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X has lifted its ban on Taylor Swift searches, and says it “will continue to be vigilant”, following the spread of explicit AI-generated images of the singer — Social-media site restricted queries for the singer's name after the digitally altered images hit the platform
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| Washington Post: |
More: Business Today, The Register, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup, BBC, TechCrunch, CCN.com, Business Insider, Axios, The Information, Reuters, and PCMag
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on January 28, and that the first Neuralink product is called Telepathy — - Elon Musk's neurotech startup Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on Sunday, and the patient is “recovering well,” according to a post on X.
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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Apple says proposed UK legislation could let the country try “to secretly veto new user protections globally”, preventing Apple from shipping them to customers — Apple has attacked proposals for the UK government to pre-approve new security features introduced by tech firms.
More: Ars Technica, iMore, and AppleInsider
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon drops its $1.4B acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot after clashing with EU regulators and will pay a $94M fee; iRobot has ~$500M in net losses since 2021 — - IRobot CEO steps down and company cuts workforce by 31% — Tech giant to pay $94 million to iRobot over deal termination
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
ICANN proposes .INTERNAL, a new TLD available for internal use but never plumbed into the global DNS, taking on the same role as 192.168.x.x IPv4 bloc — The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root - like may already do with a subdomain for an intranet| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox President Sarah Bond says that “Apple's new policy is a step in the wrong direction”, in response to an X post by the Spotify CEO about Apple's DMA changes — Apple's new plan to comply with the European Union's tech regulations has already drawn criticism from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and Spotify.
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X: @bondsarah_bond, @aatilley, @tomwarren, and @jezcorden
| Bloomberg: |
Blizzard names Johanna Faries, former general manager for Call of Duty at Activision, as its president, succeeding Mike Ybarra, who left last week amid layoffs — Replaces Mike Ybarra who left the video-game company last week as part of mass layoffs under new owner Microsoft
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
After a months-long probe, Italy's data protection authority tells OpenAI that it's suspected of violating EU privacy regulations, giving it 30 days to respond — OpenAI has been told it's suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of its AI chatbot …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Source: Apple has sold upwards of 200K Vision Pro units; Apple began accepting pre-orders for the Vision Pro on January 19 — Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers.
More: UploadVR, Wccftech, Spyglass, and GSMArena.com
X: @ideafella, @benobi2000, @nathanwchan, and @cixliv
Forums: r/technology and MacRumors Forums
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Meta releases Code Llama 70B, a new version of its code generation model, featuring improved code correctness, a variant optimized for Python, and more — Meta AI, the company that brought you Llama 2, the gargantuan language model that can generate anything from tweets to essays …
More: Meta, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, The Information, Analytics India Magazine, MSPoweruser, The Decoder, and The Verge
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Zoom details its visionOS app, which will support 3D file sharing, “real-world pinning” of up to five meeting participants, Apple's Persona feature, and more — As promised, Zoom will be available on Apple Vision Pro from day one. Ahead of Vision Pro's launch on Friday …
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| The Information: |
Source: Alphabet execs told staffers at its moonshot X lab that the company will not convert promising investment projects into Other Bets subsidiaries in 2024 — Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is cutting back its commitment to ambitious moonshot projects.
X: @carnage4life and @amir
| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
TikTok is testing a feature that could make all posts shoppable, by identifying objects in videos and prompting users to “find similar items on TikTok Shop” — - Feature links products to any posts, not just influencers — TikTok is testing a feature that could make all posts shoppable …
More: Social Media Today, PYMNTS.com, The Information, and Gizmodo
| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
The US DOJ and SEC unveil charges in an alleged $1.9B crypto fraud scheme known as HyperFund — - The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against two people and the guilty plea of a third person for orchestrating a $1.9 billion cryptocurrency fraud scheme known as HyperFund, as well as by other names.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Meta partners with the Center for Open Science to share data for researching online well-being, before January 31's Congressional hearing on kids' online safety — Ahead of a major Congressional hearing about children's online safety, Meta has announced a collaboration with the Center for Open Science …
More: Center for Open Science, Engadget, The Information, PetaPixel, and Social Media Today
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| Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal: |
Reed Hastings donates $1.1B worth of his Netflix shares, or ~40% of his stake, to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech founders — Reed Hastings donates to foundation with $10 billion in assets after gifts from Mark Zuckerberg and other tech foundersSponsor Posts
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The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
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