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At schools across California, some Chromebook models are about to age out of software updates; 13 models hit their death date this summer and 51 will in 2024 (Elissa Miolene/Mercury News)

Elissa Miolene / Mercury News: At schools across California, some Chromebook models are about to age out of software updates; 13 models hit their death date this summer and 51 will in 2024 — ‘We expect expiration dates for milk, but not for laptops.’ — At a lofty warehouse in East Oakland, a dozen students

GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caulfield criticizes Germany’s planned chip subsidies for TSMC, saying the company welcomes competition “on a level playing field” (Guy Chazan/Financial Times)

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caulfield criticizes Germany’s planned chip subsidies for TSMC, saying the company welcomes competition “on a level playing field” — Chief executive Thomas Caulfield warns that funds from Berlin will distort competition

FTC Chair Lina Khan defends the agency’s court record, saying “losing two is OK” and acknowledging difficulties in the Microsoft case due to “vertical mergers” (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: FTC Chair Lina Khan defends the agency’s court record, saying “losing two is OK” and acknowledging difficulties in the Microsoft case due to “vertical mergers” — – FTC chair says agency has only two losses out of 13-20 filed — Agency is appealing court ruling on largest gaming deal ever

Wayfair’s AI tool can redraw your living room and sell you furniture

Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge Wayfair has launched a free “virtual room restyler” called Decorify. It employs generative AI to show you a redecorated version of the room you want to zhuzh after you upload a picture of it and choose the visual style you want. Then, if you like what you see, you

Threads Is the Latest Move in the AI Arms Race

Mark Zuckerberg’s choice to launch Meta’s Threads app stands in stark contrast to Elon Musk’s recent moves to charge for data from X.

Sam Altman’s fission startup Oklo and life-extension startup Retro, alongside OpenAI and Worldcoin, may reshape society and will draw regulatory scrutiny (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sam Altman’s fission startup Oklo and life-extension startup Retro, alongside OpenAI and Worldcoin, may reshape society and will draw regulatory scrutiny — OpenAI chief says public sector has ‘lack of will’ to lead innovation — Sam Altman rolled out a new project to distinguish humans …

The EU enacts the €43B Chips Act, part of ambitious plans to produce 20% of the world’s chips by 2030, after final approval from ministers (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg)

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The EU enacts the €43B Chips Act, part of ambitious plans to produce 20% of the world’s chips by 2030, after final approval from ministers — The European Union’s plan to bolster domestic semiconductor production will become law after ministers completed the final approval on Tuesday.

Poll: Do you prefer Flip or Fold-style foldables?

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority We’re expecting Samsung to announce the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5 tomorrow. And as usual, they represent the two dominant form factors for foldable phones. This got us wondering which foldable form factor you prefer. So let us know via the poll below!

The Generative AI Battle Has a Fundamental Flaw

Writers and artists want compensation from AI firms that they claim have trained their models on copyrighted works. But their legal fights miss the bigger issues.

ChatGPT Plugins Pose Security Risks

Third-party plugins boost ChatGPT’s capabilities. But security researchers say they add an extra layer of risk.

Selectric Typewriter Goes from Trash Can to Linux Terminal

If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into a serial terminal for Linux, it’s that we’ve been hanging around the wrong garbage cans. Because that’s where he found the donor machine for this project, and it wasn’t even the first one he’s come across in the trash.

