Elon Musk tweets that he is “up for a cage fight” with Mark Zuckerberg, who replies “send me location” in an Instagram story; Musk suggests the Vegas Octagon
Here we go. — After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg …
Apple releases visionOS SDK for creating Vision Pro apps and plans to open applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits and developer labs in July 2023
When Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC, the company promised to make a robust set of tools available for developers.
Apple patches three zero-days in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS, exploited by the Triangulation iMessage spyware reported by Kaspersky earlier in June 2023
Apple addressed three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks installing Triangulation spyware on iPhones via iMessage zero-click exploits.
Ripple says Singapore gave the company in-principle regulatory approval to offer payment tokens, services, and expand XRP cross-border transfers in the country
- Ripple said it received in-principle approval of a Major Payment Institution Licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the country's central bank.
Microsoft aims to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years, after claiming to have created scalable and stable qubits using Majorana particles in 2022
Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company's researchers …
DuckDuckGo releases its browser in public beta on Windows, over a year after its private beta on macOS, offering Duck Player for YouTube without ads and more
No extensions yet, but it can fight spam, tracking, and YouTube's algorithm. — Privacy-focused firm DuckDuckGo has released …
Citing rising complaints, Australia's eSafety commissioner gives Twitter 28 days to explain the company's plans to combat hate speech or face AU$700K in fines
Australia's online safety regulator sent a legal notice to Twitter demanding the social network explain the steps it is taking …
As Spotify's podcast strategy of focusing on exclusives and celebrity hosts continues to falter, the company seems to be shifting its attention to selling ads
The company is entering the ‘next phase’ of its podcast strategy — but will it learn from its mistakes?
Sources: Twitter resumed paying Google Cloud for its services; the companies are negotiating a partnership that could include ads and Google using Twitter's API
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A look at Dolby Atmos, supported by 15 music streaming services including Apple Music, which has heavily invested in Atmos, and the future of immersive audio
True believers in the immersive audio format say it could restore a musical appreciation lost to a generation that has come up during the streaming era.
A look at TikTok's effect on US small businesses, as the app has become “a billion-person focus group”, disrupting business cycles and upending corporate R&D
The social-media giant has become ‘a billion-person focus group,’ disrupting business cycles and upending corporate R&D
Motorola Razr Plus review: a useful large cover screen, all-day battery, and a fun form factor, but only splash-resistant and the cover screen setup is fiddly
June 22, 2023 … The Motorola Razr Plus is the first folding phone that makes me genuinely excited for what's ahead.
Utah-based Limble, which helps companies track “dumb” and unconnected physical assets, raised a $58M Series B from Goldman Sachs at a $450M post-money valuation
Advances in Internet of Things technologies promise to give organizations and us ordinary people an unprecedented view …
The US and the EU both agree that Google's ad tech dominance must end and call for a breakup; Margrethe Vestager hailed “close and fruitful” work with the DOJ
European Union and US antitrust regulators may have gone their separate ways of late.
a16z, Accel, Bain, Bessemer, Kleiner, and, sources say, Coatue and Tiger are increasingly buying startup shares on the secondary market, often at cheap prices
It's a bargain-hunter's dream, and for sellers it's sometimes the only good option left. — Secondary markets …
Robinhood acquires X1, a startup offering an income-based credit card with rewards, for $95M in cash; X1 raised $62M in total, including $15M in December 2022
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The US FTC files a lawsuit alleging Amazon used “dark patterns” to steer customers to enroll in Prime without consent and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel
Sequoia launches Atlas, an interactive tool that uses qualitative and quantitative data collection methods to map out the European technical talent landscape
There is an estimated 3 million software engineers in Europe, depending on what report you want to believe, but finding …
Source: CEO Linda Yaccarino intervened to mend Twitter's relationship with Google Cloud over skipping some payments; sources say the bills were $20M+ per month
Social-media platform is now paying for Google cloud services amid talks of broader partnership
Microsoft increases Xbox Series X prices in most markets and, for the first time, the Xbox Game Pass; Xbox Series X pricing remains the same in the US
here's how much you'll pay Jules Wang / Pocket-lint : How to avoid the Xbox Series X and Game Pass price increases Aleksha McLoughlin / TechRadar : Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X and Xbox Game Pass ...
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton starts a two-day California trip to push DSA in meetings with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others
Thierry Breton flies to US to warn Twitter's Elon Musk and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to fall in line with EU law.
