Techmeme
January 11, 2023, 4:10 AM

Top News

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to design and develop its own displays for mobile devices, starting with microLED screens for the Apple Watch Ultra by the end of 2024  —  Apple Inc. is planning to start using its own custom displays in mobile devices as early as 2024, an effort to reduce its reliance …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft ditched a dual-screen design for the Surface Duo 3, opting for an internal foldable screen, an external cover display, and a 180-degree hinge  —  Microsoft's next foldable phone will have an internal foldable display.  —  What you need to know
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Sources: Parler's parent company laid off ~75% of its staff and most of its chief executives over the past few weeks, leaving the social app with ~20 employees  —  Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff …
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Cameron Winklevoss demands that DCG's board remove CEO Barry Silbert and alleges he and Genesis lied publicly, after his January 8 resolution deadline passed  —  Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Samsung sets its next Galaxy Unpacked for February 1 at 10am PT in San Francisco, likely to unveil the Galaxy S23 at its first in-person event in three years  —  Mark your calendar: Samsung is hosting its next Galaxy Unpacked on February 1st.  The company is officially confirming a date …
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter renames Latest Tweets to Following and Home to For You, making the algorithmic feed the default with no way to change it, rolling out to iOS users first  —  Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Meta plans to further limit ad targeting users under 18 starting in February 2023, including removing the options to target based on gender and in-app activity  —  Meta is making some changes to how its apps handle advertising and young users.  Under the new rules, advertisers on Instagram …
Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Coinbase plans to cut ~950 jobs, or ~20% of its workforce, aiming to reduce its operating expenses by 25% QoQ in Q1 2023, after laying off 18% in June 2022  —  - Coinbase is cutting a fifth of its workforce following an 18% staff reduction in June.  — CEO Brian Armstrong pointed …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple SVP of Services Eddy Cue says App Store developers have made $320B+ since 2008 and lists 900M paid subscriptions, 200+ Arcade games, 70B Shazams, and more  —  Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services, has penned an open letter celebrating what he calls a “groundbreaking year for entertainment.”
Jai Vijayan / Dark Reading:
Microsoft releases 98 security fixes, patching 11 critical vulnerabilities and an actively exploited privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Windows ALPC  —  Microsoft's January 2023 Patch Tuesday security update contains fixes for bugs in multiple products.  Here's what you need to patch now.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Developers flood Apple's App Store and Google Play with apps listing “ChatGPT” in titles and descriptions; OpenAI doesn't offer a public ChatGPT API or an app  —  ChatGPT is the hottest topic of discussion in the tech industry.  OpenAI's chatbot that answers questions …

Sponsor Posts

Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
CIO challenge 6: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs?  —  Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series!  After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 11/15 - Crypto Ascendant
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:10 AM ET, January 11, 2023.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

More News

Amanda Pedersen / Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry:
Reuters:

Earlier Picks

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Cecilia Kang / New York Times: