Apple announces an updated HomePod with a similar design to the original from 2018, Matter support, and more, available now for $299, shipping February 3
It will be sold alongside the HomePod Mini, the smaller version of the speaker introduced in 2020, and features support …
FTX identifies ~$5.5B in “liquid” assets for recovery, including $415M in “unauthorized third-party transfers” possibly tied to a hack found after its collapse
- FTX has identified about $5.5 billion worth of digital assets for recovery, a number that includes $415 million in “hacked crypto.”
Samsung Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra specs allegedly leak, showing 6.1, 6.6, and 6.8-inch screens, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the Ultra's 200MP sensor, and more
Spec sheets for all three devices in Samsung's upcoming flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S23 series, appear to have leaked online.
Sources: Apple indefinitely postpones its lightweight AR glasses due to technical difficulties and is instead planning a lower-cost MR headset for 2024 or 2025
Apple Inc. is still planning to unveil its first mixed-reality headset this year, but an even more important follow-up product …
Memo: Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees through March 31, reducing headcount by less than 5%, and will take a $1.2B charge to facilitate the move
[Editor's Note: Timing of layoffs corrected since original post.] — Citing a need to “align our cost structure with our revenue …
Apple enables a temperature and humidity sensor on the HomePod mini and reintroduced HomePod, helping users create automations to do household tasks
The reintroduced HomePod offers a temperature and humidity sensor, but Apple is also enabling the feature on the HomePod mini.
Apple updates its Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro options, improved graphics performance, up to 32GB of RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and more, starting at $599
Apple today launched the new Mac mini lineup, available with M2 and M2 Pro chips inside. The M2 Mac mini starts at a new lower price of $599.
Tesla's Autopilot software director testified in 2022 that an October 2016 video promoted by Elon Musk was staged, showing self-driving features the cars lacked
A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping …
US and Bahamian government documents detail which FTX and Alameda executives had discussed the crypto exchange using customer funds before FTX's collapse
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times :
Apple announces updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M2 Pro or M2 Max, Wi-Fi 6E, 8K HDMI, up to 96GB of RAM, and more, starting at $1,999 and $2,499
but it doesn't matter ZDNet : The 9 best MacBook deals right now: January 2023 Stephen Shankland / CNET : Apple's M2 Pro and Max Repeat a Successful Chip Upgrade Strategy Zia Muhammad / Digital Inform...
As Apple shifts from China, experts worry India will struggle with iPhone production due to supply chain issues, labor woes, a lack of automation, and more
The tech giant increasingly finds itself beholden to America's biggest geopolitical rival. But is diversification even possible?
Source: Twitter manager Siddharth Rao told employees that daily revenue was 40% lower than a year earlier and more than 500 top advertisers have paused spending
A senior Twitter manager told employees that the company's daily revenue on Tuesday was 40% lower than the same day a year ago …
Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama to label violent and toxic content, paying workers $2/hour, to improve ChatGPT
Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse — ChatGPT was hailed as one 2022's most impressive technological … Mastodon: @karengregory@mastodon.scot , @parismarx@mastodon.onlin...
Oslo-based shipping software maker DNV reports a ransomware attack, impacting its ShipManager system and around 1,000 vessels, the latest attack on the industry
About 1,000 vessels have been affected by a ransomware attack against a major software supplier for ships.
Amazon begins laying off 18,000+ employees, impacting around 1% of its total workforce and 6% of its corporate staff, mostly in its retail and HR departments
Amazon.com Inc. is set to begin a round of layoffs ultimately affecting more than 18,000 employees in the largest job cull in its history …
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Circle and other crypto companies are hoping to rehabilitate the industry's image after FTX and find new investors
The World Economic Forum's annual gathering has become an unlikely destination for the crypto industry as it tries to raise its profile — and new funds
By suing Genesis Global Capital and Gemini Trust over Gemini Earn in 2023, the SEC is years late to addressing the crypto lending product marketed as a security
Earn — Well, of course: … We covered this in 2021, when Coinbase Global Inc.'s similar crypto lending program was shut down by the SEC before it started.
