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Forbes

Spotted by MacRumors, iOS 17 beta 4 code lists nine different functions for the button: Accessibility, Shortcuts, Silent Mode, Camera, Flashlight, Focus, Magnifier, Translate and Voice Memos.

BBC News

As letters of the alphabet go, there is one that punches well above its weight. Out of a total of 308,000 entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, just 366 words begin with the letter “x”, and very few of those make it into most people’s vocabulary.

WIRED

Plus: Mozilla fixes two high-severity bugs in Firefox, Citrix fixes a flaw that was used to attack a US-based critical infrastructure organization, and Oracle patches over 500 vulnerabilities.

MIT News

“PhotoGuard,” developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, prevents unauthorized image manipulation, safeguarding authenticity in the era of advanced generative models.

KABC-TV

Under the hood of the GT model, a rumbling new 5.0 liter V8 with 480 horsepower. Non-GT Mustangs get a revised 2.3 liter EcoBoost four cylinder making an impressive 315 horsepower. Both engines feature a 10-speed automatic transmission; alternately, a 6- …

Vodafone UK News Centre

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been dominating the headlines, with ChatGPT in particular hogging the limelight. Unlike the AIs in sci-fi dystopias like The Terminator or The Matrix, ChatGPT might seem anticlimactic or even boring.

RTE.ie

The UK competition regulator has today called for public responses on whether Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard, maker of video game “Call of Duty”, should be cleared ahead of a final decision by August 29.

Social Media Today

Tools like generative AI sticker creation and visual editing are important early steps on the road to better AI experiences. Published July 30, 2023. By. Andrew Hutchinson Content and Social Media Manager. While Threads has quickly become a key …

The Seattle Times

Anyone seduced by AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard — wow, they can write essays and recipes! — eventually runs into what are known as hallucinations, the tendency for artificial intelligence to fabricate information.

Bloomberg

Apple is just weeks away from introducing the iPhone 15 and next-generation watches. The new lineup will mark another stepping stone toward the company’s dream iPhone, though changes to the Apple Watch will be more modest. Also: Samsung unveils its own …