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US financial regulators are rapidly closing crypto's key doors to the banking system, pushing the crypto industry to the fringes of finance — 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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| 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.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Primate Labs releases Geekbench 6 with new and updated hardware and app tests that use datasets meant to be 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 … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Hyundai and Kia are offering free anti-theft software updates for 8M+ vehicles, after hundreds of car thefts inspired by the viral “Kia Challenge” on TikTok — Hyundai and Kia are offering free software updates for millions of their cars in response to a rash of car thefts inspired …
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Google launches Privacy Sandbox for Android in beta, starting with a “small percentage” of Android 13 devices, similar to Apple's App Tracking Transparency — Here's a preview of the Privacy Sandbox, the newfangled way companies will follow you around the web that's supposed to be better for your privacy.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Copilot for Business, GitHub's enterprise AI-powered code completion tool for $19 per month, hits general availability after the beta launch in December 2022 — GitHub today announced that Copilot for Business, the company's $19/month enterprise version of its AI-powered code completion tool …
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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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| Nicole Farley / Search Engine Land: |
Meta updates Facebook's “Why am I seeing this ad?” tool to include information about how users' on- and off-platform activity informs its ML models for ads — Facebook has just launched an updated version of its “Why am I seeing this ad?” tool which now includes information on how they use machine learning to deliver ads.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker on the company's history, battling Microsoft, working with rivals, generative AI, WebKit, iOS, Chrome, Mastodon, and more — Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker on competing — and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech.
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
DARPA says its Air Combat Evolution developers used AI to successfully fly a modified F-16 test aircraft multiple times over several days in early December 2022 — The fighter aircraft that was first introduced in 1978 has now seemingly evolved into an autonomous plane. — Chloe Xiang
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| Financial Times: |
Source: Apple's India expansion has been slow due to logistics, tariffs, and infrastructure; a former Apple engineer says “there just isn't a sense of urgency” — 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Following Facebook, Instagram plans to shut down live shopping on March 16, 2023, and focus on ads that help users discover businesses and shops on Instagram — As Meta gears up for its “year of efficiency,” the company announced today it's exiting the livestream shopping business on Instagram …
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| Levi Sumagaysay / MarketWatch: |
Airbnb reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.86B est., $319M net income, up from $55M YoY, and says 2022 was its first profitable year; ABNB jumps 9%+ — Record profit in the holiday quarter leads to earnings of nearly $2 billion for the year, but executives also suggest price cuts are coming
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, which asks users questions so that Buzzy the Robot, an AI based on OpenAI's public API, can write a personalized narrative — BuzzFeed — the media site that made its name (literally) spinning out viral content — landed in the middle of the buzz itself …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at the Eric Schmidt-backed startup Istari, which uses ML to virtually assemble and test war machines using computer models of the individual components — 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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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to “go big” on physical retail stores in 2023, blaming a lack of “normalcy” during the pandemic for the company's stumbles — Andy Jassy says ecommerce giant will double down on grocery despite recent stumbles
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| Alexander Burns / Politico: |
During Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip, TSMC founder Morris Chang criticized the $52B CHIPS Act, saying a one-time cash infusion won't build chip self-sufficiency — Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan like a juggernaut. She defied threats from the Chinese regime in order to visit the island … | Shubham Agarwal / Wired: |
After a backlash, Spotify removes a clause that let Apple use audiobooks from Findaway Voices to train synthetic voices; Spotify acquired Findaway in June 2022 — After a backlash, Spotify has removed a clause that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.
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AppleInsider. Tweets: @voxkimberly, @pt, @rachelmetz, @ajbecklesvo, @stealcase, and @morss_alex. Thanks:@phonesoldier
| Dan O'Shea / Fierce Electronics: |
GlobalFoundries reports record Q4 revenue, up 14% YoY to $2.1B, net income up 99% YoY to $668M, and full year revenue up 23% YoY to $8.1B; GFS closes up 8.44% — As recent earnings reports showed how many semiconductor designers struggled during the latter half of 2022 …
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SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, StreetInsider.com, Investing.com India, Investor's Business Daily, and Barron's Online
Tweets: @globalfoundries and @patrickmoorhead
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Monad Labs, co-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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Tweets: @monad_xyz, @smsunarto, @hosseeb, @yogita_khatri5, and @keonehd
| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
A US jury convicts Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin for his role in a $90M insider trading scheme that hacked companies to get non-public financial data — A federal jury in Boston has convicted a prominent Russian businessman for his alleged role in a $90-million insider trading scheme …
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CyberScoop, The Record, Department of Justice, Reuters, The Boston Globe, and MassLive. Tweets: @fbiboston
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