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Amazon plans to lay off 18,000+ employees, more than its initial target of 10,000 in November 2022, with the “majority” coming from retail and recruiting — Cuts focused on the company's corporate staff exceed earlier projection — Amazon AMZN -0.79%decrease …
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| Leyland Cecco / The Guardian: |
Apple quietly launches a catalog of books narrated by AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the audiobook market — Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI - but move expected to spark backlash
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| David Benoit / Wall Street Journal: |
US bank Silvergate, which caters to crypto, reports liquidating debt to cover $8.1B withdrawals as FTX collapsed and laying off 40% of its staff; SI falls 45%+ — Bank sold assets at a loss to cover withdrawals and cut 40% of its staff but remains committed to crypto
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Sony unveils Project Leonardo, a PS5 accessibility controller kit with circular gamepads, for use on its own or with DualSense; pricing and release are TBC — Sony is building a better PlayStation 5 controller with Project Leonardo, a kit that promises to make games easier to play for people with limited motor control.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Sony has sold ~30M PlayStation 5 consoles and says the shortage is over, meaning everyone “should have a much easier time” finding a PS5 at retailers globally — The PlayStation 5 shortage is finally over — at least according to Sony. “Everyone who wants a PS5 should have a much easier …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A hacker leaks a dataset allegedly containing the email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, claimed to be a cleaner version of the 400M dataset from December 2022 — A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about $2.
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| Levi Winslow / Kotaku: |
After YouTuber Coffeezilla reported on Logan Paul's apparently sham NFT game CryptoZoo, Paul finally responds, acknowledging some involved were “bad actors” — Blockchain investigator Stephen ‘Coffeezilla’ Findeisen may see Paul in court — After keeping his mouth shut … | Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
Source: FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with US prosecutors, telling them what he knew of SBF and others misusing customer funds — FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with U.S. prosecutors as they investigate the crypto firm's collapse …
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
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| Jules Roscoe / VICE: |
The FTC proposes a rule banning worker non-compete clauses, saying they harm healthy competition in the labor and product markets and block entrepreneurship — The agency stated that noncompete clauses are bad for both the labor market and innovation. The proposed rule would make them illegal.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Ring announces its first dashboard camera, the Ring Car Cam, with inside and outside recording, after a two-year delay, shipping in February for $250 — Amazon.com Inc.'s Ring division introduced its first car dashboard camera after a two-year delay, expanding beyond home security with a new category.
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TechHive, ZDNet, TheStreet, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Verge, Android Police, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, Mashable, and Digital Trends
| Crystal Kim / Axios: |
A US judge rules that the crypto deposits in bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network's yield-bearing accounts belong to Celsius and not the individual holders — Celsius Network's bankruptcy might have just set a precedent in determining what crypto assets belong to whom when stored on a centralized platform.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
NY AG Letitia James files a civil suit against Alex Mashinsky, alleging the co-founder of Celsius defrauded investors out of billions by making false statements — Alex Mashinsky made false statements to investors about the crypto lender, lawsuit alleges — New York Attorney General … | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Some VCs that held onto stakes in startups after IPOs during the bull market, including Sequoia, Menlo, and Altos, have been left with losses as markets drop — Startup investors that held off on exiting investments after their IPOs are left to rue the decision
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
CI/CD service CircleCI says it is investigating “a security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets” — CircleCI, a software development service has disclosed a security incident and is urging users to rotate their secrets.
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC accuses alleged fraudster Neil Chandran and four others of scamming investors for $45M+ on the false promise of a deal to sell blockchain technology — The U.S. securities agency is going after the people behind what it says was a massive fraud stealing from tens of thousands of investors.
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U.S. Securities …, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoSlate, and Coinspeaker
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Philips Hue owner Signify launches a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs, available for $130, effectively a software version of the $250M Play HDMI Sync Box — Signify, owner of the Philips Hue brand, is launching a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs.
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| Michael Elsen-Rooney / Chalkbeat New York: |
The New York City Department of Education, the largest US school system, bans access to OpenAI's ChatGPT on school devices and networks, citing cheating fears — New York City students and teachers can no longer access ChatGPT — the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot …
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The Verge, ZDNet, New York Post, TechRadar, and Redmond Pie
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD announces Ryzen 7000 laptop CPUs, including the new 7040 series of chips codenamed Phoenix, its first laptop-centric Zen 4 CPUs using TSMC's 4nm process — This year's CES has turned out to be a laptop-centric event in the PC space, and no farther do you have to look for proof of that than AMD's CES keynote.
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MacRumors, Tom's Hardware, AMD, Windows Blog, PCMag, The Verge, Engadget, Thurrott, AMD, PCMag, Pocket-lint, and HotHardware. Thanks:@ryansmithat
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Dell aims to stop using chips made in China by 2024 and tells suppliers to significantly reduce the number of all China-made components in its products — ‘This trend looks irreversible,’ supplier exec says of tech industry's production shift — TAIPEI — U.S. computer maker Dell aims …
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