🇨🇳 How China Has Added to Its Influence Over the iPhone

Plus: What's Really Behind Those AI Art Images?, Twitter will let you edit your tweet up to five times, and more…

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How China Has Added to Its Influence Over the iPhone. This fall, Apple will make some of its flagship iPhones outside of China for the first time, a small but significant change for a company that has built one of the most sophisticated supply chains in the world with the help of the Chinese… (Tripp Mickle / The New York Times)

Tripp Mickle @trippmickle

Apple wants to decrease its dependency on China, but doing so has never been trickier. Chinese engineers + suppliers contribute more valuable work to today's iPhones. What was designed in California and made in China is now a creation of both countries

nytimes.comHow China Has Added to Its Influence Over the iPhoneApple is taking small steps toward India. But the production of its latest phone, set for introduction on Wednesday, shows how difficult it will be to make big changes.

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What's Really Behind Those AI Art Images?. It's been a while since a particular piece of technology has felt as fraught, efficient, and consequential as today's text-to-image AI art-generation tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. The reason for this is twofold: The tools continue to grow in… (Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic)

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel

I spoke to the great @waxpancake about his fascinating project w/ @simonw. The pair are peeling back the curtain on one popular AI art tool to show us some of the (scraped) images it is trained on. (it’s a fraught mess!)

newsletters.theatlantic.comWhat’s Really Behind Those AI Art Images?What feels like magic is actually incredibly complicated and ethically fraught.

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Twitter will let you edit your tweet up to five times. Twitter announced a much-anticipated feature last week — the ability to edit tweets. The company said that once the feature is available users will be able to edit their tweets for up to 30 minutes from… (Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta @IndianIdle

Twitter announced the Edit Tweet feature last week. Some more details on this: Users will have a limit of five edits They can edit the text, tags, and reorder media The test will first launch for Twitter Blue users in New Zealand

techcrunch.comTwitter will let you edit your tweet up to five timesTwitter announced a much-anticipated feature last week — the ability to edit tweets. The company said that once the feature is available users will be able to edit their tweets for up to 30 minutes from posting. However, there’s a catch: users can only edit their tweets five times within this period…

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As Ex-Uber Executive Heads to Trial, the Security Community Reels. Joe Sullivan was a rock star in the information security world. One of the first federal prosecutors to work on cybercrime cases in the late 1990s, he jumped into the corporate security world in 2002, eventually taking on high-profile roles as… (Kashmir Hill / The New York Times)

Kashmir Hill @kashhill

Uber’s former chief of security officer Joe Sullivan heads to trial this week, facing criminal charges for how Uber handled a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million people. Security execs at other companies are worried about what it could mean for them

nytimes.comAs Ex-Uber Executive Heads to Trial, the Security Community ReelsJoe Sullivan, Uber’s former chief of security, faces criminal charges for his handling of a 2016 security breach. His trial this week has divided the security industry.

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Quiet Quitters Make Up Half the U.S. Workforce, Gallup Says. A word of warning to bosses: American workers are returning to offices after the summer break less happy than they've been in a long time. U.S. employee engagement, a measure of involvement in the workplace and enthusiasm about work, has dropped… (Ray A. Smith / Wall Street Journal)

Ray A. Smith @rayalexsmith

Employees remain disengaged and stressed out on the bumpy return to normal, new research shows. The data may help explain 'quiet quitting,' where workers coast and draw a paycheck. Quiet quitters now make up half the U.S. workforce, Gallup says wsj.com/articles/quiet… via @WSJ

wsj.comQuiet Quitters Make Up Half the U.S. Workforce, Gallup SaysYoung professionals surveyed said they were the most disengaged

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