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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter will let iOS users of its Blue subscription service use NFTs as hexagon-shaped profile pictures — Service will be available to some users of the company's Blue subscriber service — Twitter Inc. will start allowing some users to use nonfungible tokens as their profile pictures …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Google's AR headset could launch in 2024, powered by a custom processor, resembling ski goggles, and no need for an external power connection — Meta may be the loudest company building AR and VR hardware. Microsoft has HoloLens. Apple is working on something, too. But don't count out Google.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $7.71B, up 16% YoY, net income of $607M, 222M paid subscribers, and $30B in 2021 revenue, up 19%; stock down ~20% on weak guidance — Netflix ended 2021 with a slightly lower-than-expected subscriber gain in the fourth quarter, and its stock took a dive with a weak Q1 outlook.
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| Alana Semuels / TIME: |
Intel commits $20B to build at least two semiconductor fabrication plants on a 1,000-acre site by 2025, employing at least 3,000 people in New Albany, Ohio — The announcement comes amidst a push to increase domestic manufacturing of semiconductors. Partly because of enormous incentives offered … | John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News: |
Apple names longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet as VP of worldwide communications, replacing Stella Low, who is leaving after joining Apple in May 2021 — Apple has tapped a new head of PR: longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet. She'll replace Stella Low …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
The Senate Judiciary votes 16-6 to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop platforms from favoring their products over rivals' — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 Thursday to advance a major tech competition bill, which some experts consider lawmakers' best shot …
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| New York Times: |
Twitter terminated its head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko this week, and CISO Rinki Sethi will depart in the coming weeks; both execs joined Twitter in 2020 — Parag Agrawal, Twitter's new chief executive, terminated the company's head of security this week.
Tweets: @kevinriggle, @johnjhacking, @mikeisaac, @_mwc, @lourdesturrecha, and @wbm312
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
OpenSea suffered a database outage affecting some services that rely on its APIs to display NFTs, including Twitter and MetaMask; the issue has been fixed — A Thursday outage interfered with the ability of MetaMask, which depends on OpenSea, to automatically display new NFTs. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 15.3 RC and macOS Monterey 12.2 RC with a fix for Safari 15's IndexedDB API that leaked users' browser history and Google ID to other sites — We recently reported that Apple was working on a fix for a Safari bug that led to the leaking of users' browsing history and Google ID.
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Mashable, XDA Developers, Digital Trends, Pocketnow, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @9to5mac and @samifathi_
| Sue Halpern / New Yorker: |
Inside DARPA's Air Combat Evolution program, which aims to design AI that can fly a plane and engage in aerial combat without a human pilot — Artificial intelligence is being taught to fly warplanes. Can the technology be trusted? … On a cloudless morning last May …
Tweets: @michaelluo, @newyorker, and @hoanssolo
| Jeff Cox / CNBC: |
The US Federal Reserve releases its long-awaited report on a digital dollar but doesn't take a position on issuing one, and seeks public feedback for 120 days — - The Federal Reserve on Thursday released its long-awaited exploration of a digital dollar but took no position on the issuance of a central bank digital currency.
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Tweets: @dionrabouin, @mckonomy, @noahseidman, @stablekwon, and @senlummis
| Lydia Moynihan / New York Post: |
Sources: TikTok ousted its marketing chief Nick Tran for “going rogue” with plans like TikTok Kitchen, NFTs by Lil Nas X and others, and TikTok Resumes — TikTok's marketing chief has been ousted after blindsiding top management with a series of increasingly bizarre campaigns, The Post has learned.| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com says its breach affected 483 users, resulting in unauthorized cryptocurrencies withdrawals worth ~$33.84M, and all users were reimbursed the same day — Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has lost roughly $34 million in a recent security incident, according to a post-mortem released on Thursday.
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Crypto.com, The Economic Times, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Deadline, Threatpost, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @bloomberglive, @cryptocom, @kris_hk, @murfski_, and @tomaxwell
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Meta details Data2vec, a self-supervised algorithm that unifies the process of training a neural network to learn the same across speech, images, and text — By eschewing data-specific outputs for internal representations, Meta aims for a more-general sort of AI.Sponsor Posts
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