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Microsoft announces a new Copilot keyboard key, shipping in new PCs and laptops from partners, the first major change to Windows PC keyboard layouts in 30 years — Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it's kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs.
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| Sarah Martin / The Guardian: |
The CEO of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse, introduced to investors in 2021, doesn't appear to exist; Chainalysis: HyperVerse's 2022 consumer losses were $1.3B — Exclusive: Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass now requires users to set a complex master password with a minimum of 12 characters; users have been able to set a weaker master password since 2018 — LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
In a letter to a group of victims of its October 2023 breach, 23andMe blames them, saying that “users negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords” — Facing more than 30 lawsuits from victims of its massive data breach, 23andMe is now deflecting the blame …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: TikTok aims to grow TikTok Shop US' merchandise volume tenfold to $17.5B in 2024 and plans to launch TikTok Shop in Latin America in the coming months — - ByeDance's video app is fast expanding beyond advertising … The 2024 merchandise volume goal for the US version of TikTok Shop …
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: VC investment in the US fell 30% YoY to $170.6B in 2023, the lowest since 2019, and declined 35% YoY to $345.7B globally, the lowest since 2017 — New data paint a bleak picture for Silicon Valley last year. — The value of venture capital deals in the US last year fell to levels … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2, an update to the XR2 Gen 2 used in the Meta Quest 3, offering 4.3K resolution at 90fps per eye, up from 3K per eye — The new chipset is designed as a step up from the XR2 Gen 2 in the Meta Quest 3, capable of rendering high-resolution visuals like the ones promised by Apple's Vision Pro.
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Research: deliberate internet shutdowns affected 747M people globally in 2023, costing $9.01B; Russia accounted for $4.02B; X was the most blocked platform — First published Jan 2, 2020. Last updated to publish the full 2023 annual report on the cost of internet shutdowns.
More: Forbes, 9to5Mac, and Inc42 Media
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korea's trade ministry says the electronics sector drew $3B in foreign direct investment in 2023; the country is building a chip cluster south of Seoul — - Funding jumps for electronics that include chips and batteries — South Korea is building semiconductor cluster south of Seoul
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| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Layered Reality announces Elvis Evolution, an AI, AR, and holographic-based show, launching in London in 2024 before traveling to Las Vegas, Tokyo, and Berlin — Elvis Presley fans who missed out on seeing their hero when he was alive will be able to catch a glimpse of the King … | The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI offered some media companies as little as between $1M and $5M per year to license their news articles for use in model training, a tiny amount — OpenAI has offered some media firms as little as between $1 million and $5 million annually to license their news articles for use … | Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Perplexity, which offers an AI-based “answer engine” used by 10M to compete with Google, raised $74M at a $520M valuation from IVP, Jeff Bezos, and others — Perplexity, with a fraction of Google's users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup in recent years
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| Ali Jones / GamesRadar: |
SteamDB: developers released a record 14,531 game titles on Valve's Steam in 2023, or around 40 per day, breaking 2022's record by just under 2,000 games — That's around 40 new games every single day — 2023 was another record-breaking year for Steam, as more titles released on Valve's platform …
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| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
Dell announces the $1,299+ XPS 13, the $1,699+ XPS 14, replacing the XPS 13 Plus, and the $1,899+ XPS 16, offering Intel Core 7 and 9 and up to 4TB of storage — This might not be the biggest shake-up of the Dell XPS lineup ever, but between some bigger laptops and a total revamping of the XPS portfolio, it feels like a big deal.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel appoints HPE executive Justin Hotard to lead its data center and AI group, a crucial unit to its turnaround, replacing veteran Sandra Rivera on February 1 — Intel Corp. appointed Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. executive Justin Hotard to head its data center and artificial intelligence group …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Data Center Knowledge, Oregonian, HPCwire, Intel, and CRN
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, the country's No. 2 official, visited YMTC's memory chip production lines, the latest show of support for the US-sanctioned company — - No. 2 Chinese leader Li Qiang visited YMTC's production lines — Xi Jinping's right-hand man called for innovation, Xinhua says
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Kim Kardashian says her Glu Mobile-developed game, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, will shut down on April 8; between 2014 and 2016, the game made $156M in sales — Well played, Willow Pape — Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the celebrity's hit mobile game from Glu Mobile, is shutting down in April …
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