AT&T believes the February 22 outage “was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process as we were expanding our network, not a cyber attack”
AT&T says they have “restored wireless service to all our affected customers.”
Reddit files to list its IPO on the NYSE, reporting revenue up 20% YoY to $804M in 2023, net loss down 43% YoY to $90.8M, 73M DAUs, and a $3.42 global ARPU
- Reddit on Thursday filed to go public. — Its market debut will mark the first major tech initial public offering of the year …
Google strikes a deal with Reddit, reportedly for $60M/year, gaining Reddit Data API access to surface more Reddit content in Search and to train its AI models
what you need to know Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap : Reddit Inks $60 Million-a-Year Deal To Train Google AI Ahead of Expected IPO | Report Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : No Joke: Google ...
An investigation finds thousands of Instagram accounts run by parents posting images of their children, attracting pedophiles who sometimes pay for more content
The ominous messages began arriving in Elissa's inbox early last year. “You sell pics of your underage daughter to pedophiles,” read one.
Filing: UnitedHealth says a “suspected nation-state” actor had access to IT provider Change Healthcare's systems, disrupting services at pharmacies in the US
Prescription orders hit after IT supplier Change Healthcare pulls plug on systems — UPDATED IT provider Change Healthcare …
Reddit plans to give some of its top users, including moderators and those with high karma scores, the chance to buy shares in its IPO
but not their input Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Reddit Shares Performance Data and Growth Strategy Ahead of Coming IPO Jesse Pound / CNBC : Reddit will let users buy its IPO, but warns th...
S-1: Sam Altman has an 8.7% stake in Reddit, making him the third-largest shareholder, behind Advance Magazine Publishers, with 30.1%, and Tencent, with 11%
This makes him the third-largest shareholder in Reddit, behind Advance (30 percent) and Chinese tech company Tencent (11 percent). … X: Alexei Oreskovic / @lexnfx : Sam Altman is set to be one of bigg...
Microsoft announces “Generative erase”, which uses generative AI to remove objects and people from images, coming to the Photos app in Windows 10 and Windows 11
Google and Samsung aren't the only ones baking magical AI selective photo erasers into their devices …
Nvidia crossed a $2T market cap intraday on February 23, after adding $277B to its market value on February 22, Wall Street's largest one-day gain on record
Nvidia (NVDA.O) hit $2 trillion in market value on Friday, riding on an insatiable demand for its chips that made the Silicon Valley firm …
In a hearing today, Mark Zuckerberg seeks to avoid being held personally liable in two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta of addicting children to its products
- Meta CEO has been personally sued in two dozen cases across US — He argues he can't be held liable just because he's the boss
Interviews and emails show that technical interviews have become more punishing for engineers after mass layoffs, requiring days of work on unpaid assignments
Tech companies are famous for coddling their workers, but after mass layoffs the industry's culture has shifted.
Sources: staff warned Meta in 2023 that its Facebook and Instagram subscription tools were being misused by adults profiting from exploiting their own children
Employees offered suggestions to reduce risks of misuse of subscription accounts featuring minors.
Sony is testing PC support for its PlayStation VR2 headset, which currently works exclusively with the PS5, and hopes “to make this support available in 2024”
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Samsung says the Galaxy Book4 series, with Intel Core Ultra chips and AMOLED touchscreens, will be available in the US, the UK, and other markets on February 26
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware :
Microsoft releases PyRIT, a tool that the company's AI Red Team has been using to more efficiently check for risks in its generative AI systems, such as Copilot
Despite the advanced capabilities of generative AI (gen AI) models, we have seen many instances of them going rogue, hallucinating …
Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run their own server that connects to Bluesky's network, which uses the AT Protocol; Mastodon uses ActivityPub
> Initially to join the network you'll need to join the AT Protocol PDS Admins Discord and register the hostname of your PDS. — https://github.com/... [image] @isagalaev@mastodon.social : It looks ...
