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| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
An interview with Tim Cook, Greg Joswiak, James Cameron, Jon Favreau, and others on the Apple Vision Pro, using the device, developing the headset, and more — Inside Apple Park, the tech giant's CEO talks about the genesis of a “mind-blowing” new device that could change the way we live and work.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases visionOS 1.0.2, fixing a WebKit vulnerability that, if exploited, allowed malicious code execution; Apple included a patch in iOS 17.3 last week — A day after reporters published their first hands-on review of Apple's Vision Pro, the technology giant released its first security patch … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says developers have optimized 600+ apps for the Vision Pro in time for its February 2 launch, including Airmail, Box, MUBI, Night Sky, Parcel, and PCalc — Apple today announced that over 600 apps with native support for visionOS will be available on the Vision Pro when the headset launches in the U.S. this Friday.
More: Apple, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Thurrott, The Verge, AppleInsider, and iMore
Threads: @benedictevans. Mastodon: @CARROT@mastodon.social. X: @levie, @appleinsider, @munster_gene, @emcro, @hiddevdploeg, and @lindadong. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
An interview with Unity Create President Marc Whitten, as the company launches support for building spatial apps for Apple's visionOS to all its subscribers — Unity has unveiled its support for spatial experiences including support for the Apple Vision Pro that launches on February 2.
More: Unity Blog, Road to VR, AppleInsider, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, Developer Tech News, iMore, O'Grady's PowerPage, MIXED Reality News, Chronicle-Tribune, Techgenyz, Business Wire, Chronicle-Tribune, Best Stocks, UploadVR, and Game Developer
X: @lukemiani, @sadlyitsbradley, @tina__nigro, @danmillerdev, and @jetscott
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Microsoft Tech Community, XDA Developers, Microsoft Tech Community, Digital Trends, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, iMore, MSPoweruser, NewsBytes, Benzinga, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Threads: @etienneshrdlu. Bluesky: @losowsky.com. X: @iphoneincanada, @migueldeicaza, @netcapgirl, @theoriginalite, @cultofmac, @the_blueprint, @iconredesign, @morningbrew, @thegarrettscott, @andykreed, @broderick, @fqure, @juanmicrosoft, @jeffteper, and @tomwarren. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
UMG begins pulling its artists' music from TikTok after negotiations failed; videos featuring UMG-owned songs will be muted, and users can pick a new soundtrack — - Publisher behind Drake and Taylor Swift pushes for better pay — Videos featuring Universal Music-owned songs will be muted
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| Dexter Thomas / Wired: |
Q&A with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on the company's music festival in Arizona, his background, TikTok and music, US scrutiny, music labels, moderation, and more — A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he's trying to make TikTok better.
More: VICE, The Verge, NBC News, Fortune, Music Ally, indy100, Mashable, NowThis News, The Hill, The Information, and The Guardian
X: @nbcnews, @hasanthehun, and @mattbinder
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
Celsius emerges from bankruptcy and plans to distribute $3B+ to its creditors, who will also get a stake in the company's new Ionic Digital mining operation — The distribution will be made through PayPal and Coinbase. — Register Now — Celsius will be shipping out more than $3 billion …
More: Celsius, Blockworks, Yahoo Finance, Crypto Daily, TheMinerMag, Crowdfund Insider, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, CCN.com, Unchained, Milk Road, Bitcoin Insider, Crypto Briefing, The Block, Wall Street Journal, Cryptopolitan, and Cointelegraph
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Pocket Pair's Palworld, still technically in early access, is the biggest third-party Xbox Game Pass launch in history, reaching 7M players — Surprise viral gaming hit Palworld continues to reach new player milestones. Today, developer Pocketpair announced that the game …
More: Xbox Wire, Forbes, Bloomberg, Engadget, TechRadar, WhatIfGaming, TechSpot, Windows Blog, Destructoid, TrueAchievements, MSPoweruser, Press Start, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Rant, Dexerto, Pure Xbox, Wccftech, Neowin, TweakTown, TrueAchievements, Video Games Chronicle, Kotaku, Polygon, Game World Observer, Club386, TweakTown, T3, Windows Central, Game File, IGN, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Twinfinite, GamingBolt, Dot Esports, IGN, Game Rant, Game Developer, and Thurrott
Forums: r/XboxSeriesX, r/Games, r/xboxone, r/Palworld, and r/XboxGamePass
| Financial Times: |
Sources: SK Hynix plans to build an advanced chip packaging plant in Indiana, for stacking DRAM chips to create High Bandwidth Memory chips for Nvidia's GPUs — South Korean company's memory chips will be packaged with Nvidia processors to create more powerful AI products| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Allen Institute for AI open sources OLMo, or “Open Language MOdels”, and its data set Dolma; OLMo was created with Harvard, AMD, Databricks, and others — The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen …
More: Axios, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, AI2 Blog, and AI2 Blog
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot, whose robot vacuum market share has steadily eroded since 2014, could become an also-ran as Chinese companies gain — By abandoning its deal to buy iRobot, Amazon has left the robot vacuum maker stuck under the couch.
