Apple launches its Apple Card Savings account, announced in October 2022, letting users deposit Daily Cash rewards into a 4.15% high yield account with no fees
Months after its first announcement, Apple Savings is now available to Apple Card users, with users able to route Daily Cash rewards …
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk says he's working on “TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe”
Tucker Carlson's exclusive interview with Musk airs Monday at 8pm ET on Fox News
WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging apps sign a letter urging the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill, which would weaken privacy on the internet
Encrypted messaging services have jointly called for changes to parts of the UK Online Safety Bill (OSB).
Source: Apple's revenue in India hit a record almost $6B in FY 2022, up nearly 50% YoY from $4.1B; Tim Cook is inaugurating India's first Apple stores this week
he's been spotted at the festival over the years Sareena Dayaram / CNET : The Mumbai Apple Store Shows India's Growing Importance to the Company International Business Times : Opening Of Apple Store: ...
Indian customers are yet to fully benefit from Apple's India initiatives due to prohibitively expensive products and services like Apple Pay being unavailable
The reality is that millions of Indian consumers continue to purchase Apple products despite feeling like second-tier customers.
A winner at the Sony World Photography Awards rejects the award, saying his submission was AI-generated and meant to test if such competitions were ready for AI
A winner at this year's Sony World Photography Awards wasn't a photo at all. — Jordan Pearson
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says “anything is on the table, including relocating” from the US if regulatory clarity for the industry does not emerge
Armstrong said “anything is on the table” in terms of Coinbase's plans should greater regulatory clarity not emerge in the U.S.
Citizen Lab: NSO Group deployed at least three new “zero-click” hacks against iPhones with iOS 15 and early versions of iOS 16 in 2022; Apple fixed the exploits
SAN FRANCISCO — Israeli spyware maker NSO Group deployed at least three new “zero-click” hacks against iPhones last year …
Sources: Microsoft is developing an AI chip, internally codenamed Athena, since as early as 2019; some Microsoft and OpenAI staff are already testing the chip
After placing an early bet on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, Microsoft has another secret weapon in its arsenal …
An investigation details how Mexico became Pegasus' first client, grew to be its most prolific user, and continues to use the spyware despite promising to stop
A Times investigation reveals the story behind how Mexico became the first and most prolific user of Pegasus. Tweets: @el_reportero , @llchristyll , @lkatzenberg , @diazbriseno , @justinhendrix , and ...
Illinois, Michigan, and seven other US states join the DOJ lawsuit against Google, jointly filed with eight states in January 2023, for alleged ad tech monopoly
Nine more U.S. states on Monday joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed earlier by the Justice Department against Alphabet Inc's Google …
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about its AT Protocol, content moderation, and more; he says the federated social network has let in about 20,000 users so far
As Elon Musk continues wielding Twitter like a blunt weapon against competitors like Substack, the downsides …
Sonos launches Sonos Pro, which lets businesses play music across numerous locations without breaking licensing rules, costing $35 per month per location
Maybe the long-rumored Sonos headphones aren't coming this year after all. A few months ago, CEO Patrick Spence announced that Sonos …
Netflix's second ever livestream hit technical issues, leading to a 75+ minute delay and the company taping the Love is Blind reunion episode for later viewing
Show Will Now Air On-Demand Ben Lyons / Gamereactor UK : Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie headline Netflix's All The Light We Cannot See Amanda Hoover / Wired : The ‘Love Is Blind’ Fiasco Proves Netflix H...
Twitter plans to introduce labels on tweets for which the company has limited searchability or visibility due to a violation of its hateful conduct policy
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Nike plans to release its first virtual sneaker collection, Our Force 1, a play on the iconic Air Force 1 design, on the company's NFT trading platform .Swoosh
Rosie Perper / CoinDesk :
The US SEC sues Bittrex and its ex-CEO for allegedly operating an unregistered securities exchange, claiming tokens like Algorand and Omise Go are securities
4 recent SEC events indicate that crypto-exchanges … Tweets: @secgov : Today we charged crypto asset trading platform Bittrex Inc. and its co-founder and former CEO William Shihara for operating an un...
Chinese government data: semiconductor output fell nearly 15% YoY in Q1 2023; smartphone production fell 13.8%, as local brands like Oppo and Xiaomi struggled
China's production of key electronics declined so far this year despite a bullish rebound in the overall economy, showing the unevenness of the country's recovery.
Mark Zuckerberg announces Instagram will now allow up to five links in account bios, challenging Linktree, Beacons, and numerous other “link in bio” services
Instagram today is rolling out a new feature for adding links to user profiles that challenges Linktree …
US attorneys charge 40+ staff at China's domestic security agency, alleging they made thousands of fake profiles on Twitter and elsewhere to pose as US citizens
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Unchained Capital, which offers Bitcoin-focused financial services including cold wallet storage, raised a $60M Series B led by Valor Equity Partners
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk :
A look at autonomous AI agents like Auto-GPT and BabyAGI, which perform multistep tasks by iteratively taking output from GPT-4 and feeding it back into itself
Ransomware attacks in Japan, which exported chip components worth $42.3B last year, reportedly grew 58% YoY in 2022, and can cause global supply chain issues
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How European police agencies infiltrated encrypted phone networks, like EncroChat and Sky ECC, that were popular with drug syndicates and other criminal groups
Ed Caesar / New Yorker : Tweets: @rupertmyers , @clairegeorgeseu , @kitchellel , @dduane , @newyorker , and @edcaesar Tweets: Rupert Myers / @rupertmyers : Crooks' Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones - ...
Despite the UK's chancellor lauding its “world-beating fintech sector”, London has been waning as a fintech hub, as startups call for reforms amid SVB UK's bust
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times :
Ransomware gang Vice Society leaks data stolen from US network infrastructure company CommScope, including thousands of employees' SSNs and bank account details
U.S. network infrastructure giant CommScope confirms it was hit by a ransomware attack. CommScope counts hospitals, schools and federal government agencies as customers. …
Sources: Amazon creates Ratatouille, a PR push to boost its image in France via a dozen projects like TV ads, promoting French products sold on Amazon, and more
Bloomberg : Tweets: @rmac18 Tweets: Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : This is like Louis Vuitton saying it needs more American customers and launching Operation Hamburglar https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://tw...
Sources: Chinese regulators are expected to lower the fine on Ant Group to about $728M, down from the $1B+ initially planned, and soften the wording of charges
Reuters : Tweets: @byjoshye Tweets: Josh Ye / @byjoshye : Chinese regulators are expected to fine Ant Group about a quarter less than the more than $1 billion initially planned and downgrade their ch...
Spotify plans to drop its paywall and change its exclusivity rules for some of Gimlet's podcasts in the coming months; Spotify acquired Gimlet for $230M in 2019
A look at Counterman v. Colorado, a cyberstalking case SCOTUS is set to consider on April 19 that could have sweeping consequences for online speech writ large
being heard by SCOTUS on Wednesday — a case that could inadvertently strike down a bunch of important protections against online stalking https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapows...
Documents detail hundreds of ICE investigations into employees allegedly misusing its database, from stalking and harassment to passing information to criminals
Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired :
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