Google plans to “pause the image generation of people” via Gemini and “re-release an improved version soon” while working to fix its race inaccuracy “issues”
A survey of 2,745 US adult TikTok users: the top 25% post 98% of all public videos, the typical user rarely posts, 40% say For You is interesting, and more
Samuel Bestvater / Pew Research Center :
A US judge says FTX can sell its Anthropic shares after FTX reached a compromise with its customers opposing the sale; FTX invested $500M in Anthropic in 2021
Dietrich Knauth / Reuters :
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about plans for a new type of data center dubbed “AI factory”, foundational robotics, the Mellanox acquisition, and more
or both!—and everyone wants to know how he does it.” She digs into just that in @wired's latest Big Interview https://www.wired.com/...
The US FTC says Avast needs to pay $16.5M and stop selling web browsing data for ads to settle charges that the UK company misrepresented its use of such data
antivirus giant hit with major fine Greg Noone / Tech Monitor : Avast slapped with $16.5m fine from FTC for selling user data without permission Efe Udin / Gizchina : FTC fines Avast $16.5 million in ...
How Japan took a head start in the chips race thanks to factors not easily repeated elsewhere, including efficient government support and a low-cost workforce
Bloomberg :
Google plans to integrate Gemini into its Performance Max ad placement tool, helping brands generate longer headlines, after adding Gemini into Google Workspace
and it could be the AI-boosted help you never knew you needed James Hercher / AdExchanger : Performance Max Takes Its First Steps Into Auto-Generated Video Matthew Finnegan / Computerworld : Google's ...
Google rolls out its Gemini-powered “Help me write” tool in Chrome for macOS and Windows for English-speaking US users, offering shortform writing suggestions
here's how it works Akash Pandey / NewsBytes : Google Chrome's AI feature can help you write online reviews Mike Viray / Phandroid : Google Introduces a Handy AI Feature for Chrome Users Robby Payne /...
Booking.com says it is facing a provisional €486M fine from Spain's antitrust watchdog, which is accusing the online travel group of anti-competitive practices
Regulators seek to clamp down on world's biggest online travel group as part of efforts to control tech dominance
Meta's Oversight Board extends its scope to Threads, letting users appeal Meta's content moderation decisions with the same process as on Facebook and Instagram
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Google says its Google Pay app GPay and its P2P payment feature will stop working in the US on June 4, 2024, but will remain available in India and Singapore
Block reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $5.77B, Square profit up 18% YoY, Cash App profit up 25% YoY, and forecasts Q1 adjusted EBITDA above est.; SQ jumps 12%+
Earnings Date — Forward Dividend & Yield — Ex-Dividend Date 1y Target Est Liz Kiesche / Seeking Alpha : Block stock surges after strong 2024 EBITDA guidance as Q4 2023 earnings miss Reinhardt Krau...
Stability AI debuts a preview of Stable Diffusion 3.0, its next-gen flagship text-to-image model, aiming to offer improved image quality and better performance
Researchers warn that hackers are exploiting ConnectWise's remote access tool via a flaw “embarrassingly easy” to exploit; ConnectWise has confirmed the attacks
A group of Byju's investors, including Prosus and Peak XV, vote to remove CEO Byju Raveendran; Byju's questions the legitimacy of the investors' actions
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Gab launched 91 chatbots over the past month, such as AI versions of Hitler and Trump, several of which deny the Holocaust, call climate change a scam, and more
David Gilbert / Wired :
Yelp says its tests show the design tweaks Google made to its search results to comply with the EU's DMA are unfair and one made users less likely to click away
Google says its new designs comply with the Digital Markets Act, which bars platforms from favoring their own tools. Bluesky: @bartwilleman.bsky.social See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Bart Willeman / @ba...
Nextdoor replaces CEO Sarah Friar with co-founder Nirav Tolia, who served as CEO between 2010 and 2018; sources: the board also discussed selling the startup
The Information : X: @nikitabier , @joshuaogundu , and @nmasc_ X: Nikita Bier / @nikitabier : My time has come. Josh / @joshuaogundu : Nextdoor is exploring a CEO change or sale. Opened at $13.01 at ...
Substack says 3M+ customers subscribe to paid newsletters on its platform, up from 2M in February 2023, and credits its recommendations feature for the growth
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