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Apple says it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the "buy now, pay later" service that launched in the United States last year (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/17/apple-pay-later-united-states-ending/

Apple discontinuing Apple Pay Later, ahead of new features launching this fall - 9to5Mac
Apple has announced that it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the “buy now, pay later” service that launched...

I took that #DisabilityIn bookmarklet I made late last week and moved it to my blog:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/06/disabilityin-2024-agenda-bookmarklet.h…

Disability:IN 2024 Agenda Bookmarklet
I had some issues using the Disability:IN 2024 Conference Agenda so I made a bookmarklet: 🔗 Fix Disability:IN Agenda You may have seen this originally posted as a CodePen, but I opted to move it here since I can embed videos showing a before-and-after experience. Fixes Removes empty trigger link…

A few months ago when Automattic started pushing AI everywhere and did deals with AI companies selling their user's writing I stated (https://tante.cc/2024/02/27/the-automattic-ai-thing/):
"Maybe WordPress needs a fork and a new home governed by an entity that does care …

The Automattic "AI" thing
Automattic is secretly selling the stuff their users wrote and drew and created to "AI" companies to fuck up the web a bit more for a few bucks. But the problem goes deeper.

Myanmars Militär: Bei VPN-App am Handys droht Geiselnahme
Die Militärdiktatur Myanmars versucht, Zensur und Geldeinnahme zu kombinieren. Virtuelle Private Netze sind illegal. Nun werden Handys perlustriert.​

Russian attacks across Ukraine kill 3, injure 28 over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/18/russian-attacks-across.html

La diffusione dei quotidiani ad aprile 2024 [analisi del «Post.it» su dati Ads]
http://acqueagitate.com/2024/06/17/la-diffusione-dei-quotidiani-ad-aprile-2024/

La diffusione dei quotidiani ad aprile 2024
Ricopio qui l’analisi sulla diffusione dei quotidiani nel mese di aprile 2024 rispetto allo stesso mese del 2023 pubblicata nell’ultimo numero della newsletter Charlie, del «Post.it» [&…

@… itch successfully scratched I hope—happy belated dad’s day (though it seems neither Italy nor Austria celebrated yesterday 😅)

@… 配送キューの遅延はこちらからは観測できないね。

Defensa de las humanidades. Columna de Carlos Peña.
🔗 https://www.elmercurio.com/blogs/2024/06/16/117118/defensa-de-las-humanidades.aspx

Kein Wunder, wenn die Ösis auch gleich 2 Gegner hatten...

impressed by the #research that went into identifying the woman on the cover of duran duran's "rio" https://www.lyndsanity.com/m…

Lyndsanity | Duran Duran’s original ‘Rio’ girl, the Mona Lisa of the new wave age, finally found after 42 years

who wants to see some Amaranth 0.5 code? i implemented SPI using streams and a SerDes-like structure to make it pipelined and accommodate arbitrary output-to-input latencies https://gist.github.com/whitequark/62e83edd46bb4fd78b7241377615f2f0

Amaranth 0.5 demo with a pipelined SPI core (easily extendable to QSPI) impemented using streams
Amaranth 0.5 demo with a pipelined SPI core (easily extendable to QSPI) impemented using streams - spi_serdes.py

A Christian writer attacked Dolly Parton for being pro-LGBTQ . It didn't end well for the writer. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/a-christian-writer-attacked-dolly-parton-for-…

A Christian writer attacked Dolly Parton for being pro-LGBTQ+. It didn't end well for the writer. - LGBTQ Nation
Ericka Anderson ended up apologizing to fans of the super-ally country star.

Documents from 100 years ago unearthed in Vancouver Chinatown building | Vancouver Sun
#chinese #canada #immigration

Dissecting the #CrabNebula with #JWST - #Pulsar Wind, Dusty Filaments, and Ni/Fe Abundance Constraints on the Explosion Mechanism: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad50d1 -> Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA's Webb: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-120

A’s Outright Seth Brown
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

These recommendations from @… and colleagues are good, good enough that I’ll pull the headlines into a thread here for those who won’t see the full paper.
The topic: ground-level principles for using automated systems in government decision-making. 🧵

Google begins rolling out a "Listen to this page" feature on Chrome for Android, letting the browser read text-heavy web pages (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/06/16/chrome-listen-tts-android/

Chrome rolling out ‘Listen to this page’ TTS on Android
Chrome for Android has been working on text-to-speech (TTS) for a few months now, and Google is now rolling out "Listen to this page."

