Sources: Apple's new 24" iMacs are in engineering validation testing, will likely launch in H2 2023 with the M3 chip and same exterior design as the old iMacs
Apple is gearing up to launch its next slate of laptops and desktops, including a new iMac. Also: Its cloud chief is set to leave …
A presentation in FTX's Chapter 11 case shows the exchange has identified assets of ~$2.2B in FTX.com wallets and a ~$9.3B net borrowing by Alameda Research
So far, $2.2 billion in assets have been identified in the wallets of accounts associated with FTX.com, of which only $694 million are in the most liquid assets.
Investor letter: Multicoin Capital's hedge fund lost 91.4% in 2022; in November it said 10% of assets were stuck on FTX and it had exposure to FTT, SOL, and SRM
The fund's performance was severely impacted by direct exposure to now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and holdings in FTT and Solana-based tokens.
Meta is good at making VR hardware but is ignoring its core gamer audience, as it's not clear the company realizes that games are driving its VR business
Meta seems very committed to making hardware to usher in a whole new world and racing away from the games that drive its VR business.
Bing Chat appears to have a hidden Celebrity mode, in which the chatbot answers questions while impersonating Biden, Trump, Tom Cruise, and other famous people
A secret Bing Chat ‘Celebrity’ mode allows users to instruct the AI to impersonate celebrities, answering questions and talking like the person it imitates.
Reports and sources: the US prepares a program that could ban US investment in some sectors in China, such as advanced semiconductors, quantum computing, and AI
Biden administration expected to seek money in its budget next week to set up program regulating investment abroad
An analysis of the top 100 cited AI papers per year from 2020 to 2022 shows US-based AI research as the most impactful and Google the dominant organization
Who Is publishing the most Impactful AI research right now? With the breakneck pace of innovation in AI, it is crucial to pick up some signal as soon as possible. Tweets: @zetavector , @zetavector , ...
Meta, Twitter, and Snapchat's subscription fees and features are aimed at professional creators filling social feeds because regular users post too infrequently
Monthly fees for Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are not for ordinary users. They're for the professionals who've taken over the feeds. Tweets: @trengriffin and @rajit_h See also Mediagazer Tweets: T...
The US adds China's Inspur, the world's third largest server maker that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to its Entity List, limiting its US tech access
The Biden administration's blacklisting of China's Inspur Group Co. targets a company that US tech giants like Cisco Systems Inc. …
Source: Russia is circumventing sanctions by importing advanced chips through countries such as Turkey and the UAE; shipments from China to Russia have surged
they're made in G7/EU countries, then shipped there via Turkey, UAE and others https://www.bloomberg.com/... Annmarie Hordern / @annmarie : Kazakhstan provides a key example of how Russia looks to be ...
Ring says new Ring Alarm users will have to pay for a Ring Protect subscription starting at $3.99 per month to use existing free features, starting on March 29
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A profile of Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who was a Sonos VP of software management before joining Salesforce, as she leads Slack through its “biggest product year”
Over a few days in late November and early December of 2022, it became clear that Slack was about to go through … Tweets: @harrymccracken , @peterschwartz2 , @lidianejones , and @slackhq . Thanks: @te...
Current and former Dapper Labs staff say bullying and lavish spending by CEO Roham Gharegozlou has hurt the NFT startup amid layoffs and a prolonged bear market
- Dapper Labs CEO and co-founder Roham Gharegozlou's extravagant spending and habit of bullying employees … Tweets: @fintechfrank , @nftethics , @aaronbronsteter , and @evan_van_ness Tweets: Frank Cha...
An analysis of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which covers every connected device and almost all software, causing open-source developers to worry about its scope
The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is admirable in its goal. And the EU is not alone in thinking something needs to be done … Tweets: @lukolejnik , @alecmuffett , @kaepora , @rafbuff , @bert_hu_bert ,...
Silvergate plans to discontinue its Silvergate Exchange Network, a 24/7 instant settlement service that its clients could use to move money to crypto exchanges
BidenCash, a dark web marketplace for stolen credit and debit cards, leaks a free database of 2.1M+ cards sharing emails, card expiry dates, CVV codes, and more
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An NLRB director rules that Google is a “joint employer” with YouTube subcontractor Cognizant and must bargain with Cognizant's YouTube workers if they unionize
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The US imposes new rules requiring that CHIPS Act beneficiaries agree not to expand manufacturing capacity in “countries of concern”, like China, for 10 years
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Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator Una Brands raised a $30M pre-Series C, following a $30M Series B in September 2022, bringing its total funding to $115M
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Sources: in an update to investors, Twitter reports a ~40% YoY decline in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, as advertisers fled the platform
Quoting @Techmeme: #retoot https://techhub.social/... Tweets: Scott Nover / @scottnover : Surprised it's all that little. https://twitter.com/... @zefede : Looking into this. https://twitter.com/... A...
San Jose-based Vintra markets its “co-appearance” AI, which seeks to detect when people caught on video are likely associates, to the IRS and police departments
a direct threat to our privacy and civil liberties. We will not accept this false choice between safety and privacy. Congress must act https://www.latimes.com/... Daragh Murray / @daragh_murray : Inte...
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with its virality, fixing issues, and more
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @trengriffin , @tiagodf , @antonioregalado , @techreview , @ndiakopoulos , @jjaron , @niallfirth , and @ketanj0 Tweets: Tren Griffin / @trengriff...
Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, for allegedly stealing ~$10.5M of the project's seed funding
Forbes : Tweets: @jelenaaa____ , @moo9000 , @sub8u , @carnage4life , @evacide , @yoda , @hkanji , and @sarahnemerson Tweets: Jelena / @jelenaaa____ : Brutal, but in many ways not surprising that this...
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