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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise; the phones are in early development and not set for production in 2024 or 2025 — Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise like a clamshell, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.| Emilia David / The Verge: |
OpenAI says DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to images with C2PA metadata but acknowledges the metadata can “easily be removed either accidentally or intentionally” — OpenAI's image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out support for standards …
More: OpenAI, Tech Monitor, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, PCMag, Windows Central, PR Daily, BGR, Silicon Republic, Windows 11 Forum, Forbes, Ben's Bites, Proactive, Neowin, MediaNama, WinBuzzer, Gizmochina, VentureBeat, Windows Report, CoinGape, and The Decoder
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @openai, @mer__edith, @gdb, @af_mada, @iuliabaltoi, @slyon66, and @henkvaness
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
More: Meta, Business Today, Infosecurity, Music Ally, The Verge, Cybernews.com, SamMobile, Hindustan Times, MediaNama, NewsBytes, The Guardian, NBC News, TechCrunch, Livemint, International Business Times, MobileSyrup, Wired, Scrippsnews.com, PhoneArena, The Information, Neowin, PetaPixel, SiliconANGLE, Fast Company, Search Engine Journal, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Thurrott, Android Authority, Lifewire, ITV News, UPI, Windows Report, Engadget, Proactive, Washington Times, VentureBeat, and Telegraph
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LinkedIn: Henry Ajder and Erin Egan
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Apple partners with University of California researchers to release open-source AI model MGIE, which can edit images based on natural language instructions — Apple has released a new open-source AI model, called “MGIE,” that can edit images based on natural language instructions.
More: AppleInsider, arXiv.org, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup, Cryptopolitan, BGR, and Dataconomy
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and MacRumors Forums
| Chainalysis: |
Ransomware payments in 2023 hit a record $1.1B, up from $567M in 2022 and $983M in 2021, after a major escalation of the frequency, scope, and volume of attacks — The Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Crime Report — Coming soon — In 2023, ransomware actors intensified their operations …
More: NBC News, PCMag, Bloomberg, BleepingComputer, Reuters, The Record, The Guardian, Cointelegraph, Crypto Daily, Wired, and Cybernews.com
| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$36.7B, net income down 69% YoY to ~$2B, Taobao and Tmall revenue up 2% YoY to ~$18B, and approves a $25B share buyback — - The move may appeal to some investors as growth plateaus — Alibaba is grappling with market and internal uncertainty| Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: |
Disney+ begins emailing subscribers about new changes to its TOS that will make sharing accounts harder, days after Hulu sent out similar notices — Today, Disney Plus began sending out emails informing subscribers about new changes to its terms of service that will, among other things …
More: TechHive, Thurrott, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Inc.com, Engadget, PhoneArena, and GSMArena.com
Forums: r/technology and r/popculturechat
| Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News: |
Apple Vision Pro and battery teardown: 50 Vision Pro pixels fit into a single iPhone 15 Pro pixel, not technically 4K, a roughly 100° field of view, and more — After the whirlwind of team activity that was our initial Vision Pro teardown, we've been digging much, much deeper into those dual displays …
More: iFixit on YouTube, HotHardware, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, and iClarified
Forums: r/hardware and MacRumors Forums
| Mozilla Foundation: |
An in-depth look at Common Crawl, the 9.5PB web crawl archive dating back to 2008 run by a small nonprofit, its role in generative AI, its dataset, and more — Common Crawl's Impact on Generative AI — Common Crawl's mission: Enabling others to work like Google — Common Crawl's data: Machine scale analysis| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.9B, Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $37.6B, a $1.9B net income, 150M MAUs, and first full-year operating profit of $1.1B — Ride-hailing app beats forecasts and boasts of ‘inflection point’ — Uber has reported its first full year of operating profits …
More: The Information, Reuters, Bloomberg, Constellation Research, Proactive, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and Uber
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
An interview with Nebojša Vujinović Vujo, who runs 2,000+ AI-generated news sites, often hosted on popular, dormant domains, and claims to have human editors — Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Trade group CISPE, representing Amazon and 26 EU cloud providers, is working with Microsoft to try to resolve EU antitrust concerns over its licensing practices — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is in talks with CISPE in an attempt to resolve its European Union antitrust complaint about the U.S. software … | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Smaug-72B, a Qwen-72B-based open-source LLM released by Abacus AI, tops the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard and outperforms GPT-3.5 on several benchmarks — A new open-source language model has claimed the throne of the best in the world, according to the latest rankings from Hugging Face …
More: Hugging Face and Hugging Face
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 30% YoY to $749.9M, bookings up 25% YoY to a record $1.1B, DAUs up 22% YoY to 71.5M, and $2.8B in 2023 revenue; RBLX jumps 13%+ — - Roblox reported results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year that beat consensus estimates on the top and bottom lines.
