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Richard Priday / Tom's Guide: Asus Zenfone 10 review: compact for a 5.9" display, powerful performance, and excellent battery life, but limited cameras and only two years of software updates  —  Everything you need in a premium Android phone, in a surprisingly small frame  —  Tom's Guide Verdict … Why you can trust Tom's Guide? http://www.techmeme.com/230629/p37?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230629p37

Kellen Browning / New York Times: In court, Satya Nadella says he'd love to end “exclusives on consoles”; Bobby Kotick says making CoD exclusive would cause “revolt” and “reputational damage”  —  In federal court, Satya Nadella and Bobby Kotick opposed an attempt by the F.T.C … http://www.techmeme.com/230628/p30?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230628p30

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI's ChatGPT iOS app adds Bing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, letting them get answers on information that extend beyond ChatGPT's original training data  —  ChatGPT on mobile can now surf the web.  But only via Bing.  —  Today, OpenAI announced that subscribers to ChatGPT Plus … http://www.techmeme.com/230627/p46?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230627p46

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Decentralized social media app Damus says Apple rejected an app update and told the company to remove its tipping feature or use Apple's in-app purchase system  —  Damus, a decentralized social networking app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be removed from the App Store due to Apple's strict payment rules. http://www.techmeme.com/230626/p25?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230626p25

Julie Kim / MIT Technology Review: A look at the underwhelming state of augmentative and alternative communication tech, including a handful of iPad apps, for speech and language impaired users  —  For people who can't speak, there has been depressingly little innovation in technology that helps them communicate. http://www.techmeme.com/230625/p4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230625p4

Wall Street Journal: Sources: IBM is close to a deal to acquire cloud-based IT management startup Apptio from Vista Equity Partners for ~$5B; Vista acquired Apptio for ~$2B in 2019  —  Purchase of Apptio, owned by private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners, could be finalized over the weekend http://www.techmeme.com/230624/p8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230624p8

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A US federal court sentences UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor to five years in prison for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts  —  Prosecutors called for the British hacker to serve at least seven years  —  Three years after one of the most visible hacks … http://www.techmeme.com/230623/p24?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230623p24

Anton Shilov / AnandTech: Argonne and Intel say they installed the Aurora supercomputer, announced in 2015, which will come online later in 2023 with 2 ExaFLOPS of processing power  —  Argonne National Laboratory and Intel said on Thursday that they had installed all 10,624 blades for the Aurora supercomputer … http://www.techmeme.com/230622/p31?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230622p31

Ina Fried / Axios: Citing rising complaints, Australia's eSafety Commissioner gives Twitter 28 days to explain the steps it is taking to combat hate speech or face fines of ~$475K  —  Australia's online safety regulator sent a legal notice to Twitter demanding the social network explain the steps it is taking … http://www.techmeme.com/230621/p45?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230621p45

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ElevenLabs, whose AI tech can turn text into speech using synthetic or cloned voices, raised a $19M Series A, a source says at a $99M post-money valuation  —  ElevenLabs, the viral AI-powered platform for creating synthetic voices, has raised a new round of cash. http://www.techmeme.com/230620/p40?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230620p40

Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: Quotient Technology, parent of Coupons.com and other digital marketing platforms, agrees to merge with retail marketing firm Neptune in a $430M all-cash deal  —  Retail marketing firm Neptune Retail Solutions will acquire Coupons.com-parent Quotient Technology (QUOT.N) for $430 million in cash, the companies said on Tuesday. http://www.techmeme.com/230620/p39?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230620p39

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: Some publishers say they have seen a sharp drop in Facebook traffic since May 2023; Echobox: the share of traffic to publisher sites from Facebook fell ~50% YoY  —  With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm, and they say it's punishing them. http://www.techmeme.com/230619/p15?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230619p15

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Intel agrees in principle to build a $25B chip manufacturing plant in Israel, which is slated to begin operations by 2027 and remain active until at least 2035  —  Intel Corp. has agreed in principle to build a new manufacturing plant in Israel, part of a push by the US semiconductor giant … http://www.techmeme.com/230618/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230618p5

Bloomberg: How Huawei lost a ~$200M contract to build Danish telecom TDC's 5G network in 2019, after TDC opened a probe suspecting Huawei of unethical business practices  —  At a hastily scheduled meeting on March 5, 2019, the bidding to upgrade Denmark's cellular network crossed over into something strange. http://www.techmeme.com/230618/p4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230618p4

Boone Ashworth / Wired: Reddit's management risks putting the service in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant content moves to other platforms  —  When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit's community won't ever be the same.  —  It's pretty easy to piss people off on Reddit. http://www.techmeme.com/230617/p10?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230617p10

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer with 12M followers, signs a ~$100M deal with Kick, a streaming service backed by Australian gaming and gambling sites  —  The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes' contracts, and is another sign … http://www.techmeme.com/230616/p28?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230616p28

Bloomberg: How Microsoft's bet on OpenAI due to transfer learning, an approach that wasn't yet commercialized, may help Microsoft leapfrog Google and corner the AI market  —  There are two ways of looking at ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that hundreds of millions of people have tried out since its release late last year. http://www.techmeme.com/230615/p36?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230615p36

