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The Vision Pro could cannibalize the iPad; some in Apple's Vision Products Group believe the headset could take four generations to reach its full potential — Apple's Vision Pro will eventually replace the iPad, but the device has hardware and software shortcomings that need to be resolved first.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Google One crosses 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from its free plans; YouTube Premium also hit 100M subscribers in February — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One …
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about opening sign-ups to the public, not “enshittifying” the service with ads, crowdsourcing deepfake porn moderation, and more — WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening sign-ups to all, how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more.
More: New York Times, The Fediverse Report, Route Fifty, and MakeUseOf
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| Cory Doctorow / Financial Times: |
How the erosion of competition, regulation, self-help, and worker power ushered in the “enshittocene” era, or the slow decay of online platforms like Facebook — The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we've entered the ‘enshittocene’?
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
A look at Aware, whose AI tools let companies track real-time employee sentiment and flag toxicity by monitoring staff chatter on Slack, Teams, and other apps — - Aware, an AI firm specializing in analyzing employee messages, said companies including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile …
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| Reuters: |
Letter and source: Xiaomi told India's government that Chinese smartphone component suppliers are wary about setting up in the country due to heavy scrutiny — China's Xiaomi has told New Delhi that smartphone component suppliers are wary about setting up operations in India amid heavy scrutiny … | Bloomberg: |
The Fed, regulators, and others worry that stablecoins, with a total market value of $136B as of late January, could one day impact the wider financial market — The tokens connect volatile digital-asset trading to the wider financial world, raising concerns that they could one day rock traditional markets
More: Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, and CryptoGlobe
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
As SBF prepares to face sentencing in March, FTX customers look at the possibility of recouping their money, stemming largely from the crypto market's rebound — - With Sam Bankman-Fried preparing to face sentencing next month and a potential life behind bars, FTX customers are looking at the possibility of recouping their money.
More: TechSpot, DL News, and Coinpedia Fintech News
Forums: r/ethtrader, r/CryptoCurrency, and Slashdot
| Washington Post: |
Some news creators and journalists, who moved from X to Threads, criticize Meta for planning to stop recommending political content on Instagram and Threads — The platform announced it won't recommend “social commentary” or political news. — Meta announced on Friday …
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| Menaka Doshi / Bloomberg: |
The RBI's clampdown on Paytm has created confusion for millions of customers and raises questions about the Indian central bank's opacity and regulatory actions — Multiple Penalties, Yet Stakeholders Stunned By Paytm Bank Wreck. Why? — The financial meltdown of a digital payments pioneer …
More: Entrackr, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Inc42 Media, and Tech in Asia
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| Bloomberg: |
Crypto startups like Blast are offering loyalty points to lure users, without detailing the rewards; Blast has attracted $1.3B in crypto since November 2023 — - Blast has lured $1.3 billion worth of crypto since November — Most programs haven't said what their points can be used for
More: Coinspeaker
| Will Knight / Wired: |
An interview with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore, who created Goody-2, a joke AI chatbot that refuses every query to “prioritize safety and the prevention of harm” — Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme.
More: GOODY-2, GOODY-2, TechCrunch, GOODY-2, and The Algorithmic Bridge
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