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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook compares Vision Pro debut to the birth of Mac, iPod, and iPhone in a memo to employees — Apple Inc. faithful lined up at its US stores on Friday to pick up the first Vision Pro headsets, ushering in what the company calls “the era of spatial computing.”
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LinkedIn: Paul Melvin, Hyunjae Kim, Callum Spencer, Tara Sigaroudi, and Mauricio Santamaria
Forums: Slashdot, MacRumors Forums, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Brian Krebs, Philip Coniglio, and Kelvin Low
| 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 …
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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: @buccocapital, @levie, @modestproposal1, @devahaz, @lukebelmar, @christianselig, @carnage4life, @cloud_opinion, @carnage4life, @specialsitsnews, and @indravahan. LinkedIn: Subrat Patnaik
| Meta: |
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| 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, GoNintendo, and TheGamer
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/Games, r/gaming, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.| 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
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LinkedIn: Rosa Oh and Brandon Bauman
| 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
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LinkedIn: Peter van der Putten and Tobias Bräutigam
| 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 … | 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.
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| 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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X: @quinnypig, @minimaxir, @dee_bosa, @stockmktnewz, @paulroetzer, @stockmktnewz, @fjeronimo, @munster_gene, and @inafried. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Apple: |
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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
| 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
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
On Apple's Q1 earnings call, CFO Luca Maestri said that the EU represents “roughly 7% of our global app store revenue” — Nearly a week after Apple announced big changes to the App Store because of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules, the company … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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Threads: @kalihays1. X: @drbarnard, @mikeisaac, @garykim, @iamwittywisdom, and @azharthegreat. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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X: @carnage4life, @deantak, and @jeffjohnroberts
| 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, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, 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 …
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