iOS 17 beta 4 code hints at a rumored Action button, offering quick access to Shortcuts, Silent Mode, Camera, and more, similar to the Watch Ultra's button
Apple released the fourth beta of iOS 17 to developers yesterday, and among the changes in the latest beta are some new code snippets …
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META jumps 10%+
but most of the new users came from outside the US and Canada Karissa Bell / Engadget : Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse Abubakar Idris / The Messenger :...
Ex-Twitter Director of Product Management Esther Crawford on the “culture of fear”, Elon Musk's strengths and weaknesses, the sleeping bag incident, and more
Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for...
Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech
Mr. Graham, a Republican, is the senior senator from South Carolina. Ms. Warren, a Democrat, is the senior senator from Massachusetts.
The EU opens an antitrust investigation into whether Microsoft abuses its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office, the first investigation in 10+ years
Probe marks the first time in a decade that Microsoft has come under formal investigation by Brussels
The US DOJ informed a federal judge that Sam Bankman-Fried won't face the campaign finance charge, which wasn't part of an extradition document with The Bahamas
The Justice Department said late Wednesday that the campaign finance charge was not included in an extradition document with The Bahamas …
Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues
/ Despite supply chain issues and the problems caused by the pandemic, Sony says the PS5 supply is now ‘well-stocked.’
Indonesia restricts X.com, which now redirects to twitter.com after Twitter rebranding to X, as the domain had been previously used by porn and gambling sites
I thought that was crazy.. Then an ELONGATED NUT came loose and now it's truly branded X … Ryan Schultz / @ryanschultz@mastodon.social : I mean, you could argue that the birdsite brand was one of the ...
US prosecutors ask a judge to detain Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering allegations, saying he leaked Caroline Ellison's personal writings to the NYT
Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints
About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” …
Meta forecasts 20% revenue growth in Q3, returning to pre-pandemic and pre-ATT levels, potentially creating cover for expensive AI and metaverse investments
- Meta's current quarter sales projection beats estimates — Company continues to increase spending on metaverse, AI
Meta's Reality Labs reports a $3.7B operating loss in Q2, vs. $3.5B est., and expects losses to “increase meaningfully” due to VR/AR and ecosystem investments
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
Meta says Facebook surpassed 3B MAUs for the first time, increasing 3% YoY as of June 30, 2023, while family monthly active people grew 6% YoY to 3.88B
IG, WA, FB, Mssgr — every month literally, not figuratively Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “There are now more than 3.8 billion people who use at least one of our apps every month.” - Zuck About time t...
Sources: Linda Yaccarino pitched her vision for Twitter/X to talent agencies in LA and met with Disney, in a bid to bring stars and influencers to the platform
Social media app's new chief meets with agents at leading talent agencies amid controversy over rebranding to ‘X’
The US Senate Judiciary Committee advances the Kids Online Safety Act and COPPA 2.0; critics highlight issues, like forcing companies to collect more user data
Policy Analyst, Free Expression Project — Aliya Bhatia is a policy analyst … Twitter: Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : At Senate Commerce markup of KOSA/COPPA 2.0. Cruz, the top Republican, says he'...
Researchers: the guardrails on ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude can be bypassed by adding a long suffix of characters to prompts, generating false and toxic responses
A new report indicates that the guardrails for widely used chatbots can be thwarted, leading to an increasingly unpredictable environment for the technology.
How Russia's invasion led Ukraine to innovate in combat drones, including improving speed, flight range, and payload, and the implications for warfare globally
The advent of AI-enabled drones holds huge promise for Ukraine's military but may also be exploited by nefarious non-state actors
Samsung reports Q2 revenue down 22% YoY to ~$47.21B, below analyst expectations of ~$47.7B, and operating profit down 95% YoY to ~$525M due to weak phone demand
- Samsung is the world's largest maker of dynamic random-access memory chips, which are found in consumer devices such as smartphones and computers.
A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google's dominance
A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Twitter: @lutherlowe . Threads: @imdavid...
WhatsApp announces instant video messages, letting users send clips up to 60 seconds in a similar way to voice notes; videos automatically play on mute
WhatApp's latest feature is the ability to quickly send short video messages, similar to the voice messages the service already supports.
