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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Memo: Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees through March 31, reducing its headcount by less than 5%, and take a $1.2B charge tied to severance and more — Citing a need to “align our cost structure with our revenue and where we see customer demand,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple announces a second-generation HomePod with a similar design to the original from 2018, Matter support, S7 chip, and more, shipping on February 3 for $299 — It will be sold alongside the HomePod Mini, the smaller version of the speaker introduced in 2020, and features support …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple enables a temperature and humidity sensor in the HomePod mini and second-generation HomePod, helping users create automations to execute household tasks — The reintroduced HomePod offers a temperature and humidity sensor, but Apple is also enabling the feature on the existing HomePod mini.
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| Reuters: |
The US Treasury's FinCEN unit labels crypto exchange Bitzlato as a “money laundering concern” related to Russian illicit finance; French police seize Bitzlato — The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on Wednesday said it has identified virtual …
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Twitter engineering manager Siddharth Rao told employees that daily revenue was 40% lower YoY and 500+ of the company's top advertisers paused spending — A senior Twitter manager told employees that the company's daily revenue on Tuesday was 40% lower than the same day a year ago …
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Twitter's Q4 2022 revenue fell ~35% YoY to $1.025B, 72% of its Q4 goal; the company hopes to generate $732M in Q1 2023, which would be down 39% YoY — Twitter's fourth quarter revenue fell about 35% year over year to $1.025 billion, a top ad executive revealed at a staff meeting Wednesday … | The Block: |
Sources: Genesis creditors are negotiating a bankruptcy plan with the firm and weighing a one to two-year forbearance period in exchange for cash and DCG equity — - Genesis creditors are negotiating the terms of a possible Chapter 11 filing, according to sources close to the matter.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on an iPad-based smart display with smart home controls, video, and FaceTime and on a new Apple TV for H1 2024 with a faster processor — Apple Inc. is working on a slate of devices aimed at challenging Amazon.com Inc. and Google in the smart-home market …
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| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama workers to label violent, toxic, and sexual content for ~$2/hour to improve ChatGPT — Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse — ChatGPT was hailed as one of 2022's …
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Windows Central, VICE, Mashable, Metaverse Post, Insider, and Gizmodo
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity firm Sophos lays off 10% of its global workforce and sources say ~450 employees were let go; Thoma Bravo acquired Sophos for $3.9B in March 2020 — Sophos is laying off about 10% of its global workforce, TechCrunch has learned. Sophos confirmed the layoffs in an email to TechCrunch.
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The Register, CRN, BankInfoSecurity.com, and DeviceSecurity.io
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon begins laying off 18,000+ employees, impacting ~1% of its total workforce and ~6% of its 350,000 corporate staff, mostly in its retail and HR departments — Amazon.com Inc. is set to begin a round of layoffs ultimately affecting more than 18,000 employees in the largest job cull in its history …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra specs allegedly leak: 6.1-, 6.6-, and 6.8-inch displays, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, a 200MP sensor for the Ultra, and more — Spec sheets for all three devices in Samsung's upcoming flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S23 series, appear to have leaked online.
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| CoinDesk: |
Analysis: 196 members of the new Congress accepted donations from Sam Bankman-Fried or other FTX senior executives, including Kevin McCarthy and Chuck Schumer — The session began with 196 U.S. lawmakers who took direct contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried and other former FTX executives …
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NBC News and Gizmodo
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Investigation: 600+ US law enforcement agencies can access a database of 150M+ money transfers between the US and 20+ countries via Western Union and others — Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. have direct access to over 150 million transactions housed at an Arizona nonprofit
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: online fast fashion retailer Shein is looking to raise up to $3B from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, Sequoia, and others at a $64B valuation, vs. its $100B peak — Chinese fast-fashion retailer looking to raise up to $3bn at a vastly reduced valuation in response to tech downturn| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Spotify, Deezer, Proton, and others write to Margrethe Vestager, demanding the European Commission take action against Apple's “unfair practices”, like IAP fees — Music streaming service Spotify Technology (SPOT.N), along with other media firms such as Deezer …
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Tweets: @spotifynews and @chrismessina
| Digiday: |
Similarweb: Twitter referral traffic to 12 major news outlets fell 12% on average from November 2022 to December 2022; only traffic to NY Post and Fox News grew — Under the leadership of Elon Musk, Twitter's role as a traffic referral source to publishers' sites is largely declining.
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| Joseph F. Kovar / CRN: |
Cloudian, a hybrid cloud data management and storage tech vendor, raised $60M from Digital Alpha, Intel Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $233M — 'When you have one infrastructure, you can control that infrastructure, your data your costs, and your access.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Oslo-based shipping software maker DNV reports a Jan. 7 ransomware attack that affected its ShipManager servers, impacting ~70 customers operating ~1,000 ships — About 1,000 vessels have been affected by a ransomware attack against a major software supplier for ships.
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DNV, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, and Infosecurity
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mailchimp says a hacker accessed the data of 133 accounts via employee social engineering, first detected on January 11 and its second breach in six months — Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers' data was exposed.
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BleepingComputer, The Record, Bloomberg, WebProNews, and New York Post
Tweets: @seanwrightsec and @marshacollier
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
As Apple shifts away from China, experts worry India will struggle with iPhone production due to supply chain issues, labor woes, a lack of automation, and more — The tech giant increasingly finds itself beholden to America's biggest geopolitical rival. But is diversification even possible?| Helen Thomas / Financial Times: |
The UK failed to avoid making a complex and confusing Online Safety Bill, leaving social media companies grappling with implementing rules like age verification — What is left looks like a regulatory hodgepodge, something that the parliament could yet address
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