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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says the social network, launched on iOS in February 2023, is now open to the public, has 3M+ users, and plans to add developer tools — The upstart social network has been by invitation only since its launch last year — When Jack Dorsey, then Twitter's CEO …
More: Bluesky, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, Business Post, Bloomberg, and Neowin
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple tells Vision Pro users who forget their passcode to bring the device to a store or mail the device to AppleCare support to erase and reset the device — Buyers of Apple Inc.'s new Vision Pro headset are finding it can be a major hassle if they lose their passcode.
More: PCMag, Macworld, HotHardware, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, T3, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Neowin, iMore, MySmartPrice, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, SamMobile, TechRadar, Cybernews.com, Patently Apple, Benzinga, PhoneArena, BGR, Appleosophy, Business Today, Digital Trends, and AppleInsider
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple Vision Pro review: disappointing for productivity, a very narrow field of view, and the Guest User feature is bad, all making the device hard to recommend — No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. — CmdrTaco, Slashdot — My one small comfort in the cold Wisconsin winters …
More: MacRumors, Patently Apple, and Sportico
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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Forums: r/apple, r/VisionPro, r/VisionPro, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Google's TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware — The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite efforts to better regulate it.| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta proposes standards to identify AI content that its industry peers could use, and plans to label AI images posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads — The social network wants to promote standardized labels to help detect artificially created photo, video and audio material across its platforms.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces Monitor Plus, a $14/month US service that scans 190+ data broker sites and automatically submits requests for removal of the user's data — Mozilla today is introducing a new subscription service that will help people locate and remove their personal and sensitive information from data broker websites around the web.
More: The Mozilla Blog, The Verge, Engadget, Phoronix, Mozilla, Ars Technica, PCMag, Lifewire, and TechRadar
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q3 net sales down 6% YoY to ~$4B, net profit up 18% YoY to ~$919M, and forecasts 15.5M Switch sales in the current fiscal year, up from 15M YoY — - Nintendo said it now expects to sell 15.5 million of its flagship Switch consoles in its current fiscal year, upping a previous forecast.
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| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Sources: Tencent plans to adapt acclaimed role-playing console game Elden Ring into a mobile version, after acquiring licensing rights from FromSoftware in 2022 — China's Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) has been working to adapt acclaimed action role-playing console game “Elden Ring” …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta expands its Take It Down tool, which helps teens combat non-consensual sharing of intimate imagery, to 25 languages — Meta is introducing a few new updates and efforts to help teens on its platforms combat sextortion, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Sources: SMIC plans to use its stock of US and Dutch-made equipment to build 5nm Kirin chips designed by Huawei's HiSilicon for smartphones, despite US curbs — SMIC and Huawei plan to make new 5nm processor, supporting Beijing's goal for advanced semiconductors
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| Forbes: |
Admissions essay reviewers say that certain words, such as “tapestry”, appear more frequently in submissions now and can be seen as red flags that AI was used — ChatGPT and other generative AI are being widely used in higher education in school admissions.| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to €3.7B, MAUs up 23% YoY to 602M, subscribers up 15% YoY to 236M, a €75M operating loss, and expects 618M MAUs in Q1 2024 — - Spotify posts second-largest gain ever for the quarter — Company has been cutting costs in drive to become profitable
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| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
DocuSign plans to lay off 6% of its workforce, or ~440 jobs, and will incur a $28M-$32M charge, after acquisition talks seemingly fell through; DOCU drops 6%+ — - Deal talks with Bain, Hellman & Friedman stalled over price — Restructuring to help DocuSign grow as independent company
More: GeekWire, Independent.ie, Reuters, The Information, TechCrunch, and CNBC
| Antoaneta Roussi / Politico: |
The UK, the US, France, Poland, and other nations, plus Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others, sign a statement recognizing the need for more action on spyware — Governments have struggled to stop the spread of commercial hacking tools. — The United Kingdom, France and allied countries …
More: Reuters, The Record, GOV.UK, GOV.UK, and ComputerWeekly.com
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M+ subscribers, up from 5M+ in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M+ channels receiving ad revenue share — CEO Neal Mohan also says more than 3 million channels now receive ad-revenue share, touts 1 billion hours viewed on TV daily| James Hunt / The Block: |
Solana suffers a major outage, lasting for over two hours, and says validators should prepare for a network restart, the first big outage since February 2023 — - Solana has confirmed an outage on its mainnet, with engineers across the ecosystem currently investigating.
More: Blockworks, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Finbold, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, Milk Road, Bitcoin News, NewsBTC, Coinspeaker, CoinStats, CCN.com, Metaverse Post, The Crypto Basic, Watcher Guru, Protos, Blockonomi, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptonews, CoinGape, and CryptoSlate
X: @solanastatus, @mtromp, @solanastatus, @testinprodcap, @solanastatus, @poordart, @altcoingordon, @alpha_pls, @hlopez_, @0xsisyphus, and @0xbags. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announces an event next week to share “our vision for the future of Xbox”, amid rumors that Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5 — Details of Microsoft's multi-platform plans have been gradually leaking, with The Verge revealing over the weekend …
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Threads: @tomwarrenuk. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @xboxp3, @peterovo5, @jezcorden, @synthpotato, @riskit4tb, @costofmind, @themrpasquale, @tomwarren, @genepark, @zhugeex, @mlickles, @stephenseanford, @zhugeex, @yungkiryu, @klobrille, @imranzomg, @andy_vgc, @stephentotilo, @devinkofsky, @genepark, @genepark, and @dmc_ryan
Forums: r/technology, r/videogamedunkey, r/gaming, and r/playstation
| Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide: |
Roblox rolls out real-time AI chat translations, with support for 16 languages, built on an LLM trained on open-source and internal Roblox data — Works in 16 languages — Metaverse platform Roblox is bringing a new AI translation tool online for its millions of users around the world …
More: Roblox Blog, PC Gamer, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Dataconomy, Engadget, Coinspeaker, Decrypt, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and Skynet Today
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Google agrees to pay $350M to settle a lawsuit over a Google+ security lapse that exposed personal data; people who bought stock in 2018-2019 can get a share — Individual Google shareholders may be eligible to apply for some of the money — SAN FRANCISCO — Google agreed to pay $350 million … | Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: |
Texas-based NinjaOne, which helps automate IT processes, raised a $231.5M Series C led by ICONIQ Growth at a $1.9B valuation and counts Nvidia among its users — NinjaOne raised fresh capital in a Series C funding round that valued the IT platform at about $1.9 billion, the company said on Tuesday.
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