Adobe adds Firefly-based Generative Expand, which “expands images beyond their original bounds”, to the Photoshop beta and support for prompts in 100 languages
Adobe is building on Firefly, its family of generative AI models, with a feature in Photoshop that …
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
Xbox got a brand new look with the latest update … Ben Kerry / Pure Xbox : Poll: What Do You Think Of The New Xbox Home Experience? Kosta Andreadis / TweakTown : Xbox overhauls the Home UI for Xbox Se...
Sources: Netflix is reworking its tech deal with Microsoft for its ad tier to reduce the revenue guarantee and has discussed selling ads through other partners
Streamer asks for patience as it tries to jump-start $6.99 a month ad tier — Netflix is restructuring its advertising partnership …
AWS debuts HealthScribe, an AI-powered tool to summarize patient visits, and is working with partners rather than selling it directly to hospitals and doctors
Sources in Hollywood and Silicon Valley discuss AI's impact: creatives view AI as an existential threat, studios see a cost saver, and both sides need a deal
Adam Conover started to worry a few months ago that a computer could take his job. A comedian in Los Angeles … Twitter: @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw See also Mediagazer Twitter: Lucas Shaw / @lucas_sh...
Slack experienced an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search
Jon Porter / The Verge :
Israeli startup Trustmi, which offers payments fraud prevention tools, raised a $17M Series A led by Cyberstarts, taking its total funding to $21M
Shai Gabay and Eli Ben-Nun, two entrepreneurs based in Israel, met in 2018 while working at Cynet, a cybersecurity startup developing extended detection and response tools.
The SEC approves new rules to require publicly traded companies to file details of a cyberattack within four days of identifying a material impact from the hack
Bloomberg :
Filing: US government services contractor Maximus says MOVEit hackers accessed protected health information and other data of “at least” 8M to 11M people
Item 8.01 Other Events On May 31, 2023, Progress Software Corporation … Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Up to 11 Million People Hit by MOVEit Hack at Government Services Firm Maximus Twitter: Brett Cal...
AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian says thousands of customers, including Sony and Ryanair, have tried its AI services suite Bedrock ahead of a wider roll out “soon”
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters :
Waymo plans to slow the development of autonomous trucking as the company moves its focus and investment to ride-hailing
At Waymo, we're developing a generalizable, fully autonomous Driver … Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch : Waymo puts the brakes on self-driving trucks program Bhushan Akolkar / Coinspeaker : Alphabet-owned...
T-Mobile rolls out ultrafast 5G capable of 3.3Gbps, first in a few US markets for Samsung Galaxy S23 users only, then nationwide in “the coming weeks”
Wes Davis / The Verge :
Sources: the California AG is investigating Tesla, seeking information from customers and ex-employees about Autopilot safety issues and advertising complaints
and it's requesting information on Autopilot safety issues/false advertising from both former employees and customers. https://www.cnbc.com/... Forums: r/technology : Tesla under investigation by Cali...
Eco, an a16z-backed payments startup that has raised $95M, announces decentralized, non-custodial payments wallet Beam, aiming to function like a “global Venmo”
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures
Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World :
Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, an open-source text-to-image model that can yield 1MP resolution images “in seconds” in multiple aspect ratios
Dish partners with Amazon to sell a Boost Infinite postpaid wireless plan with unlimited talk, text, and data services at $25/month for Amazon Prime subscribers
As Israel enacts controversial judicial reforms, many tech companies are protesting or distancing themselves from the country, moving money and HQs overseas
Impeachment now front and center for House GOP Twitter: @glichfield : “Almost 70 percent of Israeli startups are taking measures to distance themselves from their home country, withdrawing cash or mov...
The CISA warns US federal agencies to secure their systems against an Ivanti flaw that's been exploited as a zero-day to hack Norway's government systems
Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg :
US-based chipmaker MaxLinear scraps a $3.8B deal to acquire Taiwan's Silicon Motion, saying Silicon Motion failed to complete some closing conditions and more
Ian King / Bloomberg :
Collaborative Robotics, founded by former Amazon Robotics VP Brad Porter to build a new type of collaborative robot, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
London-based AutogenAI, which offers generative AI tools to write bids and pitches, raised $22.3M; a source says the valuation was in the “hundreds of millions”
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
General counsels are increasingly taking a frontline role in companies' response to cyberattacks as the frequency and sophistication of security breaches grows
Kate Beioley / Financial Times :
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