Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores
Apple's next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade. Behind the scenes, though …
A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today
Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along — T — IMNIT GEBRU DIDN'T set out to work in AI.
A look at publishers' legal fight against the Internet Archive's book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers' “full book catalogs”
In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued.
Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “Maximum Capacity” rating of their phone's battery has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year
Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn't build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic
With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @peter@thepit.social , and @baldur@toot.cafe . Blues...
PayPal names Intuit SVP Alex Chriss as its CEO, replacing longtime CEO Dan Schulman on September 27; the board cited Chriss' work acquiring Mailchimp for $12B
- Alex Chriss, the executive who runs the Small Business and Self-Employed group for Intuit, is the new CEO of PayPal, members of PayPal's board announced Monday.
After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months
and yet 🤡 @junlper : mark zuckerberg listening to elon musk talk about how he wanted the fight to be roman themed and in italy [image] Derek Guy / @dieworkwear : when i unbutton the top two buttons on...
Ford hires former Apple VP of Services Peter Stern, who helped build Apple TV+, to form a team improving customers' software experience, part of the Ford+ plan
/ Stern will oversee an effort to ‘create and market innovative customer experiences by integrating hardware, software and services.’
Anthropic raised $100M from South Korea-based SK Telecom, which also invested in Anthropic in May 2023, as the two aim to build a telco-focused multilingual LLM
South Korea's largest telco SK Telecom (017670.KS) said it will invest $100 million in U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic …
Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol
Amazon rolls out generative AI summaries of product reviews to a subset of US mobile users across a “broad” range of products after testing earlier in 2023
Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews for customers.
“Make in India” mobile phone shipments crossed 2B cumulative units between 2014 and 2022, registering a 23% CAGR, and made up 98%+ of local shipments in 2022
- India's mobile phone production grew at a CAGR of 23% during 2014-2022 to cross a cumulative 2bn units.
UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying its Great 78 Project works as an “illegal record store” for songs
Who benefits? — https://www.reuters.com/... John Sullivan / @johns@social.librem.one : Did these record labels really just argue that because something is available on a *streaming* service, there i...
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
Sweden has tasked its psychological defense authority with openly combating fake news from foreign actors. … X: Alex Steffen / @alexsteffen : Some people, at least, are treating these Russian corrupti...
A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue down 14% YoY to ~$40.9B, net profit down 1% YoY to ~$1B, beating analyst estimates of ~$801M, and retains a cautious H2 2023 outlook
Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) beat estimates for second-quarter earnings on Monday thanks to a booming artificial intelligence sector …
A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos' potential role in bundling, and big streaming services' opposition to sharing the same user interface
Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month
Subscribing to the top US streaming services will cost $87 this autumn, compared with $73 a year ago. Meanwhile the average cable TV package costs $83 a month. — This isn't sustainable and I expect...
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire Vision Fund 1's 25% stake in Arm, ahead of the chip designer's Nasdaq IPO in September; SoftBank owns the remaining 75%
ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :
Inside the Black Hat network operations center; volunteers on secondment built the network from scratch on the week of the event using their own equipment
Iain Thomson / The Register :
In China's information war against Taiwan, Beijing increasingly leverages Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and other lifestyle and shopping apps, aided by a shared language
Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing's information war against its neighbour — Emma Graham-Harrison and Chi-Hui Lin in Taichung
Source: CoinDesk lays off 20 people, or 45%, of its editorial team as its parent company, Digital Currency Group, pursues the outlet's sale
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Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple's macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” bypassed by “any malware that's somewhat sophisticated”
Lily Hay Newman / Wired :
The UN-backed Science Based Targets initiative removes Amazon from its list of companies working toward net zero emission goals, which Amazon announced in 2019
- SBTi strips Amazon.com of its net zero emissions validation — Move comes as SBTi's influence among ESG investors grows
Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more
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How Unilever, Siemens, Maersk, and other big companies are using AI to negotiate contracts, find new suppliers, and navigate other complex supply chain issues
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A look at Amazon One palm scanning tech, used for payments, age and ID verification, and more at US retailers, stadiums, and other venues, amid privacy concerns
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