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AI platforms are unlikely to become a major source of traffic or ad revenue for media outlets, with content deals offering only a short-term revenue boost (Om Malik/On my Om)

Om Malik / On my Om : AI platforms are unlikely to become a major source of traffic or ad revenue for media outlets, with content deals o...

30 June 2024

Interviews with the creator and maintainers of FreeDOS, the only MS-DOS-compatible OS still under active development, about its continued relevance and more (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Interviews with the creator and maintainers of FreeDOS, the only MS-DOS-compatible OS still under active development, about its continued relevance and more  —  Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.  —  Two big things happened in the world of text-based disk operating systems in June 1994.

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The dangers of voice fraud: We can’t detect what we can’t see - 2024-06-30 19:05:00Z

Title:The dangers of voice fraud: We can't detect what we can't see Summary: Effectively combating voice fraud requires a combination of education, caution, business practices, technology and government regulation. Link: The dangers of voice fraud: We can't detect what we can't see

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Atos reaches a deal in principle with its creditors that restructures its debt, including injecting €233M in equity, and lets the creditors take control of Atos (Irene Garcia Perez/Bloomberg)

Irene Garcia Perez / Bloomberg:
Atos reaches a deal in principle with its creditors that restructures its debt, including injecting €233M in equity, and lets the creditors take control of Atos  —  Creditors of Atos SE reached an agreement with the company that will see them take control of the embattled French IT services firm.

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World of Tanks Blitz turns 10 on mobile and hits $1B in lifetime revenue | Thaine Lyman interview - 2024-06-30 15:45:00Z

Title:World of Tanks Blitz turns 10 on mobile and hits $1B in lifetime revenue | Thaine Lyman interview Summary: Wargaming's World of Tanks Blitz has turned 10 years old. It has more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue and reached 180 million players. Link: World of Tanks Blitz turns 10 on mobile and hits $1B in lifetime revenue | Thaine Lyman interview

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A look at the history of and challenges facing Meta's Oversight Board as it works on its second act: a body to help social media platforms comply with EU's DSA (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
A look at the history of and challenges facing Meta's Oversight Board as it works on its second act: a body to help social media platforms comply with EU's DSA  —  Once hailed as a model for internet governance, Meta's Oversight Board has been criticized as slow-moving and increasingly irrelevant.

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Kuo: Apple plans to mass produce new AirPods with camera modules by 2026, which will include an IR camera similar to the iPhone Face ID receiver (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: Apple plans to mass produce new AirPods with camera modules by 2026, which will include an IR camera similar to the iPhone Face ID receiver  —  According to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is targeting to begin mass production of new “AirPods with camera modules” by 2026.

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Sources: Apple is actively working to bring the AI features to Vision Pro, rejiggers Vision Pro's retail demos, and starts developing 2025's operating systems (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is actively working to bring the AI features to Vision Pro, rejiggers Vision Pro's retail demos, and starts developing 2025's operating systems  —  Apple's strategy to make its devices last longer will mean AI and software are even more important to its business.

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Kaiko: the proportion of Bitcoin traded over weekends has fallen to 16% in 2024 so far, down from 28% in 2019, a trend likely accelerated by Bitcoin ETFs launch (Benjamin Taubman/Bloomberg)

Benjamin Taubman / Bloomberg:
Kaiko: the proportion of Bitcoin traded over weekends has fallen to 16% in 2024 so far, down from 28% in 2019, a trend likely accelerated by Bitcoin ETFs launch  —  - Weekend trading drops to 16% of total volume, Kaiko says  — ETFs, dwindling volatility lessen appeal, researcher says

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An interview with Plaid's first president, Jennifer Taylor, on expanding beyond its traditional fintech customers as its enterprise customer base crosses 1,000 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
An interview with Plaid's first president, Jennifer Taylor, on expanding beyond its traditional fintech customers as its enterprise customer base crosses 1,000  —  As Plaid has expanded its fintech services, so, too, has it grown its customer base.  —  Plaid got its start as a company …

