Memo: Microsoft names Pavan Davuluri as its Windows and Surface chief; Microsoft split its Windows and Surface groups after Panos Panay left in September 2023
Microsoft is naming Pavan Davuluri as its new Windows and Surface chief today. After Panos Panay's surprise departure to Amazon last year …
An interview with Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox to handhelds via hardware or software, how Valve, Lenovo, and Asus “innovated in a new form factor”, and more
A handheld Xbox could be hardware, an app, or both — Phil Spencer has tried all of the new PC gaming handhelds …
Canva acquires Affinity, popular with Mac users for its photo editing and other tools, to take on Adobe, Canva's COO says for “several hundred million pounds”
- Australian unicorn buys British team behind Affinity art suite — Affinity offers alternative tools to Adobe's flagship products
The US OFAC sanctions 13 entities, including Netex24, and two individuals for helping Russian nationals potentially evade sanctions by building crypto services
- The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 13 entities and two individuals for helping sanctioned entities to evade sanctions in Russia.
OpenAI releases seven Sora videos from select filmmakers, artists, ad agencies, and musicians; Fairly Trained CEO Ed Newton-Rex calls the move “artistwashing”
OpenAI has been releasing a steady drip of videos generated by its new highly realistic AI model, Sora, but the text-to-video …
Telegram rolls out its Peer-to-Peer Login Program, giving some Android users a Premium sub for volunteering their phone numbers to relay SMS OTPs to other users
Telegram is offering a new way to earn a premium subscription free of charge: all you have to do is volunteer your phone number …
Memo: Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft's Bing and ads chief, is looking for a new position at the company, after Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman to run Microsoft AI
Parakhin, who had been chief executive officer for advertising and web services, will report to Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott …
Filing: the US SEC told a judge that Ripple should pay $2B+ in fines and penalties for selling more of its XRP token since being sued by the regulator, and more
The regulator is slated to release a public brief on Tuesday, Stuart Alderoty, Ripple's chief legal officer, said in a separate post on X on Monday.
The UK says Chinese state-affiliated actors were responsible for a “malicious cyber campaign” on the country's Electoral Commission between 2021 and 2022
Meta started rolling out its new opt-out political content settings on Instagram and Threads last week to “limit political content from people you don't follow”
Meta's executives have been saying for a while that they don't want to boost posts about politics in their apps.
Sony plans to add a new opt-in Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later in 2024 that can automatically create clips for helping other players complete games
Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later this year that is designed to automatically create clips that can help other players.
Internal Tesla memo: Elon Musk tells staff to give buyers a “short test ride” to demonstrate Full Self-Driving, now a “hard requirement” in North America
- New requirement will slow delivery process, Musk says in memo — Full Self-Driving, other features have generated controversy
The US DOJ charges crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders with violating anti-money laundering laws, failing to register with US government, and more
The exchange was charged under the Bank Secrecy Act. — U.S. federal prosecutors charged crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders …
Trump Media & Technology Group shares jumped up to 58% to hit $78.80 on its trading debut before the Nasdaq briefly halted trading, following the DWAC merger
- Trump Media & Technology Group operates Truth Social — Deal provides a windfall on paper for the former president
Amazon launches same-day prescription medication deliveries in New York City and the greater Los Angeles area, and plans to add 12+ cities by the end of 2024
The Amazon Pharmacy home screen is displayed on a laptop in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 17, 2020.
Source: Tencent agrees to release some of its most important apps on the Apple Vision Pro
When Apple launched the Vision Pro headset, it leaned heavily on its own streaming app, as well as those of Disney and others, to market the headset's most compelling feature: an immersive video exper...
The BBC has “no plans” to use AI again to promote Doctor Who, after the marketing team used AI “as part of a small trial” to help draft emails and notifications
The BBC has “no plans” to use AI again to promote Doctor Who after receiving complaints from viewers.
The US and the UK sanction a Wuhan-based company linked to the Chinese state-backed hacking group APT31 for targeting critical infrastructure organizations
APT31 has a focus on political targets, but also high tech and intellectual property — The benign emails with tracking links followed by remote exploitation of routers is a usually a TTP reserved for ...
AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries
The AI search tools are getting better — but they don't yet understand what a search engine really is and how we really use them. X: @banafaahmed , @gaganghotra_ , and @catcheronthesly X: Prof. Ahmed ...
Google plans to release a Chrome version optimized for Windows on Arm this week, two months after Canary testing; Arm PCs previously ran an emulated x64 version
Google is releasing an optimized version of its Chrome browser for Windows on Arm this week, the search giant has announced alongside chipmaker Qualcomm.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill requiring parental consent for kids under 16 to hold social media accounts and age verification for many websites
Sources: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$4B to build an advanced chip packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana; a source says operations could begin in 2028
The South Korean memory chip maker is expected to build an advanced-packaging facility in West Lafayette, creating up to 1,000 jobs.
A US judge dismisses X's lawsuit against CCDH, saying the suit had been brought as a means toward “punishing the defendants for their speech”; X plans to appeal
in a win for free speech. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : Good. Musk does not support free speech. He supports his speech and tries to us...
