Sony unveils Project Leonardo, a PS5 accessibility controller kit with circular gamepads, for use on its own or with DualSense; pricing and release are TBC
Sony is building a better PlayStation 5 controller with Project Leonardo, a kit that promises to make games easier to play for people with limited motor control.
Amazon plans to lay off 18,000+ employees, more than its initial target of 10,000 in November 2022, with the “majority” coming from retail and recruiting
Cuts focused on the company's corporate staff exceed earlier projection — Amazon AMZN -0.79%decrease …
Apple quietly launches a catalog of books narrated by AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the audiobook market
Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI - but move expected to spark backlash
US bank Silvergate, which caters to crypto, reports liquidating debt to cover $8.1B withdrawals as FTX collapsed and laying off 40% of its staff; SI falls 40%+
Bank sold assets at a loss to cover withdrawals and cut 40% of its staff but remains committed to crypto
Source: FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with US prosecutors, telling them what he knew of SBF and others misusing customer funds
FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with U.S. prosecutors as they investigate the crypto firm's collapse …
Sony has sold ~30M PlayStation 5 consoles and says the shortage is over, meaning everyone “should have a much easier time” finding a PS5 at retailers globally
The PlayStation 5 shortage is finally over — at least according to Sony. “Everyone who wants a PS5 should have a much easier …
After YouTuber Coffeezilla reported on Logan Paul's apparently sham NFT game CryptoZoo, Paul finally responds, acknowledging some involved were “bad actors”
Blockchain investigator Stephen ‘Coffeezilla’ Findeisen may see Paul in court — After keeping his mouth shut …
A hacker leaks a dataset allegedly containing the email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, claimed to be a cleaner version of the 400M dataset from December 2022
A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about $2.
The FTC proposes a rule banning worker non-compete clauses, saying they harm healthy competition in the labor and product markets and block entrepreneurship
The agency stated that noncompete clauses are bad for both the labor market and innovation. The proposed rule would make them illegal.
A US judge rules that the crypto deposits in bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network's yield-bearing accounts belong to Celsius and not the individual holders
Celsius Network's bankruptcy might have just set a precedent in determining what crypto assets belong to whom when stored on a centralized platform.
Amazon's Ring announces its first dashboard camera, the Ring Car Cam, with inside and outside recording, after a two-year delay, shipping in February for $250
Amazon.com Inc.'s Ring division introduced its first car dashboard camera after a two-year delay, expanding beyond home security with a new category.
NY AG Letitia James files a civil suit against Alex Mashinsky, alleging the co-founder of Celsius defrauded investors out of billions by making false statements
Alex Mashinsky made false statements to investors about the crypto lender, lawsuit alleges — New York Attorney General …
CI/CD service CircleCI says it is investigating “a security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets”
CircleCI, a software development service has disclosed a security incident and is urging users to rotate their secrets.
Lenovo unveils Yoga Book 9i, a laptop with two 13.3" OLED displays, available in June starting at $2,100 with a 13th Gen Intel Core i7-U15 chip and 16GB of RAM
Dual monitor setups are great and all, but how about dual screens in a strangely tall laptop?
US officials say the DOJ seized or is in the process of seizing assets potentially tied to FTX, like ~$450M in Robinhood shares whose ownership is under dispute
Jack Schickler / CoinDesk :
The New York City Department of Education, the largest US school system, bans access to OpenAI's ChatGPT on school devices and networks, citing cheating fears
New York City students and teachers can no longer access ChatGPT — the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot …
Philips Hue owner Signify launches a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs, available for $130, effectively a software version of the $250M Play HDMI Sync Box
Signify, owner of the Philips Hue brand, is launching a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs.
Amazon adds four partners for its Sidewalk network, including Deviceroy's Aria solar inverters, and plans to open the platform for developers later in 2023
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
The US SEC accuses alleged fraudster Neil Chandran and four others of scamming investors for $45M+ on the false promise of a deal to sell blockchain technology
The U.S. securities agency is going after the people behind what it says was a massive fraud stealing from tens of thousands of investors.
The Irish DPC fines Meta €390M over GDPR breaches related to its ad and data handling practices, giving the company three months to comply; Meta plans to appeal
quickly — find a new legal basis for its sprawling targeted advertising empire. 🧵 https://pro.politico.eu/... @maxschrems : So, @noybeu (that the @DPCIreland calls “an [unspecified] Austrian complaina...
Some VCs that held onto stakes in startups after IPOs during the bull market, including Sequoia, Menlo, and Altos, have been left with losses as markets drop
Startup investors that held off on exiting investments after their IPOs are left to rue the decision Tweets: @hedgefund Tweets: @hedgefund : Style drift blew them up. Short selling vc-backed IPOs alwa...
AMD announces Ryzen 7000 laptop CPUs, including the new 7040 series of chips codenamed Phoenix, its first laptop-centric Zen 4 CPUs using TSMC's 4nm process
Ryan Smith / AnandTech :
Sources: Dell aims to stop using chips made in China by 2024 and tells suppliers to significantly reduce the number of all China-made components in its products
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia :
WhatsApp launches proxy support globally, letting users with blocked or disrupted connections access WhatsApp via servers set up by volunteers and others
Matt Burgess / Wired :
Coinbase settles with New York regulators over breaking money-laundering laws for $100M, comprising a $50M fine and $50M for compliance; COIN closes up 12.2%
New York Times :
Erroneous facial recognition helped jail a Black man in Georgia for nearly a week after cops got a warrant in Louisiana, a state he says he has never visited
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo :
Asus unveils its Vivobook Pro 16X and ProArt Studiobook 16 laptops with 3.2K, 120Hz glasses-free 3D OLED 16-inch displays
Monica Chin / The Verge :
Documents and sources: Facebook scaled back plans to heavily demote politics and others sensitive topics, finding the policy had a “high and inefficient cost”
Hitting mute button on political content recommendations brought unintended consequences Tweets: @keachhagey , @mattzeitlin , @reaganbrad , and @emilyglazer Tweets: @keachhagey : Facebook spent months...
Troubled crypto lender Vauld rejects rival Nexo's final acquisition proposal, questioning Nexo's solvency and other issues
- Troubled crypto lender Vauld rejected rival Nexo's final acquisition proposal. — Vauld continues to seek answers from Nexo, particularly around its solvency.
NFT service Magic Eden, the largest Solana marketplace, blames a hacked image caching service for some users seeing porn and TV stills instead of intended NFTs
Gemini Trust COO Noah Perlman leaves the company, as founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss struggle to regain $900M in customer funds lent to DCG's Genesis
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
Researchers find API security flaws in almost 20 car manufacturers' systems that could let hackers unlock, start, and track cars, plus access customers' data
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
The US SEC files a limited objection to Binance.US' $1.02B bid for crypto lender Voyager's assets, asking for sufficient details on how Binance plans to pay
Nelson Wang / CoinDesk :
After FTX collapsed, citizen journalists, including @AutismCapital, Coffeezilla, and Doomberg, stepped up to cover the saga, often outshining traditional media
@AutismCapital
Qualcomm unveils its Snapdragon Ride Flex, claiming the auto industry SoC can simultaneously support digital cockpit tech and advanced driver assistance systems
Tim Sweezy / HotHardware :
The Wireless Power Consortium and Apple are working on a next-generation “Qi2” wireless charging standard based on MagSafe, set to arrive by the end of 2023
Internal email: Fanatics is selling its 60% stake in sports NFT company Candy Digital to an investor group led by Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital
Ian Thomas / CNBC :
The 2020 EncroChat hack led by French and Dutch police is facing growing legal challenges across Europe and the fallout could have global implications for E2EE
Matt Burgess / Wired : Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : “What we're seeing is that policing authorities and law enforcement authorities are effectively normalizing a policing practice that sets a real...
Dune Analytics: 630K+ wallets created 2.82M Ethereum Name Service domains in 2022, including 430K in September, the most, and 52K in December, the least
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk :
Vimeo lays off 11% of its workforce, citing “an uncertain economic environment”, after cutting 6% in July 2022; the company had 1,200+ workers in December 2021
Sources: Sirius XM and Amazon slow podcast dealmaking and Spotify froze its US budget for new podcasts; all three seek to keep 50% of ad revenue vs. 20% before
CoinShares: inflows to crypto asset funds fell 95% YoY from $9.1B in 2021 to $433M in 2022, the worst year since 2018, when inflows totaled $223M
Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block : Tweets: @chrismessina Tweets: @chrismessina : When was the last time there was a piece of positively triumphant news from cryptoland? https://www.theblock.co/...
FTX's collapse has forced the global sports industry to rethink lucrative crypto sponsorship deals, some of which replaced gambling partners because of bans
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