Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
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 — Retro Remake has announced that its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits will be available for sale on September 26th at 10PM ET and will start at $49.99.
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)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
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 — The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
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)
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
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 — – Study signals a record streak of demand for China OTC traders — Figures add to evidence of Beijing’s crypto ban being flouted
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)
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
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 — Sony has just revealed seven additional games that’ll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.
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)
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
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 — It’s difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder. — Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently …
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)
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing the Firefox maker of tracking users without consent — Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing …
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)
Peter Saalfield / Decrypt:
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 — Researchers from ETH Zurich used advanced machine learning to solve 100% of Google’s reCAPTCHAv2, designed to distinguish humans from bots.
A profile of Canva, which has an estimated 4% share of the $15.4B creative software market and has doubled its MAUs to 190M since 2022, ahead of a US IPO (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
A profile of Canva, which has an estimated 4% share of the $15.4B creative software market and has doubled its MAUs to 190M since 2022, ahead of a US IPO — The world’s most valuable female-led startup prepares for an IPO. … Melanie Perkins remembers when her boyfriend and startup co-founder used …
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)
Reece Rogers / Wired:
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 — In their book AI Snake Oil, two Princeton researchers pinpoint the culprits of the AI hype cycle and advocate for a more critical, holistic understanding of artificial intelligence.
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)
Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times:
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 — Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated.
