Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765
Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding. As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive …
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Flip5, offering a larger 3.4" cover screen, up from 1.9" on the Z Flip 4, a new hinge, 256GB storage, and more for the same $999
The Motorola Razr Plus' reign as the best flip phone might be short-lived. — The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is officially here …
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 hands-on: essentially the same displays and some nice upgrades, but Samsung seems to be wasting its advantage and $1,800 is ludicrous
Even with a new hinge, a brighter display and improved multitasking, the Z Fold's rivals are catching up.
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models”
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Fold5, offering the same 7.6" and 6.2" displays, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 50MP rear camera, a new hinge, and new colors for $1,800
Unfold an immersive entertainment experience with a massive 7.6" screen. Alex Alderson / Notebookcheck : Galaxy Z Fold5: Hands-on with Samsung's latest and greatest foldable smartphone Twitter: Dan Ri...
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $74.6B, net income of $18.37B, up from $16B YoY, and Google Cloud revenue of $8.03B, up from $6.28B YoY; GOOG jumps 6%+
including Q&A, Google call clocks in at 1.4 AI references per minute. @cnbcovertime : Alphabet's #cloud revenue growing 28% “This is an inflection point in that story...Amazon right now their back's t...
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Berkeley CS professor Stuart Russell warn Congress that AI could cause serious harms in a few years
07/25/23 Twitter: Robert Wiblin / @robertwiblin : Policy ideas from Dario Amodei of Anthropic in his Senate testimony yesterday: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/ ... [image] Guillaume Lajoie / @g_laj...
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 hands-on: the new Flex Hinge seems solid and larger 3.4" external display has potential but apps may struggle with the odd aspect ratio
Cherlynn Low / Engadget :
Microsoft reports Q4 net income up 20% YoY to $20.1B, revenue up 8% YoY to $56.2B, Office Commercial up 12% YoY, Dynamics 365 up 26% YoY, and LinkedIn up 5% YoY
, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year: · Revenue was $56.2 billion and increased 8% (up 10% in constant currency)
The FBI's seizure of Mastodon server Kolektiva.social in May, part of a raid over unrelated charges, should serve as a wakeup call to fediverse users and hosts
We're in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others write a paper for EU policymakers encouraging support for open-source AI models ahead of the final EU AI Act
Emilia David / The Verge :
Emails: X offers discounts on new video ads in the US and UK and warns advertisers that they will lose verified status unless they reach spending thresholds
Social-media site X is offering hefty discounts to lure back ad dollars — X Corp. is cutting ad prices as it tries to woo brands back to the Elon Musk-owned platform.
Microsoft starts rolling out a new Xbox Home UI, offering more space for backgrounds and quick access to store, search, and settings, after 10 months of testing
Microsoft first started testing a new Xbox Home UI nearly a year ago, and the company is now ready to deliver it to all Xbox owners.
UNESCO calls for a global ban on smartphones in schools, saying intensive technology use negatively impacts student performance and increases disruption
Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices
Samsung announces the $300+ Galaxy Watch6 and $400+ Galaxy Watch6 Classic, powered by Wear OS 4, reviving the Classic's rotating bezel, and more
The Classic's rotating bezel is back — and the display bezels are a lot thinner all around. Oh, and here comes Wear OS 4.
The Browser Company launches Arc on macOS and iOS after a two-year waitlist; the browser helps users take notes, redesign webpages, organize tabs, and more
Arc, the Mac and iOS browser from The Browser Company, is finally ditching its waitlist. The company has been testing the app …
Samsung unveils the $800+ Galaxy Tab S9, $1,000+ S9 Plus, $1,200+ and S9 Ultra, offering a similar design, new CPUs, and new OLED displays, shipping August 11
Samsung has announced its latest high-end Android tablets: the new Galaxy Tab S9, S9 Plus, and S9 Ultra.
A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence - but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans Mastodon: @Weizenbaum_Institut … , @ska...
Alphabet reports Q2 Google ad revenue up 3% YoY to $58.14B after two consecutive quarters of falling ad sales
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal :
Former employees detail how the Apple Card partnership between Apple and Goldman Sachs soured; a source says Apple Card had ~10M users as of earlier this year
Apple and Goldman Sachs were in test runs before embarking publicly on one of the biggest-name partnerships ever between tech and finance.
An interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on generative AI, the Microsoft-OpenAI deal, competition among cloud providers offering generative AI services, and more
Richard Waters / Financial Times :
The Overture Maps Foundation, formed by Meta, Microsoft, AWS, and TomTom, releases its first dataset with 59M “points of interest” donated by Meta and Microsoft
- A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and TomTom is releasing data that could enable companies …
Google says 2B+ logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, up from 1.5B+ in June 2022, and YouTube is reaching 150M people on their TVs in the US
Google said today that more than 2 billion logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, giving it an edge over competitors like TikTok and Instagram Reels.