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @tess@mastodon.social. X: @gergelyorosz
Forums: Hacker News and r/roomba
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Email to subscribers: Hulu changed its agreement to ban sharing accounts outside of the user's household “unless otherwise permitted by your Service Tier” — The Disney-owned streaming service changed its subscriber agreement to ban sharing of accounts outside of individual households.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, PCMag, Variety, Gizmodo, Engadget, Mercury News, IGN, The Streamable, PhoneArena, BGR, Neowin, Gizchina, MarketWatch, Deadline, Hulu, CBR, TVLine, Cord Cutters News, UPROXX, and The Wrap
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google launches ImageFX, an AI image generator underpinned by Imagen 2, with “expressive chips”, or keyword suggestions; Google will bring Imagen 2 to Bard — Taylor Swift deepfakes be damned, Google is releasing a new AI-powered tool, TextFX, for image creation.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Google AI Blog, The Keyword, Search Engine Land, PCMag, Engadget, PCWorld, 9to5Google, Android Central, and Tom's Guide
X: @labsdotgoogle, @_akhaliq, and @googledeepmind
| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia opens pre-orders for its new China-specific H20 AI chips, each costing $12K to $15K; specs show Huawei's 910B as more powerful in some key areas — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has started taking pre-orders for a new China-specific artificial intelligence (AI) chip from distributors … | Jeffrey Gottfried / Pew Research Center: |
US adults survey: 83% use YouTube, 68% use Facebook, 47% use Instagram; 27% to 35% use Snapchat, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest; 22% use X and Reddit — YouTube and Facebook are by far the most used online platforms among U.S. adults; TikTok's user base has grown since 2021
More: Engadget, Hindustan Times, Music Ally, PhoneArena, Social Media Today, Silicon Florist, TechSpot, and TechCrunch
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US CPSC is preparing an order that could classify Amazon's online business as a distributor of goods, potentially leading to lawsuits and recalls — Order from Consumer Product Safety Commission could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA orders US federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti VPN appliances vulnerable to multiple actively exploited bugs before Saturday, February 3 — CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti Connect Secure or Policy Secure VPN appliances vulnerable to multiple actively exploited bugs …
More: Cybersecurity …, The Hacker News, Infosecurity, CRN, Security Affairs, and The Record. X: @0xdabbad00
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Memo: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says the company plans to lay off 400 employees, or ~7% of its staff, as the “reality is that costs are still too high” — KEY POINTS — Identity management company Okta said on Thursday in a message to employees that it would lay off 400 employees, about 7% of the company's headcount.
More: TechCrunch, CRN, Bloomberg, and The San Francisco Standard
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance's efforts to re-enter the UK market are being frustrated after UK's financial regulator expressed concerns to prospective local partners — - UK regulator had expressed concerns to firms about Binance — New CEO Teng is trying to rebuild credibility with regulators
More: Protos
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google signs power purchase deals with two new Dutch offshore wind farms, its biggest deals yet, and expects its Dutch centers to hit 90% clean energy in 2024 — Google announced its biggest deal yet to purchase offshore wind energy for its data centers in Europe, signing power purchase agreements …
More: The Keyword, Reuters, The Herald, TechRadar, Offshore Wind, Splash247, Renewablesnow.com, and Recharge
| Bloomberg: |
The US sentences Joseph Garrison, a 19-year-old involved in the 2022 DraftKings hack, to 18 months in jail; Garrison admitted to stealing $600K from 1,600 users — A 19-year-old Wisconsin man involved in the 2022 hack of the DraftKings fantasy sports website was sentenced to 18 months in jail by a federal judge.| CNBC: |
Activist investor Elliott Management builds a “sizable” Etsy stake, a source says a roughly 13% position, and Elliott partner Marc Steinberg joins Etsy's board — - Activist investor Elliott Management has a “sizable” investment in e-commerce firm Etsy.| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
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