Ali Selim, the director and executive producer of Marvel's Secret Invasion, says Method Studios used AI to design the opening credits scene
A look at Intel's history as the chip industry's only major Integrated Design Manufacturer and why the position is both a structural advantage and disadvantage
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A code repository suggests Google is working on a “Chromebook X” brand for above average devices; a source says the first models are expected by the end of 2023
When does a Chromebook become more than “just a Chromebook?” That's the question that Google has set out to answer …
Meta rolls out its Quest v55 update, boosting the Quest 2's maximum GPU clock speed up to 19% and the Quest Pro's up to 11%, and the CPUs for both up to 26%
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Google pledges $20M in grants to support and expand the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, aiming to introduce US students to cybersecurity careers
Free medical clinics and legal aid clinics, where college students and their instructors help their communities while also learning more about their professions, are now commonplace.
Stability AI launches SDXL 0.9, a model that uses a higher number of parameters to produce more photorealistic images than its SDXL beta from April, on Clipdrop
Artificial intelligence startup Stability AI is releasing a new model for generating images that its says can produce pictures …
Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a four-month investigation into Amazon's $1.7B iRobot acquisition after the end of a preliminary review on July 6
EU antitrust regulators are expected to open a full-scale investigation into Amazon's (AMZN.O) $1.7 billion acquisition …
ASML EVP Christophe Fouquet says decoupling the global chip supply chain would be “extremely difficult and expensive”, as major economies push for self-reliance
Top equipment maker sources globally while keeping most production in Netherlands Twitter: @chengtingfang and @mikepeeljourno Twitter: Cheng Ting-Fang / @chengtingfang : “We do not believe in #ASML th...
Comcast-owned UK broadcaster Sky launches Sky Live, a camera designed to add social, fitness, and gaming features to its smart TVs via USB-C and HDMI, for £290
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Figma expands its Google for Education partnership to Japan and now lets all US K-12 students access its design tools for free on education Chromebooks
we can't wait to see what they'll build next! https://figma.com/... @googleforedu : 👉🏾 @Figma is now available on #Chromebooks at no cost for all US K-12 students, and coming soon to schools in Japan....
Shein tries to shed its Chinese image, including by denying claims of sourcing its cotton from Xinjiang and staying silent on details of its suppliers in China
Shen Lu / Wall Street Journal :
Acryl Data, which offers a data catalog service built on the open-source framework DataHub, raised a $21M Series A led by 8VC, taking its total funding to $30M
With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data.
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unveils an AI regulatory framework and says that “Congress must join the AI revolution” before it's too late to regulate
Security, Accountability, (democratic) Foundations, Explainability 2) A series of ‘AI Insight Forums’ starting this fall featuring top experts who will develop ideas for legislation @therealhoarse : W...
Venezuela's temporary crypto mining ban is killing the industry that President Maduro promoted; ~75K mining equipment units were disconnected since March 2023
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Indigenous communities in Borneo are using mapping tech like GPS and GIS to claim their rights to ancestral land and stop the expansion of oil palm plantations
and a rapidly expanding palm oil industry. To stop their ancestral land from being turned into plantations, these communities are using drones and GPS to “decolonize the map” and prove their land righ...
Intel plans to sell a ~20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to Bain in a deal valuing IMS at $4.3B; Intel invested in IMS in 2009 and acquired the company in 2015
How Chinese language subreddits like r/China_irl became a refuge for banned Chinese internet groups, as VPN users jump the Great Firewall to speak more freely
Caiwei Chen / Rest of World : Twitter: @yilingliu95 , @caiweic , @blackamazon , and @jordanschnyc Twitter: Yi-Ling Liu / @yilingliu95 : Exiled from the Chinese internet, online communities find a new...
NYC-based Warp, a Rust-based macOS terminal app with features like permalinks and AI auto-complete command suggestions, raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia
https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... … Twitter: Andrew Reed / @andrew__reed : Excited to share that Sequoia led Warp's Series B and I joined their board. The cloud and AI offer the chance to reinvent deve...
NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $12.5M Series A led by Lightspeed and says the service has 7,500 active newsletters with 350M monthly impressions
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Intel restructures its manufacturing business to work separately and says the unit will begin to generate a margin, but offers no clear scaling up timeframe
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Google files a US FTC complaint alleging Microsoft used Office 365 licensing terms to lock clients into Azure contracts; Microsoft changed its EU terms in 2022
Patreon adds a free membership tier for the first time and plans to let creators sell one-off downloadable products such as videos and podcasts, taking a 5% cut
Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why UX matters for AI, AGI going “wrong” versus “AGI is going to go fantastically well”, capping profit, regulation, and more
Edward Felsenthal / TIME : Twitter: @sampjacobs and @npcollapse Twitter: Sam Jacobs / @sampjacobs : OpenAI's Sam Altman in a new interview with @efelsenthal: “I'm a Midwestern Jew, I think that fully...
Sources: the Biden administration is exploring mounting a campaign against Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, and other Chinese cloud companies over security concerns
David McCabe / New York Times :
Big firms want to trade crypto with the structure of traditional finance, including orders intermediated by brokers and asset custody separate from the exchange
Matt Levine / Bloomberg :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
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
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.