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Sources: Apple is working on Macs with a touchscreen; the first model may be a MacBook Pro with an OLED display supporting gestures, set to be released in 2025 — Apple Inc. is working on adding touch screens to its Mac computers, a move that would defy long-held company orthodoxy and embrace …
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| CoinDesk: |
Bankruptcy hearing: FTX has recovered $5B+, not including $425M held by the Bahamas or “illiquid cryptocurrency tokens”; FTX gave Alameda a $65B line of credit — The announcement substantially raises the total FTX has recovered since filing for bankruptcy last year but it's still short of what customers are owed in total.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: in December, Twitter started considering auctioning off usernames to generate revenue; Elon Musk had said he wants to free up 1.5B inactive usernames — The company has discussed selling some user names through online auctions, people with knowledge of the plans said.
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| Joe Biden / Wall Street Journal: |
In an op-ed, Joe Biden asks Republicans and Democrats to unite “to pass strong bipartisan legislation to hold Big Tech accountable”, saying the risks are clear — Congress can find common ground on the protection of privacy, competition and American children.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Memo: Microsoft plans to give US salaried staff unlimited Discretionary Time Off plus 10 corporate holidays, leaves of absence, mental health time off, and more — Microsoft is giving its US employees unlimited time off. The announcement was made in an email to employees from Kathleen Hogan …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches Apple Business Connect, letting US business owners update and manage their information for Apple Maps, a feature Google Maps has had since 2005 — Apple Maps today is gaining a new tool that will allow the decade-plus-old service to better compete with Google … | Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
AWS partners with Ava Labs, which develops the Avalanche blockchain, to support Avalanche's infrastructure and dApp ecosystem through the AWS marketplace — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with Ava Labs, the company building out layer-1 blockchain Avalanche, to help scale blockchain …
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Alphabet's life sciences unit Verily lays off about 15% of its staff, or more than 200 employees, and discontinues work on several products — Created with sketchtool.
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| Frank Landymore / Futurism: |
CNET has been using AI, which it calls automation technology, to write financial explainer posts under a CNET Money Staff byline, apparently since November 2022 — Next time you're on your favorite news site, you might want to double check the byline to see if it was written by an actual human.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter says that the company's investigation found “no evidence” that its users' data sold online was obtained by exploiting vulnerabilities in its systems — Twitter said that after investigating reports that data on upwards of 400 million users was being sold online, it found …
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The FAA says a preliminary review traced its system outage to a damaged database file; sources say the same file corrupted both the main system and its backup — U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple promises investors to disclose details about its App Store removals, including the number of removal requests by country and their legal basis — Activists had raised concerns about how iPhone maker's decision-making process affected freedom of expression| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Equity management service Carta cuts 10% of its staff, impacting up to ~200 employees, and sues its former CTO; the company was valued at $7.4B in August 2021 — Carta, an equity management platform that was last privately valued at $7.4 billion, has cut 10% of its staff …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it's “starting to” think about monetizing ChatGPT, possibly via a ChatGPT Professional version, asks members what price would be too low, and more — OpenAI this week signaled it'll soon begin charging for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code.
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| Maria Heeter / The Information: |
Source: Stripe lowers its internal valuation by ~11% to $63B, its third known cut since June 2022, bringing the total reduction to ~40% in the past six months — Stripe has cut the internal value of its shares by about 11%, implying a valuation of $63 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.| Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: |
SweepWizard, a US police app built by ODIN, leaked data like personal officer info, locations of suspects' homes, raid times, and more due to a misconfiguration — SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces 365 Basic for $1.99 per month, replacing the 100GB OneDrive storage option, rolling out globally on January 30 with ad-free Outlook and more — Microsoft is introducing a new consumer tier to its Microsoft 365 subscription offerings. Priced at just $1.99 per month … | Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The Guardian confirms the outlet was hit with a ransomware attack in December 2022 and that the personal data of UK staff was accessed, possibly via phishing — Media firm says personal data of UK staff members was accessed in ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber-attack last month
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Cameron Winklevoss demands that DCG's board remove CEO Barry Silbert and alleges he and Genesis lied publicly, after his January 8 resolution deadline passed — Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert … Sponsor Posts
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