Kuo: Apple canceled its fourth gen iPhone SE, in which it planned to debut its own 5G modem; the cancelation could be due to poor sales of mid-to-low-end phones
On Friday, Kuo wrote in a blog post that Apple had canceled production and shipment plans for the phone after his prediction …
Kuo: due to development issues, Apple is “more likely” to debut its mixed-reality headset in the spring or at WWDC 2023, not January as previously predicted
delayed due to ‘issues’ Richard Priday / Tom's Guide : Apple AR/VR headset launch could come as soon as March Muhammad Zuhair / Appuals.com : Apple's AR Headset Expected to Be Further Delayed Followin...
China's Ant Group says founder Jack Ma no longer controls the fintech giant after a series of shareholding adjustments that saw him give up most voting rights
China's Ant Group said on Saturday that its founder Jack Ma no longer controls the Chinese fintech giant after a series …
Sources: the SEC and EDNY are scrutinizing transfers between DCG and the lending arm of its subsidiary Genesis; the probes have not accused DCG of wrongdoing
US authorities are digging into the internal financial dealings of Barry Silbert's expansive crypto empire, according to people familiar with the matter.
GPTZero, an app made by a Princeton student to detect if an academic essay was written by a human or by OpenAI's ChatGPT, goes viral
“Humans deserve to know when the writing isn't human.” — Deputy Editor, Innovation & Tech … Edward Tian was fast asleep when his bot broke a website.
Irish DPC's €390M Meta fine, issued at the behest of the European Data Protection Board, fits with the EU's plan to crack down on Big Tech in the next two years
Meta Platforms Inc. is used to batting away the occasional fine from European regulators as a cost of doing business.
Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they have not received information about the severance they were promised
Staff laid off by Elon Musk were assured they would be compensated following mass cuts. As the deadline passes, the silence has been deafening.
Roku reports ending 2022 with more than 70M accounts globally, up 16.5% from the end of 2021, and says streaming hours grew 19% YoY to 87.4B in 2022
The customer total was up 16.5% from the end of 2021, when Roku totaled 60.1 million global accounts. — Per Roku, streaming hours reached …
Mandiant: Russian cyberespionage group Turla piggybacked on other hackers' decade-old malware that spread via USB drives to stealthily access victim networks
The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers' servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.
Amazon S3 will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side using AES-256; AWS has had server-side encryption for over a decade
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default.
IBM's US patent count fell 44% YoY in 2022 to 4,743, behind Samsung's 8,513, losing its top spot after decades as the company refocuses on its core businesses
International Business Machines Corp. dropped from the top spot for US patents in 2022, the first time in decades Big Blue …
Samsung estimates that its Q4 operating profit fell by 69% YoY to ~$3.37B, an eight-year low, citing a greater-than-expected decline in memory chip demand
Amazon Prime Video averaged 9.6M viewers for its first season as the exclusive rights holder of the NFL's Thursday Night Football, down 41% from 2021's average
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The SEC is working on a rule, which could be finalized this quarter, to make it easier for investors to sue VCs for bad behavior, negligence, and recklessness
After being battered by rising interest rates and choppy markets, the venture capital industry is sweating new regulations that could expose fund managers to legal risks.
An Ohio man pleads guilty to stealing 712+ bitcoins seized by the IRS in a case against his brother, who was convicted of running money laundering service Helix
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A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of an image of a fake tweet created in her name
Growing concerns over impact of medical misinformation on public health — When Dr. Natalia Solenkova woke up Monday morning …
Sources: Microsoft is working on incorporating existing and future versions of OpenAI's GPT in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other productivity apps
In a move that could change how more than a billion people write documents, presentations and emails, Microsoft has discussed incorporating …
IBM SVP and Director of Research says the company will no longer pursue numeric patent leadership and will instead focus on open innovation and collaboration
Darío Gil / Fortune : Tweets: @rossmauri and @ibmnews Tweets: Ross Mauri / @rossmauri : As part of our relentless capacity for reinvention, @ibm decided in 2020 that we would no longer pursue the goa...
Researchers: cybercriminals have started using ChatGPT to create hacking tools and AI-generated malware code, and are testing the tool for dating scam chatbots
some with little or no coding experience—were using it to write software and emails that could be used for espionage, ransomware, malicious spam, and other malicious tasks.” https://research.checkpoin...
Rackspace plans to discontinue its Exchange service after confirming hackers accessed 27 customers' personal data during the December 2022 ransomware attack
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Sources: Taiwan's space agency is planning a low Earth orbit satellite communications provider to help resist any China attacks, inspired by Starlink in Ukraine
Is this the future of the night sky? Michael Kan / PCMag : Taiwan Wants Its Own Starlink to Counter Potential Chinese Invasion Steve Mollman / Fortune : Elon Musk's Starlink has inspired Taiwan to bui...
PitchBook and NVCA report: in 2022, US VC deal count fell 14% YoY to 15,852, deal value fell 30% YoY to $238.3B, and exit value fell 91% YoY to $71.4B
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
A researcher was awarded a $1M bug bounty from Immunefi for discovering a vulnerability on three Polkadot parachains that could have been exploited for ~$200M
Vishal Chawla / The Block :
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