Google debuts a ChatGPT rival named Bard and says the “experimental conversational AI service” will be “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks”
It's official: Google is working on a ChatGPT competitor named Bard.
Gemini plans to provide up to $100M to Genesis' bankruptcy recovery, mainly for its Earn users, who had ~$900M of assets frozen when Genesis paused withdrawals
- Crypto exchange Gemini will contribute $100 million in cash to a recovery plan for bankrupt crypto lender Genesis.
The LockBit ransomware gang claims responsibility for an attack on the UK's Royal Mail that halted international shipping, contradicting an earlier statement
The LockBit ransomware operation has claimed the cyberattack on UK's leading mail delivery service Royal Mail that forced the company …
An interview with Apple executives Tim Millet and Bob Borchers on M2, building on M1, transitioning from Intel, the future of Mac gaming, Metal APIs, and more
On M2 chips, Mac mini and how the Mac will thrive in gaming — Apple's M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when they arrived in late 2021.
Filings: Digital Currency Group begins selling shares in investment vehicles run by its subsidiary Grayscale at a steep discount, seeking to repay creditors
Digital assets conglomerate sells down holdings in prized investments at a discount to pay creditors
Ex-Coinbase manager Ishan Wahi pleads guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, after his brother Nikhil was sentenced to 10 months in January
A former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager pleaded guilty on Tuesday in what U.S. prosecutors have called …
SoftBank reports a ~$5B loss for its Vision Fund in Q3, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and investments of less than $350M in only a few startups
SoftBank Group Corp.'s first earnings report without founder Masayoshi Son went a lot like those he presided over the past few years …
Samsung Galaxy S23 users say the smartphone uses ~60GB of its storage for Android and pre-installed apps, four times more than the Google Pixel 7 Pro's ~15GB
Samsung's Android build is 4x bigger than Google's—twice the size of Windows 11. — As a smartphone operating system …
Google plans to blur explicit images in search results by default “in the coming months”, though signed-in users over 18 will be able to turn off the feature
Google is introducing a new online safety feature to help users avoid inadvertently seeing graphically violent …
Baidu's stock jumps 15%+ after the company announced plans to add its ChatGPT-like service “Wenxin Yiyan”, or “Ernie Bot” in English, to search in March 2023
Baidu Inc. surged more than 15% after affirming it's on track to publicly roll out its ChatGPT-like service in March …
Internal Twitter document: just ~180,000 US users paid for Blue and other subscriptions as of mid-January, implying ~$28M annual subscription revenue globally
Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January …
WhatsApp updates Status, adding a Private Audience Selector, Status Reactions, 30-second Voice Status messages, and more, rolling out on iOS, Android, and web
WhatsApp has just announced a set of new features for status updates, which will be available to users on both iOS and Android devices over the coming weeks.
Mastodon reports having ~1.4M MAUs, after climbing in two months from 380K MAUs to 2.5M+ in November 2022, as many newcomers complain the service is hard to use
Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the exodus from Elon Musk's Twitter, suggesting the decentralized platform is not a direct replacement.
Nintendo cuts its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and revises Switch sales forecasts from ~19M to ~18M
Nintendo Co. cut its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, underscoring uncertainty around its aging Switch console and the global gaming environment.
Ethereum testnet successfully processes the first-ever staked ETH withdrawals, ahead of the highly anticipated Shanghai upgrade to Ethereum, expected next month
The upgrade on the Zhejiang testnet was the first of three dress rehearsals for the much anticipated Shanghai hard fork.
Internal memo: Meta plans to revamp Horizon Worlds, including opening the app to users aged 13-17, seeking to improve user retention as competition intensifies
Memo highlights social-media giant's plan to revitalize app, boost users in 2023 — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 1.29%increase …
How AI de-aging VFX are increasingly used on actors, including Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, and the possible impact on Hollywood's economics
Stars like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are being rendered younger digitally but voices in the industry express concern about where we might be heading
Tinder rolls out Incognito Mode, a step up from fully hiding one's profile, for Tinder+, Gold, and Premium users, profile blocking, and other safety features
Tinder is rolling out new features aimed at making it easier for users on the dating app to control how they interact with others.