Victor Dey / VentureBeat: Canva announces a new SDK, a set of APIs, and a $50M fund to help developers build apps for its marketplace  —  Canva, the visual communication platform, unveiled its Canva Developers Platform today at Canva Extend, its inaugural developer conference in San Francisco. http://www.techmeme.com/230614/p33?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230614p33

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Munich-based Fernride, which develops technology for autonomous driving and remote control of electric yard trucks, raised a $31M Series A  —  Fernride's teleoperated yard truck technology platform not only provides a sustainable alternative to diesel-powered trucks but also addresses the challenges posed by driver shortages. http://www.techmeme.com/230614/p32?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230614p32

James Vincent / The Verge: Stack Overflow survey of ~90K developers in 185 countries: 70% use or plan to use AI coding tools in 2023; only 3% “highly trust” and 39% “somewhat trust” them  —  A survey of developers by coding Q&A site Stack Overflow has found that AI tools are becoming commonplace … http://www.techmeme.com/230613/p44?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230613p44

Katie Jennings / Forbes: Vendors allege Hippocratic AI co-founder's former startup Health IQ, which faces a fraud lawsuit, owes millions; Hippocratic AI raised $50M from a16z and others  —  The venture firm made a repeat investment in Munjal Shah, but his previous company Health IQ is facing allegations of millions … http://www.techmeme.com/230612/p30?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230612p30

Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: LinkedIn, which launched a skills-matching feature in February 2023, says 45%+ of recruiters on the social network now search for candidates using skills data  —  As the world of work transforms, LinkedIn is betting that the way employers hire and the way people find jobs will also radically change in the years and decades ahead. http://www.techmeme.com/230611/p8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230611p8

Washington Post: NHTSA data shows Tesla's FSD and Autopilot were involved in 736 US crashes since 2019, far more than reported; the most recent data includes 17+ fatal incidents  —  Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported http://www.techmeme.com/230610/p12?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230610p12

Colin Wilhelm / The Block: A US judge ruled in favor of the CFTC after Ooki DAO failed to respond to an enforcement action, setting a precedent that DAOs are liable for legal violations  —  - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission won a default judgement against Ooki DAO after the group failed to respond. http://www.techmeme.com/230609/p23?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230609p23

Alex Heath / The Verge: Chris Cox showed Meta's employees its “response to Twitter”, an Instagram-based text app that integrates with ActivityPub; docs: the app could be called Threads  —  One of Meta's top executives showed employees a preview of the company's upcoming Twitter competitor during … http://www.techmeme.com/230608/p33?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230608p33

Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok is aiming for a global e-commerce GMV of $20B in 2023, up from $4.4B in 2022, after rapid growth of its e-commerce business in Southeast Asia  —  ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok aims to more than quadruple the size of its global e-commerce business to as much as $20 billion … http://www.techmeme.com/230607/p40?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230607p40

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: SK Hynix says it has started mass producing its 238-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips, promising speeds of 2400MT/s, up from last gen's 176 layers and 1600MT/s  —  The new memory promises speeds of up to 2,400 MT/s.  —  SK hynix said late on Wednesday that it had begun mass production of its 238-layer … http://www.techmeme.com/230607/p39?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230607p39

XDA Developers: iOS 17 beta enables editable text and threaded replies in iMessage group chats with Android users, but Android users can't see the edited messages  —  Say goodbye to crippled group texts because of that one friend  —  We've all been there.  Whether you're an iPhone user with iMessage … http://www.techmeme.com/230606/p35?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230606p35

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Gigabyte releases BIOS updates to remove a backdoor that was found in over 270 motherboard models and could let hackers install malware when the PC restarts  —  Gigabyte has announced BIOS updates that remove a recently identified backdoor feature in hundreds of its motherboards. http://www.techmeme.com/230605/p42?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230605p42

Wired: Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square, the politics of attention, the power of federation, and more  —  We talk to media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square and what other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon might offer. http://www.techmeme.com/230604/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230604p5

Chris Isidore / CNN: The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps  —  New York CNN —  —  Payment apps like PayPal and Venmo might be convenient, but they're not banks — and a federal financial services watchdog … http://www.techmeme.com/230603/p10?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230603p10

Sara Fischer / Axios: YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”  —  In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud … http://www.techmeme.com/230602/p15?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230602p15

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Commissioner Thierry Breton says the EU plans to subject Twitter and other companies to a voluntary stress test in June to measure their compliance with the DSA  —  During Silicon Valley tour, EU team will review social-media platform's content moderation to measure compliance with new law http://www.techmeme.com/230601/p31?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230601p31

Ben Lang / Road to VR: Ultraleap unveils the $140 hand-tracking module Leap Motion 2, its first since the original in 2013, with support for standalone XR headsets; preorders open  —  The Daily Roundup Newsletter  —  Keep your finger on the pulse of the XR industry with the Daily Roundup, the most important news in one daily email. http://www.techmeme.com/230531/p37?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230531p37