Samsung announces the Galaxy S24 Ultra, with a new titanium finish, a 6.8" 1440p display, a 50-megapixel camera with 5x zoom, shipping on January 31 from $1,299
For several years running, Samsung's S-series Ultra has been that device, and the company is going just as big with the Ultra for 2024.
The US will ban the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 with pulse oximetry again from January 18, after an appeals court denied Apple's request to pause the ban
The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 with blood oxygen features will be banned from being sold in the United States again …
Apple's seeming sense of entitlement to commissions from third-party iOS apps shows a confrontational stance, instead of seeking to lessen regulatory pressure
That take didn't last long. … Sweeney's description makes it sound as though Apple is demanding its commission from all web sales …
Internal memo: Sundar Pichai says Google will see more “role eliminations” in 2024, though “not at the scale” of 2023's reductions and not affecting every team
Google has laid off over a thousand employees across various departments since January 10th.
Apple plans to sell the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature online starting at 6am PT on January 18 and in Apple Stores on the same day
and save $70 Jay Peters / The Verge : Apple Watches without banned blood oxygen features will go on sale Thursday morning TechRadar : Apple is now selling versions of the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 wi...
Hands-on with the Galaxy S24's AI features: Circle to Search is accurate and convenient, Chat Assist can give hilarious tips, Live Translate was laggy, and more
these are the Galaxy S24's 7 AI features you'll want to try first Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : These Galaxy S24 AI features are all performed on-device Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily ...
Galaxy S24 Ultra hands-on: the matte titanium frame is nice, a flat display makes sense given the phone's size and S-Pen support, but it's still hefty at 233g
Samsung has just announced its new, more expensive Galaxy S24 Ultra. What's new? At a glance, not much …
In the Samsung Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra online listings footnotes, Samsung says Galaxy AI features will be free only until the end of 2025
AI is the big selling point of Samsung's new Galaxy S24 series, but the new, rather good suite of Galaxy AI features may eventually come with a cost, the company has confirmed.
Netflix is not planning to launch a native Apple Vision Pro app or support its iPad app on the AR/VR platform, and says users can watch Netflix in the browser
Netflix Inc. isn't planning to launch an app for Apple Inc.'s upcoming Vision Pro headset, marking a high-profile snub …
Internal memo: YouTube is restructuring its creator management teams, including consolidating various sports, media, film, and TV teams into a single team
James Hale / Tubefilter :
Email: Google plans to cut 100 employees from YouTube's operations and creator management teams; a source says YouTube employs 7,173 people
Nico Grant / New York Times :
TSMC reports Q4 revenue down 1.5% YoY to ~$19.62B and net income down 19.3% YoY to ~$7.56B, both above estimates on the back of weaker macroeconomic conditions
- TSMC reported fourth-quarter revenue slipped 1.5% from a year ago to NT$625.53 billion, while net income dropped 19.3% from a year ago to NT$238.71 billion.
The EU Council and Parliament reach a provisional deal on the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, which will force all crypto companies to run user due diligence
Crypto firms have to do checks on transactions of 1,000 euro or more, and the framework adds measures to mitigate risks in transfers with self-hosted wallets.
Samsung's Galaxy S24 lineup includes Google's AI models Gemini Pro, for Notes, Voice Recorder, and Keyboard apps, and Gemini Nano, for Google Messages and more
Have I Been Pwned adds almost 71M email addresses tied to stolen accounts from the Naz.API dataset, which allegedly contains 1B+ lines of stolen credentials
Have I Been Pwned has added almost 71 million email addresses associated with stolen accounts in the Naz.API dataset to its data breach notification service.
Google's TAG says Russia-linked hacking group Cold River is ramping up its activity and using new tactics, like data-stealing malware, to cause more disruption
Google researchers say they have evidence that a notorious Russian-linked hacking group — tracked as “Cold River” …
A Consumer Reports study involving 709 volunteers: 186,892 companies had sent data about the volunteers to Facebook, or an average of 2,230 companies per person
A new study looks at who is sending information about your online activity to Facebook … By now most internet users know their online activity is constantly tracked.
Samsung unveils the Galaxy S24 with a 6.2" display and the Galaxy S24+ with a 6.7" display, both larger and brighter, starting at $800 and $1,000, respectively
TSMC announces another delay to its $40B site in Arizona, saying its second plant will start operations in 2027 or 2028, later than its prior guidance of 2026
Bloomberg :
Google News surfaces sites that use AI to rip-off other outlets and churn out content; Google says News doesn't focus on whether articles are by humans or AI
404 Media reviewed multiple examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News. Google said it doesn't focus on how an article …
Samsung pledges seven years of OS and security updates for the Galaxy S24 series, matching Google, which extended its update pledge alongside the Pixel 8 launch
Iowa sues TikTok for having an “inaccurate” 12+ age rating on the App Store and a “T” Play Store rating, claiming inappropriate content is “easily accessible”
TikTok is getting sued by the state of Iowa over claims that it's lying to parents …
StatCounter: Bing ended 2023 with 3.4% global search market share, up less than 1 percentage point after ChatGPT; Google had 91.6%, Yandex 1.6%, and Yahoo 1.1%
- Search engine has steadily increased usage but remains tiny — Google meanwhile is racing to add its own AI enhancements
Illicit crypto addresses received $24.2B in 2023, down from $39.6B in 2022, and stablecoins accounted for the majority of the transaction volume, replacing BTC
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Android Auto will soon reflect the design elements, like wallpaper and icons, of Samsung Galaxy phones, and offer AI chat summaries, relevant replies, and more
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg plans to leave Meta's board and become an informal advisor to the company in May 2024; Sandberg left Meta in September 2022
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Fujitsu says it has a “moral obligation” to compensate hundreds of UK Post Office staff wrongly prosecuted from 1999 to 2015 due to bugs in its Horizon software
Because of this buggy software, 900 UK sub-postmasters and postmistresses were “prosecuted for theft and false accounting.” … LinkedIn: Steve Holloway : A moral obligation to compensate is one thing. ...