As droughts spread across Spain, the US, and elsewhere, communities are battling water-hungry data centers; Meta expects a €1B facility to use 665M liters/year
With drought spreading around the globe, battles over water are erupting between AI companies seeking more computing power …
Despite not being in SAG-AFTRA, many influencers are passing up deals to promote movies and TV shows to avoid being barred from the guild and online criticism
Despite not being in the actors' union, many content creators are passing up deals to promote films or TV shows …
How a US Navy task force is using AI to police the waters of the Gulf of Oman for pirates, a glimpse of increasingly capable autonomous systems transforming war
Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence … Twitter: @willknight . Forums: r/artificial Twitter: Will Knig...
Microsoft reports Q4 devices revenue down 20% YoY, overall gaming revenue up 1% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue down 13% YoY, and Windows OEM revenue down 12% YoY
Ballmer's 3 screens and the cloud strategy whittled down to just cloud (Azure & Office 365). … Twitter: Stephen Totilo / @stephentotilo : Microsoft: Game sales up in spring quarter, hardware down “Gam...
Bumble launches its standalone Bumble for Friends app in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the Philippines, the UK, and the US
Dating app company Bumble announced today that it releasing a separate app called “Bumble for Friends” aimed at finding friends in Australia, Canada …
Shopify announces new features: AI chatbot Sidekick to help users redesign websites and analyze data, Shopify Credit for corporate credit cards, and more
Shopify Inc. today debuted Sidekick, an artificial intelligence chatbot that can help retailers redesign their e-commerce websites and analyze sales data.
OpenAI shuts down its AI classifier for indicating AI-written text, citing “its low rate of accuracy”, and will research “more effective provenance techniques”
The UK CMA says Amazon's proposals over third-party sellers on Marketplace address its competition concerns in a preliminary view and opens consultations
Farouq Suleiman / Reuters :
A Russian court convicts Group-IB co-founder and CEO Ilya Sachkov of treason and jails him for 14 years over allegations of passing information to spies
Protect AI, which offers security tools for AI systems, raised a $35M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners, taking its total funding to $48.5M
Protect AI, a startup building tools to harden the security around AI systems, today announced that it raised $35 million in a Series …
Flashbots, whose service proposes blocks for validators running the Ethereum blockchain, raised a $60M Series B led by Paradigm at a $1B valuation
RT Watson / The Block :
A look at the origins of Worldcoin's eye-scanning orb, how the company is trying to safeguard user privacy, its tokenomics, policy challenges, and more
Jeff Wilser / CoinDesk :
A profile of Indian edtech giant Byju's CEO Byju Raveendran, who has been in crisis mode for months but hopes to raise a $1B equity investment as soon as August
Anto Antony / Bloomberg :
SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue down 47% YoY to ~$5.7B, beating an average projection of ~$4.7B, and a ~$2.3B operating loss, in line with expectations
Bloomberg :
Sources: the FTC is finalizing its antitrust suit against Amazon and is likely to file its case in federal court rather than its own tribunal as soon as August
FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon — https://www.politico.com/... Twitter: @ethangach : My favorite fan mantra from the Xbox Activision hearing was that losing cases under antiquated rul...
As Saudi Arabia spends $38B to become the “ultimate global hub” for gaming and esports by 2030, critics point to its anti-LGBTQ laws and question its intentions
Nick El Hajj / Associated Press : Bluesky: @paul.bsky.social . Twitter: @staniselsborg and @staniselsborg Bluesky: @paul.bsky.social : KSA is literally spending money on everything to see what sticks...
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue down 13% YoY to $4.53B, beating estimates of $4.35B, and forecasts lukewarm Q3 revenue as the global chip slump continues
Ian King / Bloomberg :
Amazon adds a tool to alert customers of recalled or unsafe products within their accounts; US sellers can opt in to Amazon's service to manage recalled items
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek teases ways the company could integrate additional AI into its products, including summarizing podcasts and generating audio ads
After a massive privacy backlash in 2011, Google's Street View cameras returned to Germany in June, taking new photos of its 20 largest cities
Bloomberg :
PitchBook: US AR/VR/XR startups raised $208M in June, nearly as much as in the previous three months combined, with Vision Pro creating “an inflection point”
Patrick McGee / Financial Times :
Alibaba plans to let business customers use Meta's Llama 2 to build apps, the first Chinese company to do so; companies with <700M MAUs can use Llama for free
Josh Ye / Reuters :
Meta hasn't labeled propaganda accounts of state-backed media from Russia and other authoritarian governments on Threads, unlike on Facebook and Instagram
Instagram's Twitter killer Chayanika Deka / CryptoPotato : Facebook's Answer to Twitter: A Complete Guide on Threads Allisa James / TechRadar : Threads is outpacing Twitter after finally getting a Fol...
Sources: Ant Group plans to exclude blockchain and other businesses from its financial-related unit that will be used for a Chinese financial holding license
Bloomberg :
Documents detail the struggles of Amazon's Clubhouse rival Amp, launched in March 2022 with a year-end target of 1M+ MAUs; a source says MAUs sit at 700K today
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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