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Kuo: Apple canceled its fourth gen iPhone SE, in which it planned to debut its own 5G modem; the cancelation could be due to poor sales of mid-to-low-end phones — On Friday, Kuo wrote in a blog post that Apple had canceled production and shipment plans for the phone after his prediction …
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Sources: the SEC and EDNY are scrutinizing transfers between DCG and the lending arm of its subsidiary Genesis; the probes have not accused DCG of wrongdoing — US authorities are digging into the internal financial dealings of Barry Silbert's expansive crypto empire, according to people familiar with the matter.
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China's Ant Group says founder Jack Ma no longer controls the fintech giant after a series of shareholding adjustments that saw him give up most voting rights — China's Ant Group said on Saturday that its founder Jack Ma no longer controls the Chinese fintech giant after a series …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Mandiant: Russian cyberespionage group Turla piggybacked on other hackers' decade-old malware that spread via USB drives to stealthily access victim networks — The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers' servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.
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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Irish DPC's €390M Meta fine, issued at the behest of the European Data Protection Board, fits with the EU's plan to crack down on Big Tech in the next two years — Meta Platforms Inc. is used to batting away the occasional fine from European regulators as a cost of doing business.
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Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they have not received information about the severance they were promised — Staff laid off by Elon Musk were assured they would be compensated following mass cuts. As the deadline passes, the silence has been deafening.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM's US patent count fell 44% YoY in 2022 to 4,743, behind Samsung's 8,513, losing its top spot after decades as the company refocuses on its core businesses — International Business Machines Corp. dropped from the top spot for US patents in 2022, the first time in decades Big Blue … | Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Roku reports ending 2022 with more than 70M accounts globally, up 16.5% from the end of 2021, and says streaming hours grew 19% YoY to 87.4B in 2022 — The customer total was up 16.5% from the end of 2021, when Roku totaled 60.1 million global accounts. — Per Roku, streaming hours reached …
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Sources: Microsoft is working on incorporating existing and future versions of OpenAI's GPT in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other productivity apps — In a move that could change how more than a billion people write documents, presentations and emails, Microsoft has discussed incorporating … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Amazon S3 will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side using AES-256; AWS has had server-side encryption for over a decade — Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default.
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| Sam Sutton / Politico: |
The SEC is working on a rule, which could be finalized this quarter, to make it easier for investors to sue VCs for bad behavior, negligence, and recklessness — After being battered by rising interest rates and choppy markets, the venture capital industry is sweating new regulations that could expose fund managers to legal risks.
| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
An Ohio man pleads guilty to stealing 712+ bitcoins seized by the IRS in a case against his brother, who was convicted of running money laundering service Helix — Gary Harmon, brother of Helix CEO Larry Harmon, stole his brother's forfeited crypto right out from under the IRS's nose, and spent it extravagantly.
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Tweets: @trengriffin, @ahcastor, @cryptonator1337, @avsa, and @neerajka
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researchers: cybercriminals have started using ChatGPT to create hacking tools and AI-generated malware code, and are testing the tool for dating scam chatbots — Users of underground forums start sharing malware coded by OpenAI's viral sensation and dating scammers are planning on creating convincing fake girls with the tool.
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