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Ring is sunsetting a tool that lets police request footage from users via its Neighbors app, forcing law enforcement to obtain warrants or evidence of emergency — - Move dials back company's longtime public-safety stance — Law enforcement will now have to seek warrants for video
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple plans to add new fees and restrictions after allowing EU users to download apps from outside the App Store, including reviewing sideloaded apps — Meta, Spotify and other companies are weighing new options for customers as Apple makes changes to comply with new European law
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| Ariel Shapiro / The Verge: |
Ahead of the EU's DMA, Spotify shares iOS app mockups with full in-app payments, rolling out in part on March 7; Apple hasn't yet shared its changes for the DMA — For years, Apple's App Store policies have made it impossible for apps to sell digital services and goods on their own terms.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Pixel users say they are not able to access data stored in internal storage across all apps after installing the January 2024 Google Play system update — Following a storage access issue in October with the initial Android 14 release and multiple users, Pixel devices might … | Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft briefly reached a $3T market cap for the first time on January 24, becoming the second company to do so after Apple, before closing at a record $2.99T — - Software giant is second company to hit level, following Apple — AI services are seen as a long-term revenue growth tailwind| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia's RTX GPUs can now upgrade SDR video to HDR using AI, supported in both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome on Windows PCs with HDR enabled — Nvidia is launching a new feature for all RTX GPU owners today: RTX Video HDR. … You just need an HDR10-compatible monitor with HDR enabled in Windows.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $17.38B, vs. $17.30B est., software revenue up 3% YoY to $7.51B, and net income of $3.29B, up from $2.71B YoY; IBM jumps 8%+ — - IBM surpassed estimates on the top and bottom lines and ended 2023 with more free cash flow than it had projected.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Web Summit CEO Katherine Maher, who was hastily appointed at the end of October 2023 to replace Paddy Cosgrave, plans to step down on March 1 to join NPR as CEO — Technology can sometimes move at the speed of light. And so, too, can technology executives.
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| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
The US National Science Foundation partners with OpenAI, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others to launch NAIRR, a pilot to expand researchers' access to AI tools — The National Science Foundation on Wednesday launched a sprawling new AI infrastructure program aimed at increasing the access …
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: HPE says a group believed to be Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard exfiltrated data from “a small percentage of HPE mailboxes” beginning in May 2023 — - HPE says it was informed of nation-state breach on Dec. 12 — Same Russia-linked group suspected in recent Microsoft hack
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Klarna launches Klarna Plus, a $7.99/month subscription plan in the US, with waived service fees when using its One Time Card, double rewards points, and more — - Swedish fintech firm Klarna is launching a monthly subscription plan in the U.S. to lock in its heaviest users ahead …
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch changes the Prime Gaming subscription payout model to a fixed rate, expands the Partner Plus Program, and removes the $100K cap for 70/30 revenue share — Twitch is making big monetization changes again in an attempt to make a more sustainable system, lowering earnings in some places and raising them in others.
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The UK NCSC's all-source intelligence assessment: ransomware attacks will almost certainly increase in both volume and impact over the next two years due to AI — Ransomware attacks will increase in both volume and impact over the next two years due to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, British intelligence has warned.| Washington Post: |
Sources: Sam Altman has had discussions with members of the US Congress about where and how to build fabs to increase the supply of advanced chips for AI — The government plans to invest billions in producing computer chips in U.S. and has blocked the export of high-end chips to China| Sara Merken / Reuters: |
Toronto-based Spellbook, which offers an AI-powered contract drafting and review tool for lawyers, raised a $20M Series A led by Inovia Capital — Spellbook, a legal software company focused on contracts, said Wednesday that it has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led …
More: FinSMEs, Inovia, Spellbook, BetaKit, Saltwire Network, and Pulse 2.0
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| Sareen Habeshian / Axios: |
New York City issues a public health advisory officially designating social media as an “environmental toxin”, blaming it for a youth mental health crisis — New York City declared Wednesday that it's the first city to issue an advisory officially designating social media as an environmental toxin.
More: CBS News, New York Magazine, The City, ABC News, BetaNews, Chalkbeat, New York Post, The Daily Beast, abc7NY, NYC.gov, and Semafor
| Reuters: |
Massachusetts court filing: Google reached a settlement in an AI chip patent infringement lawsuit filed by Singular Computing, which sought $1.67B in damages — Google (GOOGL.O) on Wednesday reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit over chips that power the company's artificial … | Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them — Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others.
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Kate Knibbs
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix reports Q4 operating profit of ~$259M, versus estimates of a ~$127M loss, and revenue up 47% YoY to ~$8.4B, beating even the highest analyst forecast — - It swings to profit after four consecutive quarterly losses — AI demand boom has lifted No. 2 memory chipmaker's shares
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