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SK Hynix plans to invest ~$75B on chips through 2028, allocating ~80%, or $60B, on manufacturing HBM chips as part of the parent company SK Group's bet on AI (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
SK Hynix plans to invest ~$75B on chips through 2028, allocating ~80%, or $60B, on manufacturing HBM chips as part of the parent company SK Group's bet on AI  —  - About 80%, or $60 billion, will be spent on HBM memory chips  — Plan underscores overhaul at S. Korea's No. 2 business group

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European fintech execs say financial services are shunning AI over job loss and regulatory fears, despite evidence that AI will boost productivity and cut costs (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
European fintech execs say financial services are shunning AI over job loss and regulatory fears, despite evidence that AI will boost productivity and cut costs  —  Industry leaders say concerns over impact of technology are outweighing benefits such as productivity gains and cost cuts

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Solera, which offers SaaS tools for integrated vehicle lifecycle and fleet management, files for a US IPO; sources: Solera may seek to raise as much as $1.5B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Solera, which offers SaaS tools for integrated vehicle lifecycle and fleet management, files for a US IPO; sources: Solera may seek to raise as much as $1.5B  —  - Company may seek to raise as much as $1.5 billion in offering  — Solera taken private in 2016 at about $6.5 billion valuation

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Chime buys enterprise employee rewards company Salt Labs, sources say in a deal worth up to $173M; Salt Labs had raised $18M and was valued at $80M in December (Luisa Beltran/Fortune)

Luisa Beltran / Fortune:
Chime buys enterprise employee rewards company Salt Labs, sources say in a deal worth up to $173M; Salt Labs had raised $18M and was valued at $80M in December  —  Jason Lee, the entrepreneur who cofounded the payroll service DailyPay, is selling his latest startup, Salt Labs, to neobank Chime Financial.

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EU tech regulators asked Temu and Shein to provide details on how they comply with the Digital Services Act by July 12, following complaints by consumer bodies (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU tech regulators asked Temu and Shein to provide details on how they comply with the Digital Services Act by July 12, following complaints by consumer bodies  —  Chinese fast-fashion e-commerce retailer Temu and China-founded peer Shein were ordered by EU tech regulators to provide details …

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29 June 2024

How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the American Society for Cybernetics, created a lab in 1967 with a utopian vision to personalize computing (Evgeny Morozov/Financial Times)

Evgeny Morozov / Financial Times:
How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the American Society for Cybernetics, created a lab in 1967 with a utopian vision to personalize computing  —  In the late 1960s, a secret US lab was dedicated to mapping the edges of computing  —  At around 3pm on October 24 1968 …

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Somehow VR games were a highlight of my week | Kaser Focus - 2024-06-29 21:30:39Z

Title:Somehow VR games were a highlight of my week | Kaser Focus Summary: It's been a long week, but VR games gave Rachel Kaser the most joy out of any of the news stories she covered. Link: Somehow VR games were a highlight of my week | Kaser Focus

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Alphabet's Verily closes its R&D centers in Israel after launching them in August 2021, as part of Alphabet's decision to concentrate all R&D activity in the US (CTech)

CTech:
Alphabet's Verily closes its R&D centers in Israel after launching them in August 2021, as part of Alphabet's decision to concentrate all R&D activity in the US  —  Verily was launched in Israel in August 2021, but its approximately 30 remaining employees, based in Tel Aviv and Haifa …

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From chatbots to superintelligence: Mapping AI’s ambitious journey - 2024-06-29 19:15:00Z

Title:From chatbots to superintelligence: Mapping AI's ambitious journey Summary: The path to AGI and superintelligence is uncertain — but the rapid evolution of AI is undeniable, promising transformative advancements. Link: From chatbots to superintelligence: Mapping AI's ambitious journey

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An interview with Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, on open-source AI, his Web3 company Near, "user-owned AI", and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired:
An interview with Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, on open-source AI, his Web3 company Near, “user-owned AI”, and more  —  Illia Polosukhin doesn't want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence.

