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Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week after eliminating 13% of its staff, or 11,000 jobs, in November 2022 in its first major layoff — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees …
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Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer assigned to the project for migrating to a paid API made a “bad configuration change” — The high cost of cutting expenses — Twitter's website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple announces a yellow finish for the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, the latest new spring color after “alpine green” in 2022, shipping on March 14 — Unlike last year, the new color variant won't be available for the Pro models and will only ship with the base iPhone 14 and the 14 Plus.
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Analysis: in 2022, Apple had eight of the top 10 best-selling smartphones, led by the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro Max; Samsung's Galaxy A13 was 4th and A03 came 10th — - Apple captured eight spots in the list of top 10 best-selling smartphones for 2022. — The remaining two spots were taken by Samsung's Galaxy A13 and A03 models.
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| Andrew Marino / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence and producer Giles Martin on the new Era 300 and 100 speakers, spatial audio, Atmos, sustainability, Google lawsuit, and more — They join The Vergecast to discuss Sonos' new Era 300 and 100 speakers, the ins and outs of spatial audio, and why this is the time to get behind it.
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FTX files a lawsuit against Grayscale, CEO Michael Sonnenshein, DCG, and Barry Silbert, citing $1.3B+ in “exorbitant management fees” and seeking $550M+ shares — - FTX' debtors are suing Grayscale Investment, its owners and its CEO over their handling of the Grayscale Bitcoin … | George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Many VCs question whether generative AI startups, currently attracting huge valuations, will make enough money, fearing a repeat of the crypto investment hype — Silicon Valley VCs fearing a repeat of falling crypto values warn against pouring cash into hype-fuelled start-ups
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Atlassian plans to cut 500 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce; a filing says the company will incur about $70M to $75M in restructuring costs through the end of June — Atlassian Corp. will cut about 5% of its workforce, or 500 full-time employees, becoming the latest software company to eliminate jobs.| New York Times: |
After Instagram added a prompt to cross-post on Facebook, sources say at Meta's request, some young adults express surprise that their posts are on Facebook — Teenagers and young adults are flummoxed. The reason it keeps happening involves an online prompt and product design.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous trucking company Embark lays off about 70% of its employees and says remaining staff will focus on winding down day-to-day operations — Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that went public in 2021 via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
In 2023, almost all TV streaming boxes suck, turning into ever-cheaper, ad-supported commodity items and failing to surpass smart TVs, themselves hardly great — There are no good streaming boxes, and I blame everybody. … Streaming boxes had so much potential.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce announces Einstein GPT, bringing OpenAI-based generative AI to Customer 360, Slack, Tableau, and its other products using data from its Data Cloud — - Salesforce clients will be able to exchange Slack messages with a ChatGPT chatbot that can show data from Salesforce.
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
At an all-hands last week, Sundar Pichai defended Google Cloud's new desk-sharing policy; an exec says ~35% of staff are in the office at least four days a week — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed employee criticism of the cloud unit's new desk-sharing policy at an all-hands meeting last week.Sponsor Posts
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