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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad mini, possibly for 2024, and nearing production of an iPhone SE without a home button and iPad Air models for early 2025  —  - New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers  — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more  —  A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says it will start rolling out Click to Do, akin to Google's Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced Windows search improvements for Copilot+ PCs next month
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Microsoft's new Windows 11 update adds generative AI-based fill and erase options to Paint and up to 8x picture resolution upscaling to Photos, for Copilot+ PCs
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google's AI Overviews, to all US users, underpinned by a mix of AI models
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator  —  GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator.  —  Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist  —  Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he'll be joining Anthropic.
Wired:
Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa  —  Scamming operations that once originated in Southeast Asia are now proliferating around the world, likely raking in billions of dollars in the process.
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
The UK says the ransomware gang Evil Corp. conducted cyberattacks and espionage on NATO allies on Kremlin orders; the UK, US, and Australia sanction the group  —  - Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members  — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts  —  Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse …
Sebastiaan de With / Lux:
An in-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are the standouts  —  For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert.  Take a deep dive into what's new — and why it's close to the last of its kind.
Geraldine Brooks / Washington Post:
A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation's cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years  —  Geraldine Brooks is a novelist and former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Paramount reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $8.15B, a net loss of $573M, and DTC revenue up 10% YoY to $2.213B; Paramount+ subscribers rise 4% YoY to 78.9M

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
At Semafor's media summit, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said too much of the national news media is “drastically out of touch with where the American people are”

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Nexstar lays off on-air staffers at LA's KTLA and New York's WPIX, after similar cuts at WGN in Chicago, as the company pursues a merger with Tegna

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Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Resolve AI, which is building AI tools to help software engineers troubleshoot and fix production issues, raised a $35M seed led by Greylock

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts its Realtime API in public beta, for quickly making speech-to-speech features, a way to use images and text to fine-tune GPT-4o apps, and more
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic debuts a program to reduce the royalty rate for games built with Unreal Engine from 5% to 3.5% if they launch on the Epic Game Store, starting in 2025
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google announces new Chromebook models from Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand Sonos' software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle
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