11 apps every Apple Watch owner needs - Pocket Lint
2024 Summer Olympics: A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech - Wired
5th Circuit Court Upends FCC Universal Service Fund, Ruling It an Illegal Tax - Slashdot
7 Best Cheap Smartphones (2024): iPhone, Android, 5G - Wired
A decade-old drama between David Sacks and Parker Conrad has blown up into a fight on X over VC behavior, drawing in Paul Graham and other Silicon Valley names (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
A look at the flood of "fancam" videos and memes about Kamala Harris on short-form video platforms, echoing "meme armies" that have supported Donald Trump (Washington Post) - Techmeme
A North Korean Hacker Tricked a US Security Vendor Into Hiring Him'and Immediately Tried to Hack Them - Wired
A profile of, and interview with, Sequoia's Roelof Botha on increasing Sequoia's focus on AI investments, staying politically neutral, and more (Michal Lev-Ram/Fortune) - Techmeme
Africa Data Centres invests $500 million to double its Cape Town data center - Innovation Village
AI Models Face Collapse If They Overdose On Their Own Output - Slashdot
Airtel Africa reports $31 million in Q1 2024 profit, but macroeconomic headwinds persist in key market - Techcabal
Alphabet X spinoff Skip partners with Arc'teryx to bring 'everyday' exoskeleton to market - Techcrunch
Amazon says a judge has dismissed a Washington state case, alleging that Amazon exposed warehouse workers to injuries, for lack of evidence (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
An interview with Samsung's mobile chief TM Roh on the Galaxy AI push, monetizing AI, future products in foldables and mixed reality, and more (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) - Techmeme
Anthropic says it does not support California's AI safety bill and suggests changes, including a shift from "pre-harm enforcement" to "outcome-based deterrence" (Ashley Gold/Axios) - Techmeme
Apple agrees to stick by Biden administration's voluntary AI safeguards - Engadget
Apple cuts iPhone price in India amid China slowdown - Techcrunch
Apple signs the White House's commitment to AI safety - Techcrunch
Apple's 14-inch MacBook Pro laptop with an M3 Pro chip is $300 off at Amazon - Engadget
Apple's AirTags are on sale for $23.99 a pop, matching their all-time low - The Verge
Apple's M3 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM is $200 off right now - Engadget
Applied Intuition closes $300M secondary four months after raising $250M - Techcrunch
As xAI builds a supercomputer in Memphis, many locals are wary of its benefits, and environmental advocates are puzzled over its potential effects (Patrick Sisson/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Binarly: UEFI Secure Boot is completely compromised on 200+ device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro due to a cryptographic key leak (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) - Techmeme
Bizarre Secrets Found Investigating Corrupt Winamp Skins - Slashdot
California Supreme Court Rules That Uber and Lyft Drivers Will Remain Independent Contractors - Wired
California Supreme Court upholds classification of gig workers as independent contractors - Engadget
California Supreme Court Upholds Gig Worker Law In a Win For Ride-Hail Companies - Slashdot
Canadian soccer teams have been spying with drones for years - The Verge
Canalys: China's smartphone shipments rose 10% YoY in Q2, with Huawei's shipments up 41%; Apple's market share in China dropped to 14%, down from 16% in Q2 2023 (Reuters) - Techmeme
ChatGPT reveals search feature in Google challenge - BBC
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot - Techcrunch
Chemist Explains the Chemistry Behind Decaf Coffee - Slashdot
Childhood Air Pollution Directly Linked To Adult Lung Health, Study Says - Slashdot
Class Action Lawsuit Alleges T-Mobile Broke Its Lifetime Price Guarantee - Wired
Comic-Con leak sparks rumors of two remastered Soul Reaver games - Engadget
Critical Flaw in Telerik Report Server Poses Remote Code Execution Risk - Hackers News
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says 97% of Windows sensors are back online, about a week after CrowdStrike shipped a faulty update that bricked Windows computers (Sam Sabin/Axios) - Techmeme
CrowdStrike Warns of New Phishing Scam Targeting German Customers - Hackers News
