The FBI says North Korea-backed hacking groups Lazarus and APT38 are behind the June 2022 theft of ~$100M in ETH, USDT, and wBTC from Harmony's Horizon bridge
Lazarus Group and APT38, both associated with North Korea, are responsible for the attack in June, the agency concluded.
A manager at Activision Blizzard's Blizzard unit, who oversaw World of Warcraft Classic, departs after internally criticizing the company's stack ranking system
A manager at video game developer Blizzard Entertainment said he was ousted after refusing to give a low evaluation to an employee …
Source: CEO Satya Nadella voiced concerns for years that Microsoft was slow to commercialize its AI research; in 2022, its researchers said rivals seemed ahead
For more than a decade, Microsoft Research, the company's in-house research group, has touted artificial intelligence breakthroughs …
Amazon launches RxPass, letting US Prime users pay $5 per month to get as many generic versions of medications as needed, starting with drugs for 80 ailments
More than two years since announcing Amazon Pharmacy to take some of the prescription drugs business away from big (and smaller) …
Binance acknowledges mistakenly storing collateral for some of its tokens in the same wallet as customer funds; reserves for around 47 coins are in one wallet
Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto platform, acknowledged that it mistakenly keeps collateral for some of the tokens …
Sources: Apple's ~$3,000 MR headset will have eye and hand tracking, a 3D iOS-like interface, AR and VR modes, a Mac external display feature, and more
Apple Inc.'s long-anticipated mixed-reality headset is an ambitious attempt to create a 3D version of the iPhone's operating system …
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says ChatGPT is “not particularly innovative” in its underlying techniques and other research labs are doing similar work
Much ink has been spilled of late about the tremendous promise of OpenAI's ChatGPT program for generating natural-language utterances in response to human prompts.
WhatsApp releases a beta version of its native macOS app, built using Mac Catalyst, to all users via its website, following a limited TestFlight app beta
After releasing a very limited early-beta program of WhatsApp beta for macOS for a small number of people on TestFlight …
Microsoft invests in OpenAI, a source says totaling $10B over many years, after 2019 and 2021 investments, to build “increasingly safe, useful, and powerful” AI
LastPass parent GoTo confirms hackers stole encrypted backups, an encryption key for some data, billing info, and more, in a breach first disclosed last year
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) is warning customers that threat actors who breached its development environment in November 2022 stole …
At a town hall, Sundar Pichai asked staff to stay motivated as Google faces competition in areas like AI and indicated there would be executive bonus cuts
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai and executive leaders addressed employee questions at a town hall meeting on Monday after last week's job cuts.
A second Twitter whistleblower told the FTC and Congress last year that engineers can access “GodMode” and tweet from any account, supporting Mudge's complaint
Too many people can still access a program that lets them tweet under any account, he says in a complaint
Sources: bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi plans to sell $160M of loans backed by ~68K bitcoin mining rigs; some have already defaulted or seem undercollateralized
Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi Inc. plans to sell about $160 million of loans backed by around 68,000 Bitcoin mining machines …
Sources: the DOJ is poised to sue Google this week over dominating the US digital ad market, the fifth major US case challenging its business practices
The US Justice Department is poised to sue Alphabet Inc.'s Google as soon as Tuesday regarding the search giant's dominance …
How Esther Crawford, Twitter's director of product management, became one of the most influential leaders from the old guard in Elon Musk's “hardcore” Twitter
Days after Elon Musk had completed his $44bn buyout of Twitter, Esther Crawford shared a picture of herself sleeping …
New York-based VC firm Thrive sells a 3.3% stake for ~$175M to Disney CEO Robert Iger and others, valuing Thrive at $5.3B, a rare move to expand its reach
Group of five investors is paying about $175 million for 3.3% of venture firm — Venture firm Thrive Capital is selling a stake …
An investigation finds extensive evidence that AI used by CNET appears to have plagiarized the work of competitors and human writers at Bankrate and even CNET
CNET's AI-written articles aren't just riddled with errors. They also appear to be substantially plagiarized.
Google plans to end a pilot program to let political campaigns evade its email spam filters and says in a filing the RNC did not join the pilot before midterms
The technology giant introduced the exemption after the GOP blamed Gmail spam filters for the party's poor fundraising performance
Taiwan's Foxconn and Apple suppliers Pegatron, Quanta, and Compal plan to grow their manufacturing presence in Mexico in 2023 to diversify from China
Supply chain shifts westward thanks to U.S. policy and client requests — TAIPEI — Taiwanese tech suppliers are increasing …
A look at Sam Bankman-Fried's $400M investment in obscure hedge fund Modulo, shortly before FTX collapsed; Modulo's executives had close ties to SBF and FTX
After the collapse of FTX, prosecutors and lawyers have scrutinized its discredited founder's huge investment in Modulo Capital. Tweets: @niubi , @niubi , @jessicakmathews , @macrocephalopod , @smtuff...
