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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple Vision Pro review: marvelous display, great hand and eye tracking, and works seamlessly in the ecosystem, but pricey and video passthrough can be blurry — The Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer headset anyone's ever made — and that's the problem.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Source: Apple has sold upwards of 200K Vision Pro units, after beginning to accept Vision Pro pre-orders on January 19; Kuo estimated 160K to 180K on January 22 — Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on January 28, and that the first Neuralink product is called Telepathy — - Elon Musk's neurotech startup Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on Sunday, and the patient is “recovering well,” according to a post on X.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Edge imported open Chrome tabs after a Windows update despite Edge's import tool being disabled; Windows users have reported the behavior for months — Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
New York's AG sues Citibank over allegedly failing to defend customers from online scams, citing poor responses to red flags and failing to reimburse victims — New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Citibank over its failure to defend customers against hacks and scams and refusing …
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
ICANN proposes .INTERNAL, a new TLD available for internal use but never plumbed into the global DNS, taking on the same role as 192.168.x.x IPv4 bloc — The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root - like may already do with a subdomain for an intranet
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Portal, a startup building a BTC-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, raised a $34M seed from Coinbase and others, taking its funding to $42.5M — - Portal has raised $34 million in a seed funding round from Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures and others.| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
US DOJ and SEC file charges in an alleged $1.9B crypto fraud known as HyperFund, which collapsed in 2022, saying “the level of alleged fraud here is staggering” — - The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against two people and the guilty plea of a third person … | Wall Street Journal: |
X has lifted its ban on Taylor Swift searches, but “will continue to be vigilant”, following the spread of explicit AI-generated images of the singer — Social-media site restricted queries for the singer's name after the digitally altered images hit the platform| Mark Stenberg / Adweek: |
Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 staffers, amid industry-wide cutbacks — The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019 — Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday …
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| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
German police seize nearly 50K bitcoin, worth ~$2.17B, from two suspects who allegedly acquired the bitcoin with profits from an illegal file-sharing platform — German prosecutors provisionally seized nearly 50,000 Bitcoin worth about $2.1 billion as part of an investigation into what they see as an illegal file-sharing platform.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox President Sarah Bond says that “Apple's new policy is a step in the wrong direction”, in response to an X post by Spotify's CEO about Apple's DMA changes — Apple's new plan to comply with the European Union's tech regulations has already drawn criticism from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and Spotify.
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Sources: by the end of 2022, <10% of Instagram teens had parental supervision settings on, showing barriers for parents like limited understanding of the tools — Inside the company, kids safety experts have long raised red flags about relying on such features, citing infrequent use.| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Sources: Binance has bowed to pressure from customers to let them store assets with an independent custodian, highlighting growing unease after the US fines — Customers switch trading collateral to independent banks including Switzerland's Sygnum and Flow
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
After a months-long probe, Italy's data protection authority says OpenAI is suspected of violating EU privacy regulations, giving the company 30 days to respond — OpenAI has been told it's suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of its AI chatbot …
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| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and documents: TikTok managers sometimes tell Project Texas staff to send data, including email and IP, to ByteDance without going via official channels — Popular video-sharing app said it had walled off American data in so-called Project Texas, but employees say data is still sometimes shared with its China-based parent| Yiwen Lu / New York Times: |
The AI boom has spurred law firms, hospitals, insurance companies, government agencies, and others to create chief AI officer roles to navigate the use of AI — Many feared that artificial intelligence would kill jobs. But hospitals, insurance companies and others are creating roles to navigate and harness the disruptive technology.
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| Reuters: |
GM plans to cut Cruise spending by half in 2024, or by ~$1B, but remains committed to the self-driving unit and will “soon” give a timeline to resume operations — General Motors (GM.N) said Tuesday it is cutting spending in half on troubled robotaxi unit Cruise …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at Intel's mistakes during Brian Krzanich's CEO tenure, and Pat Gelsinger's attempt to turn Intel into a foundry for chip developers, partnering with UMC — There are time when being a semiconductor CEO is rather easy. Just consider Brian Krzanich: when he took over the Intel job in 2013, I wrote in The Intel Opportunity:
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