Digital marketing startup Plaiced has acquired Precursor Ventures-backed Clutch - Techcrunch
DStv owner, Multichoice arrests suspected piracy kingpin in South Africa - Technext
Egypt's MNT-Halan banks $157.5M, gobbles up a fintech in Turkey to expand - Techcrunch
Energy tech startup Greenely grabs '8M to reach more households and support Europe's energy transition - Techcrunch
Epic plans to bring its mobile games to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and remove its games from the Galaxy Store due to Samsung blocking sideloading by default (Epic Games) - Techmeme
Epic will bring Fortnite to third-party iOS app stores - The Verge
ESR's cheap Qi2 car charger is more than 40 percent off for a limited time - The Verge
Europe Is Pumping Billions Into New Military Tech - Wired
Facebook Hosts Creator Workshop In Lagos - TechCity
Florida-based IntelePeer, which develops software to help businesses automate customer contact centers using AI, raised $140M in equity and debt (Denver Business Journal) - Techmeme
FTC's Khan Backs Open AI Models in Bid to Avoid Monopolies - Slashdot
FTC's Lina Khan says open-weights AI models can promote competition and "liberate startups from the arbitrary whims of closed developers and cloud gatekeepers" (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Gemini's big upgrade: Faster responses with 1.5 Flash, expanded access and more - Technext
Google brings Nest Hello support to the Home app - The Verge
Google Faces New Rival as OpenAI's SearchGPT Debuts - Innovation Village
Gran Tourismo 7's more realistic physics update is launching cars into orbit - Engadget
Here's how to disable X (Twitter) from using your data to train its Grok AI - Techcrunch
Here's how to stop Grok's AI models using your tweets for training - Engadget
Here's how to stop X from using your posts to train its AI - The Verge
Here's why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior - Techcrunch
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Meta removes ~63K Instagram accounts used by sextortion scammers in Nigeria, along with ~7,200 Facebook assets, including accounts linked to the Yahoo Boys (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Meta says WhatsApp now has more than 100M MAUs in the US and that more than 50% of WhatsApp users in the country have an iPhone; WhatsApp has 2B+ MAUs globally (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results - Engadget
Microsoft says Bing stopped crawling Reddit after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land) - Techmeme
Microsoft unveils Bing generative search, which shows AI-generated answers with the sources used to create them, currently available to a small subset of users (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) - Techmeme
Mistral announces Mistral Large 2, the new generation of its flagship model, with 123B parameters; commercial usage requires a separate license (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat) - Techmeme
Mistral's Large 2 is its answer to Meta and OpenAI's latest models - Techcrunch
Monday Was Hottest Recorded Day on Earth: 'Uncharted Territory - Slashdot
NABU, HP partner to empower 25m children in digital literacy - Guardian
NASA fired its space lasers to communicate with the ISS - The Verge
NBA TV rights go to ESPN, NBC and Amazon as TNT is rejected - Engadget
Netflix and bill' Streaming giant increases price of premium plan to '7,000 - Techcabal
New Chrome Feature Scans Password-Protected Files for Malicious Content - Hackers News
New ITU report ranks Nigeria high for 5G, digital transformation readiness - Technext
New leak spoils Google's upcoming Pixel 9 event - The Verge
New PS5 update finally makes multiplayer gaming as effortless as it should be - Pocket Lint
Nigeria's aviation challenges not insurmountable ' Keyamo - Tribune
Nigerias AI startup Intron Health raises $1.6M for expansion - TechMoran
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition: review - Pocket Lint
North Korean Hackers Are Stealing Military Secrets, Say US and Allies - Slashdot
North Korean Hackers Shift from Cyber Espionage to Ransomware Attacks - Hackers News
Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) 2024 PostUTME registration - Techcabal
Open Source AI Better for US as China Will Steal Tech Anyway, Zuckerberg Argues - Slashdot
