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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
Independent examiner: Celsius misled its investors, sometimes used new customer funds to pay for withdrawals, CEO Alex Mashinsky made false claims, and more — Shoba Pillay was appointed by a New York bankruptcy court to look at whether the crypto lender operated as a Ponzi scheme
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony halves its PlayStation VR2 shipment forecast to ~1M units in Q1 after early preorders disappointed; the headset is slated to launch on February 22 — Sony Group Corp. reduced projections for the initial launch of its PlayStation VR2 headset dramatically after early pre-orders disappointed …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger form a venture to explore next-gen social apps; the first is Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles — EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back.
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| The Verge: |
Apple HomePod (second-gen) review: similarly good sound quality, useful sensors, and a responsive Siri, but pricey and the best experience is via a paired set — Apple's second take on the HomePod doesn't stray far from the original, but it's better all around.
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @detroitborg, @maxwinebach, @rsgnl, @mkbhd, @cnet, @maxwinebach, @jonyiveparody, @jp2e, and @supersaf
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A look at Microsoft's prized 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo, after a leadership overhaul, layoffs, and more; sources detail a pivot to Unreal Engine — Microsoft Corp. says it's going to keep making new games in the popular Halo franchise at its prized 343 Industries studio — despite rumors to the contrary.
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Tweets: @paultassi, @porshapwr, @theactman_yt, @zacbowden, @gamepasscounter, and @jasonschreier
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to €3.2B and a €270M loss, up from €39M YoY, as operating costs rose 44% YoY, and adds 10M paying subscribers to hit 205M — Music streaming group adds subscribers but is hit by rise in operating expenses
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI releases a free web-based tool to help determine if text was written by a human or a machine, giving a score of one to five based on its confidence level — - “It has both false positives and false negatives,” OpenAI head of alignment Jan Leike told Axios, cautioning the new tool …
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
A draft EU “fair-share” document proposes making Netflix, Alphabet, and other “large traffic generators” to help pay for next-generation internet infrastructure — The European Union is weighing a proposal to make technology companies that use the most bandwidth …
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9to5Mac, The Information, AppleInsider, Thurrott, and MacDailyNews
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| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Sources: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony do not plan to attend E3 2023, to be held in-person from June 13 to June 16; E3 2022 was canceled due to the pandemic — All three of gaming's first-party console manufacturers appear poised to skip E3's big return. — E3's first physical event …
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Tweets: @realultrafox, @harrybooktv, @marissaroberto, and @chonzo4art
| Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica: |
A look at generative AI's history and advances before recent breakthroughs, including Nvidia's CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and Google's transformers — A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible. — Progress in AI systems often feels cyclical.
Tweets: @elipariser, @tnatw, and @arstechnica
| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission plans to require that country regulators report six times a year on GDPR investigations and more, after a complaint by rights group ICCL — It's well established that the European Union has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world, threatening fines of up to 4% of a company's annual turnover.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge says the names of the two people who posted SBF's $250M bail can be made public, but holds the ruling until at least February 7, expecting an appeal — A U.S. judge on Monday said the names of two people who helped guarantee bail for indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried …
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Tweets: @tier10k, @tier10k, @evirae, @kenklippenstein, and @sgodofsk
| Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asia: |
Samsung reports Q4 operating profit down 69% YoY to ~$3.5B, its lowest since Q3 2014, and revenue down 8% YoY to ~$57.3B, citing weak chip and smartphone demand — South Korean tech giant's slump expected to continue in first half of this year — SEOUL — Samsung Electronics said Tuesday …
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| Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: |
Paramount Global plans to merge its Showtime streaming service with Paramount+'s ad-free tier later in 2023 and call the new offering Paramount+ with SHOWTIME — It's been a long time coming, but later this year, Paramount Global will finally fully integrate the streaming arm …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Tech Nation, the UK-sanctioned tech ecosystem builder, plans to shut down on March 31 after 10+ years, due to losing its grant funding to a Barclays-run program — After over ten years in operation, Tech Nation, the UK's government-sanctioned ecosystem builder for UK tech startups … | Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Twitter shuts down CoTweets, an experimental feature that let two users author and publish a tweet in tandem; in a month, CoTweets will show a single author — If you're reading this, it's already too late to post a CoTweet. — Did you use Twitter's fairly new CoTweets feature?| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Kaspersky: from January 2020 to June 2022, hacker groups offered salaries from six figures to $1.2M, bonuses, and paid leave to attract talent on the dark web — Despite the obvious risks, tech jobs with hacking groups can be alluring for those who need the money or want to do the work.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
A look at US cases that may define the bounds of free speech online, including Gonzalez v. Google, Twitter v. Taamneh, and a fight over CA's kid safety law — - The U.S. justice system, including the Supreme Court, will consider cases that will help determine the bounds of free expression on the internet.
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Tweets: @adamkovac, @jess_miers, @netchoice, @evan_greer, @aclu, and @dcnorg
| New York Times: |
Sources: Stripe is aiming to raise ~$2.5B at a $55B to $60B valuation, led by Thrive Capital, which has committed $1B; Stripe was valued at ~$95B in March 2021 — Thrive has committed $1 billion, which would value the payments provider Stripe at about $55 billion to $60 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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The Information, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune, Finextra, The Economic Times, BetaKit, and New York Times
Tweets: @carnage4life, @eliotwb, @p_ferragu, @daniellemorrill, and @eghosao
| Wall Street Journal: |
After the market crashed, Madonna, Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady, and other celebrities have faced civil lawsuits from investors over promoting crypto projects — Prominent endorsers named as defendants in class-action lawsuits, while agents warn clients away from future deals
Tweets: @saraheneedleman and @melissajpeltier
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