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| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook appeared at the company's flagship Fifth Avenue store in NYC for the launch — - Apple's Vision Pro virtual reality headset is now on sale at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the online U.S. Apple Store.
More: Apple on YouTube, Apple Support, Christian Selig, AppleInsider News, AppleInsider News, AppleInsider, The Walt Disney Company, Apple Support on YouTube, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, USA Today, Dexerto, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Mercury News, The Independent, Business Insider, TechRadar, Gulf News, Neowin, Redmond Pie, MIXED Reality News, Wccftech, The Apple Post, Cult of Mac, iMore, Disconnect, Mashable, Good Morning America, Supercharged, TweakTown, TechCrunch, ABC7, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, iThinkDifferent, Tech Xplore, and Financial Times
Threads: @michaelbrwnjr, @_brianpierini, @chriswelch, @nate_loved_an_image, @kevinroose, @mcwm, @tomwarrenuk, @benedictevans, @petershankman, @luokai, @reckless1280, @jonporteruk, @ianbetteridge, @brianmcc, @ipedro, @lukehurd, @bzamayo, @sourlemons, @pkafka, @tomgara, and @jbillinson
X: @trungtphan, @tim_cook, @gregjoz, @settern, @markgurman, @chatgptapp, @vadimyuryev, @mikkelfredborg, @panzer, @robertjala, @kantrowitz, @benbajarin, @brijwaasi, @michaelsayman, @elonmusk, @michaelsayman, @aidan_wolf, @katekozuch, @benbajarin, and @stevesi
LinkedIn: Paul Melvin, Hyunjae Kim, Callum Spencer, Tara Sigaroudi, and Mauricio Santamaria
Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future” — Google officially removed the cache link from the Google Search results snippets last week and Google confirmed that it will remove …
More: The Verge, Search Engine Roundtable, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, PCMag, MobileSyrup, How-To Geek, TechSpot, Cybernews.com, Neowin, Benzinga, Ghacks, MSPoweruser, BetaNews, and Tedium
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| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Meta's stock rises 20%+, adding ~$200B to its market cap, the biggest single-session market value addition, eclipsing Apple's and Amazon's $190B gains in 2022 — - Stock also holds record for the biggest wipeout in history — Shares surge after big earnings beat, buyback, dividend plans
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Threads: @adisruptivekid. X: @carnage4life, @buccocapital, @levie, @modestproposal1, @devahaz, @lukebelmar, @christianselig, @cloud_opinion, @carnage4life, @specialsitsnews, and @indravahan. LinkedIn: Subrat Patnaik
| Meta: |
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Threads: @zuck, @shiraovide, @oliverk120, @mgsiegler, @zuck, @soumith, and @kalihays1. Bluesky: @epro.social
X: @connorjbates_, @yaeleisenstat, @nearcyan, @mikeisaac, @nearcyan, @jason_kint, @kantrowitz, @jason_kint, @aiatmeta, @the_ai_investor, @rickysingh89000, @naominixwrites, @nearcyan, @richlightshed, @mikeisaac, @swiftstories, @richlightshed, @jamesborow, @lexnfx, @alexeheath, @news_by_nick, @alexeheath, @followtheh, @conorsen, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @mikeisaac, @richlightshed, and @kurtwagner8
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Neowin, games fray, Developer Tech News, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, NBC Bay Area, SAMTIME on YouTube, AppleInsider, and CNBC
Threads: @kalihays1. X: @mikeisaac, @drbarnard, @garykim, @iamwittywisdom, and @azharthegreat. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: Thurrott, PCMag, and Gizmodo
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, and r/technology
| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify signs a new multiyear deal with Joe Rogan, estimated to be worth $250M; his show will be available on multiple podcast platforms and YouTube — Hit show to be distributed broadly, including on YouTube, rather than exclusively on audio-streaming service
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Reuters, AppleInsider, Semafor, The Hill, Spotify, NBC News, Business Post, Bloomberg, New York Post, MarketWatch, Deadline, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter
| James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in January, the US DOJ charged three people over a phone-hacking scheme that included the FTX hack to steal $400M+ during the exchange's 2022 collapse — The hack coincided with the crypto exchange's meltdown more than a year ago — Federal investigators appear to have cracked …
More: Bloomberg, Elliptic, Crypto Daily, Cryptonews, Unchained, Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, Crowdfund Insider, CryptoSlate, and Cryptopolitan
LinkedIn: Brian Krebs, Philip Coniglio, and Kelvin Low
| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features and the company plans to detail its ongoing work “later this year” — Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that will be announced in the coming months.
