Apple releases emergency security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities, for a total of 16 zero-days fixed in 2023
Apple released emergency security updates to patch three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks targeting iPhone and Mac users …
The UK CMA says Microsoft's revised offer to acquire Activision, which includes selling some gaming rights to Ubisoft, appears to address its concerns
- CMA says revised offer opens the door to deal approval — Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. looks set …
X plans to deprecate Circles on October 31, 2023; users will not be able to create new posts nor add people to their Circle, but will be able to remove people
X is planning to shut down Circles, a feature that lets you share posts with a limited group of people instead of all of your followers.
Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching on September 26 across all its apps and services, including Microsoft 365, Edge, and Bing
Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th. The new “AI companion,” …
Microsoft plans to release its next Windows 11 update, 22H2, on September 26, with an AI-powered Copilot and Paint, a redesigned File Explorer, and more
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Microsoft unveils the 14.4" Surface Laptop Studio 2, offering Intel's 13th Gen i7 H chips, Nvidia's RTX 4050 or RTX 4060, and up to 2TB of storage, for $1,999+
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Google veteran Luiz André Barroso, who overturned many computing design conventions and conceived “the data center as a computer”, died on September 16 at 59
Brazilian engineer Luiz André Barroso, who ripped up the rulebook at Google, has died.
Amazon plans to run limited ads on Prime Video in the US, the UK, Germany, and Canada starting in early 2024, charging $2.99/month extra in the US to avoid ads
- Prime Video will offer a more expensive ad-free option — Streamers want to increase revenue as production costs soar
Tether spent ~$420M on 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs and a 20% stake in Frankfurt-based bitcoin miner Northern Data, which plans to rent the chips to AI startups
A $40,000 computer chip has become one of the hottest commodities in the tech industry. Startups are scrambling to buy up Nvidia's H100 …
A look at Sullivan & Cromwell's tangled FTX relationship, as SBF argues that the law firm set him up; the firm has made $100M+ in fees from FTX's bankruptcy
Mr. Bankman-Fried and his allies have blasted Sullivan & Cromwell, the New York law firm managing FTX's bankruptcy, for its tangled relationship with the crypto exchange.
How Apple SVP of Services Eddy Cue led the company's push into live sports streaming and is using its MLS deal to test reshaping how sports are consumed
Longtime Apple executive Eddy Cue happens to be an enormous sports fan. And with Apple entering the wild west of broadcasting live sports …
EU antitrust regulators fine Intel €376.36M for “a previously established abuse of dominant position” after an EU court overturned a €1.06B fine in January 2022
- Fine follows ruling by court upholding part of EU's case — EU initially fined Intel a then-record penalty in 2009
Microsoft announces the Surface Hub 3, offering 50" or 85" 4K PixelSense displays with anti-glare, smart rotation, and portrait mode, available later in 2023
Microsoft has revealed the Surface Hub 3, the latest version of the company's all-in-one collaborative touchscreen device.
Microsoft unveils the 12.4" Surface Laptop Go 3, with Intel 12th Gen CPUs, Iris Xe GPUs, up to 16GB of RAM, and a 15-hour battery for $799+, coming on October 3
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GGV, which has backed companies like Alibaba, ByteDance, Xiaomi, and Didi, splits into Asia and US units; in July, the US asked about GGV's holdings in China
Move follows similar decision by rival Sequoia Capital and Biden order to limit American investment in Chinese tech
The number of smartphone brands fell from 720+ in 2017 to almost 250 in 2023, as local brands lose market share due to a maturing userbase, 5G shift, and more
- The number of active brands is down to almost 250 in 2023 so far from over 700 in 2017. — The decline in the number …
The UK says it's moving forward with the US data bridge deal, which would let UK citizens' data be exported to the US under protections in line with the UK GDPR
The UK government has officially confirmed it will piggyback on a transatlantic data transfer deal between the European Union …
Microsoft plans to release Microsoft 365 Copilot on November 1 for Microsoft 365 customers on certain business and enterprise plans for $30 per month per user
Austin-based Diligent, which makes “socially intelligent” service robots for hospitals, raised $25M and plans to have 100+ robots in 22 US hospitals by year end
The pandemic had a profound impact on countless careers, but few jobs were hit quite like nursing.
