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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Meta beats with Q4 revenue of $33.67B vs. $33.4B est., up 20% YoY, 2.91B MAUs, up 4% YoY, but misses with EPS of $3.67 vs. $3.84 est.; stock down 20%+ — - Facebook earnings came in below expectations for the fourth quarter, and the company said numerous challenges are ahead in the first quarter.
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Meta breaks out Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp as Family of Apps, with Q4 revenue of $32.8B, up 20% YoY, and will adopt the META ticker in H1 2022 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2021.
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| Washington Post: |
Meta reports its first-ever sequential decline in global Facebook daily active users, falling from 1.930B to 1.929B QoQ — The slowing growth is taking place as the company pushes into the metaverse and hardware. — Facebook parent Meta's quarterly earnings report on Wednesday revealed …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
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| Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: |
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A profile of US hacker P4x, who says he is responsible for ongoing North Korean internet outages and frustrated by the US' lack of response to DPRK attacks — Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Elon Musk announces $500/month Starlink Premium, claiming 150Mbps-500Mbps download speeds, up from 50Mbps-250Mbps, and doubling upload speeds to 20Mbps-40Mbps — The new antenna carries an upfront cost of $2500 — SpaceX's satellite internet service Starlink is getting a pricey new high-performance tier called Starlink Premium.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Blockchain bridge Wormhole confirms a hacker stole $322M worth of ether, and has moved its site into maintenance mode — A threat actor has abused a vulnerability in the Wormhole cryptocurrency platform to steal an estimated $322 million worth of Ether currency.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
GitHub, which owns the npm JavaScript package manager, enrolls the maintainers of npm's 100 most popular libraries into mandatory two-factor authentication — The administrators of the Node Package Manager (npm), the largest package repository of the JavaScript ecosystem …
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Belgium's data watchdog fines IAB Europe €250K after finding its ad-targeting tool violates GDPR, and orders a “series of remedies” within two months — IAB Europe, an association for online advertising companies, was fined 250,000 euros ($282,690) and handed an ultimatum …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind details AlphaCode, a new AI coding engine that it says “writes computer programs at a competitive level” — AlphaCode is good, but not great — not yet — DeepMind has created an AI system named AlphaCode that it says “writes computer programs at a competitive level.”
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| Sharon Pruitt-Young / NPR: |
The FBI warns athletes attending the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in China to take burner phones and says the official MY2022 app poses a security risk — Athletes on their way to the 2022 Winter Olympics have a new item to add to their packing list: a burner phone.
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| J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue of €2.69B, up 24% YoY, 406M MAUs, up 18% YoY, and ad-supported revenue of €394M, up 40% YoY and a record 15% of total revenue — The audio giant reported earnings as a growing list of musicians and podcasters leave the platform over its handling of misinformation on Joe Rogan's podcast.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
How the acquisitions of Zynga by Take-Two, Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, and Bungie by Sony reveal an industry evolution that extends far beyond gaming — Another week, another gaming acquisition. First Take-Two acquired Zynga, then Microsoft acquired Activision-Blizzard … | Nathan Grayson / Washington Post: |
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Pixel Vault, a decentralized entertainment startup focused on an NFT collection of superheroes, raises $100M from 01 Advisors and Velvet Sea Ventures — The world of NFTs is bizarre, confounding and exhilarating. Detractors see a space full of capital-obsessed hucksters who want to choke …
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GlobeNewswire News Room, Cointelegraph, Tubefilter, and CoinDesk
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the injuries users sustain while gaming with their VR headsets, which commonly come with safety tips like clearing out furniture and staying seated — Tally includes broken vases, dislocated shoulders, injured girlfriends; 'Why don't you go to the gym like a normal person?'
Tweets: @robicellis, @digital_vix3n, @mikeelgan, @wsj, @rmac18, and @jessreports
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
How OpenSea became synonymous with the NFT boom, hiding the complexity of ERC-721 transactions for a mass audience; OpenSea made $386M from fees in January 2022 — On a cold day in January, NFTs started disappearing. Major services like MetaMask and Twitter were suddenly unable …
Tweets: @russellbrandom and @reckless
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Dune Analytics, which makes crypto data charts and dashboards, raises a $69.420M Series B at a $1B valuation led by Coatue, bringing its total funding to $80M — Quick Take — Dune Analytics has hit a valuation of $1 billion with its Series B round. — Dune has big plans in place …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Commerce Department is finalizing rules for apps deemed to be national security risks, like TikTok, including mandatory third-party audits and monitoring — Commerce Department proposes rule to widen restrictions on Chinese apps; Sen. Marco Rubio says administration is taking timid steps on data security
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Tweets: @wsjpolitics, @wsjpolitics, @niubi, @thedragonfeeder, @hypervisible, @saraheneedleman, and @jeffjarvis
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony reports Q3 gaming revenue fell 8% YoY to ~$7.09B, operating profit rose 12.1% YoY to ~$810M; Sony shipped 3.9M PS5 consoles, bringing the total to 17.3M — The PS4 had sold more at this point — Sony shipped just 3.9 million PlayStation 5 consoles in its all-important holiday quarter …
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Tweets: @nextgenplayer, @tomwarren, and @vladsavov
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm beats with Q1 revenue of $10.7B vs $10.42B est., up 30% YoY, net income of $3.7B, up 47% YoY, and chip segment revenue of $8.8B, up 35% YoY — - Qualcomm reported first-quarter earnings Wednesday after the bell. — Qualcomm's chip business grew 35% driven by handset chip sales.| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Startups have begun selling and renting out AR spaces tied to real-world addresses, raising questions about who should have the rights to a property's AR layer — It's the stuff of nightmares: The other day, I found my property occupied by a stranger, who was renting it out, Airbnb style.
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