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VMware partners with Samsung AMD and the RISC-V Keystone community to accelerate the adoption of confidential computing which encrypts data being processed (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Apple becomes the first publicly traded company to close with a $3T market cap; the company hit a $3T market cap during intraday trading in January 2022 (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Kazakhstan arrested Nikita Kislitsin Group-IB's former head of network security on June 22 for his alleged role in the LinkedIn and Dropbox hacks in 2012 (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Tom Clancy's The Division Resurgence release date platforms everything we know

NYC-based Venn Software which is developing a Secure Enclave product that can be installed on remote employee laptops raised a $29M Series A led by NewSpring (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)

Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start as soon as this year with select Android app developers (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Modders have struck again making an Asus ROG Ally with 4TB of storage

YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad block users to three videos giving them the option to turn off ad blockers or subscribe to YouTube Premium (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Filing: Fidelity refiles for a spot bitcoin ETF with the US SEC following similar applications from BlackRock Invesco WisdomTree Valkyrie and others (Bloomberg)

Phone monitoring app LetMeSpy used to spy on thousands of Android users says a hacker stole the messages call logs and locations the spyware had intercepted (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Autonomous trucking company TuSimple aims to sell its US business; CEO Cheng Lu says the plan is not the result of pressure due to CFIUS' review of the company (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

Visa agrees to acquire Brazilian payments infrastructure startup Pismo for $1B in cash by the end of 2023; Pismo had raised a total of $118M until October 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Databricks announces LakehouseIQ which lets companies use natural language to search and query their data new tools for its Lakehouse AI platform and more (Andrew Brust/The New Stack)

New York-based Slang.ai which offers an AI-powered phone answering service for restaurants and retailers raised a $20M Series A led by Homebrew (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

EU countries and lawmakers reach a provisional agreement on the Data Act establishing rules on how Big Tech and other firms use EU consumer and corporate data (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

OpenAI's ChatGPT iOS app adds Bing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers letting them get answers on information that extend beyond ChatGPT's original training data (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Adalytics: 80% of Google's video ad placements on third-party sites violated the company's promised standards between 2020 and 2023; Google disputes the claims (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

Report: Google has canceled its "Iris" AR glasses project and is now focused on creating software platforms for AR to license to headset manufacturers (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Tel Aviv-based Anzu which offers in-game ad tools across mobile PC and console platforms raised a $48M Series B led by Emmis Corporation (Anthony Vargas/AdExchanger)

SCOTUS 7-2 ruling: for alleged cyberstalkers' words to be "true threats" a court must prove a person recklessly disregarded that the words were seen as threats (Issie Lapowsky/Fast Company)

TikTok launches the TikTok Creative Challenge which lets US-based creators with 50K followers submit video ads for brands and make money based on performance (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Unity's shares jump 14% after it announces its Asset Store will sell third-party "AI solutions" that can generate game dialogue graphics and more (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

After Elon Musk highlighted Twitter's TikTok-like "swipe up for more videos" feature some users said they were shown gun violence police brutality and more (Khadijah Khogeer/NBC News)

In the first five months of 2023 45000 people in Vietnam lost jobs in electronics manufacturing after Samsung and others substantially slowed production (Lam Le/Rest of World)