Twitter sues four unnamed entities in Texas for "unlawfully scraping data" and seeks $1M+ in relief; Elon Musk links the move to recent rate limit rules (Reuters)

Reuters:
Twitter sues four unnamed entities in Texas for “unlawfully scraping data” and seeks $1M+ in relief; Elon Musk links the move to recent rate limit rules  —  Twitter has filed a lawsuit against four unnamed entities in Texas for data scraping last week, a move that showed …

Google Chrome's market share drops as Apple's Safari make gains

Chrome has 62% market share whereas Safari has just over 20% share in the browser market https://ift.tt/xpM9H7J

EA Sports FC 24 is launching for consoles, PC on September 29

According to the EA FC24 website, the game gets an “overhauled” version of EA’s Frostbite engine. will provide a more realistic player model and the details go down to the ripple of players' kits as they beat or run past a defender. EA also says that the game is better optimised by real-world Opta data and data from other sources. Optimisations are coming in play style of each player that will "dimensionalise athletes, going beyond overall ratings to bring to life the on-pitch abilities that make players special." https://ift.tt/qrRHnpN

Document: the FTC sends OpenAI a 20-page demand for records on the risks of its AI models and a March 2023 security incident over payment-related information (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Document: the FTC sends OpenAI a 20-page demand for records on the risks of its AI models and a March 2023 security incident over payment-related information  —  The agency's demand for OpenAI's documents about AI risks mark the company's greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date

Apple updates macOS Sonoma to bring iCloud Keychain passwords to non-Safari browsers for the first time, expanding on a Chrome extension (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple updates macOS Sonoma to bring iCloud Keychain passwords to non-Safari browsers for the first time, expanding on a Chrome extension  —  The macOS Sonoma update that is in testing allows Mac owners who opt to use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or another browser to use Apple's Password Manager for filling passwords.

Google is rolling out its AI-first notebook with a new name: What is it, its working, availability and more

“We know people are struggling with the rapid growth of information — it's everywhere and it’s overwhelming. As we've been talking with students, professors and knowledge workers, one of the biggest challenges is synthesising facts and ideas from multiple sources. You often have the sources you want, but it's time consuming to make the connections,” the company said. https://ift.tt/d7IMcmp

Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK, starting with Revolut and Tyl by NatWest as the first platforms, following the US, Australia, and Taiwan (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK, starting with Revolut and Tyl by NatWest as the first platforms, following the US, Australia, and Taiwan  —  Apple has announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in the United Kingdom, allowing independent sellers, small merchants …

Realme C53 smartphone with 108MP camera to launch in India on July 19

Realme recently launched the Narzo 60 series smartphones in India. It appears that now the Chinese smartphone maker is all set to expand the Realme C-series with the launch of Realme C53 in the country. https://ift.tt/KWVUC4a

A look at the global freelancer labor force on sites like 99designs, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI (Andrew Deck/Rest of World)

Andrew Deck / Rest of World:
A look at the global freelancer labor force on sites like 99designs, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI  —  The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.  —  R

Call of Duty deal: How US court's decision may bring 'good news' for Microsoft, Activision in the UK

According to a report by news agency Reuters, Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said that it will allow Microsoft to bring amendments to its acquisition of Activision Blizzard to address its concerns. In April, the antitrust regulator blocked the biggest video gaming deal involving $69 billion. Both Microsoft and the CMA have reportedly agreed on new proposals. https://ift.tt/G4rxNUc

How to use SBI, ICICI, HDFC and other bank credit cards to make payments using GPay, Paytm and other UPI apps

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At a classified briefing on July 11 with senators, US national security officials defended their deployment of AI; Chuck Schumer has arranged three AI briefings (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
At a classified briefing on July 11 with senators, US national security officials defended their deployment of AI; Chuck Schumer has arranged three AI briefings  —  Senior US national security officials are scheduled to defend their use and development of artificial intelligence on Tuesday …

India's IT minister says the Foxconn-Vedanta venture ended due to "internalissues" and "doesn't affect" the chip program; Foxconn plans to seek new partners (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
India's IT minister says the Foxconn-Vedanta venture ended due to “internalissues” and “doesn't affect” the chip program; Foxconn plans to seek new partners  —  Minister says both companies will still pursue chip projects in India  —  India's minister for technology …

Experts: the FTC faces hurdles to appeal the Activision ruling as the facts work in Microsoft's favor; some question the judge's standard on harming competition (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Experts: the FTC faces hurdles to appeal the Activision ruling as the facts work in Microsoft's favor; some question the judge's standard on harming competition  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission would face hurdles in any appeal of a court's order on Tuesday that said Microsoft (MSFT.O) …

A look at Wikipedia in Russia after the Ukraine invasion, where the service remains popular, and Kremlin-compliant upstart Ruwiki, led by a long-service editor (Noam Cohen/Bloomberg)

Noam Cohen / Bloomberg:
A look at Wikipedia in Russia after the Ukraine invasion, where the service remains popular, and Kremlin-compliant upstart Ruwiki, led by a long-service editor  —  When a group of armed mercenaries seized a Russian regional capital and began marching toward Moscow in late June, verified information was hard to come by.