Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban
- “We've always believed that Americans should be able to hear from the people who want to lead the country,” Clegg told Axios.
Facebook and Donald Trump have experienced a mutual decay since his ban, both losing their shine, meaning his reinstatement may not be as impactful as feared
stale, even—about the news.” Smart and clarifying, by @cwarzel: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Cheri Jacobus / @cherijacobus : “internet-addled aging rageposters” is the name of my new garage band. ...
Q&A with DoNotPay's Joshua Browder on pivoting from legal issues to refocus on consumer support after getting “distracted”, ChatGPT, future plans, and more
When British-American entrepreneur Joshua Browder first launched his legal services chatbot DoNotPay in 2015 …
Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% YoY to 300.3M in Q4 2022, the largest ever drop in a quarter; Apple dropped 14.9%, Samsung 15.6%, and Xiaomi 26.3%
Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% year over year to 300.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) …
Under increasing pressure in the US, ByteDance and TikTok shift their strategy for dealing with officials by going on the offense and speaking out publicly
Keeping its head down has not paid off for the company, which now faces regulatory pressure on many fronts. So it is starting to speak out.
New York AG Letitia James asks Madison Square Garden Entertainment for information on the alleged use of facial recognition to deny access to ticket holders
Probe related to company's alleged use of the technology to bar certain ticket holders from its venues
The FBI, DOJ, Secret Service, and European agencies seize ransomware gang Hive's website and decryption keys; FBI had access to Hive's network since July 2022
The infrastructure behind Hive, one of the most prolific ransomware operations, has been seized by law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe.
Hands-on with DoNotPay, a service claiming to be the first robot lawyer: slow, drafted a terrible defamation demand letter, missed legal issues, and more
Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. — I've been going pretty hard on DoNotPay … Tweets: @lilianedwards , @scottgreenfield , @mikebutcher , @boozybadger , ...
A briefing by TikTok details Project Texas, its plan to remain operational in the US, including by moving data to a US subsidiary and using Oracle Cloud
Since 2019, TikTok has been negotiating with the U.S. government to address concerns about potential national security risks posed by the platform.
A brief history of VR/AR/MR devices and why hardware challenges have limited mainstream adoption, which could likely slow the metaverse's emergence and growth
Modern efforts to build extended reality (XR) devices—i.e., dedicated virtual reality (VR), dedicated augmented reality (AR) … Tweets: @marknb00 , @carnage4life , @cccalum , @ballmatthew , @ballmatthe...
How Elon Musk's Twitter usage and stewardship is making him toxic for many Tesla customers and shareholders at a time when the company badly needs new business
Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
CNET's EIC reflects on the outlet's AI use and lessons learned, like ensuring that bylines and disclosures are visible and plagiarism checks are done properly
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IBM plans to cut ~1.5% of its global workforce, or a “ballpark” of 3,900 jobs, focusing on workers who stayed after IBM spun off Kyndryl and Watson Health
International Business Machines Corp. delivered an upbeat annual sales forecast while announcing it would eliminate …
German software maker SAP plans to cut ~3,000 jobs in 2023, or 2.5% of its staff, and explore selling its remaining Qualtrics stake; SAP stock is down 12% YTD
SAP SE is planning to cut about 3,000 jobs this year while exploring a sale of its remaining stake in Qualtrics International Inc …
A look at Google's evolving legal strategy to combat the DOJ's antitrust claims; sources say Google believed an ad unit spinoff could help end multiple cases
The latest U.S. lawsuit against Google compounds the legal issues the company faces worldwide while broadening the scope …
The University of Texas at Austin plans to launch a large-scale, low-cost online MSc program in AI, the first of its kind among elite computing schools
Amid a boom in new tools like ChatGPT, the Austin campus plans to train thousands of students in sought-after skills in artificial intelligence.
Austrian police say a hacker, arrested in November, tried to sell the name, gender, address, and DOB of “presumably every citizen” in Austria, or 9.1M people
A Dutch hacker arrested in November obtained and offered for sale the full name, address and date of birth …
After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021
both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/... @bonchieredstate : Look, I get th...
Sources: Meta pays BuzzFeed to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train online creators to grow, as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022
Partnership marks latest iteration of yearslong relationship between digital publisher and social-media giant
A 116-page bankruptcy document details FTX's extensive list of creditors, including AWS, Apple, Meta, Binance, the WSJ, and the Prime Minister of the Bahamas
- FTX owes money to a wide range of individuals, businesses, and entities, including major digital asset firms, banks, star athletes, and governments.
