Stadia is done, Zuck's UFC appearance, General AI, OG App, Amazon event

• Stadia is issuing refunds - How to get yours.
• Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with nearly 6,000 hours on Stadia begs Rockstar for character transfer.
• Adobe can't Photoshop out the fact its $20bn Figma deal is a naked land grab.
• Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition move.
• Is Mark Zuckerberg Fighting at This Weekend's UFC Show?
• Texts show roll call of tech figures tried to help Elon Musk in Twitter deal.
• The True Genius of Tech Leaders.
• "Buying Our Way In" was Palantir's (PLTR stock) Secret Plan to Get into the NHS.
• Elon Musk unveils Optimus
• Is general AI right around the corner?
• Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient.
• James Bridle's "Ways of Being"
• In Delaware's Kathaleen McCormick, Elon Musk Finds A Judge Who Means Business.
• Klobuchar, Cruz strike deal to advance journalism antitrust bill.
• Inside Podcasters' Explosive Audience Growth.
• The OG App promises you an ad-free Instagram feed.
• Amazon hardware event 2022.

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Apple Watch Ultra, YouTube dislike button, Serial podcast, AI and Getty Images

• Leo talks about his new Apple Watch Ultra.
• How Fitbit helped me lose 15 pounds.
• YouTube's 'dislike' and 'not interested' buttons barely work, study finds.
• Adobe's Aquisition of Figma is a Land Grab.
• Slack's Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window.
• TwistedWave, an Audio Editor.
• Word Jazz by Fred Katz and Ken Nordine.
• Ken Nordine - Levis Ad.
• Adnan Syed, Subject of 'Serial,' Is Released From Prison.
• California woman who faked her own kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison.
• The FDA may have unintentionally made 'Nyquil Chicken' go viral on TikTok.
• Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges.
• 'A.I. Should Exclude Living Artists From Its Database,' Says One Painter Whose Works Were Used to Fuel Image Generators.
• The AI Unbundling.
• OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system.
• No, There's No 'Ghost In The Machine' On Board American Airlines Aircraft.
• Darth Vader's Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine.
• Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers.
• How 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Finally, After 43 Years, Got Completed.
• Enterprise Connect: Facing the Tough Issues on Hybrid Work: How Communications Technology Will Support New Ways of Working.

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Ethereum merge, GPU demand shifts, Adobe's Figma deal, GTA 6 hack

• Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake.
• No One Is Profitable': GPU Mining Faces Dark Days After Ethereum Merge.
• GeForce GPUs are 80% of EVGA's revenue—but it's cutting ties with Nvidia anyway.
•  Farthest Frontier on Steam.
• Nvidia is about to make a big announcement during a difficult time.
• Some iPhone 14 Pro customers are getting their preorders delayed by Apple.
• The iPhone 14 Index: How much of a yearly salary you need to spend to afford an iPhone 14 around the world.
• Adobe (ADBE) Agrees to Buy Figma in $20 Billion Software Deal.
• The career rise, fall, and return of Adam Neumann, the controversial WeWork cofounder who is back with another real-estate startup.
• iPhone 14 is eSIM-only in the US.
• We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business.
• Floppy Disks Are Still Used for 1,900 Government Procedures In Japan. They Must Go, Its Digital Minister Says.
• Apple adds souped-up period and ovulation tracking to Apple Watch Series 8.
• Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120.
• Massive GTA 6 gameplay video leak depicts male and female playable characters.
• Google loses appeal over illegal Android app bundling, EU reduces fine to €4.1 billion.
• Fifth Circuit rules in favor of Texas law on social media regulation.
• Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On?

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Apple iPhone 14, Dynamic Island, Intel Optane, ETH merge, Atari 2600

• News of Queen Elizabeth II's death broke on Twitter before the BBC.
• The Steve Jobs Archive.
• The Church of Apple Is a Religion Because We Made It One.
• Tim Cook would rather have you buy an iPhone than use RCS.
• Underestimating Apple's bold moves.
• Why the Soviet Union wanted to nuke this hot dog stand.
• Apple picks Globalstar for emergency satellite service on iPhone 14.
• iPhone 14 is eSIM-only in the US: Here's what you need to know.
• iPhone 14 Pro: An in-depth look at how Dynamic Island works with apps, animations, more.
• The Apple Watch Ultra looks like the ultra-rugged smartwatch we've been waiting for.
• Passkeys in iOS 16.
• Google announces October 6 event for Pixel 7, Watch.
• Twitter Whistle-Blower Never Flagged Spam, Company Tells Judge.
• Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Requests a New Trial.
• US Treasury to Recommend Issuing Digital Dollar if in National Interest.
• Google Is Counting Down to Ethereum Merge with 'Easter Egg' on Search Engine.
• 3D XPoint™ Breakthrough Non-Volatile Memory - Intel.
• The Atari 2600 at 45: The Console That Brought Arcade Games Home.
• Ocean Shipping Rates Have Plunged 60% This Year.
• Instagram fined $400 million over children's data.
• Looria analyzes Reddit posts and comments to find the most popular products.
• Cirrus Vision Jet Pilot Pulls Chute in Florida.
• New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities.

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• Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
• Checking in on House of the Dragon.
• Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California.
• 'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'.
• Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare.
• He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating?
• @negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!!
• Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator.
• Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project.
• Trint AI transcription.
• Trint vs Otter.
• DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting.
• Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs.
• Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event.
• Fitness bike usage down 23%.
• Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman.
• Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
• Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction.
• Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion.
• Jessamyn West - @jessamyn
• USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth.
• Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman.
• T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable.
• Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage.
• The Animal Translators.

