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• Apple Announces VisionOS, the Operating System For Its Vision Pro Headset

  05-06-2023 23:20 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Apple has announced a new operating system for its Vision Pro headset. Called visionOS, the operating system has been designed from the ground up for spatial computing and will have its own App Store where people can download Vision Pro apps and compatible iPhone and iPad apps. The Verge reports: The operating system is focused on displaying digital elements on top of the real world. Apple's video showed new things like icons and windows floating over real-world spaces. The primary ways to use t
  
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• New DirectX 12-To-Metal Translation Could Bring a World of Windows Games To macOS

  05-06-2023 22:37 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple has made a tiny bit of progress in the last year when it comes to getting games running on Macs -- titles like Resident Evil Village and a recent No Man's Sky port don't exactly make the Mac a gaming destination, but they're bigger releases than Mac users are normally accustomed to. For getting the vast majority of PC gaming titles running, though, the most promising solution would be a Steam Deck-esque software layer that translates M
  
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• Apple Vision Pro is Apple's New AR Headset

  05-06-2023 20:45 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that "seamlessly" blends the real and digital world. "It's the first Apple product you look through, and not at," CEO Tim Cook said of the device, which looks like a pair of ski goggles. From a report: As rumored, it features a separate battery pack and is controlled with eyes, hands, and voice. Vision Pro is positioned as primarily an AR device, but it can switch between augmented and full virtual reality using a dial. The
  
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• Apple Unveils M2 Ultra Processor

  05-06-2023 20:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple announced the M2 Ultra processor, a new chip for its Mac Studio workstation for professional users. From a report: The chip has 134 transistors and 24 central processing unit (CPU) cores with 20% faster performance. It has up to 76 graphics processing unit (GPU) cores at up to 30% faster performance. Apple made the announcement at its WWDC event today on the Apple campus in Cupertino, California.
  The chip will go into the Mac Studio product, which previously used Intel silicon. These are m
  
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• Apple's New 15-inch MacBook Air is the 'World's Thinnest'

  05-06-2023 19:20 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple has unveiled a new 15-inch MacBook Air at its 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference. The new model is 11.5mm thick, which Apple says makes it the world's thinnest 15-inch laptop. From a report: It has two USB-C Thunderbolt ports, a MagSafe charging connector, and a headphone jack. Its 15.3-inch screen has 500 nits of brightness, a 1080p webcam, and gets a quoted 18 hours of battery life. It'll come with Apple's M2 chip.
  The new model starts at $1,299 and will be available next week. Meanwhi
  
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• AI Generated Content Should Be Labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova Says

  05-06-2023 18:40 via slashdot.org
  
  Companies deploying generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Bard with the potential to generate disinformation should label such content as part of their efforts to combat fake news, European Commission deputy head Vera Jourova said on Monday. From a report: Unveiled late last year, Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT has become the fastest-growing consumer application in history and set off a race among tech companies to bring generative AI products to market. Concerns however are mounting about
  
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• Sony Chief Warns Technical Problems Persist for Cloud Gaming

  05-06-2023 18:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Sony's chief executive has warned that cloud gaming is still technically "very tricky,"playing down the risk to the console maker of the industry quickly converting to a technology on which its rival Microsoft has bet heavily. From a report: In an interview with the Financial Times, Kenichiro Yoshida said the PlayStation creator would still study "various options" in the future for streaming games over the Internet itself, adding it could utilize GT Sophy, its artificial intelligence agent, to e
  
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• SEC Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying To Regulators

  05-06-2023 17:15 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, of mishandling customer funds as well as lying to regulators and investors about its operations in a sweeping case filed in federal court on Monday. From a report: The Wall Street regulator said Binance had been mixing "billions of dollars" in customer funds and secretly sending them to a separate company controlled by Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao. The charges included misleading investo
  
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• Google Trials Passwordless Login Across Workspace and Cloud Accounts

  05-06-2023 16:51 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts. From a report: Starting today, June 5th, over 9 million organizations can allow their users to sign in to a Google Workspace or Google Cloud account using a passkey instead of their usual passwords.
  Passkeys are a new form of passwordless sign-in tech developed by the FIDO Alliance, whose members include industry giants like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Passkeys al
  
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• Major Reddit Communities Will Go Dark To Protest Threat To Third-Party Apps

  05-06-2023 16:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Some of Reddit's biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over new pricing for third-party app developers to access the site's APIs. From a report: Setting a subreddit to private, aka "going dark," will mean that the communities taking part will be inaccessible by the wider public while the planned 48-hour protest is taking place.
  As a Reddit post about the protest, that's since been cross-posted
  
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• Judge Clears Massachusetts to Finally Enforce Its Right-to-Repair Law

  05-06-2023 13:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Boston.com. On Thursday, Massachusetts Attorney general Andrea Campbell "began enforcing the state's new right-to-repair law following years of bitter debate and a wildly expensive ballot initiative that was approved by voters in 2020."In a nutshell, the law requires automakers selling cars in the state to provide customers and independent repair businesses with access to a type of information called "telematics." The term refers to information that is
  
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• 'The Tech Industry was Deflating. Then Came ChatGPT'

  05-06-2023 09:18 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:A year ago, the mood in Silicon Valley was dour. Big Tech stocks were falling, the cryptocurrency bubble had popped, and a wave of layoffs was beginning to sweep through the industry.
  Then the artificial intelligence boom hit.Since then, venture capitalists have been throwing money at AI start-ups, investing over $11 billion in May alone, according to data firm PitchBook, an increase of 86 percent over the same month last year. Comp
  
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• Data Stolen Through Flaw in MOVEit Transfer, Researchers Say

  05-06-2023 05:06 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Reuters reports:Hackers have stolen data from the systems of a number of users of the popular file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer, U.S. security researchers said on Thursday, one day after the maker of the software disclosed that a security flaw had been discovered. Software maker Progress Software Corp, after disclosing the vulnerability on Wednesday, said it could lead to potential unauthorized access into users' systems.
  The managed file transfer software made by the Burlington, Massachusetts-
  
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• US Financial Watchdog: Money Stored in Venmo/PayPal/CashApp Isn't Federally Insured

  05-06-2023 01:54 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Associated Press reports:Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with those apps for the long term because the funds might not be safe during a crisis, the [U.S.] Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned Thursday...
  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures bank accounts up to $250,000. But money stored in Venmo or CashApp or Apple Cash is not being held in a traditional bank account. So, if there is an event similar to a bank run with those payment app
  
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• Why Bill Gates Recommends This Novel About Videogames

  05-06-2023 00:32 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Bill Gates wrote a blog post this week recommending a novel about videogame development. Gates calls Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. "one of the biggest books of last year," telling the story of "two friends who bond over Super Mario Bros. as kids and grow up to make video games together."Although there are plenty of video games mentioned in the book — Oregon Trail is a recurring theme — I'd describe it more as a story about partnership and collaboration. When Sam and Sadie are
  
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