Netflix plans to ship its last red DVD envelopes in September 2023, after 25 years of mailing shows and movies to subscribers and paving the way for streaming
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal :
Netflix Q1: revenue up 4% YoY to $8.16B, 1.8M paid net additions, vs. 2.06M est. and -0.2M in Q1 2022, and global streaming paid memberships up 5% YoY to 232.5M
Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) on Tuesday reported first-quarter revenue and earnings roughly in line with Wall Street expectations …
Docs: Google plans to unveil the Pixel Fold on May 10, offering a 7.6" main screen, a 5.8" outside screen, and Tensor G2, launching in June for upward of $1,700
- Google is planning to launch its first foldable smartphone at upward of $1,700, making it the highest price-point product …
Netflix delays a “broad rollout” of its paid sharing plan to Q2 2023, including to the US, after its Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain launch in February
paid sharing is coming very soon Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint : Free Netflix days will soon be over, paid sharing to roll out to US and more broadly Rajesh Pandey / Cult of Mac : Netflix's password-sha...
Netflix upgrades its ad-supported plan's video quality from 720p to 1080p and lets subscribers watch two streams at once, starting with Canada and Spain
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Twitter quietly altered its hateful conduct policy to remove long-standing protections for transgender users, including prohibiting “misgendering or deadnaming”
Twitter has quietly altered its Hateful Conduct Policy to remove long-standing protections for its transgender users …
Meta starts another round of layoffs, impacting technical teams; source: Meta will possibly layoff around 4,000 people in this round, out of the planned 10,000
The company plans to lay off employees on Wednesday, according to sources. — Meta will conduct another mass round of layoffs on Wednesday …
Reddit plans to charge companies to access its API, which many have used to train AI tools; the API will stay free for developers building apps for Reddit users
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects.
The UK CMA opens a consultation after Google proposes letting developers use alternate payment methods for IAP and reducing its cut to settle an antitrust probe
Google has proposed letting developers offering apps through its UK Play mobile app store to have the option …
Some iPhone users say Apple's policies made it hard for them to regain access to their accounts after thieves used the optional Recovery Key to lock them out
The recovery key was designed to make Apple IDs safer. Instead, these victims permanently lost family photos and other precious digital possessions.
CB Insights: global fintech funding totaled $15B in Q1, up 55% QoQ, with Egypt-based MNT-Halan becoming the only unicorn, a first since the end of 2016
Global fintech funding totaled $15 billion in the first quarter of this year, growing 55% from the fourth quarter, according to CB Insights' latest State of Fintech report.
Sources: TSMC is pushing back on some “unacceptable” conditions imposed by the US on chip-factory subsidies, as it seeks up to $15B in government support
With construction under way in Arizona, Taiwanese semiconductor maker calls some aid terms unacceptable
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
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Analysis: Google's C4 dataset, used to train LLMs like Meta's LLaMA, has troubling content from 4chan, Kiwi Farms, white supremacist site Stormfront, and more
AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities … Tweets: @goldman , @timmarchman , @daveleebbg , @nitashatiku , @aaronjschaffer , @...
CB Insights: Indian startups raised just $2B in Q1, down 75% YoY and the smallest quarterly total in nearly three years, across 271 startups, down from 561 YoY
M. Sriram / Reuters : LinkedIn: Sriram Mani . Tweets: @christopherkay , @reuters , @adityakalra , @beinders , and @followthemani LinkedIn: Sriram Mani : It is slightly misleading when all founders an...
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”
a ‘maximum truth-seeking AI’ Sebastian Moss / datacenterdynamics.com : Elon Musk claims he is funding ‘TruthGPT’ AI project, to challenge ChatGPT and Bard Katyanna Quach / The Register : Guy rejects t...
A look at Itana, a controversial startup city set to be built near Lagos in partnership with Binance and investors like Peter Thiel-backed Pronomos Capital
Nigeria's Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy. Tweets: @nelsoncj3 , @nelsoncj3 , @wired , and @b...
ASML reports Q1 revenue up 91% YoY to €6.74B and net profit up nearly 3x YoY to €1.96B, beating estimates of €6.31B and €1.62B, respectively
ASML Holding NV (ASML.AS) beat first-quarter earnings forecasts on Wednesday on continued strong demand for its chip making equipment …
Sources: some US tech companies push to narrow the scope of a Senate bill aimed at a TikTok ban, worried it exposes them to future national security reviews
US tech companies are pushing to narrow the scope of legislation that could ban TikTok in the US, creating new obstacles …
Mark Zuckerberg announces Instagram now lets users add up to five links to their account bios, challenging Linktree, Beacons, and other “link in bio” services
I am delighted for you that for the moment Meta has given you the ability to put up to to 5 links in your bios. How long they will allow that will be interesting to see. Maybe it will stay. … Tweets...