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Twitter whistleblower, LastPass hack, Ethereum merge, Artemis 1, Zuck meets Rogan

• Twitter whistleblower says the platform was unable to guard against insider threats on January 6.
• Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter's Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk's.
• Apple's 'Far out' iPhone event will be held on September 7.
• SpaceX, T-Mobile to Connect Satellites to Cellphones in Remote Areas.
• Nichelle Nichols' ashes will head to space on a rocket.
• Scientists announce the first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope.
• LastPass developer systems were hacked to steal source code.
• How big is your haystack?
• Ethereum's Merge: Opportunities and risks.
• The Crypto World Can't Wait for Ethereum's 'Merge.'
• Web3 is going just great.
• A Month on 'Mars': Flags and Footprints of the Moon and the Arctic.
• Hackers Are Breaking Into and Emptying Cash App Accounts.
• 10 Million Watched 'House of the Dragon' Premiere, HBO Says.
• Big budget blockbusters arrive amid fears of 'peak TV.'
• Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan That Running Facebook Sucks, Metaverse Is Better.
• California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars.
• Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all.
• Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code.
• Meet Commander Moonikin Campos, the mannequin going farther than any astronaut.
• NASA's asteroid-deflecting test mission is just 1 month away from impact.
• Unbound.com offer from Wil: Use code TWIT15

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• Game of Thrones' v. 'Lord of the Rings': The Biggest Battle in Fantasy TV History Is Here.
• How About We Just Don't Watch the 'Game of Thrones' Prequel?
• HBO Max to Remove 36 Titles, Including 20 Originals, From Streaming.
• Regal Owner Cineworld Nears Bankruptcy as Theater Comeback Lags.
• U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time, Nielsen Says.
• Amazon's 'Thursday Night Football' Coverage to Be Tracked by Nielsen.
• Mark Zuckerberg responds to metaverse memes with a redesign.
• Do We All See Baby Mark Zuckerberg as Jesus in This 18th Century Sculpture?
• Elon Musk's viral Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, has been suspended from China's versions of TikTok and Twitter.
• A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.
• Apple releases iOS, iPadOS and macOS security fixes for two zero-days under active attack.
• Why Janet Jackson made laptops crash.
• HBO Achieves New Heights of Corporate Synergy With Bizarre 'House of the Dragon' Tie-Ins.
• Ring's new TV show is a brilliant but ominous viral marketing ploy.
• Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy.
• Snap Scraps Development on Flying Selfie Pixy Drone.
• Now selfie drones can fly inside Apple stores.
• The US plans to block sales of older chipmaking tech to China.
• A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools.

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FTC's privacy push, the fall of social media, Excel esports, Netflix gaming

• AngledDesigners on Etsy.
• This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion.
• Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger's End-to-End Encryption.
• The FTC has kicked off its massive push to regulate the data economy.
• Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms Through Contests.
• Excel esports on ESPN show world the pain of format errors.
• Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS.
• TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants.
• Sunset of the social network.
• Cable Finally Loses Broadband Market Share in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever.
• Apple is in talks to acquire streaming rights for Big Ten athletics, report says.
• Elon Musk sells nearly $7 billion in Tesla shares.
• IBP Inc. v. Tyson Foods.
• Starlink Ground Stations Successfully Hacked.
• California DMV accuses Tesla of deceptive practices in marketing Autopilot and Full Self-Driving options.
• The Creators of 'King's Quest' Are Back With a New Game.
• Netflix's slow start in gaming.
• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes.

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Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase

• Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion.
• Amazon's iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes.
• Ring, Google, and the Police: What to Know About Emergency Requests for Video Footage.
• Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK.
• Disney could soon lose exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse.
• California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot.
• U.S. Senate passes major $430 billion bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs.
• Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress.
• Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.
• Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a 'public debate' about bots.
• Tesla's Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned.
• How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire.
• Citing Danger of "Ink Spills" Epson Programs End of Life for Some Printers.
• Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour.
• Pearson (LON:PSON) Sees NFT, Blockchain Helping Making Money From E-Books Sales.
• Samsung Unpacked Date Is Aug. 10: This Is What To Expect.
• Tinder scales back its plans for dating in the metaverse.
• HBO Max, Discovery+ to Launch as Merged Product in Summer 2023.
• Why HBO Max Spent $130 Million to Shelve 'Batgirl' and 'Scoob 2'.
• French Scientist's Photo of 'Distant Star' Was Actually Chorizo.

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• CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries.
• Intel (INTC) earnings Q2 2022.
• Intel Kills Optane Memory Business Entirely.
• Apple's $83B quarter by the numbers.
• FY22 Q4 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft.
• Amazon (AMZN) Q2 2022 earnings.
• Peacock's paid subscribers stayed flat at 13 million, losses widen to $467 million.
• Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports.
• Collect and Trade NFL Highlights As NFTs.
• Spotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose money.
• Spotify forks out $295M for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic, filing reveals.
• FTC's Lina Khan Overruled Staff to Sue Meta Over Virtual-Reality Deal.
• Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok.
• Instagram walks back TikTok-style changes — Adam Mosseri explains why.
• Facebook Is Finally Giving People A Non-Algorithmic News Feed.
• Twitter is raising the Blue subscription price from $2.99 to $4.99 monthly.
• Twitter v. Elon Musk trial date set to start October 17th.
• FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications.
• Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us.
• T-Mobile to pay $500M for one of the largest data breaches in US history.
• Tim Hortons offers free coffee to settle mobile app class action lawsuits.
• Russia tried to hijack some of Apple's internet traffic for 12 hours.
• Details from FBI Raid of U.S. Private Vaults Being Kept from Public.
• Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet.
• HBO Max will begin streaming 'Game of Thrones' in 4K HDR next month.
• Ultiworld on Twitter: "Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) with the MASSIVE sky for @PrideofNY at the World Ultimate Club Championships"
• NASA on Twitter: "We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible."

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