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The Vision Pro could cannibalize the iPad; some in Apple's Vision Products Group believe the headset could take four generations to reach its full potential — Apple's Vision Pro will eventually replace the iPad, but the device has hardware and software shortcomings that need to be resolved first.
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X: @brij, @bryanrbeal, @cixliv, and @markgurman
Forums: r/hardware, r/technology, r/gadgets, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Google One crosses 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from its free plans; YouTube Premium also hit 100M subscribers in February — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
With X and Reddit limiting API access, third-party developers are looking into Mastodon and Bluesky, but some are hesitant to build revenue-generating apps — 2023 was the year social networks realized that they were sitting on massive troves of data. And some companies, such as Twitter … | Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about opening sign-ups to the public, not “enshittifying” the service with ads, crowdsourcing deepfake porn moderation, and more — WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening sign-ups to all, how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more.
More: New York Times, The Fediverse Report, Route Fifty, and MakeUseOf
Mastodon: @bunnyhero@mstdn.ca. Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social. X: @neilturkewitz and @knibbs. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| Cory Doctorow / Financial Times: |
How the erosion of competition, regulation, self-help, and worker power ushered in the “enshittocene” era, or the slow decay of online platforms like Facebook — The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we've entered the ‘enshittocene’?
More: Bloomberg and Sydney Morning Herald
Mastodon: @ashleygjovik@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Gregory Sims, Regina Phelps, Laura MacCleery, and Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Forums: r/technology, r/stupidpol, r/Futurology, and Lobsters
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
As SBF prepares to face sentencing in March, FTX customers look at the possibility of recouping their money, stemming largely from the crypto market's rebound — - With Sam Bankman-Fried preparing to face sentencing next month and a potential life behind bars, FTX customers are looking at the possibility of recouping their money.
More: TechSpot, DL News, and Coinpedia Fintech News
Forums: r/ethtrader, r/CryptoCurrency, and Slashdot
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
A look at Aware, whose AI tools let companies track real-time employee sentiment and flag toxicity by monitoring staff chatter on Slack, Teams, and other apps — - Aware, an AI firm specializing in analyzing employee messages, said companies including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile …
More: Benzinga, CryptoGlobe, and Patently Apple
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Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange, @Kierkegaanks@beige.party, and @KimPerales@toad.social. Bluesky: @hauntedtypewriter.bsky.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, r/technology, r/privacy, r/antiwork, r/WorkReform, and r/business
| Reuters: |
Letter and source: Xiaomi told India's government that Chinese smartphone component suppliers are wary about setting up in the country due to heavy scrutiny — China's Xiaomi has told New Delhi that smartphone component suppliers are wary about setting up operations in India amid heavy scrutiny …
Forums: r/China
| Bloomberg: |
The Fed, regulators, and others worry that stablecoins, with a total market value of $136B as of late January, could one day impact the wider financial market — The tokens connect volatile digital-asset trading to the wider financial world, raising concerns that they could one day rock traditional markets
More: CoinDesk, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, and CryptoGlobe
| Elena Schneider / Politico: |
Biden's campaign made its first-ever TikTok post amid the Super Bowl, a year after the White House forced US agencies to remove the app from government devices — The move comes about a year after the Biden White House demanded federal agencies remove the app from federal government devices.
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| Menaka Doshi / Bloomberg: |
The RBI's clampdown on Paytm has created confusion for millions of customers and raises questions about the Indian central bank's opacity and regulatory actions — Multiple Penalties, Yet Stakeholders Stunned By Paytm Bank Wreck. Why? — The financial meltdown of a digital payments pioneer …
More: Entrackr, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Inc42 Media, Tech in Asia, and MediaNama
X: @bloombergasia, @menakadoshi, @adityakalra, @menakadoshi, @menakadoshi, and @advait_px. LinkedIn: Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah
| Washington Post: |
Some news creators and journalists, who moved from X to Threads, criticize Meta for planning to stop recommending political content on Instagram and Threads — The platform announced it won't recommend “social commentary” or political news. — Meta announced on Friday …
More: Instagram, Mashable, Staten Island Advance, NewsBytes, Mother Jones, Political Wire, The Hill, BGR, Quartz, PetaPixel, and Neowin
Threads: @moskov, @mmasnick, @jonasd, @aaronhuertas_de, @goldman, @moskov, @moskov, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @moskov, @karissabe, @taylorlorenz, @woo_factor, @moskov, and @moskov. Mastodon: @Laukidh@infosec.exchange. Bluesky: @dead.place
X: @carnage4life, @notjessewalker, @cbouzy, @hashtagcpt, @ashtonpittman, @gergelyorosz, and @laurencaguirre. Forums: r/politics
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