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Worldwide smartphone shipments fell 18.3% YoY to 300.3M units in Q4 2022, the largest ever drop in a quarter; Apple fell 14.9%, Samsung 15.6%, and Xiaomi 26.3% — Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% year over year to 300.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) …
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Memo: BuzzFeed plans to rely on OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize its content while humans offer ideas, “cultural currency”, and “inspired prompts” — CEO Jonah Peretti said publisher would use the technology to make more comprehensive quizzes, interactive content
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The FBI, US DOJ, Secret Service, Europol, and others seize ransomware gang Hive's site and decryption keys; the FBI had access to Hive's network since July 2022 — The infrastructure behind Hive, one of the most prolific ransomware operations, has been seized by law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe.
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Sources: Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison told staff their goal is to go public or let employees sell shares in private markets within the next year — Fintech startup hires Goldman, JPMorgan to advise on direct listing or private-market transaction involving employees' shares
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Hands-on with DoNotPay, a service claiming to offer the first robot lawyer: slow and poor legal analysis, drafted a terrible defamation demand letter, and more — Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. — I've been going pretty hard on DoNotPay …
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Q&A with DoNotPay's Joshua Browder on pivoting from legal issues to refocus on consumer support after getting “distracted”, ChatGPT, future plans, and more — When British-American entrepreneur Joshua Browder first launched his legal services chatbot DoNotPay in 2015 …
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Under increasing pressure in the US, ByteDance and TikTok shift their strategy for dealing with officials by going on the PR offensive and speaking out publicly — Keeping its head down has not paid off for the company, which now faces regulatory pressure on many fronts. So it is starting to speak out.
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New York AG Letitia James asks Madison Square Garden Entertainment for information on its alleged facial recognition use to deny access to some ticket holders — Probe related to company's alleged use of the technology to bar certain ticket holders from its venues
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Yandex says the company's systems were not hacked and blames a former employee for leaking a code repository, after 44.7GB of files appeared on a hacking forum — A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.| The Block: |
A 116-page bankruptcy document lists FTX's creditors, including AWS, Apple, Meta, LinkedIn, Netflix, Binance, the WSJ, and the Prime Minister of the Bahamas — - FTX owes money to a wide range of individuals, businesses, and entities, including major digital asset firms, banks, star athletes, and governments.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
The University of Texas at Austin plans to launch a large-scale, low-cost online Master of Science degree program in AI, a first among elite computing schools — Amid a boom in new tools like ChatGPT, the Austin campus plans to train thousands of students in sought-after skills in artificial intelligence.| Connie Guglielmo / CNET: |
CNET's EIC reflects on the outlet's AI use and lessons learned, like ensuring that bylines and disclosures are visible and plagiarism checks are done properly — New tools are accelerating change in the publishing industry. We're going to help shape that change.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to require that Uber and Lyft have zero-emission fleets by 2030, potentially affecting an estimated 100K+ for-hire vehicles — In his State of the City speech Thursday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that Uber and Lyft will be required to be zero emission by 2030.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
NEA raised $3.05B for a fund focused on early-stage deals and $3.18B for its debut growth equity fund, and applies to become a registered investment advisor — NEA said Thuesday that it's raised just over $6.2 billion for a pair of new funds; comprised of $3.05 billion for its 18th fund … | Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.vc: |
A brief history of VR/AR/MR devices and why hardware challenges have limited mainstream adoption, which could likely slow the metaverse's emergence and growth — Modern efforts to build extended reality (XR) devices—i.e., dedicated virtual reality (VR), dedicated augmented reality (AR) …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack introduces private publications, search improvements, chat updates, post duplication, publication toggling, inline footnotes, LaTeX support, and more — Newsletter platform Substack announced today that it's introducing several new features, including private Substacks.
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Google's evolving strategy to combat the DOJ's antitrust case; sources say Google offered to spin off an ad unit under Alphabet to end multiple cases — The latest U.S. lawsuit against Google compounds the legal issues the company faces worldwide while broadening the scope …
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Intel reports Q4 revenue down 32% YoY to $14B vs. $14.46B est., with Data Center and AI down 33%, and a Q1 2023 revenue guidance below estimates; stock down 7%+ — Chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O) forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street targets on Thursday, slammed by a worsening PC market … | Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
Donald Trump and Facebook have both decayed since his ban, and despite his unpredictability and tech's recent wild swings, his reinstatement may not matter much — This afternoon, Meta announced that it will soon reinstate Donald Trump's account after a two-year suspension from Facebook and Instagram.
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