NASA verlängert Starliner-Mission für weitere Tests von Boeings Raumschiff
Die Rückkehr von Boeings Starliner wurde um einige Tage verschoben. Die Astronauten sollen noch bis 22. Juni auf der ISS bleiben und weitere Tests durchführen.

Ukraine's energy supplier: Ukrainians may have electricity for 6-7 hours per day in winter: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/17/ukraines-energy-supplier.html

なるほど、投稿だけはできるのか（ニャンまげに飛びつこう）

added to the @… feed: youtube channel of #BobDylan live & studio recordings tweaked with de-mixing/up-mixing, including a miraculous rescue of allen ginsberg's unbalanced '65 tape of "long distance operator" & other subpar audience recordings…

Kein Wunder, wenn die Ösis auch gleich 2 Gegner hatten...

Alex Lange To Undergo Lat Surgery
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

A study of 10 chatbots, including from Perplexity and OpenAI, shows how often they repeat Russian disinfo and cite fugitive John Dougan's fake local news sites (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/ai-chatbots-russian-propaganda

Exclusive: Leading chatbots are spreading Russian propaganda
A NewsGuard audit found that chatbots spewed misinformation from American fugitive John Mark Dougan.

Perplexity und Telekom: Partnerschaft für faule Leute und die Zukunft der Suche
Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity-CEO, und Jonathan Abrahamson von der Telekom sprechen im Interview über die Antwortmaschine und KI-Telefone.

Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian brigade warns of Russian attempt to capture Borova in Kharkiv Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/18/ukraine-war-latest.html

misskey.ioから、misskey.io壊れたって投稿が流れてくるのシュールだな（田んぼの様子を見に行こう）

Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/forbes-perplexity-ai-legal-action-copy…

Scoop: Forbes threatens Perplexity with legal action
The publisher says the AI search startup stole its content without credit or compensation.

impressed by the #research that went into identifying the woman on the cover of duran duran's "rio" https://www.lyndsanity.com/m…

Lyndsanity | Duran Duran’s original ‘Rio’ girl, the Mona Lisa of the new wave age, finally found after 42 years

Mets Release Tomas Nido
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

With new logos for Siri and Apple Intelligence, Apple joins OpenAI and others in AI branding that is non-threatening, simple, and non-anthropomorphic (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/15/apple-joins-the-race-to-f…

Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense | TechCrunch
No one knows what AI looks like, or even is supposed to look like. It does everything, but looks like nothing.

FedibirdやPleroma, Akkomaは複数絵文字リアクションに対応しているので、複数送ったら全部受け取って並ぶんだけど、
Misskeyはいまのところ1つだけに対応しているので、先に届いた分がキャンセルされて、最後に届いた絵文字リアクションだけが有効になるよ。
Misskey側が複数対応したらこの非互換性はなくなるんだけど、その分の負荷も大変だろうし、やればいいってわけでもない。よく考えないとね。

added to the @… feed: youtube channel of #BobDylan live & studio recordings tweaked with de-mixing/up-mixing, including a miraculous rescue of allen ginsberg's unbalanced '65 tape of "long distance operator" & other subpar audience recordings…

Mets Release Tomas Nido
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/surrealdb-is-helping-d…

SurrealDB is helping developers consolidate their databases | TechCrunch
SurrealDB, a startup developing a database architecture of the same name, has closed a new round of funding as it readies a managed service.

投稿編集機能を使った場合は、受け取ったタイミングで内容が変わるってことね。
ある投稿がされる（A1）
フォロワーのいるサーバには、最初の投稿内容（A1）が届く。
この元投稿が編集される（A2）
このタイミングでブーストされると、まだこの投稿を知らなかったサーバは編集後の内容（A2）を受け取る。
この元投稿がまた編集される（A3）
このタイミングでブーストされると、まだこの投稿を知らなかったサーバは最後の編集後の内容（A3）を受け取る。
投稿者はA3をみて欲しい。
でも投稿の編集を受信して処理できないサーバは、A1だったりA2の内容のままで、A3には更新されない。
あるいは、A1で騙して、A2やA3をつかませようとしている詐欺行為かもしれない。
ま、余談です。

Appfigures: iOS 18 could "Sherlock" trail apps, grammar helpers, math solvers, password managers, and emoji apps that have an estimated $393M in annual revenue (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/ios-18-could-sherlock-4…

iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue | TechCrunch
Apple's changes may affect apps that today have an estimated $393 million in revenue and have been downloaded roughly 58 million times over the past year.