Elon Musk says Twitter “made sense when it was just 140 character messages” and the move “is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing” (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Elon Musk says Twitter “made sense when it was just 140 character messages” and the move “is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing” — – Billionaire to build fintech services atop social platform — Discarding the Twitter name reflects loftier goals, he says

AMD ‘Zenbleed’ exploit can leak passwords and encryption keys from Ryzen CPUs

AMD is rolling out patches for at-risk CPUs, though these updates may impact system performance. | Illustration: Beatrice Sala A new vulnerability impacting AMD’s line of Zen 2 processors — which includes popular CPUs like the budget-friendly Ryzen 5 3600 — has been discovered that can be exploited to steal sensitive data like passwords and

Prosus says Indian edtech giant Byju’s “disregarded advice” on “strategic, operational, legal, and corporate governance”, after cutting its valuation to $5.1B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Prosus says Indian edtech giant Byju’s “disregarded advice” on “strategic, operational, legal, and corporate governance”, after cutting its valuation to $5.1B — Prosus, one of the largest investors in Byju’s, expressed its disappointment in the edtech giant’s reporting …

EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025

A typical scene at ultra-fast charging stations in Europe: everything working and lots of availability. This one had a long protected walking path for the dog along the right-hand side bordering a creek. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge The Council of the EU has adopted new rules intended to make it much

The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here

Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next age of conflict.

Expect another price hike for your grandfathered Verizon plan

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Verizon is reportedly planning another price hike for users on grandfathered plans. The increase will apparently go into effect in August and varies from $3 to $5 a month. Verizon announced a price increase for users on its grandfathered (previously available) mobile plans earlier this year. Now, it turns

Apple opens applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits, offering developers a “loaner” to build apps alongside specialized hardware and software support (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple opens applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits, offering developers a “loaner” to build apps alongside specialized hardware and software support — Apple today announced the release of Apple Vision Pro developer kits, with developers able to apply to receive a kit starting today.

Netflix rolls out a My Netflix tab on iOS, superseding the Downloads tab to offer downloads, watch lists, reminders, and more; Android gets My Netflix in August (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix rolls out a My Netflix tab on iOS, superseding the Downloads tab to offer downloads, watch lists, reminders, and more; Android gets My Netflix in August — Netflix has rolled out a new feature designed to — what else? — get you to stream as much as possible on the

Spotify now has 220 million paying subscribers

Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify had 220 million Premium subscribers and 551 million monthly active users as of June 30th, the company announced today in its latest earnings report. That represents a 27 and 17 percent increase, respectively, compared to the same period last year and is above its outlook released last quarter. But

Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY to €3.2B, Premium subscribers grew 17% YoY to 220M, MAUs rose 27% YoY to 551M, and a €112M adjusted operating loss (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY to €3.2B, Premium subscribers grew 17% YoY to 220M, MAUs rose 27% YoY to 551M, and a €112M adjusted operating loss — Spotify Technology SA, the Swedish audio streaming platform, beat analyst expectations in its second-quarter results …

Driven by AI demand, TSMC plans to spend nearly $2.9B to build an advanced packaging facility in northern Taiwan and says current capacity is “very tight” (Reuters)

Reuters: Driven by AI demand, TSMC plans to spend nearly $2.9B to build an advanced packaging facility in northern Taiwan and says current capacity is “very tight” — Driven by a surge in demand for artificial intelligence, Taiwanese chip maker TSMC (2330.TW) plans to invest nearly T$90 billion …

Pixel Watch 2 leak suggests it’s lighter, but that may not be a good thing

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Pixel Watch 2 could be made of aluminum instead of stainless steel. The new material might make the second Google smartwatch more susceptible to scratches. The device is also expected to be lighter, suggesting it might get stuck with the same small battery as the current Pixel Watch.

Grab Your ‘Scope’s Screen From The Command Line

Many of us have oscilloscopes and other instruments with built-in digital interfaces, but how many of us use them? [Andrej Radović] has a Tektronix TDS2022 which can print its screen to any of its various interfaces, and he set about automating the process of acquisition with a Bash script. The easiest interface to use was

A look at government-run internet referral units, starting in 2010 to police content in the UK before spreading globally, as the EU DSA mandates transparency (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired: A look at government-run internet referral units, starting in 2010 to police content in the UK before spreading globally, as the EU DSA mandates transparency — Social apps prioritize content moderation tips from governments and online watchdogs. A US court ruling and a new EU law …

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