Netflix lists its rules and exemptions to prevent password sharing, including that all devices should be on the same “primary” Wi-Fi at least once every 31 days
After months of warning subscribers that anti-password sharing measures were coming to Netflix, the company appears to be finally set to unleash them.
The UK government lays out plans to regulate crypto, including measures to strengthen rules for lending, disclosures, financial intermediaries, and custodians
- The U.K. laid out plan to regulate the cryptocurrency industry. — The proposals include strengthening rules on crypto lending …
Intel cuts employee compensation to preserve cash for a turnaround plan, including 25% for CEO Pat Gelsinger, 15% for leadership, and 5% for mid-level managers
Intel Corp., struggling with a rapid drop in revenue and earnings, is cutting management pay across the company to cope …
Apple launches its MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, playoffs, and more for $14.99/month or $99/year
Today, Apple launched MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, Audi 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs …
Sources and documents: Google asks employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including Apprentice Bard, a chatbot that uses its LaMDA conversational tech
- Google is testing ChatGPT-like products that use its LaMDA technology, according to sources and internal documents acquired by CNBC.
Nvidia is working to fix a Discord bug that slows the memory clocks on some of its GPUs by up to 200MHz, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti
Discord is slowing down graphics card memory clocks on some Nvidia GPUs. A recent Discord update has introduced a bug that slows down memory clocks …
A look at Microsoft's prized 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo, after a leadership overhaul, layoffs, and more; sources detail a pivot to Unreal Engine
Microsoft Corp. says it's going to keep making new games in the popular Halo franchise at its prized 343 Industries studio — despite rumors to the contrary.
A report by the White House's NTIA describes Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores and suggests legislation to improve competition and choice
A new Biden administration report describes Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores and suggests legislation …
Sources: a US judge rejects the FTC's bid for a preliminary injunction to block Meta's Within acquisition, giving the FTC one week to decide whether to appeal
Meta Platforms Inc. won court approval to buy virtual reality startup Within Unlimited, defeating an effort to block the deal …
Netflix adds spatial audio to its $20 per month Premium plan, available for over 700 of its most popular titles; Standard and Basic will get limited support
Listen to this: Netflix is hoping audiophiles will upgrade to the $20-per-month Premium tier to gain access to the streamer's full collection …
Sources: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of OpenAI's ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, in the coming weeks; OpenAI plans to launch a ChatGPT app
Microsoft's second-place search engine Bing is poised to incorporate a faster and richer version of ChatGPT, known as GPT-4 …
Sources: UMG is in talks with Tidal and others to overhaul streaming economics to pay artists more; ideas include a “bonus pool” and “superfan” subscriptions
Group looks into options such as cracking down on bots and adding ‘superfan’ subscriptions
Meta's Ready at Dawn studio plans to shutter Echo VR, one of the best-rated and most popular free Quest games, after layoffs, to focus on “our next project”
As a parting gift, players can claim lots of premium cosmetic items for free — The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email
PayPal plans to lay off ~2,000 employees, or ~7% of its workforce, “over the coming weeks”, as the company addresses the “challenging macroeconomic environment”
- PayPal on Tuesday announced plans to lay off 2,000 employees, or around 7% of its workforce.
Indiana-based blockchain startup SIMBA Chain, which has worked on various US military projects, raised $30M from the US Air Force, after raising $1.5M in 2020
The USAF has granted Simba Chain the increase as part of its aims of “identifying and advancing technologies that have the potential to secure its future dominance.”
An interview with Chris Miller, a Tufts professor and author of the book Chip War, on EUV lithography, ASML's role in global chip manufacturing, TSMC, and more
Professor Chris Miller's new book Chip War explains the complicated global politics inside your iPhone. Tweets: @brianweeden Tweets: @brianweeden : The global battle over chip manufacturing and why th...
Sources: the UK's semiconductor plan, which missed a publication deadline last fall, has suffered from government disarray, as the US and EU move forward
which missed its publication deadline last autumn — has suffered from internal disconnect and government disarray, setting the country behind its global allies in a crucial race to become more self-re...
Pakistan “degrades” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warns of a full block if it fails to remove such content
Pakistan has “degraded” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” …
A US judge amends Sam Bankman-Fried's bail terms, prohibiting him from contacting any current or former FTX or Alameda employees and bans Signal and other apps
The tentative order was granted by a New York court on Wednesday after prosecutors asked the former FTX CEO's bail conditions to be amended last week.
Cape Town-based Lulalend, which uses a proprietary credit scoring algorithm to offer short-term loans to SMBs, raised a $35M Series B and launches neobank Lula
In most African countries, access to credit remains limited for many small businesses, with the reasons ranging from the inability …
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger form a venture to explore next-gen social apps; the first is Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles
Analysis: 2022 was the biggest year for crypto hacking to date, with $3.8B stolen, mainly from DeFi protocols and by North Korea-tied hackers like Lazarus Group
2022 was the biggest year ever for crypto hacking, with $3.8 billion stolen from cryptocurrency businesses.
