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An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says that the @SECGov's “twitter account was compromised”, and that the agency has not approved spot bitcoin ETFs — The X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is deciding whether to approve bitcoin ETFs, “was compromised,” the regulator told CoinDesk.
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Threads: @pkedrosky. X: @garygensler, @secgov, @senatorhagerty, @cgasparino, @senlummis, @elonmusk, @twobitidiot, @jespow, @jbsdc, @ryansadams, @lopp, @herminewong_xyz, @ohaiom, @tomhschmidt, @prestonjbyrne, @repannwagner, @dystopiabreaker, @tree_of_alpha, @beeple, @0xmert_, @bonecondor, @mcshane_writes, @krakenfx, @autismcapital, @ntmoney, @bushidotoken, @racheltobac, @johnedeaton1, @jimstewartson, @alexeiarora, @davidsacks, @bitfinexed, @darky999, @dancow, @udiwertheimer, @stevenkelly49, @lopp, @leonidasnft, @chiweethedog, @hdevalence, @dystopiabreaker, @stevenkelly49, @williamturton, @tyler, @bgarlinghouse, @eric_bigfund, @gaborgurbacs, @denniskelleher, @rephuizenga, @greg16676935420, @taylorbuley, @coinbase, @danprimack, @jseyff, @theflowhorse, @packym, and @robinwigg. Forums: Hacker News
| CNBC: |
X confirms the @SECGov account was compromised and says “the compromise was not due to any breach of X's systems” and that the account didn't have 2FA enabled — - X said late Tuesday it has completed a preliminary probe into the compromised account of the U.S. Securities …
Source: @safety. More: CyberScoop, Reuters, Cointelegraph, Associated Press, Gizmodo, NBC 7 San Diego, Cryptonews, The Crypto Basic, CoinDesk, Tech Xplore, and The Block
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitch could cut ~500 employees, or ~35% of its staff, as soon as January 10, after concerns over company losses and several top executives leaving — Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year. — Amazon.com Inc.'s livestreaming site Twitch is poised …
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Humane laid off 10 staff, or 4% of its workforce, to cut costs and plans to lower budgets in 2024, as the company reshuffles some executive positions — Humane laid off 4 percent of employees this week in a move that was described as a cost cutting measure to those who were impacted … | Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with AI voiceover company Replica Studios, requiring consent to create voice replicas for use in video games and safe storage of assets — The union announced the deal with Replica Studios on Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union's executive director …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
HPE plans to acquire networking gear maker Juniper Networks for about $14B, or $40 per share, in an all-cash deal; JNPR jumps 21%+ — Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it's agreed to buy networking gear vendor Juniper Networks for about $14 billion, or $40 per share, in an all-cash deal.| Nelson Aguilar / CNET: |
Google and Samsung merge their respective Nearby Share and Quick Share features under the Quick Share name, for a more unified cross-Android sharing experience — Apple has AirDrop. Android now has Quick Share. — At CES 2024 today, Google announced Quick Share, a collaboration …
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| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Valve's Steam plans to add an “AI disclosure section”, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content, and to let gamers report illegal AI content — New survey update will ask developers to disclose how their games use generative AI.| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Startup Rabbit debuts the R1, a $199 handheld AI device meant to be a virtual assistant to complete tasks without a smartphone, shipping in late March 2024 — The startup has developed a virtual assistant that learns whatever digital errands you teach it. The interface is extra cute …
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
An investigation finds over 1,600 YouTube videos featuring celebrity deepfakes promoting Medicaid and Medicare scams; the videos have over 195M views in total — Joe Rogan, Taylor Swift, Andrew Tate, Steve Harvey, The Rock, and Oprah have been cloned by AI for scam ads that, in total …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Intel unveils AI-enabled SoCs for cars and agrees to buy Silicon Mobility, a French fabless silicon and software company that develops EV energy management SoCs — Intel Corp. is making an ambitious play for the automotive sector with the launch of specialist versions of its newest, artificial intelligence-enabled chips.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The FCC plans to shut down the two-year-old Affordable Connectivity Program, which currently has 23M enrolled households, as the GOP withholds funding — FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money. — The Federal Communications Commission is about to start winding … | Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports December 2023 revenue down 8.4% YoY to ~$5.7B, Q4 revenue flat YoY to ~$20.1B, beating estimates, and 2023 revenue down 4.5% YoY to ~$69.56B — - Chipmaker's holiday period stopped bleeding of prior quarters — TSMC has advised cautious optimism about semiconductor rebound| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