Analysis: 196 members of the new Congress accepted donations from Sam Bankman-Fried or other FTX senior executives, including Kevin McCarthy and Chuck Schumer
The session began with 196 U.S. lawmakers who took direct contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried and other former FTX executives …
Sources: about 14 Chinese suppliers receive initial clearance to expand in India, after Apple said it needed their services to grow its presence in the country
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Twitter begins offering an annual Blue plan for $84 on the web, saving around 12% for a monthly web subscription and 36% for an iOS subscription
Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, one of his aims has been to build up its subscription business, launching a revamped Twitter Blue package …
Spotify, Basecamp, and others write to Margrethe Vestager, calling on the European Commission to take action against Apple's “unfair practices”, like IAP fees
Music streaming service Spotify Technology (SPOT.N), along with other media firms such as Deezer …
TikTok expands its state-controlled media label to over 40 markets globally, including the US and China, after a pilot in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in 2022
TikTok today announced it's expanding its “state-controlled media” label to over 40 more global markets, to alert users …
Canalys: global smartphone shipments fell 17% YoY in Q4 2022 and 2022 shipments fell 11% YoY to under 1.2B, the lowest quarterly and annual levels since 2013
One of these days I'll have some positive news to share about the global smartphone market. Today is not that day.
Google's Nest team appears to be working on AirTag-like location trackers, codenamed Grogu, with Bluetooth LE and UWB support, for a possible I/O launch in May
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge :
Sources: online fast fashion retailer Shein is in talks to raise up to $3B from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala and others at a $64B valuation, down from its $100B peak
Chinese fast-fashion retailer looking to raise up to $3bn at a vastly reduced valuation in response to tech downturn Tweets: @tabby_kinder Tweets: Tabby Kinder / @tabby_kinder : Shein is in talks to r...
Discord acquires Gas, a poll-based app with 1M+ DAUs that is popular among teens for sharing anonymous compliments and positive affirmations with each other
Tom Warren / The Verge :
The UK's Online Safety Bill has become complex and confusing, things it sought to avoid, leaving social media companies grappling with implementing the rules
Helen Thomas / Financial Times :
Twitter says it's enforcing “long-standing API rules” that “may result” in some third-party apps “not working” without listing which alleged rules were broken
Emma Roth / The Verge :
A look at LockBit, a Russia-linked hacking group that claimed responsibility for compromising 40 organizations in the past month, including the UK's Royal Mail
Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times :
After Futurism found major errors in an AI-written “fact-checked” CNET article, CNET updated almost all its AI pieces as currently being reviewed “for accuracy”
China plans to launch Strong Nation Transport, a ride-hailing app to rival Didi, initially targeting Communist party members and government employees
Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times :
A profile of DCG CEO Barry Silbert, a finance veteran who built a crypto conglomerate and is now fighting to keep DCG's brokerage firm Genesis out of bankruptcy
Wall Street Journal :
Enterprise AI startup Mad Street Den, which provides image and video recognition to the retail sector, raised a $30M Series C led by Avatar Growth Capital
Malvika Maloo / VCCircle :
Apple plans to hire a third-party firm to audit its US labor practices, focusing on human rights, after an investor coalition pushed for the assessment
Noam Scheiber / New York Times : Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @noamscheiber Tweets: Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead : Seems like Apple should hire a firm to audit its China labor practices where ...
Chord, which offers e-commerce tools to track metrics, raised a $15M Series A extension, taking the round to $33M, co-led by Bright Pixel and Eclipse
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Meta's Oversight Board urges the company to change its nudity policy after overturning its removal of two posts showing topless transgender and nonbinary people
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Investigation and documents: over 600 US police entities have access, without oversight, to a database on 150M+ money transfers in the US and over 20 countries
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @neerajka , @mqsullivan , @paulwsj , and @dnvolz Tweets: Neeraj K. Agrawal / @neerajka : Law enforcement has warrantless access to a database of over 150 million transac...
Trend Micro researchers demonstrate how threat actors can abuse GitHub Codespaces' port forwarding feature to host and distribute malware and malicious scripts
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
After criticism from users, Adobe Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky denies using customer projects to train the company's generative AI services
Bloomberg : Tweets: @tcpeter Tweets: Tim Peter / @tcpeter : This does lead to questions about where many generative AI projects (or *any* LLM) will get high quality training data. “The internet” is n...
Amid a wave of lawsuits claiming Tesla dangerously overhyped its self-driving software, an overview of Tesla from its erratic CEO to its erratic Autopilot AI
Christopher Cox / New York Times :
In a first, Samsung adds two of its laptops to its Self-Repair Program, the 15-inch Galaxy Book Pro and 15-inch Galaxy Book Pro 360, following Apple and Google
Roblox reports its December 2022 metrics: estimated bookings between $430M and $439M, up 17% to 20% YoY, and DAUs up 18% YoY to 61.5M; the stock jumps 12%+
Dune Analytics: the number of smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum mainnet grew 293% YoY in 2022 and 453% QoQ to 4.6M in Q4 2022, just as FTX collapsed
Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt :
Cape Town-based game studio startup Carry1st raised a $27M pre-Series B led by Bitkraft Ventures with Konvoy Ventures, a16z, and TTV Capital among investors
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