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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple and Sony could add PlayStation VR2 controller support to visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K Vision Pro units since its February 2024 debut — Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro.

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, Neowin, Daring Fireball, MIXED Reality News, Gizchina.com, Tom's Guide, Engadget, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, iClarified, Android Authority, UploadVR, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, PhoneArena, Patently Apple, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, and The Economic Times

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Forums: r/psvr2, r/PS5, r/PSVR, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums

Tripp Mickle / New York Times:

Apple faces a lawsuit accusing it of failing to implement a system that detects and removes CSAM from iCloud, despite initially developing such a tool in 2021 — A 27-year old former child sexual abuse victim photographed anonymously with her mother. Her lawsuit against Apple claims …

More: Forbes, AppleInsider, Engadget, and TechCrunch

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:

ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launched a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials — The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM — ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software …

More: ElevenLabs, ElevenLabs on YouTube, and ElevenLabs on YouTube

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Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech:

The rise of generative AI will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps — I'm addicted to Apple's Vision Pro. It's a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be lighter.

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Bluesky: @lerhaupt and @gigastacey

Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange and @j12t@j12t.social

Threads: @om, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life

X: @joshm and @shaunnestor

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Study: gTLDs like .shop and .xyz, which had 11% market share for new domains, accounted for ~37% of cybercrime domains reported between Sep. 2023 and Aug. 2024 — Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number …

More: Interisle Consulting Group and Interisle Consulting Group

X: @jamesivings and @ppcbz. LinkedIn: Brian Krebs

Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal:

A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant — An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future

Bluesky: @dannygroner. X: @psiquantum, @wsj, and @alexmmmack

LinkedIn: Steve Rosenbush, Alex Mack, Brad Henderson, and Jorge Santiago Ortiz

Ryotaro Yamada / Nikkei Asia:

Dell'Oro Group expects global investment in data centers to rise ~30% YoY to $463.7B in 2025, with about half coming from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta — LAS VEGAS — Global investment in data centers is expected to outpace the cost of sending humans to the moon by about 50% next year …

The Guardian:

An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M — FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government

More: Balloon Juice and The Register

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X: @hernandesraph, @porcelinad, @sf_mills, @porcelinad, @rudysdowens, @porcelinad, and @berniesanders. LinkedIn: Raphael Hernandes

Forums: Hacker News, r/somethingiswrong2024, and r/politics

Andrew Williams / Wired:

A look at the opportunities India provides for smartphone companies, including its growing market for premium phones and as a manufacturing hub outside of China — A quarter of all iPhones could be made outside China by 2025, most likely in India—a rapidly growing market with hundreds of millions of potential customers.

More: Notebookcheck and The Diplomat

Bloomberg:

How the US-China fallout is fueling boomtowns in Vietnam and Malaysia, as startups and governments rush to build out AI, chipmaking hubs, and access to compute — An accelerating influx of tech investment is transforming local economies in Malaysia and Vietnam.

More: Disconnect and Cryptopolitan. X: @industrlpolicy

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:

A look at Chatbot Arena, which now ranks 170+ AI models; the two UCB researchers who launched the project in April 2023 hope to grow it into a Wikipedia for AI — Ranking AI is tricky, so two students developed a way to make the best bots battle — BERKELEY, Calif.—Record labels have the Billboard Hot 100.

X: @berkeley_ai. LinkedIn: Laura Hassner. Forums: Hacker News

Gillian Tett / Financial Times:

As digital assets go more mainstream, memecoins like PNUT, named after euthanized pet squirrel Peanut, show how the information ecosystem is changing in finance — Ordinary investors need to pay attention to new information flows online — Dead squirrels normally do not feature in financial history.

More: Inside Bitcoins, CryptoPotato, and New York Post. Bluesky: @generalboles

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Reuters:

Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Gavin Blair / The Hollywood Reporter:

The Association of Japanese Animations: Japan's anime industry revenue grew 15.8% YoY to a record ~$28.5B in 2025, with overseas revenue reaching ~$16B

Selome Hailu / Variety:

Sources: Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine lays off about 30 employees, roughly 50% of its staff, as it focuses on film and TV projects and its book club brand

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Financial Times:

Meta says there are no plans to release its AI-powered coding tool Metamate externally; Metamate lacks the more autonomous, agent-like features of rivals' tools

Bluesky: @andrewzahler. Mastodon: @1br0wn@eupolicy.social. Threads: @david_j_doherty

Financial Times:

Sources: ByteDance has taken an early lead in the generative AI race in China by poaching top talent from rivals and becoming Nvidia's biggest customer in China

More: TechRadar and 24/7 Wall St.

Yongchang Chin / Bloomberg:

Ant President Cyril Han will succeed Eric Jing as CEO on March 1; Jing will remain company chairman and Han, who is also the CFO, will continue reporting to him

More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, and Tech in Asia

Wall Street Journal:

A profile of Brian Krebs, who over the past 20 years has investigated and outed some of the worst cybercriminals, including the alleged Snowflake client hackers

Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @nixonnixoff@infosec.exchange

X: @eastdakota, @pkedrosky, and @thatsregrettab1. LinkedIn: Lance McGrath. Forums: Hacker News

Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:

The Intel Foundry Technology Research team announces 2D transistor breakthroughs in interconnect scaling, gate-all-around transistors, and packaging

More: Intel. Bluesky: @kcar.me. Forums: r/hardware

Simon Sharwood / The Register:

Broadcom shelves plans to work directly with the top 2,000 VMware customers, focusing on just 500 and giving 1,500 back to partners as a way to stem migrations

More: Ars Technica and TechRadar

LinkedIn: Alastair Edwards and Paul Echelmeyer

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Reuters:

CapitaLand July 2024 data: Asia Pacific's colocation data center market is expected to grow from $25.5B in 2022 to $52.2B by 2026, driven by AI services demand

More: Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, CapitaLand, CapitaLand Investment Limited, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, BNN Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, and Reuters

Alexander Cornwell / Reuters:

A White House official says that the US believes China-linked Salt Typhoon hackers targeted and recorded the phone calls of “very senior” US political figures

More: Business Insider. Bluesky: @uzmabarlaskar and @daniloc.xyz

Sharon Goldman / Fortune:

David Sacks, who called OpenAI a “piranha for-profit company”, becoming AI czar comes at a delicate moment for OpenAI as it transitions to a for-profit

More: Benzinga, Bitcoin Insider, Windows Central, Futurism, Cryptopolitan, and DatacenterDynamics

X: @sama, @laurenbalik, @lexnfx, and @elonmusk. Forums: r/singularity

Alicia Diaz / Bloomberg:

Linda Yaccarino says X worked with the authors of the Kids Online Safety Act to make changes to protect freedom of speech and urges the House to pass the bill

More: The Verge, Axios, Engadget, and audristarzz

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Axios:

Sources: the US has approved the export of advanced AI chips to a Microsoft-operated facility in the UAE as part of the company's scrutinized G42 partnership

More: BusinessLIVE, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and eWeek

Bluesky: @allcell9, @tarikn, and @secure-circuit. X: @andrewcurran_

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images, to Grok; Aurora disappeared for some users after going live for a few hours