Reds Select Brooks Kriske
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

@… 配送キューの遅延はこちらからは観測できないね。

Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their data in AI and other models, raised a £55M Series B at a valuation just over £280M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/finbourne-ta…

Finbourne taps $70M for tech that turns financial data dust into AI gold  | TechCrunch
Finbourne, founded out of London’s financial center, has built a platform to help financial companies organize and use more of their data in AI and other models.

AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage overview for queries, and raised a $60M seed led by Lanchi at a $260M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/genspark-is-the-…

Genspark is the latest attempt at an AI-powered search engine | TechCrunch
Genspark, a new search engine, is taking on startups like Perplexity with its AI-driven, summarized search results.

なるほど、投稿だけはできるのか（ニャンまげに飛びつこう）

Swiss privacy-focused app developer Proton establishes the Proton Foundation to transition to a nonprofit foundation model, similar to Signal and Mozilla (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/privacy-a…

Privacy app maker Proton transitions to nonprofit foundation structure | TechCrunch
Proton is following in the footsteps of Signal and Mozilla by transitioning to a new non-profit foundation model.

misskey.ioから、misskey.io壊れたって投稿が流れてくるのシュールだな（田んぼの様子を見に行こう）

How Terray Therapeutics uses AI to discover and develop drugs, generating 50TB of raw data daily, part of a wave of startups looking to harness AI in medicine (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/business/ai-drugs-development-…

How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development
In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway.

FedibirdやPleroma, Akkomaは複数絵文字リアクションに対応しているので、複数送ったら全部受け取って並ぶんだけど、
Misskeyはいまのところ1つだけに対応しているので、先に届いた分がキャンセルされて、最後に届いた絵文字リアクションだけが有効になるよ。
Misskey側が複数対応したらこの非互換性はなくなるんだけど、その分の負荷も大変だろうし、やればいいってわけでもない。よく考えないとね。

DeepMind is developing AI tech to take raw pixels of videos and generate synced soundtracks; it's not too convincing, and there are no plans to release publicly (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/deepmind…

DeepMind's new AI generates soundtracks and dialogue for videos | TechCrunch
DeepMind claims that its new generative AI tech can take a video and generate sound effects, music and even dialogue.

投稿編集機能を使った場合は、受け取ったタイミングで内容が変わるってことね。
ある投稿がされる（A1）
フォロワーのいるサーバには、最初の投稿内容（A1）が届く。
この元投稿が編集される（A2）
このタイミングでブーストされると、まだこの投稿を知らなかったサーバは編集後の内容（A2）を受け取る。
この元投稿がまた編集される（A3）
このタイミングでブーストされると、まだこの投稿を知らなかったサーバは最後の編集後の内容（A3）を受け取る。
投稿者はA3をみて欲しい。
でも投稿の編集を受信して処理できないサーバは、A1だったりA2の内容のままで、A3には更新されない。
あるいは、A1で騙して、A2やA3をつかませようとしている詐欺行為かもしれない。
ま、余談です。

An ex-Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where users can create AI personas that then interact with users and other AIs via posts and DMs (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/form

Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist | TechCrunch
A new app called Butterflies is aiming to create a social network where humans and AIs interact with each other through posts and DMs.

The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a "warning label" saying that "social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents" (Vivek H. Murthy/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion

Opinion | Surgeon General: Social Media Platforms Need a Health Warning
It’s time for decisive action to protect our young people.

Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the 1.3M-member Teamsters union; ALU President Christian Smalls says Teamsters allocated $8M for organizing (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/business/economy/…

How the Teamsters and a Homegrown Union Plan to Take On Amazon
An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.

Devs say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators and AltStore apps, to enforce its rules, defeating the point of the EU's DMA (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
https://sixcolors.com/link/2024/06/apple-refuses-to-notarize-emu…

Apple refuses to notarize emulator app
This apparently happened just before WWDC, so I missed it, but it deserves everyone’s attention. Apple has rejected the UTM emulator app, not just from the global App Store, but from all thir…

Real-time data analytics startup Tinybird raised a $30M Series B, at a "significantly higher" valuation than its $37M Series A; source: it's now valued at $240M (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/tiny

Tinybird raises another $30 million to transform data into real-time APIs | TechCrunch
Tinybird is not so tiny anymore. The enterprise data startup TechCrunch first covered three years ago has been growing at a rapid pace and recently raised

Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and its screen will grow from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/17/kuo-apple-watch-series…

Kuo: Apple Watch Series 10 to Get Larger Screen and Thinner Design
This year's Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and come in larger screen sizes than previous models, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. ...

YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/yout…

YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos | TechCrunch
YouTube is testing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add "Notes" to provide more context and information on videos.

Finaloop, which offers accounting tools to e-commerce businesses, raised a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed and says its customer base grew 400% in the last year (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrun…

From sperm freezing to accounting tools: Finaloop’s founder scores $35M to solve e-commerce retailers' bookkeeping headaches | TechCrunch
Finaloop’s solution is a platform that uses automation in the background to track transactions covering three different functions in one.

Uber says "tens of thousands of riders" in Phoenix have matched with a "Waymo (AI) driver" and have given "a nearly 4.9 average star rating" (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsm…

A Robotaxi Business Is A Dream For Elon Musk–But Already A Reality For Waymo
The Alphabet unit, which operates its ride service in three big cities and is adding a fourth, is starting to generate significant revenue. But safety concerns persist.

The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M for violating a 2022 state law by failing to properly inform workers of quotas at two warehouses (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Amazon fined $5.9 million for breaking labor law in California
The company is among the first to run afoul of a union-backed law aimed at protecting warehouse workers from aggressive productivity quotas.

Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-1…

Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of "very serious" issues under the EU's DMA, and the conclusions of an investigation will arrive "hopefully soon" (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/18/apple-issu

Nvidia passes Microsoft during intraday trading to become the most valuable public company, with a ~$3.33T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/18/nvidia-passes-…

Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the "Metaverse" product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called "Wearables" (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24181420/met…

Meta creates new Wearables group, lays off Reality Labs employees
Meta’s Reality Labs hardware division is separating into two orgs: Wearables and Metaverse, according to a leaked memo. Some employees have also been laid off.

The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming "consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing" plan terms (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180196/adobe…

US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel
Adobe is facing a lawsuit from the US government that accuses the software giant of hiding fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions.

Xreal unveils the $199 Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers Xreal's glasses, runs Android 14-based NebulaOS, uses a Snapdragon chip, and has two USB-C ports (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24180298/xreal-beam-p…

Xreal’s new Beam Pro is an Android tablet designed to work with your AR glasses
The $199 Beam Pro has a 6.5-inch screen, a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and some Android customizations that make it easier to use apps on your face.

TikTok expands its Symphony ad suite, adding AI dubbing and custom or stock Digital Avatars based on paid actors or created to resemble specific creators (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24179971/t…

TikTok ads may soon contain AI avatars of your favorite creators
TikTok is introducing some new generative AI tools to help organizations and creators grow their global audiences using customizable digital avatars and translation dubbing.

Blackstone plans to buy Japanese digital comic provider Infocom in a ~$1.7B deal, in its biggest private equity transaction in Japan to date (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/blac…

Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind "super-unit" in April 2023, shifting the AI lab from research to products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AMD says it is looking into claims that company information was stolen in a hack, after a user on BreachForums said they breached AMD's systems (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting Snowflake customers have been extorted with stolen data and face ransom demands from $300K to $5M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Sources: Huawei is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on its Harmony OS, and has discussed a ~20% fee with developers, below Apple and Google's 30% (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims responsibility for the ransomware attack impacting London hospitals for weeks and demands $50M to end it (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Tether, the top stablecoin provider, says it made a new synthetic dollar that is backed by gold and will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on Ethereum Mainnet (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The US FTC says it has referred a complaint to the DOJ against TikTok and ByteDance over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Act (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-ftc-refers-complaint-agai…

Vietnam's state media says three of its five active international undersea internet cables are down, impacting connections with the US, Europe, and Asia (Khanh Vu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/t…

Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon aims to raise up to $315M in a US IPO, offering shares for $18 to $21 each and targeting an up to $2.67B valuation (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/navers-

Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M to resolve a suit from shareholders accusing Qualcomm of defrauding them by hiding its anticompetitive sales and licensing practices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/qualcom

Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, after an $83.5M Series A in 2021, and aims for a full launch in 2025 (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artific

Sources: Apple is set to settle a long-running EU antitrust investigation over payments, after the EU accepted measures that Apple committed to in January 2024 (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
https://t.co/3JSLCKQoNm

HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed "turnkey" option (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com…

