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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Some Twitter users say their For You feed is full of Elon Musk tweets and replies; Musk said Twitter fixed a “visibility” issue for his tweets over the weekend — For many of us, Twitter's “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk.
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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
A bug introduced in iOS 16.3.1 is causing the Google Photos app to crash at launch; the only known workaround is not to update iOS — iOS 16.3.1 causing Google Photos to crash — A bug introduced in iOS 16.3.1 is causing Google Photos to crash at launch, so users that rely on the service …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Walmart plans to close its Austin, Portland, and Carlsbad, California tech hubs, telling staff to move and be in the office twice a week to stay employed — Retail giant is closing offices in Austin, Portland and Carlsbad and telling hundreds of staff they must relocate to keep their jobs| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Twitter delays its new paid API launch by “a few more days”, claiming “there has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API” — Twitter continues confusing shift away from free API — Without just hours of advance notice before the deadline …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Binance says the NYDFS ordered Paxos to stop issuing its BUSD stablecoin, which has 6.2M holders; Paxos will continue redemptions until at least February 2024 — Firm will continue to manage redemptions of the product — New York regulators directed a crypto company to stop issuing …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks on its customers last weekend; the largest exceeded 71M rps, 35%+ higher than the previous record — This weekend, Cloudflare blocked what it describes as the largest volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date.
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
A look at the torrent of deepfake porn harassment targeted at female creators, as a Twitch streamer admits to buying deepfakes of streamers after he was caught — After Atrioc was caught buying non-consensual, pornographic deepfakes of fellow Twitch streamers, the abuse against women targeted has been endless.
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| Aaron Mok / Insider: |
Report: TikTok is planning to let creators charge $1 or more for videos and is working on the Creator Fund 2.0, which could pay creators with 100K+ followers — - TikTok creators could soon start charging fans to watch their videos, per The Information. — The company hopes a paywall …
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time — Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
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| Dmitri Brereton / DKB Blog: |
At Microsoft's demo last week, the “new Bing” incorrectly summarized Gap's Q3 2022 earnings and provided wrong info on a pet vacuum and Mexico City nightlife — Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype — Bing AI got some answers completely wrong during their demo.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Twilio plans to cut ~17% of its workforce, or ~1,500 jobs, after laying off ~11% in September 2022 and will form two units to spend less and be more efficient — - Twilio on Monday announced plans to cut about 1,500 employees, or around 17% of its workforce, according to a blog post shared on the company's website.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A study finds 11 data brokers selling Americans' mental health information, including on antidepressants, insomnia, and attention issues, likely from app makers — Capitalizing on the pandemic explosion in telehealth and therapy apps that collect details of your mental health needs …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Neeva expands its AI search tool NeevaAI, which provides real-time info with citations, to logged-in users in Europe and Canada, after a US launch in January — Challenger search engine Neeva wants to replace the familiar “10 blue links” in search results with something more fitting for the modern AI age.
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| Shenghao Bai / Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: the iPhone 14 Pro Max 128GB's blended bill of materials cost is ~$464, up 3.7% on the iPhone 13 Pro Max, with 22%+ accounting for Apple-designed chips — - The blended bill of materials (BoM) cost for the iPhone 14 Pro Max with 128GB Nand flash is about $464, a 3.7% increase from that of the iPhone 13 Pro Max.| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Bigscreen unveils Bigscreen Beyond, a $999 PC-powered wired VR headset with two OLED 2560×2560 displays, a 127g visor, and SteamVR Tracking, shipping in Q3 2023 — Darshan Shankar, the founder of VR's leading Internet-powered platform for watching movies together …
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VRScout, TechPowerUp, The Verge, Road to VR, Engadget, and TechCrunch
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Bakkt plans to shut down its consumer crypto app on March 16, two years after debuting Bakkt App with partners including Starbucks, Best Buy, and Choice Hotels — Users will be able to manage their assets over the web after March 16. — Digital asset platform Bakkt (BKKT) …
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Bakkt, Blockworks, The Block, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, The Information, CoinJournal, Finextra, and Slashdot
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Palantir reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $509M, vs. $502M est., and its first ever quarter of positive net income on a GAAP basis, at $31M; PLTR jumps 16%+ — - Shares of Palantir popped in extended trading Monday after the company released fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts' estimates on top and bottom lines.| David Klepper / Associated Press: |
Google's Jigsaw to test video ads in Germany to “pre-bunk” misinformation, after seeing promising results for a pilot campaign in Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia — After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people …
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