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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a combined Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip to replace Broadcom components by 2025; plans to swap the Qualcomm modem in 2023 have hit snags — Apple Inc.'s push to replace the chips inside its devices with homegrown components will include dropping a key Broadcom Inc. part in 2025 …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Up until late December 2022, hackers were using a flaw in Experian's site to get anyone's entire credit report using only their name, address, birthday, and SSN — Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus.
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Sketchy iOS app “ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3”, which is not affiliated with OpenAI, is selling subscriptions and has been a top paid App Store app for days — A sketchy app claiming to be the bot ChatGPT has soared up App Store charts, charging users a $7.99 weekly subscription …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In February, Instagram plans to replace the Shop tab with a Reels button in the app's bottom navigation bar and return the Compose button to the center — Instagram announced today it will simplify its in-app navigation after years of confusing changes designed to push various products like Instagram Shop and Reels.
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| Damir Yalalov / Metaverse Post: |
Microsoft unveils text-to-speech AI model VALL-E, which was trained on English speech data and can simulate a person's voice with three seconds of sample audio — IN BRIEF — With just a three-second sample of any voice, the transformer-based TTS model VALL-E can produce speech in every voice.
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| Eric Wallerstein / Wall Street Journal: |
FTX's bankruptcy managers are seeking to recoup Sam Bankman-Fried's and the company's charitable donations; FTX's Future Fund pledged $160M+ to 110+ nonprofits — Nonprofits struggle to decide how to handle money received from bankrupt crypto exchange — Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX doled out millions in charitable donations.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple VP of Services Peter Stern, who helped build Apple TV+'s business, plans to leave at the end of January, as Apple reorganizes its Services unit — One of Apple's top services executives is departing the company. Peter Stern, Apple's vice president of Services …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units for data centers that has raised $300M+; December 2022 reports suggested the deal is worth ~$190M — In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at the impact of the emerging AI epoch, led by DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and ChatGPT, on Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft — The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with image generation models, including DALL-E, MidJourney, and the open source Stable Diffusion …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to begin sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators on February 1, and starts rolling out new terms for all creators in the YouTube Partner Program — YouTube will begin sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators on February 1, the company revealed on Monday.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
SteamDB: Valve's Steam platform passed 10M concurrent in-game players for the first time on January 7 and exceeded 33M concurrent online users on January 8 — Valve's game distribution platform Steam had a record-breaking weekend, exceeding 10 million concurrent in-game players for the first time …
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| Reuters: |
Montreal-based payments company Nuvei enters a deal to acquire Atlanta-based rival Paya for ~$1.3B, a ~25% premium to January 6's closing price; PAYA jumps 24%+ — Nuvei Corp (NVEI.TO) has agreed to buy Paya Holdings Inc (PAYA.O) in a deal valuing its smaller peer at $1.3 billion …
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Dallas-based Worlds, whose “digital twins” of industrial companies' floor operations help boost productivity, raised a $21.2M Series A1 led by Moneta Ventures — Worlds Enterprises, a company that builds digital twins of floor operations for industrial companies to let them become …
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| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
SCOTUS lets Meta's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug to install spyware, allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms Inc's (META.O) WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting …
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| P J Huffstutter / Reuters: |
John Deere signs an MOU with the American Farm Bureau Federation, promising farmers the right to repair their own equipment or go to an independent technician — The American Farm Bureau Federation and machinery manufacturer Deere & Co (DE.N) signed a memorandum of understanding on Sunday … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Meta rolls out a Variance Reduction System, its AI ad-targeting tech meant to comply with its DOJ settlement and reduce discrimination in housing ads, in the US — Meta is acting on its vow to reduce ad discrimination through technology. The company is rolling out a Variance Reduction System …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
LinkedIn posts and Apple job listings suggest Apple plans to open its first flagship stores in India, likely beyond the reported 22,000 square foot Mumbai store — Smartphone maker wants to expand in the country and diversify manufacturing away from China — Apple has started hiring …
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