SIA: global chip revenue rose 5.3% YoY to $48B in November 2023, the first YoY growth since August 2022; China sales rose 7.6% YoY and Americas rose 3.5% YoY — - Recovery among chip makers may be uneven as demand returns — Global chip sales rose for the first time in more than a year …
More: Tech in Asia
| Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press: |
A US federal judge temporarily halts the enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps — A federal judge issued an order Tuesday temporarily halting enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Apple pulls Binance, Kraken, Mexc, KuCoin, and four other crypto exchanges from the App Store in India, after they were flagged for operating “illegally” — Apple has pulled apps of at least nine crypto exchanges including Binance and Kraken from its App Store in India …
More: CoinDesk, Benzinga, Crypto Daily, Moneycontrol, CoinGape, and Watcher Guru
| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Pennsylvania becomes the first US state to use ChatGPT Enterprise in a pilot with OpenAI, in which state employees will use AI tools for daily operations — State employees in Pennsylvania will begin using ChatGPT to assist with their work in the coming weeks.
More: Governor Josh Shapiro, Analytics India Magazine, GovTech, and The Verge
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Data.ai's State of Mobile 2023: global consumer app spending rose 3% YoY to $171B, non-game spending rose 11% YoY to $64B, and app downloads rose 1% YoY to 257B — After the app economy slowed for the first time ever in 2022, things picked up pace again over the past year.| Adam D'Angelo / Quora: |
Quora raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz and plans to accelerate the growth of Poe and pay bot creators through its creator monetization program — We are excited to announce that we have raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz. This funding will be used to accelerate the growth of Poe …
More: Andreessen Horowitz, TechCrunch, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @adamdangelo, @rakeshlobster, @ednewtonrex, and @martyswant
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Aeva, founded by Apple veterans, reaches a $1B deal with Germany's Daimler Truck for self-driving sensors for trucks expected in 2027, but offers few details — Aeva Technologies (AEVA.N) on Tuesday said that it has reached a $1 billion deal with Germany's Daimler Truck (DTGGe.DE) … | Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Meituan's market cap fell ~60% from ~$138.2B to ~$56.4B since the start of 2023, weighed down by rising competition and a slowdown in its food delivery business — - Chinese food delivery giant Meituan lost about $82 billion in market cap in 2023 from its yearly high, according to CNBC calculations.| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Some startup founders are building up protections, including implementing supervoting shares or dual-class shares, to avoid getting ousted like Sam Altman — They are building up protections and share classes after watching OpenAI saga play out — There's a new task on the 2024 to-do list for founders … | Bloomberg: |
Magnitt: startups in Saudi Arabia raised $1.4B in 2023, up 33% YoY, for a 52% share of VC funding in the MENA region, beating the UAE for the first time — - Saudi Arabia dominates tech scene with 52% share of funding — Overall regional funding drops 23% amid shifting landscape| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
In a first, the US FTC bans data broker Outlogic, formerly X-Mode Social, from selling phone location data and orders the company to delete all collected data — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users' sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday.
More: Federal Trade Commission, Reuters, Politico, Pixel Envy, and BleepingComputer
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
SentinelOne acquires Bengaluru-based cloud security provider PingSafe, sources say at a $100M+ valuation; PingSafe had raised ~$3.3M from Peak XV and others — SentinelOne's deal to acquire PingSafe values the Peak XV-backed young startup at over $100 million, two sources familiar …
More: Times of India, Moneycontrol, Pingsafe Blog, Inc42 Media, and Entrackr
| Financial Times: |
Demis Hassabis, chief of DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs, believes the company would halve drug discovery times after inking deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis — Chief of Google's AI unit and Isomorphic Labs spells out targets following $3bn Eli Lilly-Novartis partnerships
X: @kymawhite
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