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Hands-on with Meta's Orion: need a wireless processor puck, weigh only 100g, are packed with sensors, and have good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses (Scott Stein/CNET)

Hands-on with Meta's Orion: need a wireless proces...

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Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR gl...

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Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new f...

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Meta AI's Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Meta AI's Imagine features are now being expanded ...

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Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to question...

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Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones (David Lumb/CNET)

Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 mode...

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Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearly four years ago, and Quest Pro, which debuted in 2022 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearl...

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Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolu...

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Livestream of Meta Connect 2024 (Meta for Developers on Facebook)

Livestream of Meta Connect 2024 (Meta for Develope...

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A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company's first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, and more are expected (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the compan...

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Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, acc...

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Sources: Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was prim...

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Sources: China-linked hackers, in a campaign called Salt Typhoon, have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: China-linked hackers, in a campaign calle...

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London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS produ...

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A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had "never seen" a cooperator like Ellison (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FT...

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The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, in 1B and 70B-parameter sizes, the most capable open source AI model yet (Will Knight/Wired)

The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal...

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Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats (Politico)

Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some e...

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are "going to take time ... to play out" and an appeal "will likely take many years" (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ...

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Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use thi...

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Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is "exploiting" its customers' reliance on Windows (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Mic...

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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom review: a charming throwback adventure

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom review: a ch...

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Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out starting in 2013 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and ...

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Reddit begins rolling out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ others on the web, mobile, and desktop (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Reddit begins rolling out its ML-powered translati...

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X releases its first transparency report since Musk took over; X took action against 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

X releases its first transparency report since Mus...

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Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotic...

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Sony announces seven new games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered "PSSR" upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent its own letter on Monday (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP E...

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Chainalysis: inflows to China's over-the-counter crypto brokers topped $20B in Q4 2023, Q1 2024, and Q2 2024 for $75.4B in total, despite Beijing's crypto ban (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Chainalysis: inflows to China's over-the-counter c...

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Retro Remake says its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits, which don't require soldering or modifications, will go on sale on September 26 for $50 to $110 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

Retro Remake says its Switch Lite OLED screen upgr...

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Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme orchestrated by group UNC5267 starting in 2018 (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 compa...

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NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing the Firefox maker of tracking users without consent (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla wit...

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Researchers detail an AI model that they claim can solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 challenges with 100% accuracy using a similar number of attempts as human users (Peter Saalfield/Decrypt)

Researchers detail an AI model that they claim can...

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A profile of Canva, which has an estimated 4% shar...

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An interview with Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor on their new book AI Snake Oil, which is based on their popular newsletter about AI's shortcomings (Reece Rogers/Wired)

An interview with Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapo...

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AI's first wave of successful implementation will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was led by enterprise installations that cut jobs (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

AI's first wave of successful implementation will ...

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About 15,000 US doctors and assistants are using an AI feature in MyChart, a ubiquitous communications platform at US hospitals, to draft messages for patients (Teddy Rosenbluth/New York Times)

About 15,000 US doctors and assistants are using a...

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How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection with the goal of exfiltrating all user input (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to...

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CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber is building "three" super apps: Uber, Uber Eats, and Uber Driver, a platform for couriers and drivers; Uber One has 19M members (Financial Times)

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber is building "three...

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Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung's SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to in...

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Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung's SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to in...

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Google Cloud VP Gabe Monroy says he has seen 20%-30% productivity gains across the software development lifecycle at large companies using Gemini Code Assist (Vikas SN/Moneycontrol)

Google Cloud VP Gabe Monroy says he has seen 20%-3...

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US federal court records show the DOJ has been investigating SAP, IT vendor Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)

US federal court records show the DOJ has been inv...

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Sources: the FBI is investigating whether China-backed Hone Capital, a US VC firm that invested in 360 US tech startups, allowed Beijing to obtain trade secrets (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Sources: the FBI is investigating whether China-ba...

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The US DOL releases AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework, a set of guidelines to help employers ensure AI doesn't lead to discrimination for disabled job seekers (Rebecca Rainey/Bloomberg Law)

The US DOL releases AI & Inclusive Hiring Framewor...

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London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial super app for SMBs, raised a $30M Series B led by Zinal Growth, bringing its total funding to $50.5M (Tom Matsuda/Sifted)

London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the ...

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Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors' copyrighted works (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)

Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for ...

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CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Cong...

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Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation between $15B and $20B, after abandoning a deal in July to be acquired by Google for $23B (Bloomberg)

Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing sh...

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Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 8...

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Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data management company that makes unstructured data accessible to AI agents, in an acquisition valued at $450M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data m...

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