The FAA says normal air traffic is “resuming gradually” across the US after its Notice to Air Missions system failed; FlightAware: 5,400+ flights were delayed
U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration …
Sources: Apple plans to design and develop its own displays for mobile devices, starting with microLED screens for the Apple Watch Ultra by the end of 2024
Apple Inc. is planning to start using its own custom displays in mobile devices as early as 2024, an effort to reduce its reliance …
Bankruptcy hearing: FTX has recovered $5B+ so far, excluding $425M held by the Bahamas or “illiquid cryptocurrency tokens”; FTX's Alameda credit line was $65B
The announcement substantially raises the total FTX has recovered since filing for bankruptcy last year but it's still short of what customers are owed in total.
Court documents: Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20M in Paradigm's $2.5B Paradigm One fund in late 2021, before the fund then invested in FTX and FTX US
Court documents shed light on Sam Bankman-Fried's circular transactions — Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20mn in a large venture capital fund …
Twitter renames Latest Tweets to Following and Home to For You, making the algorithmic feed the default with no option to change it, rolling out on iOS first
Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.
Court documents: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, NFL star Tom Brady, a Peter Thiel-linked trust, and more own FTX Group stock, now considered worthless
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Cameron Winklevoss demands that DCG's board remove CEO Barry Silbert and alleges he and Genesis lied publicly, after his January 8 resolution deadline passed
Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …
Binance admits flaws in maintaining its Paxos-managed BUSD stablecoin, which should be backed 1:1; ChainArgos: BUSD was undercollateralized by $1B+ in 2020-21
Binance Holdings Ltd., the biggest cryptocurrency exchange, acknowledged past flaws in the management of its stablecoin's reserves …
A US ITC judge rules that some Apple Watches infringe on one of five Masimo pulse oximeter patents related to using light sensors to measure blood oxygen levels
An International Trade Commission judge ruled that Apple infringed on one of five Masimo patents related to using light sensors …
Samsung sets its next Galaxy Unpacked for February 1 at 10am PT in San Francisco, its first in-person event in three years, likely to unveil the Galaxy S23
Mark your calendar: Samsung is hosting its next Galaxy Unpacked on February 1st. The company is officially confirming a date …
Apple launches Business Connect, letting US businesses update and manage information across Maps and other services, something Google Maps has had since 2005
Apple Maps today is gaining a new tool that will allow the decade-plus-old service to better compete with Google …
Sources: Microsoft ditched a dual-screen design for the Surface Duo 3, opting for an internal foldable screen, an external cover display, and a 180-degree hinge
Microsoft's next foldable phone will have an internal foldable display. — What you need to know
Sources: Parler's parent company laid off ~75% of its staff and most of its chief executives over the past few weeks, leaving the social app with ~20 employees
Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff …
In a Discord post, OpenAI says it's “starting to” consider monetizing ChatGPT, possibly via ChatGPT Professional, polls members on payment preferences, and more
OpenAI this week signaled it'll soon begin charging for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code.
After Chinese researchers claimed to break RSA encryption using quantum computers, experts are skeptical and caution that any commercial benefits are years away
China claims to have made a major breakthrough but western experts say any commercial benefits are still years away
Sources: Alameda invested $1.1B in bitcoin miner Genesis Digital, including $500M to buy co-founders' shares; Genesis is among FTX's largest bankruptcy assets
WSJ More Than $500 Mln of Alameda Cash Went to Genesis Digital Founders, Sources Say — WSJ Genesis Digital Is Among Largest Assets in FTX-Alameda Bankruptcy — WSJ
IDC: global used and refurbished handset sales rose 11.5% YoY to 282M in 2022, predicted to rise to 413.3M after 10.3% compound annual growth until 2026
Who needs shiny new blowers when there bills to pay and kids to feed? Answer: fewer and fewer folk
The deep problem with SPACs is the sponsors' and warrant holders' cuts, paid by the target company or the SPAC shareholders, leading to a bad deal for both
SPAC SPAC SPAC — Simplifying a bit, the way a special purpose acquisition company works is that the sponsor of the SPAC raises …
Analysts say Salesforce's customers do not seem to be swayed by Slack; the messaging service's revenue growth declined from 11.7% in Q1 2022 to 6.9% in Q3 2022
Carhartt's CIO says the addition of the messaging app hasn't made Salesforce's products more appealing Tweets: @tomgara , @kazanjy , @carnage4life , @katherinemiller , and @bluecoyote Tweets: Tom Gara...
