Monday, June 17, 2024

Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and its screen will grow from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and its screen will grow from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components  —  This year's Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and come in larger screen sizes than previous models, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.



Google begins rolling out a "Listen to this page" feature on Chrome for Android, letting the browser read text-heavy web pages (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google begins rolling out a “Listen to this page” feature on Chrome for Android, letting the browser read text-heavy web pages  —  Chrome for Android has been working on its own text-to-speech (TTS) capability for a few months now, and Google is now rolling out “Listen to this page.”



McDonald's ends its two-year IBM partnership to test automated Drive Thru order taking and plans to remove the tech from 100+ restaurants by July 26 (Jonathan Maze/Restaurant Business)

Jonathan Maze / Restaurant Business:
McDonald's ends its two-year IBM partnership to test automated Drive Thru order taking and plans to remove the tech from 100+ restaurants by July 26  —  The Chicago-based fast-food giant is ending its partnership with IBM on automated order-taking without an expansion.



Sunday, June 16, 2024

A Texas federal jury orders Amazon to pay nearly $122M to adtech company AlmondNet for infringing on two patents related to personalized ad targeting (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A Texas federal jury orders Amazon to pay nearly $122M to adtech company AlmondNet for infringing on two patents related to personalized ad targeting  —  Amazon (AMZN.O) must pay nearly $122 million for violating another company's rights in targeted internet advertising technology, a Texas federal jury said on Friday.



Report: alleged ringleader of the Scattered Spider hacking group was arrested in Spain; sources: the accused is a 22-year-old Scottish man named Tyler Buchanan (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Report: alleged ringleader of the Scattered Spider hacking group was arrested in Spain; sources: the accused is a 22-year-old Scottish man named Tyler Buchanan  —  A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider …



Despite disinformation concerns during India's elections, political parties largely used AI, including deepfakes, constructively, primarily for voter outreach (The Conversation)

The Conversation:
Despite disinformation concerns during India's elections, political parties largely used AI, including deepfakes, constructively, primarily for voter outreach  —  As India concluded the world's largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess …



Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...