Apple announces a September 12 event at 10am PT at Apple Park titled “Wonderlust”, where four iPhone 15 models, the Apple Watch Series 9, and more are expected
Apple today announced plans to hold a special event on Tuesday, September 12 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
An image with the alt text “A person takes a call on a Pixel 8 Pro phone in Porcelain” popped up on a Google Store page displaying the as-yet-unannounced device
Continuing the storied tradition of Google's Pixel devices being some of the most-leaked hardware ever …
Huawei quietly launches the ~$960 Mate 60 Pro, giving no advance notice and releasing no ads; some investors speculate that Huawei used its own 5G chip
Chinese chip stocks rallied on Wednesday following Huawei Technologies' (HWT.UL) launch of its new Mate 60 Pro phone …
Source: OpenAI is on pace to generate more than $1B in revenue over the next 12 months by selling software and computing capacity, up from just $28M in 2022
OpenAI is currently on pace to generate more than $1 billion in revenue over the next 12 months from the sale of artificial intelligence software …
JBL announces the $330 Authentics 200, $700 Authentics 500, and portable $430 Authentics 300 speakers, the first smart speakers to have both Alexa and Assistant
Three new JBL smart speakers from Harman will be the first to offer simultaneous voice assistants, so you can ask Alexa to start the music and then ask Google to stop it.
Meta's Oversight Board took 234 days to get a ruling in an incitement to violence case involving Hun Sen, revealing a problem with the board's glacial pace
Today let's talk about one of the most important cases that Meta's Oversight Board has heard to date — and how the process ultimately revealed … Threads: @crumbler . Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social . X: ...
Fairphone announces the €699 Fairphone 5, offering a 6.46-inch 90Hz OLED display, dual 50 megapixel cameras, and 30W fast charging, shipping on September 14
The Fairphone 5 is the latest sustainably produced and repairable handset from Dutch smartphone company Fairphone.
Samsung launches Food, a “personalized” AI-based food and recipe app in eight languages and 104 countries, drawing on a 160K+ recipes from Whisk, bought in 2019
It builds on Whisk, an app it acquired a few years back. — As it promised last week, Samsung has launched Food …
In July 2023, the NHTSA ordered Tesla to provide data on Autopilot's “Elon mode”, which eliminates prompts for drivers to their keep hands on the wheel
- Tesla received a special order from the National Highway Transportation Administration in late July requiring …
Sources: Chinese-backed hackers breached Japanese cybersecurity agency NISC's email system; experts link the July 4 ransomware attack on Port of Nagoya to China
Infiltration comes as allies scrutinise Tokyo's defences against hacking — The organisation responsible for Japan's national defences …
Meta rejects the Oversight Board's recommendation to suspend former Cambodian PM Hun Sen's account because doing so would “not be consistent with our policies”
but, in fairness, it's not straightforward. — Vittoria Elliott (who isn't active on Bluesky, AFAIK) has written very thoughtfully about the tradeoffs of a decision like this in Wired: www.wired.com/...
Court filing: X faces 2,200 arbitration cases from employees laid off after Elon Musk took over; the filing fees alone could be $3.5M for such a volume of cases
- Elon Musk's X Corp. is facing 2,200 arbitration cases, a court filing in Delaware revealed on Monday.
Microsoft plans to address an “unintended behavior” causing malware-like notification pop-ups in Windows 11 for months that promote Bing search in Chrome
I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend. There I was minding my own business in Chrome …
Chinese sextortion scammers have flooded X, harassing political dissidents and influential opinion leaders since the site added paid blue checks in April 2023
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
Google Cloud unveils Vertex AI improvements to better compete with Azure AI Studio and Amazon Bedrock; Nvidia announces PaxML, built on Google's JAX framework
Google is in the middle of trying to avoid repeating history when releasing its industry-altering technology.
Seattle-based Hyperproof, which offers SaaS risk and compliance management tools, raised $40M led by Riverwood Capital, taking its total funding to $66.5M
Hyperproof, a software-as-a-service risk and compliance management company, today announced that it raised $40 million in a funding round led …
Data.ai and IDC expect consumers to spend $108B on mobile games in 2023, or 55% of global spending on games, followed by $43B on consoles and $40B on PC/Mac
While the games industry isn't growing according to Data.ai and IDC's latest report, spending declines are leveling off faster than expected.
The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network
It was live on 700k endpoints (!) which should give you an idea of the scale of cybersecurity woes at many orgs (it's still really, really bad out there). X: Nick Carr / @itsreallynick : payments.txt ...
