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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Ahead of the Senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for requiring Apple and Google to verify ages via app stores; Linda Yaccarino and Evan Spiegel support KOSA — Heads of Meta and X are among five social media chief executives to face Congress grilling — The chief executives of five …
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Bluesky: @tylerking.bsky.social. X: @weprotect, @heritage, @netchoice, @zamaan_qureshi, @cspan, and @katebevan
| New York Times: |
Ahead of the Senate hearing, US lawmakers release 90 pages of internal Meta emails from 2021, showing how Mark Zuckerberg rejected calls to bulk up child safety — Lawmakers released internal emails detailing the company's failed efforts to add staff to focus on the online safety of minors, hours before a hearing on the topic.
More: Washington Post, Bloomberg, and 9to5Mac
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Universal Music Group plans to cease licensing content to TikTok after their agreement expires on January 31, saying they failed to reach new licensing terms — UMG said that its agreement with TikTok is set to expire on Jan. 31. “The companies have not agreed to terms for a new agreement …
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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to $86B, net income up 52% to $20.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 26% to $9.2B, and headcount down 4%+; GOOG drops 5%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - January 30, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $62B, net income up 33% YoY to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 15% YoY, and LinkedIn revenue up 9% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — January 30, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended December 31, 2023 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q4 revenue down 3.8% YoY to ~$51B, vs. ~$52.1B est., operating profit down ~35% YoY to ~$2.1B, vs. ~$2.6B est., and rising 2024 memory demand — - Samsung on Wednesday reported a 34.57% drop in operating profit in the fourth quarter from a year ago, in line with its guidance issued earlier this month.
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| Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
UK prosecutors say the Met Police seized 61K bitcoin, worth £1.4B+, in 2018, as part of a trial over an alleged ~£5B investment fraud in China between 2014-2017 — One of the world's largest seizures revealed during trial of woman accused of laundering cryptocurrency for her former employer| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
A look at the four major categories of apps that could emerge at the intersection of crypto and AI, and the prospects and challenges of each category — Special thanks to the Worldcoin and Modulus Labs teams, Xinyuan Sun, Martin Koeppelmann and Illia Polosukhin for feedback and discussion.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Figure, which is building a humanoid robot, is in talks to raise as much as $500M in a round led by Microsoft and OpenAI at a $1.9B pre-money valuation — - Figure AI is building a humanoid robot to perform hard jobs — Microsoft weighs leading round that could raise $500 million| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Block begins layoffs under a previously disclosed plan to cut staff by up to 10%, by imposing an “absolute cap” of a 12,000 headcount, which was 13,000 in Q3'23 — The company plans to drastically reduce its headcount throughout 2024 through a series of layoffs and reorganizing measures.| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
Silicon Valley's powerful companies claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but instead are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal, and authoritarian technocracy — Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It's past time we call it what it is.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sen. Brian Schatz on Congress' dysfunction in the tech space, regulating tech firms, the EU's DMA, AI, deepfakes, social media laws for kids, and more — Today, I'm talking with Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii. He's been in the Senate for a little more than a decade now, and he's seen a lot in that time.| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
A look at Ubisoft's problems, as insiders fear further layoffs: a wild goose chase of popular fads, like NFTs, constant delays, low player numbers, and more — As industry-wide layoffs continue to plague headlines, Ubisoft, the sixth-largest video game company by employees, is at a crossroads.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Ransomware negotiation firm Coveware: the number of ransomware victims paying ransom demands dropped to a record low of 29% in Q4 2023, down from 85% in Q1 2019 — The number of ransomware victims paying ransom demands has dropped to a record low of 29% in the final quarter of 2023, according to ransomware negotiation firm Coveware.
More: Coveware, PCMag, Digital Information World, Axios, and TechRadar
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
The US indicts a Chicago man who allegedly led a SIM-swap gang; members stole millions and posed as other people in Apple, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon stores — Scheme allegedly targeted Apple, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile stores in 13 states. — The US may have uncovered the nation's largest … | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Employee letter: PayPal plans to lay off around 2,500 employees, or about 9% of its workforce, and will cut back on open roles — - CEO Alex Chriss has vowed to improve operating leverage — Latest round of cuts will affect about 9% of the workforce — PayPal Holdings Inc. will reduce …
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| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue down 10% YoY to $6.2B, net income up 3,076% to $667M, Data Center revenue up 38% to $2.3B, Q1 revenue forecast below est.; AMD drops 5%+ — Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) forecast first-quarter revenue below market estimates on Tuesday …
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| The Information: |
Sources: TikTok plans to open studios in several cities, including LA, where creators can livestream and sell products, a strategy that worked for Douyin — When TikTok creators start a livestream to chat about their new favorite hairbrush, dog toy or cleaning product, they're usually doing so from a setup in their own home.
More: Mashable, Social Media Today, Dexerto, Tubefilter, and TechCrunch
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Bipartisan Senators unveil the DEFIANCE Act, which would let people sue over deepfake porn and other AI “intimate” images, after the viral Taylor Swift images — US lawmakers have proposed letting people sue over faked pornographic images of themselves, following the spread …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: some Chinese automakers delayed flagship model deliveries due to production issues with Huawei's MDC 810 computing unit; a source blames part shortages — Some Chinese automakers have had to delay deliveries of flagship models due to production issues with a computing unit made by tech giant Huawei …
More: Huawei Central
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Analysis: tech layoffs in 2024, which Layoffs.fyi estimates have totaled 25,000 across ~100 companies so far, are more strategic than the mass layoffs in 2023 — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have been on a layoff spree this month, with the latest cuts differing from last year's mass reductions.Sponsor Posts
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