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Q&A with former NYT photo editor Fred Ritchin on AI destroying the credibility of the photo, ensuring readers understand if an image is manipulated, and more (Amanda Darrach/Columbia Journalism Review)

Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review: Q&A with former NYT photo editor Fred Ritchin on AI destroying the credibility of the photo, ensuring readers understand if an image is manipulated, and more  —  b  —  In recent years, artificial intelligence engineers have used millions of real photographs—taken by journalists all over the world …

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HPE acquires cloud security startup Axis Security, reportedly for $500M, via HPE’s subsidiary Aruba; Axis has raised $100M in funding to date (Michael Novinson/BankInfoSecurity.com)

Michael Novinson / BankInfoSecurity.com: HPE acquires cloud security startup Axis Security, reportedly for $500M, via HPE’s subsidiary Aruba; Axis has raised $100M in funding to date  —  Deal Comes As Pressure Increases on Pure-Play Vendors to Deliver Native SASE Stack  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise will soon offer …

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Shef, a chef-to-consumer marketplace, raised a $73.5M Series B in June 2022, including $7M in debt, led by CRV with participation from a16z and Amex Ventures (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Shef, a chef-to-consumer marketplace, raised a $73.5M Series B in June 2022, including $7M in debt, led by CRV with participation from a16z and Amex Ventures  —  In its quest to turn the culinary talents of passionate home cooks into small businesses, Shef, a chef-to-consumer marketplace, is now taking those efforts

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Sources: Foxconn plans to invest ~$700M on a new plant to make iPhone parts on a 300-acre site in Bengaluru, India; the plant is expected to create 100K jobs (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Foxconn plans to invest ~$700M on a new plant to make iPhone parts on a 300-acre site in Bengaluru, India; the plant is expected to create 100K jobs  —  Apple Inc. partner Foxconn Technology Group plans to invest about $700 million on a new plant in India to ramp up local production …

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SCSI: The Disk Bus for Everything

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA and — lately — NVME connectors. But a standard predating all of this was very common in high-end systems:

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SCSI: The Disk Bus for Everything

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA and — lately — NVME connectors. But a standard predating all of this was very common in high-end systems:

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Ericsson pleads guilty to US bribery violations and agrees to pay $206M+ in penalties; the company paid $1B+ in fines to the US DOJ and SEC in 2019 for bribery (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Ericsson pleads guilty to US bribery violations and agrees to pay $206M+ in penalties; the company paid $1B+ in fines to the US DOJ and SEC in 2019 for bribery  —  – Ericsson will pay over $200 million in penalties for allegedly violating a non-prosecution agreement regarding the company’s years-long bribery

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Ericsson pleads guilty to US bribery violations and agrees to pay $206M+ in penalties; the company paid $1B+ in fines to the US DOJ and SEC in 2019 for bribery (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Ericsson pleads guilty to US bribery violations and agrees to pay $206M+ in penalties; the company paid $1B+ in fines to the US DOJ and SEC in 2019 for bribery  —  – Ericsson will pay over $200 million in penalties for allegedly violating a non-prosecution agreement regarding the company’s years-long bribery

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Brave Search launches Summarizer, which provides a synopsis of search results for some queries using its own LLM trained to fight “unsubstantiated assertions” (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Brave Search launches Summarizer, which provides a synopsis of search results for some queries using its own LLM trained to fight “unsubstantiated assertions”  —  It is raining AI-powered features all across search engines.  Today, Brave Search launched a new “Summarizer” …

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Ericsson pleads guilty to US bribery violations and agrees to pay $206M+ in penalties; the company paid $1B+ in fines to the US DOJ and SEC in 2019 for bribery (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Ericsson pleads guilty to US bribery violations and agrees to pay $206M+ in penalties; the company paid $1B+ in fines to the US DOJ and SEC in 2019 for bribery  —  – Ericsson will pay over $200 million in penalties for allegedly violating a non-prosecution agreement regarding the company’s years-long bribery

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Dell reports Q4 revenue down 11% YoY to $25B, commercial PC revenue down 17% YoY to $10.7B, and names Yvonne McGill to replace CFO Tom Sweet, effective August 5 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Dell reports Q4 revenue down 11% YoY to $25B, commercial PC revenue down 17% YoY to $10.7B, and names Yvonne McGill to replace CFO Tom Sweet, effective August 5  —  Corporate controller Yvonne McGill will become chief financial officer in August as Dell’s longtime CFO is set to depart

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The 10 best alternatives to Evernote

Our daily lives are filled with so many events that it can often feel like a never-ending stream of information. While lugging around a physical notebook to jot down observations and ideas can help, using too much paper can be wasteful. Note-taking apps like Evernote have all but taken the place of paper notes, and,

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Tel Aviv-based Hexa, which helps companies create and manage 3D models for AR/VR shopping experiences and other applications, raised a $20.5M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Hexa, which helps companies create and manage 3D models for AR/VR shopping experiences and other applications, raised a $20.5M Series A  —  Hexa, a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 million Series A round from Point72 Ventures …

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A Mega-Tiny Arduino

Integrated circuits, chipsets, memory modules, and all kinds of other transistor-based technology continues to get smaller, cheaper, and more energy efficient as time moves on. Not only are the components themselves smaller, but their supporting infrastructure is as well. Computers like the Raspberry Pi are about the size of a credit card and have computing

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US civil liberties and digital rights groups are speaking out against calls to ban TikTok, arguing the move would violate users’ First Amendment rights (Washington Post)

Washington Post: US civil liberties and digital rights groups are speaking out against calls to ban TikTok, arguing the move would violate users’ First Amendment rights  —  Happy Thursday!  If you’ve ever thought some people in Washington should be in straitjackets, well, I guess you got your wish.

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Memo: CNET EIC Connie Guglielmo, who defended CNET’s use of AI tools, plans to step down to become Red Ventures’ SVP of AI content strategy and editor-at-large (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge: Memo: CNET EIC Connie Guglielmo, who defended CNET’s use of AI tools, plans to step down to become Red Ventures’ SVP of AI content strategy and editor-at-large  —  Following monthslong questions about how CNET uses artificial intelligence tools, longtime CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo …

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