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| Apple: |
More: Investor's Business Daily, TidBITS, Thurrott, Coinspeaker, GSMArena.com, Neowin, Fortune, Macworld, Variety, and Bloomberg
Mastodon: @asymco@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @epro.social. X: @thetranscript_, @jerrycap, @florian4gamers, @bryanbma, @neilcybart, @markgurman, @markgurman, @lexnfx, @inafried, @appleinsider, @cfarivar, and @tomwarren
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, MacRumors Forums, and MacRumors Forums
| Patricia Hernandez / The Guardian: |
A profile of Gary Bowser, a 54-year-old programmer who was sentenced in 2022 for 40 months in prison for pirating games and ordered to pay $14.5M to Nintendo — The hacker whose involvement with anti-piracy software ended in a jail sentence has emerged from prison struggling to make rent as he starts paying his fine.
More: Gizmodo, GameSpot, TheGamer, and GoNintendo
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/Games, r/gaming, and Ars OpenForum
| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who was convicted for leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on February 1 for espionage and more — A former CIA software engineer who was convicted of carrying out the largest data breach in the agency's history was sentenced … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
How the EFF, Techdirt, MuckRock, and DDoSecrets are pushing back against legal threats aiming to censor reports on Appin's alleged hacker-for-hire past — A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight the legal threats aimed at making reports of one Indian company's hacker-for-hire past disappear.| Gian Volpicelli / Politico: |
EU countries strike a deal on the AI Act, after announcing pro-innovation measures and an AI Office; the bill awaits formal approval of EU Parliament — The bloc's law to regulate AI overcomes threats of late opposition. — Free article usually reserved for subscribers
More: TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Euractiv, Tech Monitor, TNW, The Decoder, The Verge, Euronews, Cybernews.com, IFPI, ebu.ch, Tech Xplore, and Lexology
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus review: slightly bigger and brighter displays with flat edges, and the AI features are occasionally great but sometimes weird — With its newest devices, Samsung cleverly mixes original AI features with some familiar concepts.
More: Engadget, SamMobile, 9to5Google, PCMag, Digital Trends, CNET, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, and Fox News
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Hands-on with Perplexity and the $20-per-month Perplexity Pro tier, which show that AI-powered search engines could loosen Google's grip on the search market — A start-up called Perplexity shows what's possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence.
More: Search Engine Roundtable. Threads: @kevinroose. Mastodon: @ErikJonker@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Alan Morrison
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: some independent record labels are pushing back on Apple's plans to pay more for spatial audio tracks, saying it benefits larger record companies — Groups behind Adele and Phoebe Bridgers among those against songs recorded in higher-quality audio receiving more money
More: The Verge, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
Byju's US unit Alpha files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, listing liabilities between $1B and $10B and assets between $500M and $1B — A U.S. unit of Indian education technology startup Byju's has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. court of Delaware …
More: Business Today, Livemint, Tech in Asia, BW Disrupt, Bloomberg, and Outlook Publishing India …
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Filing: Amazon spending on content rose 14% YoY to $18.9B in 2023 despite Hollywood strikes — While other media companies have been paring back content spending, Amazon shelled out more than $2 billion more in 2023 for TV shows, movies and music than it did a year earlier.| Amazon: |
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
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