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Ex-Coinbase manager Ishan Wahi pleads guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, after his brother Nikhil was sentenced to 10 months in January — A former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager pleaded guilty on Tuesday in what U.S. prosecutors have called …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Apple executives Tim Millet and Bob Borchers on M2, building on M1, transitioning from Intel, the future of Mac gaming, Metal APIs, and more — On M2 chips, Mac mini and how the Mac will thrive in gaming — Apple's M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when they arrived in late 2021.
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Macworld, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, BGR, Digital Trends, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @stevemoser, @vadimyuryev, and @stevemoser
| Financial Times: |
Filings: Digital Currency Group begins selling shares in investment vehicles run by its subsidiary Grayscale at a steep discount, seeking to repay creditors — Digital assets conglomerate sells down holdings in prized investments at a discount to pay creditors
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CoinDesk, The Information, Reuters, Ethereum World News, Inside Bitcoins, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Coinspeaker, Cryptopolitan, and Forkast
Tweets: @wublockchain, @adamscochran, @magnum___opus, and @nikasgari
| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal memo: Meta plans to revamp Horizon Worlds, including opening the app to users aged 13-17, seeking to improve user retention as competition intensifies — Memo highlights social-media giant's plan to revitalize app, boost users in 2023 — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 1.29%increase …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, and Fortune
Tweets: @saraheneedleman, @sadlyitsbradley, @quinnypig, @jetscott, @mattnavarra, @roundhill, and @astaniscia86
| CNBC: |
Gemini plans to provide up to $100M to Genesis' bankruptcy recovery, mainly for its Earn users, who had ~$900M of assets frozen when Genesis paused withdrawals — - Crypto exchange Gemini will contribute $100 million in cash to a recovery plan for bankrupt crypto lender Genesis.
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Genesis Trading, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Donut Help Center, Inside Bitcoins, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, BTC Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, Crypto Daily, Cryptopolitan, CryptoPotato, Micky, and Forkast
Tweets: @cameron, @cameron, @cameron, @matthewegould, @starokg, @cameron, @northrocklp, @tuurdemeester, @nikhileshde, @wublockchain, and @kenziesigalos
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google plans to blur explicit images in search results by default “in the coming months”, though signed-in users over 18 will be able to turn off the feature — Google is introducing a new online safety feature to help users avoid inadvertently seeing graphically violent …
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, Android Authority, Engadget, SamNews 24, and Variety
Tweets: @sagovau, @andrewjgiles, and @bfoundation
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google debuts a ChatGPT rival named Bard and says the “experimental conversational AI service” will be “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks” — It's official: Google is working on a ChatGPT competitor named Bard.
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports a ~$5B loss for its Vision Fund in Q3, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and investments of less than $350M in only a few startups — SoftBank Group Corp.'s first earnings report without founder Masayoshi Son went a lot like those he presided over the past few years … | Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
An Ethereum testnet successfully simulates staked ETH withdrawals for the first time, ahead of Ethereum's highly anticipated Shanghai upgrade set for March 2023 — The upgrade on the Zhejiang testnet was the first of three dress rehearsals for the much anticipated Shanghai hard fork.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The LockBit ransomware gang claims responsibility for an attack on the UK's Royal Mail that halted international shipping, contradicting an earlier statement — The LockBit ransomware operation has claimed the cyberattack on UK's leading mail delivery service Royal Mail that forced the company …
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Record, Metacurity, Telegraph, Reuters, ComputerWeekly.com, GovInfoSecurity.com, and MakeUseOf
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Samsung Galaxy S23 users say the smartphone uses ~60GB of its storage for Android and pre-installed apps, four times more than the Google Pixel 7 Pro's ~15GB — Samsung's Android build is 4x bigger than Google's—twice the size of Windows 11. — As a smartphone operating system …
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Android Authority, Neowin, KnowTechie, Tom's Guide, Macworld, Sammy Fans, TechSpot, Softpedia News, Appuals.com, and Wccftech
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| Amanda Hoover / Wired: |
Mastodon reports having ~1.4M MAUs, after climbing in two months from 380K MAUs to 2.5M+ in November 2022, as many newcomers complain the service is hard to use — Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the exodus from Elon Musk's Twitter, suggesting the decentralized platform is not a direct replacement.
