Leaked iPhone 15 CAD files reveal a larger 6.2-inch display, Dynamic Island, a USB-C charging port, and more, after iPhone 15 Pro CAD files leaked last week
Apple's iPhone 15 is still months away from being announced, but we have some exciting news to share with you today.
Memo: the European Commission bans TikTok on corporate devices and personal devices using corporate apps, asking staff to uninstall the app by March 15
The EU executive's IT service has asked all Commission employees to uninstall TikTok from their corporate devices …
Sources: Apple hit major milestones in a Jobs-era project to develop noninvasive blood glucose monitoring, part of its Alphabet X-like Exploratory Design Group
Apple Inc. has a moonshot-style project underway that dates back to the Steve Jobs era: noninvasive and continuous blood glucose monitoring.
Microsoft appears to have updated the new Bing to end chats following prompts mentioning “feelings” or “Sydney”, after adding chat restrictions on February 17
but the human response is way scarier Russell Kidson / gHacks Technology News : The Problem of Other Minds: Assessing the Sentience of Chatbots like Bing Eric Hal Schwartz / Voicebot.ai : Microsoft Re...
Coinbase launches Base, a Layer 2 network using Optimism's OP Stack, offering access to Ethereum, Solana, and others, and has no plans for new network tokens
Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) launched Base, a layer 2 network built using Optimism's OP Stack, to attract millions of new crypto users in the coming years.
Binance shut down the derivative trading accounts of retail users in Australia after an investigation found customers were misclassified as wholesale investors
Binance closed the derivative trading accounts of some wholesale investors in Australia after an investigation found that they didn't meet the criteria for such investors.
Spotify tests “token-enabled playlists”, letting some NFT holders connect their wallets and listen to curated music, starting on Android in select countries
Music streaming Spotify is testing a new service called “token-enabled playlists,” which allows holders of non-fungible tokens …
In its superseding indictment, the US charges that SBF and two unnamed FTX executives made 300+ “unlawful” political donations, including using customer funds
New York Times :
Valve recently patched a Dota 2 exploit used by third-party cheating clients, created a honeypot to catch them, and banned over 40,000 accounts
The update added a ‘honeypot’ to catch cheaters — Valve issued an update to Dota 2 recently that patched an exploit used …
A US court unseals a superseding indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried containing 12 charges, up from the initial eight, including alleged bank fraud
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces additional charges, including bank fraud allegations, under a new indictment unveiled Thursday morning.
Internal FAQ: Google asks Cloud employees and partners in its five largest US locations to share desks starting in Q2 and work from an office on alternate days
- The company's cloud unit has told employees that it will transition to a desk-sharing workspace in its five largest locations.
Microsoft releases updated Bing and Edge apps on iOS and Android in preview, offering the same chat experience as on desktop, and adds a Bing chatbot to Skype
Letter: the US Copyright Office says a graphic novel's images that were generated using the AI tool Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection
Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection …
Samsung announces a standardized 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) modem that will enable two-way communication between smartphones and satellites
There was speculation that Samsung could use smartphone-to-satellite technology in its Galaxy S23 much like Apple has for the iPhone 14, but that didn't happen in the end.
After years of mismanagement and commingling funds, Binance plans to shift to a “semi-automated” model for handling reserves of its so-called B-Tokens
including how it briefly converted customer funds without informing them. Nice scoop by @leomschwartz https://fortune.com/...
YouTube rolls out multi-language audio tracks to more creators worldwide; creators saw 15%+ of their watch time from the video's non-primary language in January
After initial testing over the last few months, YouTube is rolling out access to multi-language audio tracks to more creators worldwide …
Microsoft says Sydney is an “old codename” for a chatbot tested with some Bing users in India since 2020; sources say Sydney had less personality until 2022
Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot history dates back at least six years, with Sydney first appearing in 2021.
An analysis of 100+ studies finds that social media is a major cause of mental illness in teen girls, not just a tiny correlate, especially after 2012
Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational — A big story last week was the partial release …
Sources: China's Luxshare takes over the Shanghai AR development team for Apple's headset from Taiwan's Pegatron; Foxconn will make a cheaper second-gen device
Reliance on a Chinese supplier for first-gen gadget a first for iPhone maker — TAIPEI — Apple has chosen China's Luxshare …
Filings: the SEC and NYDFS oppose Voyager's plan to sell assets to Binance.US for $1.02B, alleging the sale of unregistered securities, like Voyager's VGX token
A $1.02 billion deal by Binance.US to purchase assets of defunct crypto lender Voyager has been opposed by New York …
Netflix cut subscriptions prices on certain tiers in more than 36 countries globally, in some cases halving the cost; Netflix operates in 190+ countries
Move comes as streaming company says members ‘have never had more choices when it comes to entertainment’
After the US passed the industry-supported $52B CHIPS Act, chipmakers turn cutthroat to snag a bigger share of the federal cash, setting off a lobbying frenzy
Semiconductor companies, which united to get the CHIPS Act approved, have set off a lobbying frenzy as they argue for more cash than their competitors.
