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Brendan Pierson / Reuters: A US appeals court temporarily blocks a lower court order that sharply limited US government officials’ and agencies’ contacts with social media companies  —  A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court order that had sharply limited certain Biden administration officials …

The Economic Times: Sources: Foxconn is in talks with TSMC and Japan’s TMH to build chip factories in India, days after its $19.5B venture with Vedanta ended  —  Foxconn is likely to soon finalise the details of the partnership to manufacture both advanced and legacy node chips, a source close to the development told ET.

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Creator monetization platform Fanhouse agrees to be acquired by Passes, a rival platform that only launched in beta in December 2022 and raised a $9M seed  —  A startup that rode the pandemic-era frenzy around OnlyFans is selling to a rival.  Fanhouse, which operates a website …

Evelyn Boyd Granville, one of the first Black women to receive a doctorate in mathematics from an American university and whose groundbreaking work in computers included helping calculate orbit trajectories and lunar-landing scenarios for the space program, died June 27 at her home in Silver Spring, Md. She was 99. The death was announced by a funeral home in Washington. …

Matt Binder / Mashable: Some Reddit users report disappearance of their private messages from before 2023; Reddit says the move was announced on June 22 and is effective since June 30  —  Many Redditors were caught off guard by the removal of their chat and message history.  —  The Reddit blackout protests …

TL;DR Nearby Share lets you share text, links, or files with nearby devices. It uses Bluetooth to scan for nearby devices, meaning sometimes devices won’t be picked up or may be hard to find. As a fallback, Google may let you generate a QR code for the receiver to scan. Android’s Nearby Share feature makes it easy to share files …

Jordan Novet / CNBC: The US Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit denies the FTC’s appeal of a judge’s decision that would have stopped Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard  —  In a victory for Microsoft, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit late on Friday denied the Federal Trade Commission’s appeal …

In some ways, it’s hard to understand how this misalignment happened. We created all this by ourselves, for ourselves. True, we’re by nature “carbon chauvinists,” as Tegmark put it: We like to think only flesh-and-blood machines like us can think, calculate, create. But the belief that machines can’t do what we do ignores a key insight from AI: “Intelligence is …

A federal appeals court on Friday paused a judge’s order that had blocked much of the Biden administration from talking to social media sites about content. The case could have significant First Amendment implications and affect the conduct of social media companies and their cooperation with government agencies. In its three-sentence order, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of …

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A new patent from Google appears to detail something called “Connected Flight Mode.” The feature would be able to automatically switch airplane mode on and off when it detects you’re on a plane. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections would still be supported in this mode. Outside of apps specifically made for the purpose, Airplane mode …