Sources: Accel and Tiger Global are in talks to sell their remaining Flipkart stakes, around 1% and 4%, respectively, to parent company Walmart for ~$1.5B
Happy 74th Republic Day! — Two early backers of Flipkart - venture fund Accel Partners and New York-based investment firm Tiger Global …
Sources: Elon Musk's team has been exploring selling up to $3B in potential new Twitter shares to help repay some of the $13B in debt tacked on for the buyout
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Sources: Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison told staff their goal is to go public or let employees sell shares in private markets in the next year
Fintech startup hires Goldman, JPMorgan to advise on direct listing or private-market transaction involving employees' shares
Filing: crypto exchange Mango Markets sues alleged exploiter Avraham Eisenberg for $47M in damages, saying he returned only $67M of the roughly $114M he netted
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk :
Documents: besides FTX, US bank Silvergate has been used by 12+ crypto companies that were fined, closed, bankrupt, or under investigation, including Binance
The good news about the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency empire is that its failure did not send shock waves through … Tweets: @smdiehl , @theraheelhasan , @mikulaja , @intelligencer , @...
Using automation, Trellix patches nearly 62K open-source projects susceptible to a Python path traversal flaw first disclosed in 2007, affecting ~350K projects
Menghan Xiao / SC Media :
NSO Group CEO Yaron Shohat, appointed in August 2022, acknowledges clients sometimes misused Pegasus, but defends giving the tools to police and intel agencies
Yaron Shohat acknowledges mistakes but defends the technology as vital — WASHINGTON—Embattled Israeli technology firm NSO Group acknowledged …
Analysis: SoftBank's new startup bets hit a record low in Q4 2022, with eight investments totaling $2.1B; a source says Vision Fund investments were below $350M
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After an antitrust order in India, Google plans to add third-party billing for apps and games in February, revise phone maker and partner agreements, and more
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Welcome to the Jungle, which helps recruitment through feature-rich profiles, a job board, and more, raised a €50M Series C, bringing its total funding to €79M
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Microsoft resolved a networking issue impacting Azure, Outlook, Teams, and other services globally for hours; services in China and for governments were not hit
Akriti Sharma / Reuters :
Report: South Korean prosecutors are seeking the arrest of Bithumb owner Kang Jong-Hyun, as part of a wider probe into the crypto exchange and its affiliates
Angle Health, a service that helps its clients' employees navigate telehealth, behavioral, and insurance benefits, raised a $58M Series A led by Portage
Anastassia Gliadkovskaya / Fierce Healthcare :
Lam Research, one of the three biggest US chip manufacturing equipment makers, plans to cut ~7% of its workforce, or ~1,300 jobs worldwide, to reduce expenses
Ian King / Bloomberg :
Dell acquires Tel Aviv-based Cloudify, a platform for cloud orchestration and infrastructure automation, sources say for ~$100M; Cloudify raised less than $8M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
New Jersey-based AtomicJar, which is building a cloud version of its co-founders' open-source microservices testing tool Testcontainers, raised a $25M Series A
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @etdurbin and @atomicjarinc Tweets: Eliot Durbin / @etdurbin : Congrats to @bsideup + whole team @AtomicJarInc on their Series A. We @boldstartvc are thrilled to hav...
SK hynix announces LPDDR5T, its latest memory chip for mobile devices, with a 9.6Gbps data transfer speed, 13% faster than the predecessor LPDDR5X's 8.5Gbps
Ryan Smith / AnandTech :
London-based crypto exchange Luno, owned by DCG, lays off 35% of its global workforce, citing market “turbulence”; Luno has a ~960 headcount per its LinkedIn
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
Amsterdam-listed e-commerce company Prosus and parent company Naspers plan to cut 30% of their corporate workforce, citing a “more difficult” macro environment
FT Alphaville closes its Mastodon server and reflects on why running a social media site is a bad idea, including due to reputational, legal, and security risks
North Carolina-based Zift Solutions, whose ZiftOne tool helps companies manage channel marketing, sales, and operations, raised $70M led by Investcorp
Edward Gately / Channel Futures :
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