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After a hacker demanded $200K to delete data on 400M Twitter accounts, Ireland's DPC says it will investigate; Twitter has not yet commented on the breach — A watchdog is to investigate Twitter after a hacker claimed to have private details linked to more than 400 million accounts.| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysts and sources detail Apple's easing iPhone supply chain issues in China; Foxconn's main Zhengzhou iPhone facility is now operating at around 70% capacity — Main Foxconn facility recovers to about 70% of capacity and wait times for iPhone Pro models shorten| Chris Miller / The Atlantic: |
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Amazon starts Prime Air drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, and College Station, Texas, delivering small packages with a maximum payload of 5 lbs — Amazon Prime Air wants to deliver packages within 60 minutes. — Amazon has begun delivering orders by drone.| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC begins mass producing 3nm chips in Taiwan, which need ~35% less power than 5nm chips, following Samsung, and also promises to build 2nm plants in Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. kicked off mass production of next-generation chips Thursday, ensuring the island remains … | Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Solana cofounders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal scramble to move past FTX's stain on their token, down 96% from November 2021; FTX and Alameda bought 58M+ SOL — Solana, the blockchain network once championed by Sam Bankman-Fried, is drawing immense scrutiny as industry watchers wonder whether … | Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Digital Fair Repair Act on December 28, set to take effect on July 1, 2023, with amendments that give OEMs some exceptions — New York governor Kathy Hochul signed the Digital Fair Repair Act on December 28th, 2022, and the law will go into effect on July 1st … | Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
Brokers and investors: Silicon Valley workers are offloading shares in secondary markets, compounding a fall in valuations, amid layoffs and a slow IPO market — Workers forced into sales at sharp discounts amid job cuts and stalled IPO market — Silicon Valley workers are rushing … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer acknowledges “some setbacks” since FTX fell, argues NFTs could be “denominated in US dollars”, and says OpenSea has a “healthy runway” — Head of leading marketplace responds to digital assets slump following FTX scandal| CNBC: |
The SEC says FTX made two $100M investments using customer funds in fintech company Dave in March 2022 and blockchain startup Mysten Labs in September 2022 — - FTX and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried made two $100 million venture investments using customer funds through an FTX subsidiary, the SEC said in a pair of complaints.| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
After a day-long cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang Yong takes control of the company's Cloud division, and Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO — Alibaba Group Holding's CEO has taken direct control over the Chinese tech giant's cloud computing business, a key growth driver … | Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Twitter resolves widespread service errors that affected its website, mobile app, and API; Downdetector shows the issues began at around 7pm ET on December 28 — The issues surfaced several days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company's major data centers.| Pratigya Yadav / Business Standard: |
An Indian government official says mobile device makers will have to use USB-C as the standard for charging starting in March 2025, following the European Union — Deadline follows EU's timeline for uniform charging ports' standards, says civil servant — Mobile device companies in India …
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