Ming-Chi Kuo: iPhone 15 Pro overheating issues likely due to thermal system design compromises to achieve a lighter weight, and are unrelated to TSMC's 3nm node
My survey indicates that the iPhone 15 Pro series overheating issues are unrelated to TSMC's advanced 3nm node.
The WGA contract calls for streaming data transparency and guarantees on AI use, including preventing AI-generated material to be used as a source material
Instead, members of the union will be poring over new details on the contract negotiated with the AMPTP and deciding whether they will vote to ratify this new contract.
The FTC and 17 US states sue Amazon for allegedly using monopoly power to raise its prices, force sellers to pay fulfillment and ad fees, and harm its rivals
- Amazon is facing its first set of antitrust charges from the U.S. federal government after the Federal Trade Commission filed …
Sony opens an investigation after ransomware group “Ransomed.vc” claimed to have breached the company's systems and threatened to sell or post the stolen data
Data reportedly up for sale. — Sony has said it has launched an investigation after a ransomware group claimed to have breached the company's systems.
Sources: the WGA and AMPTP's deal lets studios train AI models on writers' work while writers would be compensated for work on scripts even if AI tools are used
Communications Services Roundup Drew Richardson / CNBC : Barry Diller rips WGA deal with studios, says fair use needs to be redefined to address AI Threads: @clockworkrelativity : Now that the WGA say...
Microsoft starts rolling out a Windows 11 update that adds the new Windows Copilot and, over the coming months, AI updates to Paint, Snipping Tool, and Photos
Microsoft is releasing one of its biggest updates to Windows 11 today. It includes access to the new Windows Copilot …
Sources: Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been discussing building a new AI hardware device, and Masayoshi Son has been involved in some aspects of the conversation
Jony Ive, the renowned designer of the iPhone, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been discussing building a new AI hardware device …
Researchers say X removed the ability for users to report election misinformation, a feature launched in the US, Australia, and some other countries in 2021
Elon Musk's X, formerly called Twitter, disabled a feature that let users report misinformation about elections …
Eddie Cue's US v. Google testimony: Cue said Google was the only “valid” search choice for a deal; the DOJ noted Apple railed against Google's privacy policies
When court resumed today for the start of the third week … Adi Robertson / The Verge : Apple's Eddy Cue will take the stand Tuesday in the Google antitrust trial Thomas Barrabi / New York Post : Top A...
Binance exits its Russia business as it is not “compatible with Binance's compliance strategy”, and sells the business to CommEX, which launched a day earlier
- CommEX was launched a day before Binance announced deal — Perlman says Russia business ‘not compatible’ with compliance
Staffers and allies of India's BJP detail how they crafted posts for a vast network of WhatsApp groups aimed at exploiting the fears of the Hindu majority
MUDBIDRI, India — At first, the WhatsApp messages touted roads paved, schools built, free food distributed to the poor … X: @malavtweets , @digitaldutta , @mparekh , @gerryshih , @digitaldutta , @gerr...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy confirms that former Microsoft CPO Panos Panay will be joining Amazon at the end of October to lead its devices and services division
It's official: Panos Panay, Microsoft's former product lead, is headed to Amazon. … “As a strong product builder and inventor …
Sources and new documents detail how Facebook execs repeatedly shied away from punishing the BJP or associated accounts in India for hate speech and propaganda
SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly three years ago, Facebook's propaganda hunters uncovered a vast social media influence operation …
Linda Yaccarino reflects on her first 100 days as X CEO, says intense public scrutiny is “hard on me”, as sources describe her relationship with Elon Musk
Can the chief of the company formerly known as Twitter survive Musk's chaos and win back advertisers?
The federal judge overseeing US et al v. Google says documents used during the trial can be posted online at the end of each day, resolving a weeklong dispute
- DOJ, Google disputed how quickly to post court exhibits online — Judge says access should happen ‘as soon as it is reasonable’
China releases a list of 26 app stores, including from Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi, that comply with its new rules; Apple's App Store is not on the list
China's cyberspace regulator released on Wednesday names of the first batch of mobile app stores that have completed filing business details …
Hands-on with Mercedes-Benz's Drive Pilot, the first and only Level 3 system approved for sale in the US and EU, available only on freeways mapped by Mercedes
Drive Pilot is a Level 3 autonomous system, meaning you can take your hands off the wheel and — more notably — your eyes off the road during certain conditions.
Indonesia plans to ban direct transactions on social media, citing their hit to traditional markets, a blow to TikTok Shop in its first and its largest market
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has decided to ban direct transactions on social media platforms in Indonesia …
Cloudflare launches new tools to help customers deploy and run AI models, including Workers AI, which gives pay-as-you-go access to GPUs from its partners
Looking to cash in on the AI craze, Cloudflare, the cloud services provider, is launching a new collection of products and apps aimed …
Review of macOS 14 Sonoma: a better stab at usable widgets, an improved password manager, promising gaming enhancements, but fewer new features for Intel Macs
here's how to install it on your Mac Mahmoud Itani / XDA Developers : macOS Sonoma review: The most polished Mac experience yet Ali Salman / Wccftech : Apple Releases macOS Sonoma With Interactive Wid...