Sources: Reddit has drawn up plans for an IPO in March 2024, with a public filing in late February, the first major social media IPO since Pinterest's in 2019
Social media platform Reddit has drawn up detailed plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in March …
Fairly Trained, a nonprofit founded by ex-Stability AI VP Ed Newton-Rex, will give certification labels to AI companies that get consent for their training data
New system seeks to create a sort of ‘organic’ or ‘fair trade’ label for AI. — A new initiative will evaluate …
OpenAI announces a deal with Arizona State University, which will have full access to ChatGPT Enterprise and plans to build personalized AI tutors
- OpenAI on Thursday announced its first partnership with a higher education institution: Starting in February, Arizona State University …
Samsung teases the Galaxy Ring, “a powerful and accessible health and wellness device” that will use AI, without sharing its features, price, or release date
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF passes $1B in investor inflows, with $358M in inflows on January 17; Fidelity is close behind with about $880M in assets
Bloomberg :
Vicarius, an autonomous vulnerability remediation service for supply-chain attacks, raised a $30M Series B led by Bright Pixel, taking its total funding to $57M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Google introduces Circle to Search, a set of new gestures for searching from anywhere on Android, available on Galaxy S24 devices and Google's Pixel 8 and 8 Pro
New: AI-powered screen-scraping is the new API - Rabbit, and now this from Google — https://lnkd.in/... Forums: Hacker News : Circle (or highlight or scribble) to search
Gaza's internet and telecoms have been fully shut down for seven straight days, the longest time since October 2023; 12 of its ISPs are down since October 2023
For seven consecutive days, internet and telecommunications services have been fully shut down in the Gaza Strip.
TikTok details its plans for the 2024 US elections, including a ban on political ads, work with fact-checking organizations, and reports on influence campaigns
Its approach hasn't changed much from 2022. — TikTok has shared more about its plans to fight misinformation ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
DefiLlama: since its November 2023 agreement with US agencies, Binance has had $4.6B net inflows, including $3.5B in January, far outpacing rivals like OKX
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg :
Meta sent 27M+ reports, or 84% of the tips, of suspected CSAM to the NCMEC in 2022; some prosecutors say the volume of AI-generated tips delays investigations
For the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children … X: Ian Brown / @1br0wn : This article completely contradicts the idea encryption will stop many automated reports of child abuse leading to e...
Instagram adds nighttime nudges for teens, encouraging them to close the app and go to sleep after they spend more than 10 minutes in Reels or DMs late at night
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
SEC v. Coinbase: in an opening hearing, Coinbase says that buying crypto on an exchange is more like collecting Beanie Babies than investing in a stock or bond
Crypto lawyers Ronaldo Marquez / Bitcoinist.com : SEC vs. Coinbase Case Update: Judge Failla Challenges SEC's Case Sage D. Young / Unchained : Federal Judge Presses SEC Over Jurisdiction in Case Again...
Notion debuts Notion Calendar, a free app for macOS, Windows, iOS, and the web, with optional Notion integration, after acquiring calendar app Cron in June 2022
LiveRamp, which matches up customer datasets for brands, advertisers, and retailers, plans to acquire marketing data startup Habu for $200M in cash and stock
Abigail Summerville / Reuters :
A look at the US Data Protection Review Court, authorized in October 2022 to resume US-EU data transfers and which issues secret rulings, raising privacy fears
without any public paper trail.” The data must flow. https://www.politico.com/... Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq : <rubs eyes> I'm sorry, a new one? Inside Biden's secret surveillance court - POLITICO...
New Mexico's lawsuit against Meta includes a 2021 Meta presentation that says 100,000 minor users each day received sexually abusive content on its Platforms
Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Amazon plans a paid, new AI-powered Alexa by June 2024, tentatively called Alexa Plus, but internal politics and technical issues plague the project
Research: monthly active open-source crypto developers fell 25% YoY to 22,266 by the end of 2023; 34% of the developers are in Europe, and 26% are in the US
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune :
Meituan's stock dips below its 2018 IPO price, closing down 85% from an all-time high; Alibaba and Tencent are down 78% and 60%+, respectively, from their peaks
Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg :
PitchBook: VC investment in AI and machine learning companies totaled nearly $80B in 2023, accounting for 23% of deals, the largest of any sector
Financial Times :
Lawmakers are introducing bipartisan bills across the US to fight AI deepfakes, especially non-consensual AI-generated porn and fake celebrity endorsements
Janus Rose / VICE :
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