HPE unveils Private Cloud AI, broad Nvidia partnership aimed at genAI workloads
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia teamed up to launch a set of private cloud offerings and integrations designed for generative AI workloads. Nvidia AI Computing by HPE will be available in the fall. With the move, announced at HPE Discover 2024 in Las Vegas, HPE enters a broad portfolio into the AI computing race. Enterprises are building out on-premises infrastructure and buying AI-optimized servers in addition to using cloud computing. HPE's partnership comes a few weeks after Dell Techn…

ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot PC review: Snapdragon X Elite is incredible, all day battery life, gorgeous 15.6" OLED screen, and $1,299 for 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/asu…

ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC Review: Is the Snapdragon X Elite hype real?
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite elevates this Windows laptop from a good all-rounder to a great one.

Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources: it's still aiming to debut a cheaper model by end of 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ap

Apple Suspends Work on Next High-End Headset, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025
Apple has told at least one supplier that it has suspended work on its next high-end Vision headset, an employee at a manufacturer that makes key components for the Vision Pro said. The pullback comes as analysts and supply chain partners have flagged slowing sales of the $3,500 device. The ...

Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security platform, raised a $150M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and Sapphire at a $1.5B valuation (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more (Ann-Marie Alcšntara/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…

Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24178580/tubi-ceo-free-tv…

How Tubi CEO Anjali Sud plans to compete with Netflix and TikTok
Tubi is a fast-growing free ad-supported streaming platform with big ambitions to take on TikTok. Here’s how Anjali Sud plans to do it.

Constructor, which provides an AI-powered product discovery and search service for e-commerce companies, raised a $25M Series B at a $550M valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)
https://techfundingnews.com/constructo

Adobe unveils Firefly-powered image generation in Acrobat, and support for analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, in Acrobat AI Assistant (Calvin Wankhede/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/adobe-ai-assistant-acrobat-3451988/…

Adobe upgrades Acrobat AI chatbot to add multi-document analysis, image generation
Adobe's PDF editing software already has an AI chatbot but the assistant can now also analyze non-PDF file types and generate images.

Inside Snapchat's teen opioid crisis: law-enforcement sources and parents allege that the company has helped fuel an overdose epidemic across the US (Paul Solotaroff/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis
Drug dealers have used Snapchat to sell fake pills to teens, but these opioids are often laced with fentanyl, helping to fuel an overdose epidemic

Coinbase debuts "pre-launch markets" on its global and advanced exchanges outside the US, UK, and Canada, for positions on tokens before they hit spot exchanges (Lawrence Lewitinn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/pos…

Microsoft says the latest version of Windows 11, version 24H2 now in the Release Preview Channel, is "only available for Copilot PCs devices" (Mark Hachman/PCWorld)
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2370043/

Windows 11's latest update is kind of insane, in a bad way
The Windows 11 24H2 update shows how Microsoft is splitting Windows 11 users into Copilot+ haves and have-nots.

Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length, after releasing Gen-2 in June 2023 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/runway-unve

Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
Gen-3 Alpha allows users to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length.

Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor EPAM Systems to steal data from Ticketmaster and ~165 other Snowflake users; EPAM denies the claim (Kim Zetter/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/epam-snowflake-ticketmaster-breach-shinyhunt…

Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a stylus for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3, plus "future headsets", the Quest's first third-party input device, shipping in September (Scott Hayden/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/quest-first-third-party-input-logi…

Quest Gets Its First Third-party Input Device Thanks to Logitech
Logitech today unveiled an XR stylus that comes as Meta Quest’s first third-party motion peripheral, targeting creatives working in both 2D and 3D media. Called Logitech MX Ink, the spatially-tracked stylus supports Quest 2 and Quest 3, as well as “future headsets,” Logitech says. The company additionally confirmed it won’t support Quest Pro. Logitech MX Ink …

McDonald's ends its two-year IBM partnership to test automated Drive Thru order taking and plans to remove the tech from 100 restaurants by July 26 (Jonathan Maze/Restaurant Business)
https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/technol…

McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
The Chicago-based fast-food giant is ending its partnership with IBM on automated order-taking without an expansion. But McDonald’s still

Experts say generative AI is set to make certain skills in finance and accounting redundant and free up time for workers to focus more on value-added tasks (Seb Murray/Financial Times)
https://t.co/D3va4RAXGS

AI in finance is like ‘moving from typewriters to word processors’
Tools are set to make some skills redundant and free up time for more value-added tasks