Sources: Microsoft discussed selling Bing to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search engine on Apple's devices
- Microsoft executives pitched Apple's Cue on a deal around 2020 — Apple ultimately stuck with Google as default search engine
Progress Software, the company behind the widely exploited MOVEit file transfer tool, patches critical vulnerabilities in its WS_FTP Server file transfer tool
The company behind a popular file transfer service that was exploited by ransomware hackers has announced a new set of vulnerabilities affecting another file transfer tool.
Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search
Google just announced it's giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company's AI models …
In an interview using Meta's photorealistic Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg talks about the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future
- Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
French authorities say they have approved Apple's iPhone 12 software update to address radiation concerns; Apple submitted the update on September 26
French authorities said on Friday they had approved Apple's AAPL.O software update of its iPhone 12 after a row over radiation levels of the device …
Sources: on October 5, Linda Yaccarino plans to meet with the seven banks that helped fund Elon Musk's takeover of X to lay out her plans to revive the company
Linda Yaccarino is next week planning to meet the seven banks that helped bankroll Elon Musk's takeover of X, formerly known as Twitter …
Sources: Apple execs met with Chinese officials recently to discuss new rules forcing Apple to ban foreign apps whose operators are not registered with China
Country's push to register foreign apps threatens to remove Facebook, Instagram and X from iPhone App Store in China
Epic Games lays off 16% of its workforce, or ~830 employees, divests from music storefront Bandcamp, and intends to spin off “kid-tech” company SuperAwesome
Earlier today Tim Sweeney sent the following email to Epic employees: Tim Sweezy / HotHardware : Epic Games Confirms Massive Layoffs After Fortnite And Metaverse Spending Spree Jamie Crawley / CoinDes...
The Supreme Court agrees to hear two cases concerning whether Florida and Texas can restrict how social media companies moderate content
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would wade into the future of free speech online and decide whether laws passed in Texas and Florida …
Liquidators say 3AC's Su Zhu was arrested in Singapore while trying to leave the country and sentenced to four months for failure to comply with court orders
The hedge fund's other co-founder Kyle Davies is also being called for arrest and imprisonment — The liquidators behind Three …
Music licensing marketplace Songtradr acquires Bandcamp and plans to keep operating Bandcamp as a marketplace and community with an artist-first revenue share
Google opens its Search Generative Experience to US teens ages 13-17, adds more context on how a response was generated, and improves offensive query detection
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Meta's Quest 3 is scheduled to get upper body tracking and AI estimated legs, called Generative Legs, in a software update in December
Quest 3 is scheduled to get upper body tracking and AI estimated legs in a software update in December. — All other major VR systems only track your head and hands …
Raspberry Pi 5 launches with a 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A76 chip, up to 8GB of RAM, two 4K HDMI ports with HDR, available in October for $60 for a 4GB model
The Raspberry Pi 5 has an entirely new image processing pipeline with improved image quality, and of course makes use of libcamera to expose this new functionality. X: Luke Weston / @lukeweston : Some...
France's competition authority raided a “graphics cards sector” company this week as part of a cloud-computing inquiry; sources say the target was Nvidia
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Google unveils the Fitbit Charge 6, with a haptic side button, integration with Google services like YouTube Music, and more, available on October 12 for $160
that new new is here! 👋 Fitbit #Charge6 is our most beloved fitness tracker now with Google built-in.¹ See why it's a fave & pre-order yours today: https://www.fitbit.com/... ¹Requires Android 9.0+ or...
Intel says it had begun high-volume production using extreme ultraviolet lithography machines at its Ireland plant in its first such attempt with EUV technology
Chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) said on Friday it had begun high-volume production using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) …
Google rolls out ChromeOS 117 with a Material You redesign, adaptive charging, a new camera and microphone privacy indicator, an improved clipboard, and more
Chromebooks update automatically* to provide … Efe Udin / Gizchina : Google releases ChromeOS 117: Deeply integrates Material You design Cesar Cadenas / TechRadar : New ChromeOS update for Chromebooks...
Google plans to stop supporting its $5K, 55" Jamboard meeting room display on September 30, 2024 and phase out its collaborative Jamboard app on October 1, 2024
cloud-based apps will stop working, too Google Workspace Updates : The next phase of digital whiteboarding for Google Workspace Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Google's $5,000 Jamboard and its apps are being...
Linda Yaccarino says X has paid out nearly $20M to creators; Musk said in July that first payments totaled $5M
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : X: @lindayax and @lhamadopagode X: Linda Yaccarino / @lindayax : Create. Connect. Collect all on X. We're enabling the economic success of new segments like creators....
Coinbase says the crypto exchange has gained approval from the Bermuda Monetary Authority to offer non-US retail users perpetual futures trading
RT Watson / The Block :
X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims 90% of the top 100 advertisers “returned to the platform in the past 12 weeks alone” and that X will be profitable by early 2024
You cannot talk profitability when you are defrauding owed funds to others. … Bluesky: @67sound.bsky.social : This may or may not be true if she is talking operating cash flow but I would bet everythi...
Google patches a Chrome zero-day that was exploited by a commercial spyware vendor, just two days after Google's Threat Analysis Group informed the Chrome team
update now! Jai Vijayan / Dark Reading : Chrome Flags Third Zero-Day This Month That's Tied to Spying Exploits Austin Blake / iPhone in Canada Blog : Google Patches Chrome Zero-Day Exploited by Spywar...
Reddit removes the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity but says that users will still have opt-out controls in “select countries”
Changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings r/technology : Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform MacRumors Fo...
Email: Serve Robotics, used by Uber Eats in Los Angeles, shared video filmed by one of its food delivery robots to the LAPD as part of a criminal investigation
Report: Apple uses microscopic QR codes on iPhone screens to track defects, which helped reduce faulty screen report rates from its suppliers from 30% to 10%
Apple spent millions to add a barcode to iPhone displays in order to save being charged hundreds of millions by manufacturers claiming faulty screens that may not have been. Source: The Information . ...
NYC-based IYK, which lets brands, musicians, and creators build “digi-physical experiences”, including through NFTs, raised a $16.8M seed led by A16z Crypto
A New York state judge rejects a bid by Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub to block NYC's law setting a minimum wage of $17.96/hour for app-based delivery workers
Report: the Bank for International Settlements and French, Swiss, and Singaporean central banks successfully tested cross-border trading of wholesale CBDCs
Check out our project Mariana interim update foreign exchange … Forums: r/CryptoCurrency : Project Mariana: Bank of International Settlements, France, Switzerland, and Singapore Successfully Test Whol...
Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Enflame raised a ~$273.7M Series D from state capital operator Shanghai International Group's funds, Tencent, Meitu, and others
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The Cyberspace Administration of China unveils rules to relax some cross-border data controls, in a bid to reassure businesses worried about US-China relations
Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times :
The UK CMA says it is examining whether Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli auto-chip maker Autotalks would lessen competition in the UK market
Sources: Japan allocates up to $1.29B in subsidies for US chipmaker Micron's plant in Hiroshima prefecture, set to mass produce DRAM memory chips by around 2026
Nikkei Asia :
Sources: the UK is pushing Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic for unprecedented access to examine the internal workings of their LLMs, ahead of its global AI summit
Financial Times :
Apple asks SCOTUS to revisit the 2021 Epic Games ruling regarding alternative IAP payment options, a day after Epic separately asked SCOTUS to take up the case
Amazon announces the general availability of Bedrock, unveiled in April 2023 to offer generative AI models from Amazon and third-party partners through an API
Medium plans to block AI companies from training on posts published on Medium until the company can get concessions regarding credit, compensation, and consent
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