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EA plans to cut 5% of its workforce, part of a plan that includes reducing office space and sunsetting some games; EA employed 13,400 workers as of March 2023 — - EA announced Wednesday that it will cut 5% of its workforce. — The video game company employed 13,400 workers as of the end …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US SEC sent a subpoena to OpenAI in December 2023, seeking internal records, after the board's decision in November 2023 to fire Sam Altman as CEO — Regulator is examining internal communications of CEO Sam Altman, after board last year temporarily ousted him for alleged lack of candor
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| New York Times: |
Sources detail Apple's $10B+ car project: years of disagreements over building a self-driving car or just an EV, talks with Elon Musk on buying Tesla, and more — Internal disagreements over the direction of the Apple car led the effort to sputter for years before it was canceled this week.
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| Reuters: |
Coinbase says all services on its website have been restored after a “display issue” on February 28 caused some users to see a zero balance in their account — Coinbase Global (COIN.O) said on Wednesday that all services on its website have been restored after an issue earlier …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail an ongoing repo confusion attack, which involves cloning existing repos and infecting them with malware loaders, impacting 100K+ GitHub repos — GitHub keeps removing malware-laced repositories, but thousands remain. — GitHub is struggling to contain …
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Gemini agrees to return the $1B+ owed to customers and pay a $37M fine in a settlement with the New York Department of Financial Services related to Gemini Earn — The New York Department of Financial Services on Wednesday announced a settlement with Gemini, the crypto firm founded by the Winklevoss twins … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack debuts direct messaging, letting users have private one-on-one conversations; by default, users can only receive DMs from people they're connected to — Substack is introducing direct messaging, allowing users to have private one-on-one conversations, the company announced today.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook says Apple will “break new ground” in generative AI this year; Apple shareholders reject a request for a report into whether Apple uses AI ethically — - Shareholders approve recommendations for board, executive pay — Longtime directors Al Gore and James Bell officially step down
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| Davey Winder / Forbes: |
Russian-speaking LockBit threatens to release Trump case documents in Fulton County Court that “could affect the upcoming US election” unless a ransom is paid — The LockBit ransomware group is threatening to release Fulton County Court documents related to Donald Trump's case unless … | Reuters: |
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposes subjecting carmakers to the Safe Connections Act to protect domestic abuse survivors from misuse of internet car systems — The chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed a potential new rule that would subject automakers …
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
X adds a feature that lets Spaces hosts enable live video when they create a new session, available on iOS — Spaces, the live audio feature for X, is now letting hosts turn on their video during chat sessions. The platform formerly known as Twitter announced the news on Wednesday … | Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Doc: EU regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying software that competes with its Entra ID identity management service — European Union regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying security software that competes with Microsoft's … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia release free code-generating AI models StarCoder2-3B/7B/15B, the first two of which can run on most modern consumer GPUs — Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Eight EU consumer rights groups lodge GDPR complaints with national data protection authorities, accusing Meta of coercing users with its “pay-or-consent” model — A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the European Union for an ad-free subscription …
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| Consumer Reports: |
Researchers find serious security flaws in cheap video door bells sold by a Chinese company under various brands names on Amazon, Shein, and other sites — The devices are also sold by Walmart, Sears, and other retailers—and big platforms have faced few consequences for shipping flawed products
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| Mehtab Ansari / Smartprix: |
Alleged renders of Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 6 show a boxy frame, flat sides, and dimensions that make it slightly shorter and wider than its predecessor — The Galaxy Z Fold 6, leaks and rumors about the device have been floating around for a while now and yesterday we reported …
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| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
The US launches a probe into possible security risks of Chinese-manufactured vehicles, saying modern cars are like smartphones and could be used for espionage — The Biden administration says software and digital connections in modern cars could be used to spy on Americans or sabotage the vehicles
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Humanoid robot maker Figure AI confirms it has raised $675M at a $2.6B valuation and shows off a general-purpose robot called Figure 01 — - Figure AI raised $675 million from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and OpenAI. — The startup says it will use the money …
More: Axios, TechCrunch, Euronews, Financial Times, MSPoweruser, and The Robot Report
| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
Arkham: the US government appears to have transferred out about $922M worth of bitcoin from two crypto wallets that held funds seized from a 2016 Bitfinex hack — - Arkham Intelligence data showed that two wallets containing the seized funds made multiple transfers to unidentified addresses on Wednesday.
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| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
Filing: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi receives options to buy stock worth ~$136M after hitting a performance target to reach a $120B valuation for the company — Dara Khosrowshahi became entitled to award after meeting targets set before ride-hailing group's IPO
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snowflake says that CEO Frank Slootman is retiring, and reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $774.7M and Q1 product revenue guidance below est.; SNOW drops 20%+ — - Snowflake said CEO Frank Slootman, who took the company public in 2020, is retiring. — The stock dropped in extended trading.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Vision Pro demand is higher than Apple originally expected, with US shipments expected to hit 200-250k units this year; return rates are now below 1% — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Vision Pro demand is higher than Apple originally expected, with US shipments expected to hit 200-250k units this year.
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
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