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ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) 13-08-2023

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global  —  Spatial apps creation and collaboration platform startup ShapesXR today announced that it has raised $8.6 million in new funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) 13-08-2023

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores  —  Apple’s next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade.  Behind the scenes, though … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire Vision Fund 1's 25% stake in Arm, ahead of the chip designer's Nasdaq IPO in September; SoftBank owns the remaining 75% (Reuters) 13-08-2023

Reuters: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire Vision Fund 1’s 25% stake in Arm, ahead of the chip designer’s Nasdaq IPO in September; SoftBank owns the remaining 75%  —  SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1 (VF1) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Inside the Black Hat network operations center; volunteers on secondment built the network from scratch on the week of the event using their own equipment (Iain Thomson/The Register) 13-08-2023

Iain Thomson / The Register: Inside the Black Hat network operations center; volunteers on secondment built the network from scratch on the week of the event using their own equipment  —  NOC, NOC … Who’s there?  —  BLACK HAT Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel to run … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple's macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” bypassed by “any malware that's somewhat sophisticated” (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) 13-08-2023

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple’s macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” bypassed by “any malware that’s somewhat sophisticated”  —  The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Inside the Black Hat network operations center, staffed by volunteers who built the network on the week of the event from scratch using their own equipment (Iain Thomson/The Register) 13-08-2023

Iain Thomson / The Register: Inside the Black Hat network operations center, staffed by volunteers who built the network on the week of the event from scratch using their own equipment  —  NOC, NOC … Who’s there?  —  BLACK HAT Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel … Lees verder op Tech Meme

How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times) 13-08-2023

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: How Sweden’s Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia  —  The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos' potential role in bundling, and big streaming services' opposition to sharing the same user interface (Josef Adalian/Vulture) 13-08-2023

Josef Adalian / Vulture: A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos’ potential role in bundling, and big streaming services’ opposition to sharing the same user interface  —  This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry.  Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Lees verder op Tech Meme

Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month (Financial Times) 13-08-2023

Financial Times: Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month  —  Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles  —  The era of cheap streaming is ending … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple's macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” easy to bypass by “any malware that is somewhat sophisticated” (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) 13-08-2023

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple’s macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” easy to bypass by “any malware that is somewhat sophisticated”  —  The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. Lees verder op Tech Meme