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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel cuts employee compensation to preserve cash for a turnaround plan, including 25% for CEO Pat Gelsinger, 15% for leadership, and 5% for mid-level managers — Intel Corp., struggling with a rapid drop in revenue and earnings, is cutting management pay across the company to cope …
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| David Satin / The Streamable: |
Netflix lists its rules and exemptions to prevent password sharing, including that all devices should be on the same “primary” Wi-Fi at least once every 31 days — After months of warning subscribers that anti-password sharing measures were coming to Netflix, the company appears to be finally set to unleash them.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK government lays out plans to regulate crypto, including measures to strengthen rules for lending, disclosures, financial intermediaries, and custodians — - The U.K. laid out plan to regulate the cryptocurrency industry. — The proposals include strengthening rules on crypto lending …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: a US judge rejects the FTC's bid for a preliminary injunction to block Meta's Within acquisition, giving the FTC one week to decide whether to appeal — Meta Platforms Inc. won court approval to buy virtual reality startup Within Unlimited, defeating an effort to block the deal …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources and documents: Google asks employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including Apprentice Bard, a chatbot that uses its LaMDA conversational tech — - Google is testing ChatGPT-like products that use its LaMDA technology, according to sources and internal documents acquired by CNBC.
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
A report by the White House's NTIA describes Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores and suggests legislation to improve competition and choice — A new Biden administration report describes Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores and suggests legislation …
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of OpenAI's ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, in the coming weeks; OpenAI plans to launch a ChatGPT app — Microsoft's second-place search engine Bing is poised to incorporate a faster and richer version of ChatGPT, known as GPT-4 …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix adds spatial audio to its $20 per month Premium plan, available for over 700 of its most popular titles; Standard and Basic will get limited support — Listen to this: Netflix is hoping audiophiles will upgrade to the $20-per-month Premium tier to gain access to the streamer's full collection … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia is working to fix a Discord bug that slows the memory clocks on some of its GPUs by up to 200MHz, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti — Discord is slowing down graphics card memory clocks on some Nvidia GPUs. A recent Discord update has introduced a bug that slows down memory clocks …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with Chris Miller, a Tufts professor and author of the book Chip War, on EUV lithography, ASML's role in global chip manufacturing, TSMC, and more — Professor Chris Miller's new book Chip War explains the complicated global politics inside your iPhone.
Tweets: @brianweeden
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches MLS Season Pass in 100+ territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, playoffs, Leagues Cup, and more for $14.99/month or $99/year — Today, Apple launched MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, Audi 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs …
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: UMG is in talks with Tidal and others to overhaul streaming economics to pay artists more; ideas include a “bonus pool” and “superfan” subscriptions — Group looks into options such as cracking down on bots and adding ‘superfan’ subscriptions
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Indiana-based blockchain startup SIMBA Chain, which has worked on various US military projects, raised $30M from the US Air Force, after raising $1.5M in 2020 — The USAF has granted Simba Chain the increase as part of its aims of “identifying and advancing technologies that have the potential to secure its future dominance.”
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| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Meta's Ready at Dawn studio plans to close Echo VR, one of the best-rated and most popular free Quest games, after Meta layoffs, to focus on “our next project” — As a parting gift, players can claim lots of premium cosmetic items for free — The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Addressable, which claims to have used digital fingerprinting to match 17M crypto wallet holders with their Twitter accounts, raised a $7.5M seed — Marketo, which was developed - among other things.- to enhance marketing around social media users, ended up being acquired by Adobe.
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ZyCrypto. Tweets: @adamscochran, @ergobtc, @cryptobran_, @ldrogen, @basedkarbon, @tier10k, and @spreekaway
| Karl Brauer / Forbes: |
Cars & Bids, a car auction site founded by Doug DeMuro, an automotive YouTuber who has amassed 4.5M+ subscribers since 2013, raised $37M from The Chernin Group — Doug DeMuro is arguably the most successful automotive YouTuber in the relatively short history of that young medium.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Pakistan “degrades” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warns of a full block if the nonprofit fails to comply — Pakistan has “degraded” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” …
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Appuals.com, The Express Tribune, and DAWN.COM
Tweets: @ptaofficialpk, @ptaofficialpk, @amberrshamsi, @misterzedpk, @anayankhan, @usmanahmad_iam, and @usamakhilji
| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
A US judge amends Sam Bankman-Fried's bail terms, prohibiting him from contacting any current or former FTX or Alameda employees and using Signal and other apps — The tentative order was granted by a New York court on Wednesday after prosecutors asked the former FTX CEO's bail conditions to be amended last week.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Drug discount app GoodRx agrees to pay $1.5M after the FTC said the company wrongfully disclosed intimate health information to Facebook, Google, and others — The popular drug discount app deceptively shared details on users' illnesses and medicines with ad firms, regulators said in a legal complaint.
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Cape Town-based Lulalend, which uses a proprietary credit scoring algorithm to offer short-term loans to SMBs, raised a $35M Series B and launches neobank Lula — In most African countries, access to credit remains limited for many small businesses, with the reasons ranging from the inability …
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| Bloomberg: |
Western Digital raised $900M from Apollo Global and Elliott, which sources say is a precursor to merging with Japan's Kioxia, as the memory chip sector shrinks — Western Digital Corp. is receiving a $900 million investment led by Apollo Global Management Inc., getting financial firepower …
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Silicon Valley Business …, DCD, Western Digital, and Business Wire
| Catherine Thorbecke / CNN: |
A look at Blind, an anonymous professional networking site that has emerged as a lifeline for tech workers seeking information and advice about the mass layoffs — In the week before Microsoft publicly announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs, thousands of workers at the tech giant who were eager … | Chainalysis: |
Analysis: 2022 was the biggest year for crypto hacking to date, with $3.8B stolen, mainly from DeFi protocols and by North Korea-tied hackers like Lazarus Group — 2022 was the biggest year ever for crypto hacking, with $3.8 billion stolen from cryptocurrency businesses.
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Tweets: @chainalysis, @chainalysis, @chainalysis, and @chainalysis
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