After debuting in China last month, the 6.7" OnePlus 11 ships in the US on Feb. 16 at $699, $200 less than OnePlus 10, with a 5000 mAh battery, Wi-Fi 7 support
OnePlus' flagship smartphone is cheaper than it was last year. — After the OnePlus 11's debut in China last month, the phone is finally making it to US shores.
A look at Moscow's Safe City, an AI surveillance system with 217K connected cameras designed to catch criminals that is now seen as a tool of digital repression
Moscow promised residents lower crime rates through an expansive smart city project. Then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. Tweets: @glichfield , @iethics , and @mashaborak Tweets: Gideon Lichfield / @...
Toronto-based Hut 8 Mining plans to merge with Miami-based US Bitcoin Corp, creating Hut 8 Corp, a crypto mining giant in North America with a ~$990M market cap
Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters :
A US FTC official says the agency won't appeal its US federal court loss over Meta's Within acquisition but could still pursue the case with an internal judge
and it wasted my tax dollars. No respect for @FTC https://twitter.com/... Dan Amrich / @danamrich : This is excellent news in my household. As a choreographer & mapper for @getSupernatural, @katrinauc...
The US, France, Italy, and others warn about a ransomware attack on VMware ESXi servers, despite a February 2021 patch; Censys: 3,200+ servers have been hacked
Description OpenSLP as used in ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1c-17325551 … Edward Hawkins / VMware Security Blog : VMware Security Response Center (vSRC) Response to ‘ESXiArgs’ Ransomware Attacks Elvira Pol...
Microsoft announces an in-person press event at its Redmond HQ on February 7 at 10am PT, expected to focus mainly on its OpenAI partnership and ChatGPT for Bing
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Tests show CSAM still spreads and gets recommended on Twitter, including known material that's easier to detect; one video had 122K+ views in just over a month
Binance plans to “temporarily” suspend US dollar bank transfers on February 8 and says that 0.01% of its monthly active users rely on USD bank transfers
not so good dealing with real money https://twitter.com/... Rock / @dataarocks : Binance got ditched by Signature Bank and they can't use Silvergate directly. Paxos operated partially through Silverga...
Jobber, which offers home service businesses a set of management tools, raised a $100M Series D led by General Atlantic and passed $100M annual revenue in 2022
Josh Scott / BetaKit :
A New York City public middle and high school for girls is using ChatGPT-generated lesson plans to help students examine the chatbot's usefulness and pitfalls
or more important than—knowing how to program computers.” fascinating https://twitter.com/... Fabio Chiusi / @fabiochiusi : “Ms. Shuman was using the algorithm-generated lesson to examine the chatbot'...
Document: prosecutors and Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers agree to let him use Zoom, email, a monitored WhatsApp, and more but not Signal or other ephemeral apps
Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph :
Twitter on iOS and Android now defaults to the timeline the user had open last, instead of the algorithmic feed, after making the change on the web in January
Mitchell Clark / The Verge :
Getty Images sues Stability AI in the US for allegedly copying 12M+ images without permission or compensation for training data used to create Stable Diffusion
Google Play began requiring local regulatory approval for loan apps in Nigeria and Kenya on January 31, matching rules in India, Indonesia, and the Philippines
Alexander Onukwue / Semafor :
The 2023 Super Bowl will not have crypto ads after FTX and others backed out despite buying spots early; crypto companies had around five spots in 2022's game
John Ourand / Sports Business Journal :
Pinterest reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $877M, vs. $886.3M est., $17M net income, global MAUs up 4% YoY to 450M, and forecasts weak Q1 revenue growth
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
ChatGPT users are finding various “jailbreaks” that get the tool to seemingly ignore OpenAI's evolving content restrictions and provide unfettered responses
Rohan Goswami / CNBC :
Pakistan unblocks Wikipedia after three days; Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif: unintended consequences of the ban over objectionable content outweigh the benefits
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Research: Australian startups raised AU$7.4B across 712 deals in 2022, down 30% YoY from AU$10.6B across 731 deals in 2021, as six startups hit unicorn status
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg :
Virginia-based ShiftMed, a health care workforce management marketplace, raised $200M led by Panoramic Ventures and says 350K+ nurses and aides use its app
Binance launches a free tool to help users calculate their tax obligations, supporting up to 100K crypto transactions, available initially in Canada and France
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
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