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Brain implant startup Synchron says its interface now lets people with paralysis use Alexa without voice or physical interaction, on top of iPhones and more (Emily Mullin/Wired)

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The FDA approves sleep apnea detection in the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2, before the 10's September 20 launch, after Samsung in early 2024 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

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Microsoft confirms scrapping plans to overhaul its Edge browser UI, including moving away from a rounded tab design, first announced at a February 2023 event (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Slack unveils Agents for Slack, letting paid users access Salesforce AI agents, third-party agents from Asana, Cohere, Adobe, and others, and users' own agents (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

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Sources: ByteDance aims to mass produce two AI chips designed alongside TSMC in 2026; a source says ByteDance plans to order several hundred thousand (The Information)

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Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open design, upgraded sound, and wireless charging, but no proper multipoint and inconvenient volume controls (Chris Welch/The Verge)

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Elon Musk deleted an X post that said "no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala" after an apparent Trump assassination attempt, calling the post a joke (Business Insider)

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Sources: in 2022, Intel lost out to AMD and TSMC on a contract to design and fabricate Sony's PS6 chip, a significant blow to its contract manufacturing unit (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sources: in 2022, Intel lost out to AMD and TSMC o...

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Apple increases the cost of out-of-warranty battery replacement for iPhone 16 Pro models by 20% to $119; the fee remains $99 for the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

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Analysis: new iPhone first weekend pre-orders were down 12.7% to ~37M units; the iPhone 16 Pro declined 27% and iPhone 16 Pro Max 16% compared to the iPhone 15 (Ming-Chi Kuo)

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China advises state-linked orgs to use a new lithography machine with a resolution of 65nm or better, signaling an improvement in its home-developed DUV tech (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

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EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees Big Tech regulation, says he is stepping down over a rift with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Reuters)

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees Big T...

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Groq partners with Aramco to build a data center in Saudi Arabia by 2024, says it will be the world's largest AI inferencing center with 19K Groq's custom GPUs (Matthew Martin/Bloomberg)

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Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from 2008 to 2021 suggests online dating may be partially to blame for a rise in income inequality in recent times (Alexandre Tanzi/Bloomberg)

Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from...

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The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation was behind an August 24 cyberattack and that it appears "some Port data was obtained by the actor" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware op...

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The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation was behind an August 24 cyberattack and that it appears "some Port data was obtained by the actor" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware op...

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How Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are fighting an Ohio power company's proposal to increase the upfront energy costs they'll pay for their data centers (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

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Some of the largest custodial banks are interested in crypto custody but are hindered by the SEC rule SAB 121, which establishes accounting standards (Bloomberg)

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