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Sources: Apple's new 24" iMacs are in engineering validation testing, will likely launch in H2 2023 with the M3 chip and same exterior design as the old iMacs — Apple is gearing up to launch its next slate of laptops and desktops, including a new iMac. Also: Its cloud chief is set to leave …
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
Investor letter: Multicoin Capital's hedge fund lost 91.4% in 2022; in November it said 10% of assets were stuck on FTX and it had exposure to FTT, SOL, and SRM — The fund's performance was severely impacted by direct exposure to now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and holdings in FTT and Solana-based tokens.| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Meta, Twitter, and Snapchat's subscription fees and features are aimed at professional creators filling social feeds because regular users post too infrequently — Monthly fees for Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are not for ordinary users. They're for the professionals who've taken over the feeds.| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
A presentation in FTX's Chapter 11 case shows the exchange has identified assets of ~$2.2B in FTX.com wallets and a ~$9.3B net borrowing by Alameda Research — So far, $2.2 billion in assets have been identified in the wallets of accounts associated with FTX.com, of which only $694 million are in the most liquid assets.
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| Sergi Castella i Sapé / Zeta Alpha: |
An analysis of the top 100 cited AI papers per year from 2020 to 2022 shows US-based AI research as the most impactful and Google the dominant organization — Who Is publishing the most Impactful AI research right now? With the breakneck pace of innovation in AI, it is crucial to pick up some signal as soon as possible.
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An analysis of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which covers every connected device and almost all software, causing open-source developers to worry about its scope — The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is admirable in its goal. And the EU is not alone in thinking something needs to be done …
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| RT Watson / The Block: |
Current and former Dapper Labs staff say bullying and lavish spending by CEO Roham Gharegozlou has hurt the NFT startup amid layoffs and a prolonged bear market — - Dapper Labs CEO and co-founder Roham Gharegozlou's extravagant spending and habit of bullying employees …
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| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
Meta is good at making VR hardware but is ignoring its core gamer audience, as it's not clear the company realizes that games are driving its VR business — Meta seems very committed to making hardware to usher in a whole new world and racing away from the games that drive its VR business.
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| Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: |
Reports and sources: the US prepares a program that could ban US investment in some sectors in China, such as advanced semiconductors, quantum computing, and AI — Biden administration expected to seek money in its budget next week to set up program regulating investment abroad
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Sources and docs: Binance and Binance.US have been more intertwined than disclosed, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity to buy and sell crypto — The exchange was intertwined with an American firm portrayed as independent. Now, regulators are circling.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Bing Chat appears to have a hidden Celebrity mode, in which the chatbot answers questions while impersonating Biden, Trump, Tom Cruise, and other famous people — A secret Bing Chat ‘Celebrity’ mode allows users to instruct the AI to impersonate celebrities, answering questions and talking like the person it imitates.
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| Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: |
The US adds China's Inspur, the world's third largest server maker that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to its Entity List, limiting its US tech access — The Biden administration's blacklisting of China's Inspur Group Co. targets a company that US tech giants like Cisco Systems Inc. …
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