Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in lower traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
Apple's lean hiring may help the company avoid layoffs; Apple's workforce grew ~20% from 2019 to 2022, Amazon's grew 100%, Meta 94%, Alphabet 57%, Microsoft 53%
The iPhone maker's workforce grew 20% in the past three years, a far slower pace than rivals — Tech Layoffs Pile Up as Bosses Reverse Course
Microsoft has laid off the entire teams behind the virtual reality platform AltspaceVR, which will shut down in March, and the Mixed Reality Tool Kit framework
HoloLens, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality are all but dead at Microsoft. — What you need to know
CommuteAir took down a 2019 copy of the US No Fly List, after a researcher said they found it on an unsecured server and that it had 1.5M+ entries, many aliases
One of the most sensitive U.S. government documents was left online. — An unsecured server discovered by a security researcher …
US prosecutors provide a list of nearly $700M worth of Sam Bankman-Fried's seized assets, including ~$525M in Robinhood stock and $94.5M cash at Silvergate Bank
Federal prosecutors have seized nearly $700 million in assets from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in January …
Q&A with Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos about shared leadership, what role Reed Hastings may play, adding FAST channels, the ad tier, and more
So that's what an orderly transfer of power looks like. — While Disney chief Bob Iger ousted every potential threat …
Analysis: Apple timed the new MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and HomePod launch to boost this quarter's revenue, while avoiding supply issues during the holiday season
Apple timed the launch of the new MacBook Pro, Mac mini and HomePod to shore up its current quarter's revenue …
A look at Mittens, a ruthless Chess.com bot with a kitten avatar introduced on January 1 that is driving more people than ever to play in the site's history
A ruthless bot with an innocuous avatar is driving chess players crazy — The heels of the chess world have included Soviet grandmasters … Tweets: @emilejames_ , @jjauthor , @firstadopter , @andrewlb...
Google lays off most of its Area 120 incubator team and plans to graduate three projects in 2023; sources: Google cut virtually all staff not on the projects
Julia Love / Bloomberg :
Filings: Signature Bank borrowed nearly $10B in Q4 from Federal Home Loan Banks, a system originally designed for mortgage lending; Silvergate borrowed $3.6B+
Signature and Silvergate turn to government-chartered lenders after customer withdrawals surge
Listen Notes: ~219K podcasts were created in 2022, down nearly 80% from a peak of ~1M in 2020 and lower than the pre-pandemic high of ~337K in 2019
Hope you all had a great weekend! We've got some big Hot Pod Summit updates for you all, as well as the latest in audio news.
ChatGPT is a threat to Google mainly because the latter's monopoly position let the search experience degenerate into a spam-ridden, SEO-fueled hellscape
they simply don't have any theory of knowledge, or understanding of time with its ever-changing set of realities.” https://www.readmargins.com/ ... @kbr0o : Fantastic article that collects a lot of my...
Hackers leak police raid plans, confidential reports, AWS private keys, and other sensitive data from the servers of ODIN, which makes apps for the US police
Leaked files reveal tactical plans for police raids, surveillance, and facial recognition — Detailed tactical plans …
AWS will spend $35B on new data centers in Virginia by 2040, creating ~1,000 jobs, in exchange for tax breaks and potentially up to $140M in performance grants
Welcome to Mostly Cloudy! Today: AWS vows to spend billions … The Information : Amazon Web Services to Spend $35 Billion on Data Centers in Virginia Dan Swinhoe / DCD : AWS to invest $35 billion expa...
A look at Amazon's nascent drone delivery unit, which has struggled due to crashes and other safety issues and now faces layoffs and other cost-cutting measures
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
The US SEC charges Avraham Eisenberg for manipulating Mango Markets' governance token MNGO to steal ~$116M of crypto assets and says MNGO was sold as a security
Sarah Wynn / The Block :
Current and ex-Amazon managers and executives say the focus on managing costs should've come sooner, ideas aren't being evaluated with the same rigor, and more
Jason Del Rey / Vox :
Creators from India's hinterland are going viral on YouTube Shorts and running into copyright issues for “fact channels” that add context to other users' videos
A new generation of creators found success on YouTube Shorts. Now, YouTube is after them for violating its community guidelines. Tweets: @restofworld , @nilchristopher , @restofworld , @restofworld ,...
Missouri-based Paytient, which offers health payment accounts to health care and insurance companies, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $63M
Annie Burky / Fierce Healthcare :
VR edtech startup Dreamscape Learn, developed through a two-year partnership between Arizona State University and Dreamscape Immersive, raised a $20M Series A
Jeff Gifford / Phoenix Business Journal :
China's second-largest chip foundry Hua Hong signs a ~$6.7B wafer fab deal to produce 65nm, 55nm, 40nm, and other chips, as China pivots away from sub-14nm tech
Che Pan / South China Morning Post :
Internal records: Twitter now has ~1,300 active employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers, and ~1,400 non-working staff who are still being paid
Lora Kolodny / CNBC :
Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies have offered a muted response to unrest in Iran, prompting staff side projects to fight internet censorship and more
Paresh Dave / Wired :
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