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Sources: the DOJ is poised to sue Google this week over dominating the US digital ad market, the fifth major US case challenging its business practices — The US Justice Department is poised to sue Alphabet Inc.'s Google as soon as Tuesday regarding the search giant's dominance …
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Sources: Apple's ~$3,000 MR headset will have eye and hand tracking, a 3D iOS-like interface, AR and VR modes, a Mac external display feature, and more — Apple Inc.'s long-anticipated mixed-reality headset is an ambitious attempt to create a 3D version of the iPhone's operating system …
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The FBI says North Korea-backed hacking groups Lazarus and APT38 are behind the June 2022 theft of ~$100M in ETH, USDT, and wBTC from Harmony's Horizon bridge — Lazarus Group and APT38, both associated with North Korea, are responsible for the attack in June, the agency concluded.
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| Jon Christian / Futurism: |
An investigation finds extensive evidence that AI used by CNET appears to have plagiarized the work of competitors and human writers at Bankrate and even CNET — CNET's AI-written articles aren't just riddled with errors. They also appear to be substantially plagiarized.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta brings more features to Messenger end-to-end encrypted chats, such as themes, custom emoji, and link previews, and adds more users to its default E2EE test — That means encrypted chats can now incorporate themes, custom emoji, reactions, group profile photos, and a whole lot more.
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft invests in OpenAI, a source says totaling $10B over many years, after 2019 and 2021 investments, to build “increasingly safe, useful, and powerful” AI — Microsoft Corp. is making a $10 billion investment over several years in OpenAI, the creator of the artificial …
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| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
How a “stealth address system” using zero-knowledge proofs could improve Ethereum's privacy vs. trying to hide or mix transfers using services like Tornado Cash — Special thanks to Ben DiFrancesco, Matt Solomon, Toni Wahrstätter and Antonio Sanso for feedback and review
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says ChatGPT is “not particularly innovative” in its underlying techniques and other research labs are doing similar work — Much ink has been spilled of late about the tremendous promise of OpenAI's ChatGPT program for generating natural-language utterances in response to human prompts.
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| Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
Internal messages: TikTok told some of its US employees they could lose their jobs unless they show they already moved to an address near their assigned offices — TikTok is cracking down on remote work, telling some U.S. workers they could lose their jobs unless they show they have already moved near their assigned offices.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple Mac mini (M2 Pro) review: terrific performance, many ports, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.3, but no front ports or SD card slot and a tricky peripherals setup — With two processor choices — one for everyday computing, the other for conquering creative work — Apple's littlest Mac has never been more appealing.| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
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| Ben Bajarin / Creative Strategies: |
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
At a town hall, Sundar Pichai asked staff to stay motivated as Google faces competition in areas like AI and indicated there would be executive bonus cuts — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai and executive leaders addressed employee questions at a town hall meeting on Monday after last week's job cuts.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta expands NBA and WNBA partnerships to offer 52 NBA games in VR, including five 180-degree monoscopic VR games, some WNBA, NBA G, and NBA 2K games, and more — Meta is expanding its partnership with the NBA and WNBA to offer more than 50 live games in VR on Meta Quest, the company announced on Monday.
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Meta, Oculus Blog, Coinspeaker, CNET, VRScout, Social Media Today, Sports Business Journal, SportBusiness, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @joeymetalman, @convergencetr, @anshelsag, @vr, @jdunrrp, and @richontech
| Aidan Ryan / The Information: |
Source: Gemini is laying off 10% of staff, at least the third round of cuts at the crypto exchange in eight months; Gemini had 650 to 700 staff near 2022's end — Gemini, the crypto startup whose customers have been caught up in the Genesis bankruptcy, is laying off 10% of staff …
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CNBC, crypto.news, Micky, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, Crowdfund Insider, Watcher Guru, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, CoinGape, and The Block
Tweets: @carnage4life and @wublockchain
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