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Source: Amazon plans to use a controversial trade rule used by Temu and Shein, which exempts packages worth $800 or less from tariffs, for its discount section (The Information)

The Information:
Source: Amazon plans to use a controversial trade rule used by Temu and Shein, which exempts packages worth $800 or less from tariffs, for its discount section  —  Amazon is planning to use the same controversial trade rule as Temu and Shein to import items sold on its upcoming discount …

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Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, files for bankruptcy protection; Chicken Soup took on $325M in debt when it acquired Redbox in 2022 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, files for bankruptcy protection; Chicken Soup took on $325M in debt when it acquired Redbox in 2022  —  Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, filed for bankruptcy protection overnight.

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The US finalizes rules requiring custodial crypto platforms to report user transaction info to the IRS; DeFi platforms are exempt amid fierce crypto lobbying (Paul Kiernan/Wall Street Journal)

Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal:
The US finalizes rules requiring custodial crypto platforms to report user transaction info to the IRS; DeFi platforms are exempt amid fierce crypto lobbying  —  Treasury finalizes rules to deter crypto tax evasion—but softens them after industry lobbying push

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How some doctors are using the Apple Watch to diagnose and help their patients manage medical conditions, despite the availability of FDA-approved devices (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
How some doctors are using the Apple Watch to diagnose and help their patients manage medical conditions, despite the availability of FDA-approved devices  —  Some doctors are telling patients to get the watch to manage their conditions.  Researchers study how it could be used for heart disease …

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Filings and DOJ officials describe how a gang threatened, assaulted, and tortured 11 victims in likely the worst crypto-focused serial extortion case in the US (Wired)

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Filings and DOJ officials describe how a gang threatened, assaulted, and tortured 11 victims in likely the worst crypto-focused serial extortion case in the US  —  More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.

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A look at the disastrous launch of Stable Diffusion 3, which struggles to generate correct human anatomy, and concerns over the tool's new and different license (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
A look at the disastrous launch of Stable Diffusion 3, which struggles to generate correct human anatomy, and concerns over the tool's new and different license  —  Stability AI botched the launch of its latest model, proving the Stable Diffusion community doesn't need the company that brought it to the world.

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Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition review: great native app performance but emulated apps can be more battery intensive, and AI features feel gimmicky (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition review: great native app performance but emulated apps can be more battery intensive, and AI features feel gimmicky  —  Microsoft and Qualcomm finally deliver the hardware Windows on Arm needed. … The new Surface Laptop isn't just a refresh.

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Hugging Face unveils Open LLM leaderboard v2 that tests models across six benchmarks; Chinese models dominate the top 10 with Alibaba's Qwen taking the top spot (Dallin Grimm/Tom's Hardware)

Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware:
Hugging Face unveils Open LLM leaderboard v2 that tests models across six benchmarks; Chinese models dominate the top 10 with Alibaba's Qwen taking the top spot  —  Optimizing LLMs to be good at specific tests backfires on Meta, Stability.  —  Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard …

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Indonesia's government declines to pay the $8M demanded by LockBit 3.0 for the ransomware attack that affected hundreds of ministries and public institutions (Chandra Asmara/Bloomberg)

Chandra Asmara / Bloomberg:
Indonesia's government declines to pay the $8M demanded by LockBit 3.0 for the ransomware attack that affected hundreds of ministries and public institutions  —  - The recovery will only be completed in mid-August: minister  —  Indonesia's parliament called the government to task …

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A US judge rules the SEC has plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US, and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws, but dismisses secondary sales charges (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
A US judge rules the SEC has plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US, and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws, but dismisses secondary sales charges  —  A federal judge ruled the SEC had plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws.

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