OpenAI introduces Rule-Based Rewards, a method to automate some model fine-tuning and cut down the time required to ensure a model behaves safely (Emilia David/VentureBeat) - Techmeme
OpenAI says it partnered with publishers including WSJ and The Atlantic to build its search engine SearchGPT; publishers can manage how their content appears (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
OpenAI To Launch 'SearchGPT' in Challenge To Google - Slashdot
OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, a search tool powered by GPT-4 that can organize links and summarize its findings, available as a prototype to 10,000 users at launch (Kylie Robison/The Verge) - Techmeme
Our hands-on experience with The Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown for Mac - Pocket Lint
Oversight Board wants Meta to refine its policies around AI-generated explicit images - Techcrunch
Overwatch 2 may test a return to six-player teams - Engadget
Phish-Friendly Domain Registry '.top' Put On Notice - Slashdot
Police in Scottsdale, AZ will start using drones as first responders - Engadget
Polluted Lakes Are Being Cleansed Using Floating Wetlands Made of Trash - Wired
Privacy-focused developer Proton debuts a self-custody bitcoin wallet, its first cryptocurrency product, initially available to early access users (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Proposed NASA Budget Cuts Would End Chandra X-Ray Observatory - Slashdot
Raenest Secures IMTO Licence - TechCity
Researchers are training home robots in simulations based on iPhone scans - Techcrunch
Researchers Reveal ConfusedFunction Vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform - Hackers News
Respawn is walking back its unpopular changes to the Apex Legends battle pass - Engadget
Revolut receives long-awaited UK banking license - Techcrunch
Revolut secures a preliminary UK banking license, ending a three-year long regulatory battle; the London-based fintech has ~9M UK customers and 45M+ globally (Akila Quinio/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Ring Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam review: See more - Pocket Lint
Russia Announces It Will Create Core of New Space Station By 2030 - Slashdot
Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 and Galaxy Buds 3 Pro review: AirPods clones that actually deliver - Engadget
Samsung Galaxy Ring review: great hardware, long battery life, and requires no subscription, but it's Android only and health tracking accuracy is a mixed bag (Victoria Song/The Verge) - Techmeme
ServiceNow President CJ Desai leaves the company after an internal probe found he violated company policy related to a US contract and an ex-Army CIO's hiring (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Shares drop in US and Asia as AI stocks slide - BBC
Singaporean e-commerce firm Qoo10's Korean units face probe due to payment delays to merchants - Techcrunch
SK Hynix Q2: revenue up 125% YoY to ~$11.86B, operating profit of ~$3.96B, its highest quarterly profit in six years, and sees further rising chip demand in H2 (Reuters) - Techmeme
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool (Samantha Cole/404 Media) - Techmeme
Sources: Meta is set to be hit with its first EU antitrust fine, which could be as much as 10% of its 2023 global revenue, for tying Marketplace and Facebook (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) - Techmeme
South African fintech Stitch is gearing up to hold its third Scale Summit in October - Innovation Village
Southwest Scraps Open Seating, Ending Decades-Long Practice - Slashdot
Stalker 2 has been delayed (again) until November 20 - Engadget
Star Catcher wants to build a space power grid to supercharge orbital industry - Techcrunch
STMicro reports Q2 net revenue down 25.3% YoY to $3.23B and cuts its FY 2024 revenue outlook to $13.2B to $13.7B, down from a previous range of $14B to $15B (Michael Hennessey/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Strengthening ISPs is the way forward'- A chat with Diseye Isoun on broadband connectivity in Africa - Technext
Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron arrives on Max in September - Engadget
Substack writers can now draft and publish posts in iOS app - Techcrunch
Tech Life: Turning the racetrack electric - BBC
TechCabal Daily ' Netflix's Nigerian Money Hoist - Techcabal