Analysis of the 40 most popular Android apps on the Google Play Store finds nearly 80% had discrepancies between their privacy policies and Data Safety labels
The apps' privacy policies, however, both explicitly state that they share user information with advertisers, Internet service providers …
Ben Rubin, who founded Meerkat and Houseparty, announces Towns, a protocol and a web-based chat app, and raised a $25.5M Series A led by a16z Crypto
After launching a pair of well-loved but ultimately star-crossed social apps, Ben Rubin is going all-in on decentralization.
A look at Twitter v. Taamneh and the US Supreme Court's struggle to determine whether social media companies can be held responsible for aiding terrorism
depending on how you count the Justices? Would be a 5-4 decision, Thomas, Jackson, Kagan, Sotomayer & Alito. Josh Gerstein / @joshgerstein : For 2nd day in a row, tech seems likely to get a reprieve f...
Documents suggest Ruja Ignatova, co-founder of the OneCoin fraud and one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted, was murdered by a notorious drug lord as long ago as 2018
New documents suggest that infamous crypto scammer Ruja Ignatova, co-founder of the OneCoin fraud and one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted … Tweets: @coindesk and @smtuffy Tweets: @coindesk : New documents...
Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$35.9B, China Commerce revenue down 1% YoY to ~$24.6B, and net income up 69% YoY to ~$6.8B
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
Mercedes-Benz partners with Google to bring navigation software and YouTube to its next-gen car OS and strikes a multibillion-dollar sensor deal with Luminar
A US judge rules that NBA Top Shot Moments on the Flow blockchain might be securities and refuses to dismiss a lawsuit against Dapper Labs for offering the NFTs
Sources: US DOJ officials met with Google's competitors and customers for an antitrust lawsuit over Google Maps and location data that could be filed in 2023
Justice Department antitrust lawyers are homing in on yet another Google target: the company's vast mapping business.
Social media's emerging “pay-to-play” model turns functionality that users expect for free, like security, visibility, and technical support, into premium items
Yesterday, Twitter announced … Jason / JYAS : Reels did not do it, but Instagram finally made me cringe Wall Street Journal : Would You Pay for Social Media? Meta, Twitter and Snap Want to Find Out Ma...
Artifact, the personalized news reader created by Instagram's co-founders, opens to the public for Android and iOS, with new features and no sign-up required
Twitter under Elon Musk has yet to publish transparency reports detailing government content removal demands; the company published its last report in July 2022
“That shit went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter's previously routine transparency reports Tweets: @noahshachtman , @aaschapiro , @ronchusid , @ngrossman81 ...
A look at IMDb's top 300 contributors, including one who wrote 35K+ plot summaries, and the history of the Amazon-owned crowdsourced website predating Wikipedia
Stephen Lurie / Wired : Tweets: @caitlin__kelly , @grahamdavida , @luriethereal , @michellelegro , and @michellelegro Tweets: Caitlin Kelly / @caitlin__kelly : Scouring Stockholm libraries for forgot...
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue down 21% YoY to $6.05B vs. $6B est, Data Center revenue up 11% YoY to $3.62B, and Q1 revenue guidance above estimates; NVDA jumps 12%+
and plans to keep it that way as generative AI explodes Sean Hollister / The Verge : Nvidia is still making billions in Q4 2023 despite a giant drop in PC demand PC Gamer : Nvidia predicts explosive f...
A survey of 2,199 US adults: 14% of Gen Z adults reported using TikTok to start researching a major news event, compared to 1% for all other generations
Kevin Tran / Morning Consult :
Bengaluru-based Kratos Studios, which lets developers design quests for gamers on its Web3 platform, raised a $20M seed led by Accel at a $150M valuation
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
The EC opens a consultation on Europe's telecom sector, which could see Google, Apple, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, and others help cover network costs
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
Google tests blocking news content in Search for fewer than 4% of Canadian users for about five weeks, a potential response to Canada's proposed Online News Act
Mickey Djuric / The Canadian Press News :
Austin-based ProsperOps, whose software automatically optimizes cloud resources, raised a $72M Series A led by H.I.G. Growth, after previously raising ~$800K
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A profile of Ivan Sutherland, who created Sketchpad, a breakthrough in interactive computer graphics for which he earned his PhD from MIT in 1963
David C. Brock / CHM : Tweets: @jamescham , @jackrusher , @mpesce , and @computerhistory Tweets: James Cham / @jamescham : “The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse...
Amsterdam-based Source.ag, whose AI helps commercial greenhouse crop growers maximize their yields, raised a $23M Series A, taking its total funding to $33M
Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch :
Tel Aviv-based chip startup Chain Reaction, which plans to begin mass producing its blockchain chip Electrum in Q1 2023, raised $70M led by Morgan Creek Digital
Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters :
eBay reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.47B est., gross merchandise volume down 12% YoY to $18.2B, and a Q1 2023 revenue guidance above estimates
US-based DNA Diagnostics Center settled two AG lawsuits last week after hackers stole 2.1M users' data in 2021 from a “legacy” database the company forgot about
Jude Karabus / The Register :
Everyday Robots will no longer be a separate project within Alphabet and some of its tech and staff will be consolidated into Google Research robotics efforts
Paresh Dave / Wired :
Sources: AT&T is working with Barclays to solicit bids for its cybersecurity business, called AlienVault when AT&T acquired the company for ~$600M in 2018
Milana Vinn / Reuters :
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