Paris-based PASQAL, which builds quantum computers using neutral atoms, raised a €100M Series B led by Temasek, bringing its total funding to over €125M
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu :
Researcher: for over a year, India's education ministry app Diksha exposed the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of 1M+ teachers via an unsecured server
Chinese gamers lost access to Blizzard's games on January 23 when servers in the country shut down, after Blizzard's 14-year NetEase partnership ended
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Sources: increased SEC scrutiny of Circle, eToro, Galaxy Digital, and other crypto companies has blocked them from going public in the US over the past year
Companies including Circle Internet Financial and eToro have failed to secure the regulator's approval — Crypto's Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained. Tweets: @matthewstoller , @johnreed...
Apple releases iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, and macOS Ventura 13.2 with FIDO key support for Apple ID, Advanced Data Protection out globally, security fixes, and more
Apple has released the latest iOS 16.3 to everyone … Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : iOS 16.3 for iPhone now available to everyone: Here's what's new Joe Wituschek / iMore : iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, watchOS 9...
How a “stealth address system” using zero-knowledge proofs could improve Ethereum's privacy vs. trying to hide or mix transfers using services like Tornado Cash
Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website :
Miami-based QuickNode, whose blockchain deployment tools are used by Twitter, OpenSea, Coinbase, Adobe, and others, raised a $60M Series B at an $800M valuation
QuickNode, a blockchain deployment platform, has raised $60 million in a Series B round for an $800 million valuation …
Meta brings more features to Messenger end-to-end encrypted chats, such as themes, custom emoji, and link previews, and adds more users to its default E2EE test
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Google plans to sunset Optimize and Optimize 360, which let marketers conduct A/B testing to improve their website or app user experience, on September 30, 2023
Nicole Farley / Search Engine Land :
Spotify plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce, or ~600 jobs, says content and ad head Dawn Ostroff is leaving, and reorganizes its engineering and product units
read the memo CEO Daniel Ek sent to staff Bob Cronin / Newser : Spotify Plans Layoffs, After Boss Concedes Miscalculation Rachyl Jones / Observer : Spotify Will Lay Off 600 Employees, or 6% of its Wor...
Seven TikTok influencers with 100K+ followers say they have earned under $5 from the Pulse ad revenue sharing program for US creators, launched in October 2022
When TikTok approached Azure MacCannell in September she was ecstatic. — MacCannell had sold her Warwick …
Meta expands NBA and WNBA partnerships to offer 52 NBA games in VR, including five 180-degree monoscopic VR games, some WNBA, NBA G, and NBA 2K games, and more
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Cybersecurity crisis response startup CYGNVS, whose guided virtual service helps companies to prepare, plan, and practice, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z
Cybersecurity crisis response startup CYGNVS Inc. is exiting stealth mode today with $55 million in early-stage funding and a mission …
Internal messages: TikTok told some of its US employees they could lose their jobs unless they show they already moved to an address near their assigned offices
including losing their job—because their home address doesn't match their assigned office location https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : TikTok plans to fire remote worke...
Microsoft plans to stop selling Windows 10 Home and Pro on its site on January 31, 2023, but keep supporting the OS until October 14, 2025
Stripe partners with Amazon to expand its AWS use and become a “strategic payments partner” for Amazon in the US, Europe, and Canada
PYMNTS.com :
After OpenAI opened a waitlist for a faster, paid version of ChatGPT, some users report seeing a “pro” plan for $42/month; the company hasn't announced pricing
James Vincent / The Verge :
Source: Gemini is laying off 10% of staff, at least the third round of cuts at the crypto exchange in eight months; Gemini had 650 to 700 staff near 2022's end
Aidan Ryan / The Information :
Filings: Apple's US lobbying spend grew 44% YoY to $9.4M in 2022; Amazon's grew ~2% to $19.7M, Meta's fell 4.6% to $19.2M; Google spent $10.9M, Microsoft $9.8M
and engaged in astroturfing on top of it all Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg : Meta Lobbying Spending Dips as Job Cuts, Costs Surge Tweets: Amit Kumar / @akumar : lol lobbyist: what's our budget? functiona...
The FTC fines HomeAdvisor up to $7.2M for using deceptive tactics to sell home improvement project leads, marking the agency's first fine related to gig work
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Netflix is well-positioned due to a low debt load, its investments, and first-mover advantage; long-term success will require making compelling content at scale
are making money on streaming. https://stratechery.com/... David H. Montgomery / @dhmontgomery : Very interesting observations, including that Netflix is apparently the only streamer that's actually t...
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