The EU opens formal DMA probes into Apple and Google over letting developers “steer” users from their app stores, and Meta over its “pay or consent” model
Apple fans: “The EU must approve of Apple's plans, otherwise Apple wouldn't have announced them” — The EU: “Hang on a minute...” https://www.theverge.com/... Jan Penfrat / @ilumium@eupolicy.social :...
An investigation details the growing black market for Starlink kits being traded and activated illegally, including in regions subject to US sanctions
Starlink's effectiveness as a communications tool makes the satellite internet service a target for a growing black-market trade worldwide.
Filing: Sun Microsystems co-founder Andreas Bechtolsheim settles with the US SEC for alleged insider trading on Cisco's $2.6B offer to buy Acacia in 2019
- Early Google investor barred from executive, board roles — Bechtolsheim agrees to settlement with SEC including fine
Chinese government data: iPhone shipments in China fell ~33% YoY to ~2.4M units in February 2024, after dropping 39% YoY to ~5.5M units in January 2024
- Foreign-brands shipped only about 2.4 million smartphones — Apple is the only major foreign player in China market
Filing: Dell cut 13,000 employees over the last fiscal year, a steeper reduction than initially announced, and had 120K staffers globally as of February 2, 2024
Dell had 120,000 employees globally as of Feb. 2, 2024, the technology hardware maker said in a filing Monday.
Spotify adds online courses from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and PlayVirtuoso, covering music, business, creativity, and health, as a UK-only experiment
Meta's Oversight Board calls on the company to end its blanket ban on the Arabic word “shaheed”, or “martyr”, after a review found Meta's approach “overbroad”
Katie Paul / Reuters :
UXL Foundation, backed by Google, Intel, and others, plans to build tools to power multiple types of AI accelerator chips and break Nvidia's CUDA dominance
Max A. Cherney / Reuters :
Reddit stock closes up 30% at $59.80, after the company went public at $34 last week, as the debut of options trading tied to Reddit appears to fuel the rise
Saqib Iqbal Ahmed / Reuters :
Filings detail Meta's Project Ghostbusters to get data analytics about Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, using Onavo VPN on iOS and Android between 2016 and 2019
Unsealed court filings reveal Meta's secret plan, “Project Ghostbusters,” to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users' devices.
Filing: Alibaba calls off a Hong Kong IPO for its Cainiao logistics arm, and now plans to buy out all remaining stock held by investors and employees for $3.75B
Pei Li / Bloomberg :
How Ripple's Chris Larsen became a gravitational force in San Fransisco politics, donating millions to local causes, as he helps Mayor London Breed's reelection
he also spent $42K to cover Breed's big ethics fine in 2021. Unclear how much he'll spend to help Breed get reelected this yr, but he's got strong words for her challengers. Josh Koehn / @josh_koehn :...
Filing: FTX strikes deals worth $884M with buyers, including $500M from a Mubadala affiliate, to sell most of its Anthropic stake; FTX invested $500M in 2021
Uzbek e-commerce, fintech, and food delivery service Uzum raised a $114M Series A in equity and debt at a $1.16B valuation, becoming the country's first unicorn
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Consumers in the US filed at least three proposed class actions since March 22 accusing Apple of monopolizing the smartphone market, mirroring the DOJ's claims
I've long argued it's straightforward to show consumer harm from Apple's actions. It looks like the DOJ and multiple lawyers agree. … Forums: r/technology : Consumers sue Apple, taking page from US J...
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on why federation is the future of social media, Threads' fediverse integration, monetization, composable moderation, and more
https://www.theverge.com/... Long, but worth your time to read. Andrew Melder / @andrew@melder.social : Even if you are not into Bluesky this is a great episode of Decoder. — @reckless1280 and Jay ...
0G Labs, or Zero Gravity Labs, which is building a modular blockchain to let developers make decentralized AI apps, raised $35M in pre-seed funding
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch :
Sources detail Meta's unconventional moves to attract and keep AI researchers, including Mark Zuckerberg writing to DeepMind researchers to recruit them
A look at the underground bitcoin community in Austin, which attracts bitcoiners because of Texas' pro-crypto policies and ecosystem of developers and miners
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC : Forums: Hacker News Forums: Hacker News : Austin's Bitcoin Underground
Fieldguide, which plans to use AI to alleviate an accountant shortage, raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer, and counts 40 of the top 100 CPA firms as clients
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
Bolt's board removes CEO Maju Kuruvilla, who took over after co-founder Ryan Breslow stepped down in 2022; head of sales Justin Grooms will be interim CEO
The Information :
Canada plans to toughen foreign investment rules for sectors like AI and quantum computing, as it takes steps to curb China's influence on key industries
Bloomberg :
Eliyan, which is developing chiplet interconnects to increase AI chips' performance, raised a $60M Series B co-led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Tiger Global
London-based GSS, which offers a cloud-based sanctions-screening service to help financial institutions comply with regulations, raised a $47M Series A2
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