Canada-based Miovision, whose AI manages cities' traffic flows, acquires Global Traffic Technologies for $107M, after raising $150M from Maverix, Telus, and EDC
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Sources: Microsoft plans to release its first ARM-powered Surface Go 4 in 2023, and is working on a smaller Surface Pro with an 11-inch display
Microsoft plans wave of smaller 2-in-1 Windows tablets. — What you need to know — Microsoft is planning to ship the Surface Go 4 with ARM for the first time.
GlobalFoundries sues IBM for allegedly sharing confidential IP and trade secrets with Rapidus, a Japanese chip company that IBM is working with on 2nm chips
Chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc (GFS.O) said on Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp …
During a hearing, House Republicans grilled SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, who refused to state whether ether is a security, despite saying bitcoin is a commodity
#SEChearing Tweets: @warrendavidson : 🚨I'm calling to restructure the @SECGov and the removal of Chair @GaryGensler. Watch my closing remarks from today's hearing where I lay out the abuse of power an...
Cyber risk quantification startup Safe Security raised a $50M Series B led by Sorenson Capital
Michael Novinson / BankInfoSecurity.com :
In a joint statement, the FBI, Interpol, and 13 other law enforcement agencies say Meta's plan to expand the use of E2EE in its apps “blindfolds” them to CSAM
FBI, Interpol and UK National Crime Agency among law enforcement groups warning about tech company's plans
Sources: Apple is developing VR apps and services for its upcoming headset across gaming, fitness, live sports, and collaboration, like FaceTime and Freeform
https://www.bloomberg.com/... John Dagdelen / @jmdagdelen : Ah, yes. What I have always dreamed of! Finally, we'll have the ability to read books in VR. I can't imagine a more convenient medium for th...
Intel discontinues its Blockscale 1000-series ASICs, designed for mining bitcoin, after announcing the chips in March 2022, and doesn't announce any successors
The EU establishes the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency in Seville, Spain, to support oversight of large platforms under the Digital Services Act
Seville, Spain-based algorithmic transparency center to support enforcement of EU's Digital Services Act
The European Union strike a provisional deal for its ~$47B Chips Act, which aims to double the bloc's share of global chip output to 20% by 2030
here's everything that's in it Tobias Mann / The Register : Europe finalizes €43B Chips Act it hopes will help free it from foreign fabs Jo He-rim / The Korea Herald : EU Chips Act potential boon for ...
Epic Systems partners with Microsoft to use Azure OpenAI Service, including GPT-4, to help automate some processes in Epic's electronic health record software
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica :
Citizen Lab: in 2022, NSO Group deployed at least three new zero-click hacks against iPhones with iOS 15 and early versions of iOS 16; Apple fixed the flaws
This was an experiment by #apple around #iOS, without guarantees it would do anything. — But it did. — Concerned about security? … John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton@mastodon.social : 3/ Some details...
Tel Aviv-based Coro, which sells an AI cybersecurity service to mid-market companies, raised a $75M Series C2 from Energy Impact at a $575M post-money valuation
Simplification has been a big theme in the enterprise world in the last couple of years. If a company can consolidate multiple …
Indian customers have yet to fully benefit from Apple's India initiatives due to services like Apple Pay being unavailable and prohibitively expensive products
our first store in India. https://twitter.com/... @dmuthuk : Apple is not doing any favour by opening a shop in India. For that matter, any business would see only their self interest and are least bo...
Some people are using AI chatbots as a supplement to, or in lieu of, traditional mental health services, despite the privacy implications and experts' warnings
Some users see it as a way to supplement traditional mental health services, despite troubling privacy implications. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @rachelmetz Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : IDK, GPT-4 ...
NYC-based Odeko, which sells smart operations software to independent coffee shops and cafes, raised a $53M Series D, bringing its total equity funding to $177M
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Meta opens Horizon Worlds to teens in the US and Canada, despite objections from some lawmakers and activists, and introduces age-appropriate safety features
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Some US software firms are facing large tax bills after lawmakers failed to extend a provision letting companies fully expense R&D costs in the year incurred
Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC : LinkedIn: Karen Kerrigan . Tweets: @jesperfj , @stoarca , @patio11 , @petebray , and @mikeytag LinkedIn: Karen Kerrigan : We said this would happen...now, it needs to fixed. ...
Mexico City-based Avalor, which helps aggregate, normalize, de-duplicate, and track risk data from discovery to remediation, raised a $25M Series A led by TCV
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Austin-based Unchained Capital, which offers bitcoin financial services including trading and cold storage, raised a $60M Series B led by Valor Equity Partners
Virginia-based SpecterOps, which analyzes potential hacking attack paths for platforms like Active Directory and Azure AD, raised a $25M Series A led by Decibel
Semgrep, formally r2c, whose tools scan developers' code for vulnerabilities, raised a $53M Series C led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $93M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
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