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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Tencent-owned Riot Games plans to lay off 530 employees globally, or about 11% of staff, saying Riot “more than doubled in headcount” over the past few years — The cuts, which amount to about 11% of staff, were announced Monday in a blog post and letter to employees.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
MIT CSAIL study: only 23% of US wages paid to humans for doing vision tasks would be economically attractive to automate with AI, due to large upfront costs — Will AI automate human jobs, and — if so — which jobs and when? — That's the trio of questions a new research study …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix buys the exclusive rights to Raw and other WWE programs, sources say paying $5B for a 10-year deal, airing in 2025 in the US, Canada, and other markets — - Company to be exclusive home for show in US, other territories — Streaming service to air three hours of live wrestling weekly
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple releases iOS 17.3, which adds a Stolen Device Protection feature, Apple Music collaborative playlists, support for streaming to more hotel TVs, and more — iOS 17.3 is out, and it comes with a new security feature that's supposed to prevent thieves from taking your iPhone and quickly taking …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as “free” unless they are actually free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads misleading — Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Intuit to stop promoting its software products and services as …
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
HP says updates bricking printers with third-party cartridges protect users from possible embedded viruses, but security experts deem such a threat theoretical — “Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription.” — Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed …
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
A look at Palworld, a Pokémon-like game launched on January 19, which has sold 5M+ copies and is currently the most played game on Steam, amid plagiarism claims — The Pokémon-like has sold over 5 million copies in the three days since its early access launch.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will pay up to 10% more per play in Apple Music royalties for tracks where a Spatial Audio version is available, starting with January's payouts — Apple Music is now encouraging artists with a financial incentive to make their music available in Spatial Audio, which offers …
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung is exploring the development of noninvasive glucose monitoring and blood pressure checking, as part of a push to put health features in various devices — - Company's mobile health chief discusses plans in interview — Health push also includes new Galaxy Ring and future earbuds
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Mortgage lender loanDepot says “sensitive personal information” of ~16.6M people was stolen in a January 6 ransomware attack that shut down some of its systems — Mortgage lender loanDepot says that approximately 16.6 million people had their personal information stolen in a ransomware attack disclosed earlier this month.| NBC News: |
Following complaints and a recording, New Hampshire's AG probes fake Joe Biden robocalls, apparently artificially generated, that tell Democrats not to vote — The call, an apparent imitation or digital manipulation of the president's voice, says, “Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans … | Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: |
Social networks' reduction in moderation, like a hands off approach to 2020 election lies and shuttering election integrity teams, is risky as AI content booms — - Burned by Covid controversies, social media giants step back — Meanwhile AI offers new possibilities to spread misinformation| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Bluewhite, which offers “robots-as-a-service” including autonomous robots that can be retrofitted to tractors, raised a $39M Series C led by Insight Partners — Agriculture has a long heritage of being constantly disrupted by technology, an evolution that has continued to play out until today.
More: Globes Online and Bluewhite
| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
A bug in Ethereum's Nethermind client took down 8% of Ethereum's validators on January 21, raising concerns about Geth, which powers ~85% of the validators — The lion's share of Ethereum's validators rely on the same piece of software to power their operations. According to some experts, this could be a big risk.
More: Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Bankless Times, Crypto Daily, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, Unchained, Cointelegraph, and Cryptopolitan
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| Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
An interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu about the R1's design, collaboration with Teenage Engineering, why he didn't want to make an app, and more — Few people knew who Jesse Lyu was when he posted a video of himself to X, standing in front of a black backdrop in a black T-shirt, holding a bright orange gadget.
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LinkedIn: JR Dawkins, Matthew Price, Ph.D., Gregor Berkowitz, and Mark Wilson
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