YouTube debuts YouTube Create, an app that lets creators edit videos, adding effects, GIFs, royalty-free tracks, and more, in beta on Android in eight markets
The US issues final rules to stop Chips Act subsidies from going to countries of concern, like China, such as limiting foreign chip fab expansions for 10 years
The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday is issuing final rules to prevent semiconductor manufacturing subsidies from being used …
YouTube unveils YouTube Studio AI features coming in 2024 and lets select creators test Aloud, a dubbing tool that creates AI-generated dubs in other languages
Youtube CEO Neal Mohan today announced a whole suite of new tools … See also Mediagazer
Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk in cash for $157 per share, a 31% premium on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B
https://www.reuters.com/... Chris Merkel / @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange : Scoop: Anonymous has hacked the neuralinks of the leadership teams at Splunk and Cisco. While I can't identify the specific ...
Microsoft unveils the 10.5" Surface Go 4 with a four-core Intel N200, 8GB of RAM, and up to 256GB of storage, shipping on October 3 for $579+ only to businesses
Meta now lets Facebook users create up to four extra profiles and switch between them without logging out and back in; the profiles don't support all features
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Coalition: ransomware victims reported an average $365K+ loss in H1 2023, up from $227K+ in H2 2022; the average ransom demand was $1.62M, up 74% from 2022
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Mastodon releases Mastodon 4.2, which makes it easier for users to get started, use its network even when logged out, more easily search for content, and more
As Mastodon continues to grow, we'd like to make sure we're doing … Simon Sharwood / The Register : Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk's multiple messes Threads: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Com...
Amazon limits authors to self-publishing three books per day on its website, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material listed for sale in recent months
What legitimate author needs to self-publish more than one book per month? [embedded post] X: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig : I'm sorry, what the hell kind of legitimate author is going to put out more tha...
An interview with Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin about his “decentralized lifestyle”, avoiding countries like Russia, the US' growing crypto crackdown, and more
- Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the second-most-popular cryptocurrency, sat down with CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos in Prague, one of the new crypto hotbeds in Europe. Forums: r/ethtrader Forums: r/ethtra...
TikTok is testing a Google integration in different markets; researcher: TikTok's search feature includes an in-app option to search the same query on Google
Lara O'Reilly / Insider :
Binance, Binance.US, and Changpeng Zhao file to dismiss an SEC lawsuit, claiming the regulator hasn't “plausibly alleged” various securities-related violations
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
Google expands Studio Bot, its AI chatbot for Android Studio announced in May 2023 for US users, to 170+ countries; users in the EU and the UK are still barred
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google :
Sources: Alibaba's logistics arm Cainiao plans to file for its Hong Kong IPO as soon as next week, aiming to raise $1B+; Alibaba co-founded Cainiao in 2013
Pei Li / Bloomberg :
CLSA: China has 130+ LLMs, or 40% of the global total and behind the US' 50% share; experts say most have yet to find viable business models and are too similar
Josh Ye / Reuters :
SMIC used DUV lithography, not EUV, for its 7nm chip, which isn't a breakthrough but does show progress and reaffirms China's commitment to domestic production
Chris Miller / Financial Times : Mastodon: @valeg@mastodon.social . X: @soft_fox_lad , @crmiller1 , and @fletcherschool . Forums: Beehaw Mastodon: Monsieur Valentine / @valeg@mastodon.social : @Techm...
Nnete Matima and Joël Carter, two Black ex-TikTok staff, file a civil rights complaint alleging ByteDance fired them because they spoke up about discrimination
Snap says Snapchat+ now has 5M+ subscribers, up from 3M in April 2023; the $3.99 per month tier launched in June 2022, after an industry slowdown in ad revenue
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg :
Mesh, which helps its customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, raised a $22M Series A led by Money Forward, bringing its total funding to $32M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Source: Vietnam-based internet company VNG postpones its US IPO, planned for September 2023, until 2024, after mixed performances by Arm, Instacart, and Klaviyo
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Bastian Lehmann's TipTop launches an app that scans for past purchases in users' Gmail and Amazon accounts and offers to buy their used products at a fair value
Stuff used to break. — If you're of a certain age … X: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : After selling Postmates to Uber in 2020, @Basti said he tried semi-retirement and thought about becoming a VC. Inv...
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