FTC Chair Lina Khan, who rose to prominence with a 2017 academic paper that called for a break-up of Amazon, now has a chance to test her approach in the courts
and how it gives up on a lot of the more radical ideas in her famous law review paper. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Warner Bros. Discovery launches CNN Max in an open beta in the US, offering a 24/7 live news streaming feed and 900 hours of CNN Originals to Max subscribers
- Donald Trump Found Liable For Defrauding Banks, New York Judge Rules; Defense Attorney Calls Decision “Miscarriage Of Justice” - Update
Over half of the testimony in the Google antitrust trial so far has been given behind closed doors thanks to arguments from Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others
MoneyGram plans to launch a non-custodial wallet in Q1 2024, letting users move funds between fiat and USDC, limited to ~40 countries with a digital KYC process
Leo Schwartz / Fortune :
Google plans to shut down Google Podcasts “later in 2024”, moving its streaming listeners to YouTube Music, which will support US podcasts and RSS feeds by 2024
Again the question - how can you possibly TRUST basing your usage on Google products? — It's gotten to the point where I simply don't try out new Google services, because I know that they will go aw...
Over a dozen senior executives left Binance over the past three months; Kaiko: Binance now handles ~50% of all direct crypto trades, vs. ~70% in January 2023
Key take-aways from the article: — Over the past three months, more than a dozen top managers have quit. … Karsten Weide : Looks like @binance, controlling about half the market, is the next cryp...
Spotify launches Jam, a feature that lets up to 32 people curate a playlist together; only Premium subscribers can create Jams, but all users can contribute
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announces plans to reinstate net neutrality, seeking to “largely return to the successful rules the Commission adopted in 2015”
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
The CIA is planning to roll out a ChatGPT-style tool across the 18-agency US intelligence community to give analysts better access to open-source intelligence
Sources: OpenAI is pitching investors on a possible share sale that would value the AI startup at between $80B and $90B, almost triple its level earlier in 2023
Wall Street Journal :
Researchers discover a cross-origin attack exploiting how modern GPUs compress images to let a malicious website in Chrome or Edge read pixels from another site
https://arstechnica.com/... Dan Goodin / @dangoodin@infosec.exchange : I'm not sure how to think of this new GPU.zip attack. The side channel exists in the GPUs themselves, so it seems fair to think ...
Filing: the US FTC revives its challenge against Microsoft's $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a move which may seek to unwind the deal after it closes
- FTC administrative hearing won't derail deal from closing — Companies are likely to win UK regulatory approval for deal
French billionaire Xavier Niel plans to invest €200M in AI projects, including an Nvidia cloud supercomputer, a research lab in Paris, and an annual conference
and we can — create a European AI champion. It's a question of sovereignty...supercomputer powered by Nvidia”. European sovereignty, powered by Nvidia. 🤷🏼♂ ️ https://www.ft.com/... Hussein Kanji / @h...
Florida-based Lumu, which helps enterprises identify and isolate security compromises, raised a $30M Series B, of which $6M is debt, led by Forgepoint Capital
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Sources: Microsoft is developing “distilled”, smaller AI models for features like Bing Chat that cost less to operate and mimic OpenAI's more advanced models
US-based TikTok staff worry recent executive transfers from ByteDance to TikTok show ByteDance plays a greater role in TikTok's operations than TikTok disclosed
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal :
Study: 88% of S&P 500 company boards don't have a director with direct cybersecurity experience; only seven companies have a current or former CISO on the board
James Rundle / Wall Street Journal :
Snap closes AR Enterprise Services, launched in March 2023 to let retailers adapt Snap's AR technology for their own websites, citing high costs and complexity
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg :
Sources: China's chip fund is struggling to raise its $41B goal from local governments and state-owned enterprises, which are dealing with the economic slowdown
Financial Times :
Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in negotiations to acquire Tel Aviv-based startups Dig Security for $300M to $400M and Talon Cyber Security for $600M to $700M
Meir Orbach / CTech :
Skydio debuts X10, an autonomous drone capable of mitigating high-speed police chases by flying at 45 mph and tracking people in the dark using infrared sensors
Google Messages has been installed 5B+ times, after crossing 1B installations in May 2020 and becoming the default messaging app on most new Android devices
An OpenAI paper on GPT-4 with vision, or GPT-4V, reveals some of the model's biases, flaws, and potential malicious use cases, and the company's safeguards
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Sources: dozens of VC firms, including Bain Capital, Lux, Mayfield, and IVP, are working with the US Commerce Department to develop “responsible AI” guidelines
Dan Primack / Axios : X: @digiphile X: Alex Howard / @digiphile : Dear @SecRaimondo, How many academic, nonprofit, and human rights groups is @CommerceGov working with to develop these responsible AI...
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