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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.
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X: @waynema, @oddstocktrader, @xrandrew, @deitaone, and @sizpatel
| 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, The Verge, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, Appleosophy, MobileSyrup, Cryptopolitan, MacDailyNews, BGR, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and Dataconomy
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft updates Copilot with a redesigned look, a new AI model for Copilot's Balanced mode called Deucalion, and new AI image creation and editing features — In a startling move, Microsoft today announced a redesigned look for its Copilot AI search and chatbot experience on the web …
More: The Official Microsoft Blog, The Verge, Microsoft on YouTube, Windows Central, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Engadget, GeekWire, Thurrott, 9to5Google, Neowin, Voicebot.ai, Windows 11 Forum, and Neowin
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LinkedIn: Jordi Ribas and Steve Clayton
| Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News: |
Apple Vision Pro teardown: 50 Vision Pro pixels fit into a single iPhone 15 Pro pixel, the display is not technically 4K, has a ~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 …
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| 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, Tech Monitor, PCMag, WHDH-TV, Privacy Affairs, Cryptonews, Milk Road, BleepingComputer, The Stack, Reuters, The Record, Cointelegraph, The Guardian, and Wired
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand advisory: China-backed hacking group Volt Typhoon has had access to some major US infrastructure for over five years — China-backed hackers have had access to some major U.S. critical infrastructure for “at least five years,” according to an intelligence advisory released Wednesday.
More: Cybersecurity …, Bloomberg, CNN, PCMag, The Record, The Register, CyberScoop, NBC News, Reuters, Engadget, and CPO Magazine
| 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 …
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @openai, @iuliabaltoi, @slyon66, @gdb, @henkvaness, @mer__edith, and @af_mada. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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| 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 Disney+ subscribers about TOS changes that will make sharing accounts harder, days after sending out similar notices to Hulu subscribers — Today, Disney Plus began sending out emails informing subscribers about new changes to its terms of service that will …
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
An interview with Nebojša Vujinović Vujo, who runs 2,000+ AI-generated news sites, often hosted on once-popular domains, and claims to have ~12 human editors — Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles.| 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: Roblox, Game Developer, PYMNTS.com, Pocket Gamer.biz, Investor's Business Daily, Proactive, Bloomberg, and Reuters
X: @davidbaszucki and @roblox
| 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 datasets, 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 — Rides, deliveries and ads increase as company celebrates ‘inflection point’ — Uber has reported its first annual operating profit …
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Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social. X: @mgsiegler, @ericjackson, @divestech, @deitaone, @altcap, @alphasenseinc, @thetranscript_, and @dkhos
| Connor Jones / The Register: |
Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center says Iran's cyber operations in Israel show how Iran could target the 2024 US elections, including AI-generated fake news — Tactics are more sophisticated and supported in greater numbers — Iran's anti-Israel cyber operations are providing a window … | 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 … | 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, TechRadar, TalkAndroid.com, autoevolution, Android Police, Sammy Fans, PhoneArena, Business Standard, Android Central, and Android Authority. Forums: r/Android
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Mechanical Orchard, which helps companies migrate systems from mainframes to the cloud, raised a $24M Series A led by Emergence Capital at a $95M valuation — Mechanical Orchard has raised $24 million from Emergence Capital at a $95 million valuation after reaching $10 million in revenue and profitability in just over a year.
X: @emergencecap and @alexrkonrad
| Financial Times: |
A German court sides with US-based R2 Semiconductor over Intel in a patent infringement suit; source: the ruling may lead to a ban on some 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: Tom's Hardware and Reuters
| 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 …
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