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| Bloomberg: |
US financial regulators are rapidly closing crypto's key routes to the banking system, accelerating since FTX collapsed, pushing the industry to the fringes — Crypto's free pass is getting yanked as the most powerful US financial regulators rapidly close key doors to the country's banking system.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, say their For You feed was full of his tweets and replies after changes made over the weekend — For many of us, Twitter's “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk. Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed …
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Tweets: @oneunderscore__, @elonmusk, @wongmjane, @elonmusk, @chai_coffee_etc, @taylorlorenz, @randfish, @rjcc, @anothercohen, @ashishmohta, @bruce_arthur, @lulumeservey, @althistoryhub, @volksverpetzer, @deanmillson, @tittertakeover, @mehdirhasan, @byjasonng, @noah_l, @sassal0x, @helenkennedy, @followtheh, @fchollet, @anthony, @intelwire, and @cameronwilson
| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
| Dmitri Brereton / DKB Blog: |
At Microsoft's demo last week, the “new Bing” incorrectly summarized Gap's Q3 2022 earnings and provided wrong info on a pet vacuum and Mexico City nightlife — Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype — Bing AI got some answers completely wrong during their demo.
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The Verge, Digital Trends, Windows Central, The Register, Stratechery, Livemint, Neowin, OnMSFT.com, Appuals.com, TechCircle, Tom's Guide, Fast Company, SlashGear, Dexerto, Pixel Envy, and PCMag
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| Varsha Bansal / Wired: |
A look at the Modi administration's attempts to strengthen government control over the internet in India and its battle with Big Tech, which keeps giving in — The Modi administration keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech keeps giving in. — Akash Banerjee isn't sure whether he's allowed …
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Tweets: @sunny_hundal, @peterguest, @shailjapatel, @ahmermkhan, @iamcouncil, @peterguest, and @kkomaitis
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company plans to “go big” on physical retail stores in 2023, blaming a lack of “normalcy” during the pandemic for its stumbles — Andy Jassy says ecommerce giant will double down on grocery despite recent stumbles
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Engadget, PYMNTS.com, Tortoise, Reuters, and CNET
Tweets: @jeffnolan, @neilretail, @jimpethokoukis, and @patrickmoorhead
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple's India expansion has been slow due to logistics, tariffs, infrastructure, suppliers and officials lacking a “sense of urgency”, and other issues — Apple is hitting stumbling blocks in its effort to increase production in India, as the US tech giant faces pressure to cut its manufacturing reliance on China.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Reuters, MacDailyNews, BGR, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Economic Times, iMore, and iThinkDifferent
Tweets: @chassnews, @patrickmcgee_, @johnreedwrites, @churumuri, @preddy85, @jimpethokoukis, @wholemarsblog, @noahbarkin, and @chadbown
| New York Times: |
Over 30 prominent Chinese dissidents and activists report problems with their Twitter accounts, including disappearing from search or unexplained suspensions — As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled.
Tweets: @sarahemclaugh, @alexanderburns, @shiraovide, @paulmozur, and @isaacstonefish
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Eric Schmidt-backed startup Ishtari, which uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of each component — The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China.
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Tweets: @ieet, @hkanji, @joebotxyz, @counternotions, @richzeoli, @mhbergen, @aphysicist, and @mideastxmidwest
| Aaron Mok / Insider: |
Report: TikTok is planning to let creators charge $1 or more for videos and is working on the Creator Fund 2.0, which could pay creators with 100K+ followers — - TikTok creators could soon start charging fans to watch their videos, per The Information. — The company hopes a paywall …
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Tweets: @relientkenny, @realadamrose, @nickcicero, and @mattnavarra
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time — Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
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Mastodon: @Quinnypig@awscommunity.social. Tweets: @zoox, @ajassy, @jimpethokoukis, @bznotes, @work_matters, @michaelguimarin, @sawyermerritt, @jeffbezos, and @aicha2evans
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Otter.ai announces OtterPilot, an AI assistant that summarizes meetings, captures images of slides, and more, rolling out to all users in the coming days — AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai is launching a new AI meeting assistant called OtterPilot, the company announced on Tuesday.| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Walmart plans to close its Austin, Portland, and Carlsbad, California tech hubs, telling staff to move and be in the office twice a week to stay employed — Retail giant is closing offices in Austin, Portland and Carlsbad and telling hundreds of staff they must relocate to keep their jobs
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PCMag, Insider, Silicon Florist, GeekWire, Fortune, Forbes, Reuters, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @carnage4life, @patrickmoorhead, and @newley
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Primate Labs releases Geekbench 6 with new and updated tests for hardware and apps using datasets that are more representative of real world workloads — According to its developer, Primate Labs, Geekbench 6 has new and updated tests that are meant to fully test modern hardware … | Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
E-book pirate site Z-Library relaunches with unique domain names for each user, after the US DOJ seized 200+ domain names connected to the site in November 2022 — By providing free access to millions of books, Z-Library became the go-to site for many readers in recent years.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Monad Labs, founded by former Jump Trading developers to build an Ethereum virtual machine-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, raised a $19M seed led by Dragonfly — - Monad Labs raises $19 million from Dragonfly Capital, Naval Ravikant, Cobie, Hasu and others.
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Monad Labs, FinSMEs, Cryptonews, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, and Tech Startups
Tweets: @keonehd, @hosseeb, and @yogita_khatri5
| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
DARPA says its Air Combat Evolution developers used AI to successfully fly a modified F-16 test aircraft multiple times in December 2022 — The fighter aircraft that was first introduced in 1978 has now seemingly evolved into an autonomous plane. — Chloe Xiang
Tweets: @ldrogen and @chrismessina
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks on its customers last weekend; the largest exceeded 71M rps, 35%+ higher than the previous record — This weekend, Cloudflare blocked what it describes as the largest volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date.
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The Cloudflare Blog, Metaverse Post, DCD, RCR Wireless News, TechRadar, The Record, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, Infosecurity, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @brianleejackson and @eastdakota
| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Google's Photos iOS app is crashing at launch for users with iOS 16.3.1, the latest version; the only known workaround is not to update iOS — iOS 16.3.1 causing Google Photos to crash — A bug introduced in iOS 16.3.1 is causing Google Photos to crash at launch, so users that rely … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Bigscreen unveils Bigscreen Beyond, a $999 PC-powered wired VR headset with two OLED 2560×2560 displays, a 127g visor, and SteamVR Tracking, shipping in Q3 2023 — Darshan Shankar, the founder of VR's leading Internet-powered platform for watching movies together …
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Bigscreen on YouTube, TechSpot, PC Gamer, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, and VRScout
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail tensions during the US-TikTok negotiations over the Chinese government's role and influence, including a possible veto over a future deal — ByteDance is under pressure from the U.S. to silo—or divest—TikTok's American operations, but the company also has to navigate Beijing's druthersSponsor Posts
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