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Sources: Apple plans to add new fees and restrictions after allowing EU users to download apps from outside the App Store, including reviewing sideloaded apps — Meta, Spotify and other companies are weighing new options for customers as Apple makes changes to comply with new European law
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| Ariel Shapiro / The Verge: |
Ahead of the EU's DMA, Spotify shares iOS app mockups with full in-app payments, rolling out in part on March 7; Apple hasn't yet shared its changes for the DMA — For years, Apple's App Store policies have made it impossible for apps to sell digital services and goods on their own terms.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Ring is sunsetting a tool that lets police request footage from users via its Neighbors app, forcing law enforcement to obtain warrants or evidence of emergency — - Move dials back company's longtime public-safety stance — Law enforcement will now have to seek warrants for video
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Pixel users say they are not able to access data stored in internal storage across all apps after installing the January 2024 Google Play system update — Following a storage access issue in October with the initial Android 14 release and multiple users, Pixel devices might … | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Web Summit CEO Katherine Maher, who was hastily appointed at the end of October 2023 to replace Paddy Cosgrave, plans to step down on March 1 to join NPR as CEO — Technology can sometimes move at the speed of light. And so, too, can technology executives.
More: New York Times, NPR, Independent.ie, Variety, and Business Post
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| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
The US National Science Foundation partners with OpenAI, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others to launch NAIRR, a pilot to expand researchers' access to AI tools — The pilot program, called the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, follows President Biden's executive order mandating lower entry to AI infrastructure.
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LinkedIn: Andrew Wheeler and Jennifer Glore
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia's RTX GPUs can now upgrade SDR video to HDR using AI, supported in both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome on Windows PCs with HDR enabled — Nvidia is launching a new feature for all RTX GPU owners today: RTX Video HDR. … You just need an HDR10-compatible monitor with HDR enabled in Windows.
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| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft briefly reached a $3T market cap for the first time on January 24, becoming the second company to do so after Apple, before closing at a record $2.99T — - Software giant is second company to hit level, following Apple — AI services are seen as a long-term revenue growth tailwind| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Klarna launches Klarna Plus, a $7.99/month subscription plan in the US, with waived service fees when using its One Time Card, double rewards points, and more — - Swedish fintech firm Klarna is launching a monthly subscription plan in the U.S. to lock in its heaviest users ahead …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $17.38B, vs. $17.30B est., software revenue up 3% YoY to $7.51B, and net income of $3.29B, up from $2.71B YoY; IBM jumps 8%+ — - IBM surpassed estimates on the top and bottom lines and ended 2023 with more free cash flow than it had projected.| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch changes the Prime Gaming subscription payout model to a fixed rate, expands the Partner Plus Program, and removes the $100K cap for 70/30 revenue share — Twitch is making big monetization changes again in an attempt to make a more sustainable system, lowering earnings in some places and raising them in others.
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The UK NCSC's all-source intelligence assessment: ransomware attacks will almost certainly increase in both volume and impact over the next two years due to AI — Ransomware attacks will increase in both volume and impact over the next two years due to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, British intelligence has warned.| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them — Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others.
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LinkedIn: Kate Knibbs and Emil Protalinski
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: HPE says a group believed to be Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard exfiltrated data from “a small percentage of HPE mailboxes” beginning in May 2023 — - HPE says it was informed of nation-state breach on Dec. 12 — Same Russia-linked group suspected in recent Microsoft hack
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| Reuters: |
Massachusetts court filing: Google reached a settlement in an AI chip patent infringement lawsuit filed by Singular Computing, which sought $1.67B in damages — Google (GOOGL.O) on Wednesday reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit over chips that power the company's artificial … | Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Apple's acquisitions, job postings, and academic papers detail the company's AI plans; PitchBook says Apple acquired 21 AI startups since the start of 2017 — Acquisitions, job postings and academic papers suggest tech company is preparing to run AI through its devices| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
ASML reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €7.2B, net profit up 9% YoY to €2B, both above est., orders up 3x QoQ to €9B+, and expects 2024 net sales to be flat YoY — ASML Holding NV (ASML.AS), Europe's biggest technology company by market value, on Wednesday reported better … | Sareen Habeshian / Axios: |
New York City issues a public health advisory officially designating social media as an “environmental toxin”, blaming it for a youth mental health crisis — New York City declared Wednesday that it's the first city to issue an advisory officially designating social media as an environmental toxin.
More: Semafor, CBS News, New York Magazine, The City, ABC News, NYC.gov, Chalkbeat, The Daily Beast, abc7NY, BetaNews, and New York Post
| Eamon Farhat / Bloomberg: |
IEA: electricity used by data centers, crypto, and AI could grow 100%+ in the next three years; Ireland's data centers could use 32% of its electricity by 2026 — - Cryptocurrency, AI to dominate demand, IEA report finds — Increase in demand will be covered by renewables, nuclear
More: The Verge, PCMag, IEA, The Register, Silicon Republic, Network World, The Messenger, FinSMEs, Data Center Knowledge, and Tech Xplore
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
A US federal judge denies the NSO Group's motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit and orders the Pegasus spyware maker to answer Apple's complaint by February 14 — Apple has won an early battle against the NSO Group in court today. Apple sued the Pegasus spyware maker in November 2021 … | Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co: |
A look at some long-term issues facing the gaming industry, including deep layoffs, weak revenue growth, growing development costs, and declining VC investments — To players and outside observers, 2023 looks like one of the 70-year-old gaming industry's greatest-ever years.
More: Game File and Android Police
X: @carnage4life, @karstenw, @ballmatthew, @frozenfire42, @alexherrity, and @rianflo
| Bloomberg: |
EquiLend, which processes $2.4T+ of securities-lending transactions per month, goes down after a January 22 cyberattack and says restoration may take a few days — - EquiLend says it may take days to recover from cyber incident — Firm is at heart of Wall Street's securities-lending industry
More: BleepingComputer, The Record, CNN, The Stack, Securities Finance Times, DataBreaches.net, and EquiLend
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
London- and Tallinn-based VC firm Plural, led by some of Europe's best known startup founders, raised a €400M fund to invest in early-stage “deep tech” startups — The firm offers a Silicon-Valley approach to backing start-ups as an alternative to the traditional VC model
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
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