Cars & Bids, a car auction site founded by Doug DeMuro, an automotive YouTuber who has amassed 4.5M+ subscribers since 2013, raised $37M from The Chernin Group
Doug DeMuro is arguably the most successful automotive YouTuber in the relatively short history of that young medium.
Western Digital raised $900M from Apollo Global and Elliott, which sources say is a precursor to merging with Japan's Kioxia, as the memory chip sector shrinks
Western Digital Corp. is receiving a $900 million investment led by Apollo Global Management Inc., getting financial firepower …
OpenAI debuts a free web-based tool to help determine if text was written by a machine, rated as “very unlikely”, “unlikely”, “unclear”, “possible”, or “likely”
The US and India launch the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies, including cooperating on quantum computing, AI, 5G, and chips, to counter China
a security grouping of the US, Japan, Australia & India. https://www.ft.com/... Gokul Sahni / @gokul_sahni : “One US official said the technology initiative, coupled with other actions, meant that 202...
Sources: as Apple launches MLS Season Pass, the company is shopping ad packages for up to ~$4M per season, without guaranteeing advertisers viewership numbers
Tel Aviv-based Addressable, which claims to have used digital fingerprinting to match 17M crypto wallet holders with their Twitter accounts, raised a $7.5M seed
Marketo, which was developed - among other things.- to enhance marketing around social media users, ended up being acquired by Adobe.
Egyptian microfinance lending and payments service MNT-Halan raised $260M in equity and $140M in debt via bond issuances at a ~$1B post-money valuation
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
A look at Blind, an anonymous professional networking site that has emerged as a lifeline for tech workers seeking information and advice about the mass layoffs
In the week before Microsoft publicly announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs, thousands of workers at the tech giant who were eager …
AMD reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $5.6B, vs. $5.5B est., net income down 98% YoY to $21M, and Client segment revenue down 51% YoY due to weak PC chip sales
Kif Leswing / CNBC :
Filing: Tesla lost ~$140M on its bitcoin holdings in 2022, taking a $204M impairment loss, nearly doubling its $101M loss in 2021, offset by $64M in profit
Jason Nelson / Decrypt :
Snap reports Q4 revenue flat YoY at $1.3B, vs. $1.31B est., DAUs up 17% YoY to 375M, and a $288M net loss, vs. $23M in net income YoY; stock drops 14%+
whatever their other merits, which may actually be good overall —have been dire for Snap: In the past 4 March quarters, it grew between 38 and 66 per cent, year-on-year. Now, growth hasn't just decele...
A look at Spanish-language livestreaming growth on Twitch; the platform's audience for Spanish, its fastest-growing language, grew sixfold from 2019 to 2022
Latin America has one of toughest digital ad markets. Opportunity is only growing, sources say. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Spanish-Speaking Streamers Are the Hottest T...
As memory prices plunge, SK Hynix reports a ~$1.4B Q4 operating loss, its biggest quarterly operating loss yet, vs. ~$900M est., and a 38% YoY drop in revenue
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg :
Microsoft disabled multiple fraudulent, verified Microsoft Cloud Partner Program accounts for creating malicious OAuth apps used to steal customers' emails
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
Anker admits its Eufy security cameras are not natively E2E encrypted and produced unencrypted video streams for Eufy's web portal, but says the flaws are fixed
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
EA Q3: revenue up 5% YoY to $1.88B, vs. $2.5B est., net income up 209% YoY to $204M, net bookings down 9% YoY to $2.34B, and lowers FY guidance; stock drops 10%
TJ Denzer / Shacknews :
Peacock has stopped offering its free tier to new subscribers; existing users will continue to have access
plans now start at $5 a month Hadlee Simons / Android Authority : Peacock no longer offers free tier to new users: A sign of things to come?
A survey of nearly 25K US adults: 29.5% used Twitter in December 2022 and January 2023 vs. 32.4% in October 2022; Democrats' usage fell as Republicans' was flat
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News :
Twitter shuts down CoTweets, an experimental feature that let two users author and publish a tweet in tandem; in a month, CoTweets will show a single author
FS-ISAC report: DDoS attacks targeting banks and other financial firms had increased 22% YoY by November 2022, particularly in Europe, where they rose 73% YoY
Andrew Martin / Bloomberg :
Sources: seeking to boost Reels' quality, Meta executives are leaning toward relaxing the company's long-standing opposition to sharing ad revenue with creators
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information :
The goal of the Big Tech layoffs is to bring workers to heel and cultivate an insecure workforce, as an official recession hasn't hit the US or its tech sector
thx again to everyone who read, discussed, and reached out; this story clearly resonated with many—and thought I'd update with some additional points here https://twitter.com/...
Tel Aviv-based Sentra, which classifies cloud data according to sensitivity and tracks cloud data security, raised a $30M Series A led by Standard Investments
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Spotify has deployed Google's User Choice Billing in 140+ markets globally, to reduce Play Store commissions; how much the company is saving is confidential
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