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A look at Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit, based on a 20K line of code patch to Wine, easing ports to Apple silicon, and possible paths Apple may take with gaming (Christina Warren/Inverse)

Christina Warren / Inverse: A look at Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit, based on a 20K line of code patch to Wine, easing ports to Apple silicon, and possible paths Apple may take with gaming  —  At WWDC last week, most of the focus was rightfully on the new Apple Vision Pro headset and the new

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Applied Materials sues Chinese-owned, California-based rival Mattson over an alleged 14-month effort to steal IP, including staff-poaching and design transfers (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Applied Materials sues Chinese-owned, California-based rival Mattson over an alleged 14-month effort to steal IP, including staff-poaching and design transfers  —  Applied Materials Inc. is suing a Chinese-owned rival over what it says was a 14-month effort to steal some of its most valuable secrets …

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French luxury goods group LVMH partners with Epic Games to use its 3D creation tools to build immersive products and experiences, like virtual fitting rooms (Jesse Levine/Bloomberg)

Jesse Levine / Bloomberg: French luxury goods group LVMH partners with Epic Games to use its 3D creation tools to build immersive products and experiences, like virtual fitting rooms  —  French luxury goods group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE has paired up with Epic Games Inc., creator of Fortnite …

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A look at ByteDance’s efforts to turn Douyin into a super app; ByteDance says Douyin’s 700M users increased their spending on its on-demand services 7x in 2022 (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: A look at ByteDance’s efforts to turn Douyin into a super app; ByteDance says Douyin’s 700M users increased their spending on its on-demand services 7x in 2022  —  As a middle-age restaurant owner who was neither interested in scrolling through viral videos nor likely to create such videos herself …

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Research: Southeast Asia’s ecommerce GMV reached $99.5B in 2022, up 1.8x from 2020, with Shopee accounting for $47.9B, Lazada $20.1B, and Tokopedia $18.4B (Jofie Yordan/Tech in Asia)

Jofie Yordan / Tech in Asia: Research: Southeast Asia’s ecommerce GMV reached $99.5B in 2022, up 1.8x from 2020, with Shopee accounting for $47.9B, Lazada $20.1B, and Tokopedia $18.4B  —  As Southeast Asia’s ecommerce sector saw continued growth in 2022, Sea Group’s Shopee remained the market leader in the region …

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Microsoft researchers detail Cadet Blizzard, a GRU hacking group they claim is behind WhisperGate data-wiping attacks in Ukraine just before Russia’s invasion (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft researchers detail Cadet Blizzard, a GRU hacking group they claim is behind WhisperGate data-wiping attacks in Ukraine just before Russia’s invasion  —  Microsoft has linked a threat group it tracks as Cadet Blizzard since April 2023 to Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known

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Twitter sued for $250 million by music publishers over ‘massive’ copyright infringement

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is suing Twitter on behalf of 17 music publishers representing the biggest artists in the business. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Tennessee, claims the company “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive

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Sources: at a May meeting, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority questioned HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Bank of China on why they were not accepting crypto clients (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: at a May meeting, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority questioned HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Bank of China on why they were not accepting crypto clients  —  Regulators are pushing for banks to accept more exchanges as clients in quest to develop digital assets industry

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Ham Almost Cooks ‘Dog

For those of us licensed in other countries it comes as something of a surprise to find that American radio amateurs now have to run RF exposure calculations as part of their licence requirements. [Ham Radio Crash Course] as approached this in a unique fashion, by running around 800 watts of 6-metre power into a

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A look at Fake Review Watch on YouTube, run by Kay Dean, documenting fake reviews on Yelp, Google, and others, often tracing them back to Facebook Groups (Stephen Council/SFGATE)

Stephen Council / SFGATE: A look at Fake Review Watch on YouTube, run by Kay Dean, documenting fake reviews on Yelp, Google, and others, often tracing them back to Facebook Groups  —  A strange letter showed up on Kay Dean’s doorstep.  —  It was 2017, and the San Jose resident had left a one-star review

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The US DOJ agrees to try Sam Bankman-Fried on only eight charges for now, including wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering, of the 13 faced by him (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The US DOJ agrees to try Sam Bankman-Fried on only eight charges for now, including wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering, of the 13 faced by him  —  Sam Bankman-Fried moved to dismiss most of the charges brought against him last month.  —  The U.S. Department of Justice intends …

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CCDH: Google made ~$10M in two years from ads by anti-abortion organizations misdirecting users to “pregnancy crisis centers” that do not actually provide care (Kari Paul/The Guardian)

Kari Paul / The Guardian: CCDH: Google made ~$10M in two years from ads by anti-abortion organizations misdirecting users to “pregnancy crisis centers” that do not actually provide care  —  Study finds the search giant has profited since Roe was overturned from anti-abortion groups buying misleading search terms

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Meta AI’s Yann LeCun says experts’ fears of AI threatening humanity are “preposterously ridiculous” and keeping research “under lock and key” would be a mistake (Chris Vallance/BBC)

Chris Vallance / BBC: Meta AI’s Yann LeCun says experts’ fears of AI threatening humanity are “preposterously ridiculous” and keeping research “under lock and key” would be a mistake  —  One of the three “godfathers of AI” has said it won’t take over the world or permanently destroy jobs.

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Microsoft researchers detail Cadet Blizzard, a GRU hacking group they claim is behind WhisperGate data-wiping attacks in Ukraine just before Russia’s invasion (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft researchers detail Cadet Blizzard, a GRU hacking group they claim is behind WhisperGate data-wiping attacks in Ukraine just before Russia’s invasion  —  Microsoft has linked a threat group it tracks as Cadet Blizzard since April 2023 to Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known

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