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Sony unveils Project Leonardo, a PS5 accessibility controller kit with circular gamepads, for use on its own or with DualSense; pricing and release are TBC — Sony is building a better PlayStation 5 controller with Project Leonardo, a kit that promises to make games easier to play for people with limited motor control.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Sony has sold ~30M PlayStation 5 consoles and says the shortage is over, meaning everyone “should have a much easier time” finding a PS5 at retailers globally — The PlayStation 5 shortage is finally over — at least according to Sony. “Everyone who wants a PS5 should have a much easier …
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Amazon plans to lay off 18,000+ employees, more than its initial target of 10,000 in November 2022, with the “majority” coming from retail and recruiting — Cuts focused on the company's corporate staff exceed earlier projection — Amazon AMZN -0.79%decrease …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A hacker leaks a dataset allegedly containing the email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, claimed to be a cleaner version of the 400M dataset from December 2022 — A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about $2.| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
Source: FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with US prosecutors, telling them what he knew of SBF and others misusing customer funds — FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with U.S. prosecutors as they investigate the crypto firm's collapse …
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
| Leyland Cecco / The Guardian: |
Apple quietly launches a catalog of books narrated by AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the audiobook market — Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI - but move expected to spark backlash
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| Crystal Kim / Axios: |
A US judge rules that the crypto deposits in bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network's yield-bearing accounts belong to Celsius and not the individual holders — Celsius Network's bankruptcy might have just set a precedent in determining what crypto assets belong to whom when stored on a centralized platform.
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| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC files a limited objection to Binance.US' $1.02B bid for crypto lender Voyager's assets, asking for sufficient details on how Binance plans to pay — The agency is asking for more details how the crypto exchange can afford the deal. — Join the most important conversation … | Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC accuses alleged fraudster Neil Chandran and four others of scamming investors for $45M+ on the false promise of a deal to sell blockchain technology — The U.S. securities agency is going after the people behind what it says was a massive fraud stealing from tens of thousands of investors.
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Erroneous facial recognition helped jail a Black man in Georgia for nearly a week after cops got a warrant in Louisiana, a state he says he has never visited — An algorithm sent a Black man to jail in Louisiana, a state he'd never visited, according to his lawyer. Experts say he won't be the last.
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| Michael Elsen-Rooney / Chalkbeat New York: |
The New York City Department of Education, the largest US school system, bans access to OpenAI's ChatGPT on school devices and networks, citing cheating fears — New York City students and teachers can no longer access ChatGPT — the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find API security flaws in almost 20 car manufacturers' systems that could let hackers unlock, start, and track cars, plus access customers' data — Almost twenty car manufacturers and services contained API security vulnerabilities that could have allowed hackers to perform malicious activity …
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Sam Curry, TechRadar, Infosecurity, Cloud Native Computing …, and Security Affairs
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
CI/CD service CircleCI says it is investigating “a security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets” — CircleCI, a software development service has disclosed a security incident and is urging users to rotate their secrets.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD announces Ryzen 7000 laptop CPUs, including the new 7040 series of chips codenamed Phoenix, its first laptop-centric Zen 4 CPUs using TSMC's 4nm process — This year's CES has turned out to be a laptop-centric event in the PC space, and no farther do you have to look for proof of that than AMD's CES keynote.
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Tom's Hardware, MacRumors, The Verge, Engadget, BGR India, AMD, PCMag, Engadget, AMD, AMD, Windows Blog, The Verge, The Verge, Digital Trends, HotHardware, TechPowerUp, and Wccftech. Thanks:@ryansmithat
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Philips Hue owner Signify launches a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs, available for $130, effectively a software version of the $250M Play HDMI Sync Box — Signify, owner of the Philips Hue brand, is launching a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs.
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The Ambient, Gizmodo, Signify, Neowin, SamNews 24, SamMobile, MUO, and BGR
| Tim Sweezy / HotHardware: |
Qualcomm unveils its Snapdragon Ride Flex, claiming the auto industry SoC can simultaneously support digital cockpit tech and advanced driver assistance systems — On Wednesday, Qualcomm unveiled the automotive industry's first scalable family of SoCs to simultaneously support digital cockpit technologies …
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Qualcomm, The Register, and PCMag
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