high, recovering the ~$20B lost after TerraUSD's 2022 collapse, even as crypto trading volume stays low
Bloomberg :
Dell Q1: revenue down 20% YoY to $20.92B, vs. $20.12B est., Client Solutions revenue down 23% YoY to $11.98B, vs. $11.41B est., net income down 46% YoY to $578M
Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch :
Microsoft says it expects to take a charge of about $425M in Q2 for a potential fine from Irish DPC over alleged LinkedIn targeted ads privacy violations
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters :
WordPress.com launches paid subscriptions and premium content in free newsletters, available to all WordPress.com blogs, including those on the free plan
Earn With Paid Subscriptions TechRadar : WordPress launches paid and premium newsletters Ademilade Shodipe-Dosunmu / MakeUseOf : Substack vs. Mailchimp: Which Is the Best for Creating a Newsletter Twe...
Some Apple Savings Account users have had trouble transferring money out of their accounts; Goldman representatives have given differing responses on what to do
Binance plans to delist 12 privacy coins, including Zcash and Monero, in France, Italy, Poland, and Spain on June 26, citing its “ongoing compliance processes”
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
At Computex, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, and more bet on OLED displays to revive PC sales, despite higher component costs; Samsung has 99%+ of the OLED laptop market
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg :
Report: Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app and other tools to manage businesses, filed for bankruptcy after failing to close a €90M Series C
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu : Tweets: @jesusmargon , @robinwauters , and @sensorpunk Tweets: Jesús Martínez / @jesusmargon : Thank you very much, @sensorpunk, for highlighting our scoop on Jeff's bankruptcy...
Survey: 53% of Android device owners switched to iOS due to prior phone problems and 26% for new iPhone features; only 6% moved because of iMessage and FaceTime
Malaysia plans to allow carriers to decide whether to work with Huawei and other Chinese firms in its second 5G network, but will consider EU and US concerns
Anisah Shukry / Bloomberg :
AT Protocol's account portability tool gives the users of Bluesky, a public benefit LLC independent from Twitter, a way out should a billionaire take over
https://theintercept.com/... Paul Frazee / @pfrazee.com : awesome, great piece! — one thing I'll add: we took our first step toward decentralization with the custom feeds launch. we're still iterati...
Commissioner Thierry Breton says the EU plans to subject Twitter and other companies to a voluntary stress test in June to measure their compliance with the DSA
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal :
DeFi lending protocol MakerDAO's community votes to ditch $500M of the Paxos Dollar stablecoin from its reserves, impacting roughly half of the token's supply
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