Bumble, Match, Hinge, and Grindr explore more expensive subscriptions for users seeking a curated experience; Bumble says $40 to $50 feels “low” to some users
- New weekly subscriptions are driving Gen Z subscription growth — Premium tiers are also planned as paying user growth stalls
A US court rules that the SEC must review its rejection of Grayscale's bid to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an ETF after approving two bitcoin ETPs
a federal appeals court one step removed from SCOTUS—with a remarkably unanimous decision from an ideologically diverse panel. The 3 judges ruled the SEC failed to adequately explain its disparate tre...
UAE-linked G42, MBZUAI, and Cerebras launch Jais, an open-source, English and Arabic bilingual LLM; the UAE once trained an LLM, Falcon, using 300+ Nvidia GPUs
Jais software part of regional powers' effort to take world-leading role in technology's development
Sources: Tether added Britannia Bank & Trust, a privately held bank operating in the Bahamas, to process dollar transfers, as US banks cut crypto ties
Bloomberg :
Google previews AlloyDB AI, an integrated set of capabilities built into AlloyDB for PostgreSQL to help developers build generative AI apps using their own data
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A look at the wave of child safety legislation in the US aimed at age-gating minors' access to the internet, backed by Republicans and Democrats alike
By the end of this month, porn will get a lot harder to watch in Texas. Instead of clicking a button or entering a date of birth … X: @eff , @matthew_d_green , @mike_salter , and @matthew_d_green . F...
Republican AGs from 16 states write to the SEC over concerns about Shein filing for a US IPO and urge the agency to order an investigation on using forced labor
A group of state attorneys general urged the S.E.C. to make the fast fashion company prove it doesn't use forced labor if it files to go public.
HP misses with Q3 revenue down 10% YoY to $13.2B, Personal Systems revenue down 11% YoY to $8.9B, and Printing revenue down 7% YoY to $4.3B; HPQ falls 10%+
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research :
Meta Avatars finally get legs in Horizon Home, with the Quest v57 update on the Public Test Channel, after Meta said in October 2022 they were “coming soon”
David Heaney / UploadVR :
Source: Robinhood, whose entry into crypto was powered by Jump Trading, parted ways with the firm in early July; Jump has reportedly pulled back from the US
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk :
WhatsApp launches a new native macOS app via its website, coming soon to the App Store, that lets eight users join video calls and 32 users join audio calls
In a “safety” blog post, X announces “paid-for promoted political posts”, starting in the US, and plans to “provide a global advertising transparency center”
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company :
Chicago-based Mediafly, which provides a revenue enablement service to Adobe, ADP, Honeywell, Nestlé, and other large companies, raised $80M led by BIP Ventures
Alex Zorn / Chicago Business Journal :
Letter: the UFC, the NBA, and the NFL tell the USPTO that the DMCA needs to be updated so live content can be removed “instantaneously or near-instantaneously”
August 23, 2023 SUBMITTED VIA FEDERAL E-RULEMAKING PORTAL United States Patent … Will Shanklin / Engadget : The NBA, NFL and UFC want instantaneous DMCA takedowns Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News : The ...
India says at least 32 international electronics makers, including HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, and Lenovo, applied to its incentive program as part of “Make in India”
At least 32 international electronics companies have applied to India's incentive programme to make laptops …
YouTube now lets creators take an educational training course when they receive a warning, which YouTube lifts if they don't violate the same policy for 90 days
if they attend a class X: @youtubeliaison : HUGE update to Community Guidelines warnings! ⚠️ If you get a warning... 📝 You will be able to take educational training... 💨 If you don't violate the same ...
GM extends its Google Cloud partnership to use AI, leveraging chatbots to handle simple OnStar calls and freeing up operators to address more complex requests
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Google says Duet AI for Workspace costs $30/month/user for enterprise, consumer pricing will come in the coming months, and Workspace has 10M paying customers
Critics say India's new privacy safeguards do little to prevent mass government surveillance via tracking equipment installed at subsea cable landing stations
Financial Times :
Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$9.24B and a ~$503.4M net profit, beating analyst estimates of ~$440.3M and more than doubling from a year earlier
Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal :
Google discontinues its $45+ Pixel Pass subscription bundle, launched in 2021 in the US; subscribers won't be able to upgrade once their two-year term expires
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google :
Despite a rough year for the memory chip business, SK Hynix's stock rose almost 60% in 2023, benefiting from AI applications that rely on high bandwidth memory
Wall Street Journal :
HPE reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to $7B, HPC & AI revenue up 1% YoY to $836M, Intelligent Edge revenue up 50% YoY to $1.4B, and bumps its FY 2023 profit outlook
Alibaba's T-Head, VeriSilicon, and seven other Chinese chip companies form a patent protection alliance for RISC-V to share and license patents to third parties
Lilian Zhang / South China Morning Post :
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