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Apple's support page says AirPods' new Live Translation won't be available to users in the EU and with an EU-region Apple Account, likely due to EU regulations (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/airpods-live-translation-eu-r…

AirPods Live Translation Blocked for EU Users With EU Apple Accounts
Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPods will be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week, with strict EU...

AirPods: 100 Milliarden US-Dollar Umsatz im Jahr 2026?
Apple soll auch in den kommenden Jahren noch viele Kopfhörer verkaufen. Counterpoint rechnet mit einem Meilenstein schon im kommenden Jahr.
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Dougal told to pay $425m for breaching millions of users’ privacy | Technology News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/9/4/google-told-to-pay-425m-for-breaching-millions-of-users-privacy?traffic_sou…

Google told to pay $425m for breaching millions of users’ privacy
US tech giant says jury decision misunderstands its products and it will appeal.

Sources: Ruoming Pang, head of the foundation models team at Apple, is leaving to join Meta, which offered a package worth tens of millions of dollars per year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Hires Apple Top AI Models Executive
Apple Inc.’s top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models is leaving for Meta Platforms Inc., another setback in the iPhone maker’s struggling AI efforts.

LOKI: Proactively Discovering Online Scam Websites by Mining Toxic Search Queries
Pujan Paudel, Gianluca Stringhini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12181 https://

LOKI: Proactively Discovering Online Scam Websites by Mining Toxic Search Queries
Online e-commerce scams, ranging from shopping scams to pet scams, globally cause millions of dollars in financial damage every year. In response, the security community has developed highly accurate detection systems able to determine if a website is fraudulent. However, finding candidate scam websites that can be passed as input to these downstream detection systems is challenging: relying on user reports is inherently reactive and slow, and proactive systems issuing search engine queries to …

Effective Training Data Synthesis for Improving MLLM Chart Understanding
Yuwei Yang, Zeyu Zhang, Yunzhong Hou, Zhuowan Li, Gaowen Liu, Ali Payani, Yuan-Sen Ting, Liang Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06492

Effective Training Data Synthesis for Improving MLLM Chart Understanding
Being able to effectively read scientific plots, or chart understanding, is a central part toward building effective agents for science. However, existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs), especially open-source ones, are still falling behind with a typical success rate of 30%-50% on challenging benchmarks. Previous studies on fine-tuning MLLMs with synthetic charts are often restricted by their inadequate similarity to the real charts, which could compromise model training and performa…

Sources: In 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-explored…

Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps for the iPhone and Mac, in what would be a hugely ambitious move that would pit it against Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The idea discussed was for Apple to rent ...

Apple Watch – eine Uhr für (fast) alle Fälle | Mac & i-Podcast
Vom holprigen Start über Health-Meilensteine und enttäuschte Erwartungen bis zu Alltagsnutzen und Problemstellen: höchste Zeit für eine Apple-Watch-Episode.

Non-Termination Proving: 100 Million LoC and Beyond
Julien Vanegue, Jules Villard, Peter O'Hearn, Azalea Raad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05293 https://…

Non-Termination Proving: 100 Million LoC and Beyond
We report on our tool, Pulse Infinite, that uses proof techniques to show non-termination (divergence) in large programs. Pulse Infinite works compositionally and under-approximately: the former supports scale, and the latter ensures soundness for proving divergence. Prior work focused on small benchmarks in the tens or hundreds of lines of code (LoC), and scale limits their practicality: a single company may have tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of LoC or more. We report on apply…

Tim Cook: Steve Jobs' CEO-Amtszeit ist überholt
Nach einer Tageszählung hat Timothy Donald Cook in der letzten Woche einen Meilenstein überschritten: Niemand war länger Apple-CEO als er.
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