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| CoinDesk: |
An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says that the @SECGov's “twitter account was compromised”, and that the agency has not approved spot bitcoin ETFs — The X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is deciding whether to approve bitcoin ETFs, “was compromised,” the regulator told CoinDesk.
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Threads: @pkedrosky. X: @garygensler, @safety, @secgov, @senatorhagerty, @cgasparino, @senlummis, @eric_bigfund, @denniskelleher, @rephuizenga, @greg16676935420, @taylorbuley, @coinbase, @danprimack, @jseyff, @theflowhorse, @packym, and @robinwigg. Forums: Hacker News
| CNBC: |
X confirms the @SECGov account was compromised and says “the compromise was not due to any breach of X's systems” and that the account didn't have 2FA enabled — - X said late Tuesday it has completed a preliminary probe into the compromised account of the U.S. Securities … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitch could cut ~500 employees, or ~35% of its staff, as soon as January 10 amid concerns over company losses and after several top executives left — Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year. — Amazon.com Inc.'s livestreaming site Twitch is poised …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
HPE plans to acquire Juniper Networks for about $14B, or $40 per share, in an all-cash deal — Hewlett Packard Enterprise said in a statement on Tuesday that it plans to buy data center networking hardware maker Juniper Networks for about $14 billion, or $40 per share, in an all-cash deal.
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Humane laid off 10 employees this week in a cost cutting measure and plans to lower budgets in 2024, as the company reshuffles some executive positions — Humane laid off 4 percent of employees this week in a move that was described as a cost cutting measure to those who were impacted … | Nelson Aguilar / CNET: |
Google and Samsung merge their respective Nearby Share and Quick Share features under the Quick Share name, for a more unified cross-Android sharing experience — Apple has AirDrop. Android now has Quick Share. — At CES 2024 today, Google announced Quick Share, a collaboration … | Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with AI voiceover company Replica Studios, requiring consent to create voice replicas for use in video games and safe storage of assets — The union announced the deal with Replica Studios on Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union's executive director …
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Mastodon: @GreenFire@mstdn.social. X: @sirlarr, @lilyprojp, @pumpkindaddyy, @the_streamr, @cathycryan, @discussingfilm, @bravadochara, and @therealrutledge
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
X announces new shows with former CNN host Don Lemon, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, and sports commentator Jim Rome, amid a push into video — The tech company also announced a 10-show deal with Range Media Partners, and a deal with Tulsi Gabbard.
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Threads: @meal_fitforaking. Bluesky: @thepeterha.bsky.social. X: @donlemon, @tulsigabbard, @jimrome, @karaswisher, @mehdirhasan, @lindayax, @viacristiano, @tuckercarlson, @themaxburns, @elonmusk, and @mehdirhasan
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Startup Rabbit Inc. debuts the R1, a $199 handheld AI device meant to be a virtual assistant to complete tasks without a smartphone, shipping in late March — The startup has developed a virtual assistant that learns whatever digital errands you teach it. The interface is extra cute …
More: The Verge, ZDNet, Android Authority, AppleInsider, Business Wire, The Decoder, Liliputing, TechSpot, Engadget, TechRadar, The Bondi Blog, TechCrunch, and 9to5Google
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| Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press: |
A US federal judge temporarily halts the enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps — A federal judge issued an order Tuesday temporarily halting enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps.| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Pennsylvania becomes the first US state to use ChatGPT Enterprise in a pilot with OpenAI, in which state employees will use AI tools for daily operations — State employees in Pennsylvania will begin using ChatGPT to assist with their work in the coming weeks.
More: Governor Josh Shapiro, Analytics India Magazine, The Verge, and GovTech
| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
X suspended several journalists and podcasters for hours with no explanation; Elon Musk says that sometimes real accounts get caught up in anti-spam/scam sweeps — Elon Musk's “free speech” social media platform banned a number of accounts recently critical of Israel.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The FCC plans shutdown of the two-year-old Affordable Connectivity Program, which currently has 23M enrolled households, as GOP withholds funding — FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money. — The Federal Communications Commission is about to start winding …
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| Adam D'Angelo / Quora: |
Quora says it raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz, to be used to accelerate the growth of Poe and pay bot creators through its creator monetization program — We are excited to announce that we have raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz. This funding will be used to accelerate the growth of Poe …
More: Analytics India Magazine, Andreessen Horowitz, and TechCrunch
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
In a first, the US FTC bans data broker Outlogic, formerly X-Mode Social, from selling phone location data and orders the company to delete all collected data — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users' sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday.
More: Federal Trade Commission, Politico, Pixel Envy, BleepingComputer, The Record, and Reuters
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Intel unveils AI-enabled SoCs for cars and agrees to buy Silicon Mobility, a French fabless silicon and software company that develops EV energy management SoCs — Intel Corp. is making an ambitious play for the automotive sector with the launch of specialist versions of its newest, artificial intelligence-enabled chips.
More: Forbes, Business Today, Intel, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, and AnandTech
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to start automatically restricting teen Instagram and Facebook accounts from harmful content, including posts about self-harm, in the coming weeks — Efforts to curb harmful material and reduce unwanted interactions with teen social-media accounts come as states sue parent company Meta
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Threads: @antoniovieirasantos and @mollyrosefoundation
| Financial Times: |
Demis Hassabis, chief of DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs, believes the company would halve drug discovery times after inking deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis — Chief of Google's AI unit and Isomorphic Labs spells out targets following $3bn Eli Lilly-Novartis partnerships| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
SentinelOne acquires Bengaluru-based cloud security provider PingSafe, sources say for a $100M+ valuation; PingSafe had raised ~$3.3M from Peak XV and others — SentinelOne's deal to acquire PingSafe values the Peak XV-backed young startup at over $100 million, two sources familiar …
More: SentinelOne, Moneycontrol, Pingsafe Blog, Times of India, Inc42 Media, and Entrackr
| Stephen Pastis / Tampa Bay Business Journal: |
Tampa-based Rewst, which provides robotic process automation services to managed service providers, raised a $31M Series B led by Meritech Capital — Rewst, a Tampa-based automation platform for managed service providers, has raised $31 million in a Series B funding round, its latest raise since 2022.
More: CRN, ChannelE2E, and Rewst
| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports December 2023 revenue down 8.4% YoY to ~$5.7B, Q4 revenue flat YoY to ~$20.1B, beating estimates, and 2023 revenue down 4.5% YoY to ~$69.56B — - Chipmaker's holiday period stopped bleeding of prior quarters — TSMC has advised cautious optimism about semiconductor rebound| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bank of America values Jio Platforms at $107B, up 64.6% from $65B in 2020 when the Indian telecoms and digital conglomerate raised $20B+ from Meta and others — Bank of America has pinned a $107 billion valuation tag on Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms, valuing the Indian telecoms … | Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Some startup founders are building up protections, including implementing supervoting shares or dual-class shares, to avoid getting ousted like Sam Altman — They are building up protections and share classes after watching OpenAI saga play out — There's a new task on the 2024 to-do list for founders … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Binance, Kraken, Mexc, KuCoin, and four other crypto exchanges have been pulled from the App Store in India after being flagged for operating “illegally” — Apps of as many as eight crypto exchanges including Binance, Kraken, Mexc and Kucoin have disappeared from Apple's App Store in India …
More: CoinDesk, Moneycontrol, Crypto Daily, Watcher Guru, and CoinGape
| Bloomberg: |
Beijing's judicial bureau says a state-backed institution cracked Apple's AirDrop to identify message senders, and police found multiple suspects via the method — - Beijing agency claims to have found way to identify senders — Declaration follows efforts to crack down on sensitive content
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