Apple sends threat notifications to individuals in 92 countries, warning them that their iPhone may have been targeted by remote “mercenary spyware attacks”
Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.
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The US SEC sends decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap a Wells notice warning that the agency intends to bring an enforcement action against the company
The Securities and Exchange Commission warned Uniswap on Wednesday that it intends to bring an enforcement action against the company …
Apple says owners of the iPhone 15 or newer will be able to fix broken devices with used parts, including screens, batteries, and cameras, starting in fall 2024
Starting this fall, you may be able to pay less for a fully functioning fix if you have an iPhone 15 or newer
DuckDuckGo launches Privacy Pro, a $9.99-per-month service offering a VPN, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration, available in the US
Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.
Instagram plans to automatically detect and blur nude images DMed to teens, and show a pop-up to the sender and the recipient, rolling out in the coming months
Obscured photos and warnings will discourage users from exchanging nude photos with potential strangers
Apple changed “state-sponsored” to “mercenary spyware” in threat notifications, a source says after pressure from India for linking breaches to state actors
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has warned its users in India and 91 other countries that they were possible victims of a …
Apple says owners of the iPhone 15 or newer will be able to fix broken devices with used parts, including screens, batteries, and cameras, starting in fall 2024
Starting this fall, you may be able to pay less for a fully functioning fix if you have an iPhone 15 or newer
Mistral AI launches Mixtral 8x22B, its latest sparse mixture-of-experts model, after releasing Mixtral 8x7B in December 2023
As Google unleashed a barrage of artificial intelligence announcements at its Cloud Next conference, Mistral AI decided to jump into action with the launch …
In his annual shareholder letter, Andy Jassy says GenAI “may be the largest technology transformation since the cloud” and Amazon is committed to cost-cutting
In his letter to shareholders, Andy Jassy says generative AI could usher in the largest tech transformation since the Internet
Docs: Adobe offers its network of photographers $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62/minute to ~$7.25/minute on average, to train AI
- OpenAI's Sora has increased competitive pressure on Adobe — Adobe has built AI models with stock library, procured media
The US and Japan announce a $110M joint AI research university program funded by Nvidia, Arm, Amazon, Microsoft, Softbank, and nine other Japanese companies
- Leaders look to cooperate on developing emerging technology — Kishida touts benefits of Japan's investments in the US
The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012
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Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrization: A new barrier i...
Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post :
Sources: Spotify is developing tools to let subscribers speed up, mash up, or edit songs as a type of playback feature; rights holders would still get paid
Streamer is developing tools that would make it easier for fans to create custom versions of their favorite music
Meta announces its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips for AI training, and says MTIA v1 and the new chips are both now in production
Our very own Nicolaas Viljoen is featured in this blog post. … Tanmay Zargar : Unveiling what we've been working on for the past few years - the next generation of MTIA Inference platform. We're just...
Auto parts maker Magna will pilot Sanctuary AI's humanoid robot in its factory; Figure and Apptronik are piloting their humanoid systems with BMW and Mercedes
Sanctuary AI announced that it will be delivering its humanoid robot to a Magna manufacturing facility.
The UK CMA raises concerns after finding an “interconnected web” of 90+ AI deals and investments involving Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Nvidia
- Apple, Google and Microsoft AI deals seen as problematic — CMA says stakes in startups could reduce competition
Substack now lets podcasters distribute their shows on Spotify, and says podcasters on Substack collectively earn $100M per year, which doubled in the past year
Substack announced on Thursday that it's launching a few new features for podcasters on its platform.
Andy Jassy criticizes US and EU regulators for blocking the iRobot deal, saying they trust large Chinese companies more than Amazon with maps of home interiors
Annie Palmer / CNBC : X: @squawkcnbc and @ericjackson X: @squawkcnbc : “Last year were the fasting shipping speeds for Prime customers in the history of the company,” says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. “In ...
A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three of its patents in data-storage technology that had become “essential” to AWS
Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million …
Google plans to make Magic Editor and other AI editing tools, previously limited to Pixel phones and paid users, available to all Google Photos users for free
here's how Hamish Hector / TechRadar : The 5 best Magic Editor AI features coming to all Google Photos users for free Carrie Marshall / T3 : Google Photos is getting one of its best free upgrades ever...
Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill that would require companies training generative AI models to disclose all of the copyrighted work they used to do so
including that it's propelled by a calculation that forcing AI companies to disclose copyrighted materials is the politically popular move https://www.billboard.com/... Luiza Jarovsky / @luizajarovsky...
An interview with DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen on the company's new Intelligent Agreement Management service, now in beta, moving beyond e-signatures, and more
Richard Nieva / Forbes :
Google announces a $1B investment to improve digital connectivity between the US, Japan, and multiple Pacific island countries through two new subsea cables
Granth Vanaik / Reuters :
Sources: Foxconn considers a rotating CEO system to nurture talent; a source says the move is in response to calls by investors to boost corporate governance
Yimou Lee / Reuters :
Sources: SpaceX's accounting is more “art than a science”, often omitting costs of putting Starlink satellites in orbit to make numbers look better to investors
at... Ken Kirtland IV / @kenkirtland17 : @Cosmic_Andrew1 Either way, the article ends with: Yeah Starlink is improving and is consistently profitble. And SpaceX revenue is >3X YoY. Couple that with Wa...
Australian data center operator NextDC is raising AU$1.32B of equity to accelerate development and fit-out of centers in its core Sydney and Melbourne markets
Stuart Condie / Wall Street Journal :
Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are vying to become the regional AI superpower, are rushing to build expensive desert data centers to support the technology
Bloomberg :
Ola shuts down in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, six years after expanding to international markets, to focus on its India expansion ahead of an IPO
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Amazon says it will stop paying developers to create Alexa apps and giving free AWS credits on June 30, 2024; developers can keep monetizing their apps via IAPs
As streamers cut spending globally, sources say Netflix remains the only major US platform still commissioning across Southeast Asia, albeit on a smaller scale
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Sources: Huawei is building a vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai and has already hired numerous engineers who have worked for ASML, TSMC, and others
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia :
Sources: Sam Altman met with investors and officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of AI technology
Bloomberg :
Sources: ByteDance misled the Central Bank of Ireland in early 2023, after HSBC shut down the company's bank accounts following a money laundering probe
Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was valued at $5B in April 2022, has laid off 382 employees, or 32% of its workforce
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