How Section 19a of Germany's Competition Act gives antitrust authorities the power to divest and sanction Big Tech, as the EU slowly rolls out its enforcement
While EU regulators slowly roll out their own enforcement mechanism, Berlin is already holding gatekeepers to account
Sources: Netflix restricts some staff's ability to see other employees' salaries, a major shift for a company that has long offered rare pay transparency
Employees at the director level lost ability to view colleagues' pay data late last year — Employers List Wide Salary Ranges in Ways That Sidestep Pay Transparency Law
Netflix plans to stream the SAG Awards globally starting in 2024, as part of a multi-year deal; the 2023 ceremony will stream on Netflix's YouTube channel
After a Stop on Its YouTube Channel Jeremy Kay / Screen : Netflix strikes deal to stream SAG Awards live on its service starting in 2024 About Netflix : The SAG Awards To Stream Live On Netflix Beginn...
US police app SweepWizard, built by ODIN, leaked data, including location and names, on officers, 5,770 suspects, and others due to a simple misconfiguration
SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible. Tweets: @justinhendrix , @dmehro , @matthewkeysli...
Microsoft announces 365 Basic for $1.99 per month, replacing the 100GB OneDrive subscription, rolling out globally on January 30 with ad-free Outlook and more
Microsoft is introducing a new consumer tier to its Microsoft 365 subscription offerings. Priced at just $1.99 per month …
Microsoft releases 98 security fixes, patching 11 critical vulnerabilities and an actively exploited privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Windows ALPC
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Cory Doctorow and law professor Rebecca Giblin on their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, and how tech platforms monetize creators via distribution bottlenecks
It's a book about artists and technology and platforms and how different kinds of distribution and creation tools create chokepoints …
Meta plans to further limit ad targeting users under 18 starting in February 2023, including removing the options to target based on gender and in-app activity
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch :
Filing: Google warns Android growth in India will stall due to the CCI's antitrust order that requires making “far-reaching changes” to its mobile platform
The Guardian confirms a ransomware attack in December 2022 and that the personal data of UK staff was accessed, possibly via a phishing attempt
Media firm says personal data of UK staff members was accessed in ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber-attack last month See also Mediagazer
A profile of Character.AI, founded by two former Google researchers to offer “plausible conversation” with famous people, like William Shakespeare and Elon Musk
Cade Metz / New York Times : Tweets: @patrickerville , @nytscience , and @hickspeggy Tweets: Patrick Somerville / @patrickerville : Do me please, I have questions. https://twitter.com/... @nytscience...
Crypto.com plans to delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario's regulator and will stop facilitating transaction associated with USDT by the end of January
André Beganski / Decrypt :
Nevada's US senators claim the FCC's new broadband maps, which will be used to allocate $42.45B in grants, are filled with mistakes and overstate coverage
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Developers flood Apple's App Store and Google Play with apps listing “ChatGPT” in titles and descriptions; OpenAI doesn't offer a public ChatGPT API or an app
A US bankruptcy judge approves Voyager's plan to sell its crypto platform to Binance.US for $20M, overruling objections from federal regulators and some states
Steven Church / Bloomberg :
London-based Peppy, which offers B2B2C health services for menopause, fertility, pregnancy, and early parenthood, raised a $45M Series B led by AlbionVC
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Cologne-based DeepL, which offers instant translation-as-a-service to businesses and individuals, raised $100M-$125M led by IVP at a €1B valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
A look at Intel's struggles with launching Sapphire Rapids, once slated for mid-2022, which the company says has led to changes in product design and testing
UK-based Hack the Box, which wants to encourage white hat hackers via gamified training, raised a $55M Series B led by Carlyle and reports having 1.7M users
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
An overview of the adoption of Matter, the new open-source smart home interoperability standard, across the devices and controllers on display at CES 2023
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge : Tweets: @jp2e Tweets: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / @jp2e : With dozens of new product announcements and plenty of support from all the smart home companies, Matter ...
Nothing Phone (1) rolls out in the US via a $299 “beta membership” offered through June 2023, but the company says the phone “may not work with all US carriers”
Sources: Cloud Software Group, the parent company of cloud vendor Citrix and enterprise applications vendor Tibco, begins laying off thousands of employees
LeanTaaS, which sells AI-based capacity optimization software to health care providers, acquires automation startup Hospital IQ, valuing the new entity at $1B+
Analysis: cybersecurity startups raised $15.3B in 2022, down by a third from a record $22.8B raised in 2021 but still 68% higher than the $9.1B raised in 2020
Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News :
Sources: Tata Group's WeChat-like super app Neu is expected to generate sales of ~$4B in the year to March 31, missing the $8B goal set at the start of 2022
Anto Antony / Bloomberg : Tweets: @technology Tweets: @technology : Tata Group's ambitious super app is expected to meet just half of its sales target in its debut year, forcing the conglomerate to r...
Scale AI, which labels data for ML algorithms and was valued at $7.3B in April 2021, lays off 20% of its staff; the startup had ~450 employees in February 2022
Today I have to announce the hardest change I've ever had to make at Scale. The Economic Times : Software firm Scale AI lays off 20% of workforce
X project Mineral, which debuted in March 2018 to use AI, ML, and edge computing to “help scale sustainable agriculture”, graduates into a full Alphabet company
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