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Venkatesh Gorantla / MySmartPrice: Alleged official renders of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 show the clamshell-style foldable phone may get a 3.4-inch outer screen  —  The newly revealed Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 design render shows that the clamshell-style foldable phone is certainly getting a significant upgrade.  —  HIGHLIGHTS Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benedict Evans: Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta’s Quests, aren’t good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability  —  The narrative for VR and AR has been pretty static for years.  We have a dream of AR devices that look like a pair of glasses … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: In a cease and desist, Texas’ securities regulator says crypto lender Abra has been insolvent since at least March 31, 2023, and accuses the company of fraud  —  State regulators say Abra held tens of millions of dollars’ worth of assets on now bankrupt platforms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dana Priest / Washington Post: Hanan Elatr, Jamal Khashoggi’s widow, sues the NSO Group in Virginia, claiming Saudi Arabia used the Israeli company’s Pegasus phone spyware to track them both  —  In the lawsuit, Hanan Elatr says Saudi Arabia used NSO’s Pegasus spyware to track her and her husband’s whereabouts before he was murdered Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: Meta unveils Voicebox, a generative text-to-speech model the company hopes could be the ChatGPT of the spoken word, but won’t release an app citing misuse risks  —  But the company won’t be sharing the app or its source code for the time being.  —  Today, we are one step closer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Meta drops its global approach for its COVID-19 misinformation rules, ending them in countries like the US where the pandemic is no longer a national emergency  —  Happy Friday!  A quick programming note: The newsletter will be off Monday for Juneteenth.  In the meantime, send tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: media companies like News Corp and The Guardian have discussed LLM copyright issues and a subscription fee with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Adobe  —  Google and OpenAI are discussing agreements to pay publishers over using content to train generative AI models Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joshua Franklin / Financial Times: In a court filing, JPMorgan alleges that Frank founder Charlie Javice told her team to treat website visitors as users, inflating public-facing numbers to 4.25M  —  Latest allegation comes in lawsuit filed by bank over acquisition of student finance site  —  The founder of a student finance … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Reddit messages some moderators of the communities participating in the API pricing change protest, looking for defectors “willing to work towards reopening”  —  Some moderators of Reddit communities participating in the protest against API changes today got messages from the company: work to reopen your subreddits or else. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: Meta unveils Voicebox generative text-to-speech model that could do to spoken word what ChatGPT did for text, but won’t release an app citing misuse risks  —  But the company won’t be sharing the app or its source code for the time being.  —  Today, we are one step closer … Lees verder op Tech Meme