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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others' camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage — It's, unfortunately, increasingly common for security cameras to have a glitch that exposes data from one user's system …
More: The Verge, BleepingComputer, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, GeekWire, Android Authority, PCMag, Wyze Forum, HotHardware, TechSpot, Wccftech, Neowin, Notebookcheck, and Mashable
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Doc: the European Commission opens an investigation into whether TikTok breached DSA rules meant to protect children, the second such investigation, after X's — The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance's TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA) …
More: European Commission, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Hill, PCMag, Ars Technica, HotHardware, Bloomberg, Investing.com, TechCentral.ie, 9to5Mac, Hypebeast, WHDH-TV, Silicon Republic, Verdict, Infosecurity, New York Times, Neowin, Euractiv, lawsociety.ie, The Nation Newspaper, RTL Today, Independent.ie, Novinite.com, Silicon UK, iMore, Asia Financial, NEWS.am, Anadolu Ajansı …, and Brussels Signal
X: @thierrybreton and @eucyprus
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, which is undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities — In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami …
Mastodon: @jay@cuthrell.com and @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @thesafestspace, @pitdesi, @producercities, @wsjtech, @garrytan, @chrisyeh, @benioff, and @rosslazer. LinkedIn: Rob Kumer
Forums: r/sanfrancisco and Slashdot
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to fine Apple ~€500M in March for allegedly breaking EU law over access to music streaming services, following a 2019 complaint by Spotify — Move is culmination of long-running European Commission antitrust probe after a complaint by Spotify
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Engadget, Digital Music News, TechCentral.ie, iClarified, games fray, MobileSyrup, TelecomTV, Silicon Republic, Verdict, TipRanks Financial, Fortune, CNBC, Computing, TNW, SamMobile, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, Mashable, Lowyat.NET, MacRumors, Music Business Worldwide, Light Reading, Total Telecom, Daily Mail, The Overspill, GSMArena.com, iThinkDifferent, Al Bawaba, ABC News, Business Insider, TechPowerUp, iPhone in Canada Blog, SiliconANGLE, Music Ally, Gizchina, Barron's Online, PhoneArena, Notebookcheck, MarketWatch, NewsBytes, PCMag, The Information, Neowin, Politico, Benzinga, Amwal Al Ghad, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Straits Times, City A.M., AppleInsider, The Indian Express, Supercharged, iMore, Reuters, Business Post, The Economic Times, and Channel NewsAsia
X: @mysk_co, @stevesi, @gartenberg, @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, @geradinlaw, @ugambini, @carnage4life, @ellisitems, @moo9000, and @laurbjn
LinkedIn: Thomas Höppner and Damien Geradin
Forums: Hacker News, r/AppleMusic, r/europe, r/apple, Slashdot, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act, plus $1.6B in loans, to build a fab at its HQ in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant — The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.| South China Morning Post: |
Meizu, which was acquired by Chinese automaker Geely in 2022, will no longer make smartphones, to pursue an “all in AI” strategy over the next three years — - Meizu said it is terminating all traditional smartphone projects to focus on developing artificial intelligence-enabled handsets| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
FBI Director Christopher Wray says China inserts malware into networks to disrupt critical US infrastructure, and its pre-positioning has hit a “fever pitch” — Christopher Wray says Beijing's hacking operations had reached a ‘fever pitch’ — The FBI is “laser focused” …
More: SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Benzinga, and PYMNTS.com
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users — Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was again misbehaving, this time by automatically importing browsing data and tabs from Chrome without consent.
More: 9to5Google, Forbes, Android Headlines, and WinBuzzer
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple Store sources: Vision Pro returns are between average and above average compared to other products; some in-store demo conversion rates are 10% to 15% — The Apple Vision Pro has now been available for two weeks — and some of Apple's most dedicated customers are returning the device to get back their $3,500.
More: HotHardware, AppleInsider, TweakTown, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Fox News, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, Neowin, Supercharged, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Cult of Mac, Spyglass, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
X: @tina__nigro, @stevesi, @stevesi, @zollotech, @markgurman, and @rsgnl
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Filing: the company behind MariaDB, which raised ~$230M before its 2022 IPO, may be taken private by K1 in a $37M deal, far below its $672M Series D valuation — MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system …
More: Business Wire
| Christine Chung / New York Times: |
How the expansion of facial recognition tech at airports globally is transforming the way travelers move through them, from checking a bag to boarding the plane — Biometric technology is expanding at airports across the United States — and the world — and transforming the way we move through them … | The Economic Times: |
The Misinformation Combat Alliance and Meta plan to launch a dedicated fact-checking helpline on WhatsApp in India so users can flag deepfakes for analysis — The WhatsApp helpline will go live in March this year and will allow people to flag deepfakes by sending them to its chatbot.
More: CNBC-TV18, Moneycontrol, Moneycontrol, Vishvas News, PressWire18, The Madras Tribune, Zee Business, Mashable India tech, The Quint, India TV News, Republic World, BNN, Financialexpress, Republic World, English Jagran, News Room Odisha, ABP Live, The Hindu BusinessLine, Business Standard, The Hindu, Cryptopolitan, Meta, Hindustan Times, and The Indian Express
X: @kritikagoel27, @rizviuzair, @shivithukral, @rajeev_goi, @jencyjac, and @india_mca
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