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Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @mattblaze@federate.social, @mimsical@mastodon.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @lauren@mastodon …, @scully@social.chinwag.org, @eniko@peoplemaking.games, @stefan@gardenstate.social, and @rvaweather@dmv.community
Tweets: @cheneytsai, @adamsinger, @wired, @rjcc, @tim_stevens, @mattnavarra, @okayy_dan, @dimensionmedia, and @rustybrick
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu's stock jumps 15%+ after the company announced plans to add its ChatGPT-like service “Wenxin Yiyan”, or “Ernie Bot” in English, to search in March 2023 — Baidu Inc. surged more than 15% after affirming it's on track to publicly roll out its ChatGPT-like service in March …
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Reuters, PingWest, The Hill, The Register, CNET, CNN, CNBC, Barron's Online, TechSpot, gHacks Technology News, NBC News, New York Times, Tech Xplore, Fortune, TechCircle, Neowin, Pandaily, Watcher Guru, and Forbes
Tweets: @therealjoshye, @scobleizer, @sino_market, @baidu_inc, and @davidinglestv
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Internal Twitter document: just ~180,000 US users paid for Blue and other subscriptions as of mid-January, implying ~$28M annual subscription revenue globally — Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January …
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Gizmodo, Thurrott, Social Media Today, KnowTechie, Engadget, Insider, and Transistori
Mastodon: @frauenfelder@mastodon.cloud. Tweets: @erinkwoo, @jaredlholt, @lolgop, @amir, @polotek, @ryp__, @guyendorekaiser, @oalexanderdk, @joeyknish22, @russbengtson, @meghanbobrowsky, @davekarpf, @ngrossman81, @goldman, @ddayen, @otto_english, @maxkennerly, @pattymo, @tomwarren, @emilygorcenski, @parismarx, @abusulayman, @travisbrown, @paultassi, @kurtwagner8, @carnage4life, @jbenton, @abebrown716, and @tier10k
| Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: |
Toronto-based Hut 8 Mining plans to merge with Miami-based US Bitcoin Corp, creating Hut 8 Corp, a crypto mining giant in North America with a ~$990M market cap — Canada's Hut 8 Mining Corp. (HUT.TO) plans to merge with rival U.S. Bitcoin in an all-stock deal to create a mining giant in North America, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Hut 8 Mining Corp, CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, crypto.news, CoinGape, and euronews. Tweets: @arrington
| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo cuts its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and revises Switch sales forecasts from ~19M to ~18M — Nintendo Co. cut its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, underscoring uncertainty around its aging Switch console and the global gaming environment.
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The Verge, Game Developer, Thurrott, Multicore, Neowin, TechSpot, CNBC, Bloomberg, GameSpot, Game Rant, Engadget, Polygon, GamesIndustry.biz, GamingBolt, and Independent.ie
Tweets: @345triangle, @stevekovach, @tomwarren, and @6d6f636869
| David Smith / The Guardian: |
How studios increasingly use AI de-aging VFX on actors, including Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, and the possible impact on Hollywood's economics — Stars like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are being rendered younger digitally but voices in the industry express concern about where we might be heading| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp updates Status with a Private Audience Selector, 30-second Voice Status messages, Status Reactions, and more, rolling out on iOS, Android, and the web — WhatsApp has just announced a set of new features for status updates, which will be available to users on both iOS and Android devices over the coming weeks.
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CNET, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Neowin, Meta, BGR, Gizchina, iClarified, Digit, T3, Mashable, WRAL TechWire, Moneycontrol, Engadget, Business Today, The Economic Times, SamMobile, The Indian Express, TechCrunch, and Techlusive
| Masha Borak / Wired: |
A look at Moscow's Safe City, an AI surveillance system with 217K connected cameras designed to catch criminals that is now seen as a tool of digital repression — Moscow promised residents lower crime rates through an expansive smart city project. Then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
Tweets: @glichfield, @iethics, and @mashaborak
| Reuters: |
A US FTC official says the agency won't appeal its US federal court loss over Meta's Within acquisition but could still pursue the case with an internal judge — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it will not appeal its loss in federal court in its fight to stop Meta Platforms …
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UploadVR, Washington Post, The Verge, and Music Ally
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