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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 40%+ — Bank sold assets at a loss to cover withdrawals and cut 40% of its staff but remains committed to crypto
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| 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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| 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.| 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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Tweets: @playstation, @playstation, @qualcomm_eu, @hollowpoiint, @zhugeex, and @puertorock77_
| 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
New York AG Letitia James files a civil suit against Celsius co-founder Alex Mashinsky, alleging he defrauded investors out of billions through false statements — Alex Mashinsky made false statements to investors about the crypto lender, lawsuit alleges — New York Attorney General …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
WhatsApp launches proxy support globally, letting users with blocked or disrupted connections access WhatsApp via servers set up by volunteers and others — Amid internet shutdowns in Iran, the encrypted messaging app is introducing proxy connections that can help people get online.
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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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| 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 … | Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC: |
Stitch Fix plans to cut 20% of its 1,700 salaried staff and founder Katrina Lake will reassume her role as CEO after current CEO Elizabeth Spaulding steps down — - Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake announced the company will be cutting 20% of its salaried workforce. — Lake will also reassume her post as CEO.
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils Yoga Book 9i, a laptop with two 13.3" OLED displays, available in June starting at $2,100 with a 13th Gen Intel Core i7-U15 chip and 16GB of RAM — Dual monitor setups are great and all, but how about dual screens in a strangely tall laptop?
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Tweets: @tomwarren and @superbentendo
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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
Tweets: @berber_jin1, @eliotwb, and @hedgefund
| 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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SiliconANGLE, CircleCI, DEVCLASS, TechRadar, TechCrunch, and InfoRiskToday.com
| 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Signify launches a $130 Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung's 2022 and newer QLED TVs, offering effectively the 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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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
The International Conference on Machine Learning bans writing scientific papers using ChatGPT and other AI tools, but authors can “edit” and “polish” the papers — One of the world's most prestigious machine learning conferences has banned authors from using AI tools …
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