More: GamesIndustry.biz, PYMNTS.com, Roblox, Bloomberg, Reuters, Mobilegamer.biz, and Proactive
X: @roblox and @davidbaszucki
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Google Maps for Android to overlay the weather and air quality index when browsing the map layer, a feature the iOS app has had for some time — Like the iOS app, Google Maps for Android now overlays the weather and AQI when you're browsing the map layer.
More: ZDNet, Android Police, Sammy Fans, Business Standard, PhoneArena, Android Central, Android Authority, and The Verge. Forums: r/Android
| Financial Times: |
A German court sides with US-based R2 Semiconductor over Intel in a patent infringement suit; a source says the ruling could lead to a ban on HP and Dell sales — US chipmaker plans to appeal against decision that could lead to ban on sale of certain HP and Dell products
More: Reuters
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Inside Zuzalu, a co-living experiment organized by Vitalik Buterin in Montenegro in 2023, as the techno-utopian “Network State” concept inspires more projects — Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who's ready to move in? — I.| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI, DeepMind, and others seek clarity over how the UK's AI Safety Institute is testing their AI models, timeframe, and the feedback process — OpenAI and DeepMind want Britain's new AI safety institute to speed up evaluations of latest models — The world's biggest artificial …
More: The Hill, U.S. Department of Commerce, The Verge, MSPoweruser, and NBC Bay Area. X: @cristinacriddle
| Wall Street Journal: |
Fox, ESPN, and WBD announce a new joint venture to launch a streaming sports service in the US in the fall of 2024; each entity will own a third of the JV — The service will be available to ESPN+, Hulu and Max subscribers.
More: CNET, Bloomberg, The Streamable, Business Wire, 9to5Mac, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, The Hill, The Information, Mashable, Tech Xplore, The News International, NBC News, WFLA-TV, Associated Press, Sports Business Journal, PYMNTS.com, New York Post, Android Headlines, IGN, Cord Cutters News, Engadget, Fortune, The Verge, Deadline, Reuters, UPROXX, Digital Trends, Reuters, New York Daily News, and Daring Fireball
Threads: @pkafka. X: @sherman4949, @tsoh_investing, @sherman4949, @dylanbyers, @sherman4949, @jacobfeldman4, @tvmojoe, @tvmojoe, @richontech, @loudmouthjulia, @tim_bays, @jimcramer, @mgsiegler, @jtoonkel, @lucas_shaw, @mattbelloni, @sherman4949, and @loudmouthjulia
Forums: r/soccer, r/MLS, and r/cordcutters
| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Some top cybersecurity experts are retreating from a CISA program that enlists outside professionals, citing growing conservative backlash and management gripes — Scrutiny from conservative activists and management gripes are straining the government's plan to enlist elite security pros in the fight against malicious hackers.| Nelson Wang / Unchained: |
MicroStrategy bought 31,775 bitcoin in Q4 2023 for an average cost of $39,411, taking its total holdings to 190K bitcoin acquired for a total cost of $5.93B — Software firm MicroStrategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, acquired 31,755 bitcoins in the fourth quarter of 2023 … | 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.
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