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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Memo: Microsoft names Pavan Davuluri as its Windows and Surface chief; Microsoft split the Windows and Surface groups after Panos Panay left in September 2023 — Microsoft is naming Pavan Davuluri as its new Windows and Surface chief today. After Panos Panay's surprise departure to Amazon last year …
More: Engadget, Windows Central, The Economic Times, Search Engine Roundtable, MSPoweruser, Windows Report, Cryptopolitan, Neowin, Business Today, GeekWire, Reuters, CNBC, and Benzinga
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Microsoft's Bing chief Mikhail Parakhin plans to exit his roles and look for a new position, after Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman to run Microsoft AI — Parakhin, who had been chief executive officer for advertising and web services, will report to Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott … | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Canva acquires the Affinity creative suite, popular with Mac users; COO Cliff Obrecht says the cash-and-stock deal is valued at “several hundred million pounds” — - Australian unicorn buys British team behind Affinity art suite — Affinity offers alternative tools to Adobe's flagship products
More: Canva, Sydney Morning Herald, Affinity, The Verge, Tech.eu, The Hindu, Australian Financial Review, Tech in Asia, Tao of Mac, Nairametrics, and Neowin
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US and the UK sanction a Wuhan-based company linked to the Chinese state-backed hacking group APT31 for targeting critical infrastructure organizations — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Wuhan-based company used by the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
The US OFAC sanctions 13 entities, including Netex24, and two individuals for aiding Russian nationals' potential sanctions evasion by building crypto services — - The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 13 entities and two individuals for helping sanctioned entities to evade sanctions in Russia.| Chris Plante / Polygon: |
An interview with Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox to handhelds via hardware or software, how Valve, Lenovo, and Asus “innovated in a new form factor”, and more — A handheld Xbox could be hardware, an app, or both — Phil Spencer has tried all of the new PC gaming handhelds …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases seven Sora videos from select filmmakers, artists, ad agencies, and musicians; Fairly Trained CEO Ed Newton-Rex calls the move “artistwashing” — OpenAI has been releasing a steady drip of videos generated by its new highly realistic AI model, Sora, but the text-to-video … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Telegram rolls out its Peer-to-Peer Login Program, giving some Android users a Premium sub for volunteering their phone numbers to relay SMS OTPs to other users — Telegram is offering a new way to earn a premium subscription free of charge: all you have to do is volunteer your phone number …
More: Telegram, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Android Police, PCMag, Android Authority, and PhoneArena
| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
Ripple says the SEC plans to release a public brief on Tuesday seeking $2B in fines and penalties in its case against Ripple over sales of the XRP crypto token — The regulator is slated to release a public brief on Tuesday, Stuart Alderoty, Ripple's chief legal officer, said in a separate post on X on Monday.| Bloomberg: |
An investigation details the growing black market for Starlink kits being traded and activated illegally, including in regions subject to US sanctions — Starlink's effectiveness as a communications tool makes the satellite internet service a target for a growing black-market trade worldwide.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta started rolling out its new opt-out political content settings on Instagram and Threads last week to “limit political content from people you don't follow” — Meta's executives have been saying for a while that they don't want to boost posts about politics in their apps.
More: The Markup, 9to5Mac, The Guardian, Rappler, Salon, TIME, NPR, ABC, Mashable, CBC News, and Miami Herald
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$4B to build an advanced chip packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana; a source says operations could begin in 2028 — The South Korean memory chip maker is expected to build an advanced-packaging facility in West Lafayette, creating up to 1,000 jobs.
More: Reuters, Livemint, and Channel NewsAsia
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on why federation is the future of social media, Threads' fediverse integration, monetization, composable moderation, and more — The head of Threads and Mastodon competitor Bluesky on why she thinks decentralization is the way forward in a post-Twitter internet.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge dismisses X's lawsuit against CCDH, saying the suit had been brought as a means toward “punishing the defendants for their speech”; X plans to appeal — A U.S. judge on Monday dismiss X Corp's lawsuit against a nonprofit group that has criticized a rise in hate speech …
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| Josh Koehn / The San Francisco Standard: |
How Ripple's Chris Larsen became a gravitational force in San Fransisco politics, donating millions to local causes, as he helps Mayor London Breed's reelection — On a recent Friday afternoon, Chris Larsen sat behind the wheel of a gunmetal Porsche 918 Spyder, zipping through the Broadway Tunnel.
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| Pei Li / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Alibaba calls off a Hong Kong IPO for its Cainiao logistics arm, and now plans to buy out all remaining stock held by investors and employees for $3.75B — - The company is raising capital through other avenues now — The move follows the surprise retreat from a cloud arm listing
More: South China Morning Post and CNBC
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