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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A manager at Activision Blizzard's Blizzard unit, who oversaw World of Warcraft Classic, departs after internally criticizing the company's stack ranking system — A manager at video game developer Blizzard Entertainment said he was ousted after refusing to give a low evaluation to an employee …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's ~$3,000 MR headset will have eye and hand tracking, a 3D iOS-like interface, AR and VR modes, a Mac external display feature, and more — Apple Inc.'s long-anticipated mixed-reality headset is an ambitious attempt to create a 3D version of the iPhone's operating system …
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The FBI says North Korea-backed hacking groups Lazarus and APT38 are behind the June 2022 theft of ~$100M in ETH, USDT, and wBTC from Harmony's Horizon bridge — Lazarus Group and APT38, both associated with North Korea, are responsible for the attack in June, the agency concluded.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Binance acknowledges mistakenly storing collateral for some of its tokens in the same wallet as customer funds; reserves for around 47 coins are in one wallet — Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto platform, acknowledged that it mistakenly keeps collateral for some of the tokens …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says ChatGPT is “not particularly innovative” in its underlying techniques and other research labs are doing similar work — Much ink has been spilled of late about the tremendous promise of OpenAI's ChatGPT program for generating natural-language utterances in response to human prompts.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass parent GoTo confirms hackers stole encrypted backups, an encryption key for some data, billing info, and more, in a breach first disclosed last year — GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) is warning customers that threat actors who breached its development environment in November 2022 stole …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches RxPass, letting US Prime users pay $5 per month to get as many generic versions of medications as needed, starting with drugs for 80 ailments — More than two years since announcing Amazon Pharmacy to take some of the prescription drugs business away from big (and smaller) …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the DOJ is poised to sue Google this week over dominating the US digital ad market, the fifth major US case challenging its business practices — The US Justice Department is poised to sue Alphabet Inc.'s Google as soon as Tuesday regarding the search giant's dominance …
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Tweets: @future_of_music, @thatjenmonroe, @adamkovac, @jason_kint, @fosspatents, @jason_kint, and @mrddmia
| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Sources: bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi plans to sell $160M of loans backed by ~68K bitcoin mining rigs; some have already defaulted or seem undercollateralized — Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi Inc. plans to sell about $160 million of loans backed by around 68,000 Bitcoin mining machines …
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A second Twitter whistleblower told the FTC and Congress last year that engineers can access “GodMode” and tweet from any account, supporting Mudge's complaint — Too many people can still access a program that lets them tweet under any account, he says in a complaint| Jon Christian / Futurism: |
An investigation finds extensive evidence that AI used by CNET appears to have plagiarized the work of competitors and human writers at Bankrate and even CNET — CNET's AI-written articles aren't just riddled with errors. They also appear to be substantially plagiarized.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
At a town hall, Sundar Pichai asked staff to stay motivated as Google faces competition in areas like AI and indicated there would be executive bonus cuts — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai and executive leaders addressed employee questions at a town hall meeting on Monday after last week's job cuts.
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
New York-based VC firm Thrive sells a 3.3% stake for ~$175M to Disney CEO Robert Iger and others, valuing Thrive at $5.3B, a rare move to expand its reach — Group of five investors is paying about $175 million for 3.3% of venture firm — Venture firm Thrive Capital is selling a stake … | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
How Esther Crawford, Twitter's director of product management, became one of the most influential leaders from the old guard in Elon Musk's “hardcore” Twitter — Days after Elon Musk had completed his $44bn buyout of Twitter, Esther Crawford shared a picture of herself sleeping … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: increased SEC scrutiny of Circle, eToro, Galaxy Digital, and other crypto companies has blocked them from going public in the US over the past year — Companies including Circle Internet Financial and eToro have failed to secure the regulator's approval — Crypto's Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained.
Tweets: @johnreedstark, @pt, and @matthewstoller
| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
How a “stealth address system” using zero-knowledge proofs could improve Ethereum's privacy vs. trying to hide or mix transfers using services like Tornado Cash — Special thanks to Ben DiFrancesco, Matt Solomon, Toni Wahrstätter and Antonio Sanso for feedback and review
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Tweets: @vitalikbuterin, @dr_cswright, @ammuroch, @samnode_, and @kafamolaa
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta brings more features to Messenger end-to-end encrypted chats, such as themes, custom emoji, and link previews, and adds more users to its default E2EE test — That means encrypted chats can now incorporate themes, custom emoji, reactions, group profile photos, and a whole lot more.
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Tweets: @metanewsroom, @katebevan, @andymstone, and @tonyajoriley
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Chinese gamers lose access to Blizzard's games after its 14-year partnership with NetEase ended; servers hosting the games shut down in China on January 23 — Millions of Chinese gamers have lost access to World of Warcraft after a furious dispute between US title owner Activision Blizzard Inc …
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TheGamer, The Verge, TechSpot, Sky News, CNN, Dexerto, TechPowerUp, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @williamyang120, @overwatchcaval, @williamyang120, and @win98tech
| New York Times: |
A look at Sam Bankman-Fried's $400M investment in obscure hedge fund Modulo, shortly before FTX collapsed; Modulo's executives had close ties to SBF and FTX — After the collapse of FTX, prosecutors and lawyers have scrutinized its discredited founder's huge investment in Modulo Capital.
Tweets: @flitteronfraud, @macrocephalopod, @mattgoldstein26, @smtuffy, @hsakatrades, @hsakatrades, @smtuffy, @loopifyyy, and @hsakatrades
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
The FTC fines HomeAdvisor up to $7.2M for using deceptive tactics to sell home improvement project leads, marking the agency's first fine related to gig work — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered home services marketplace HomeAdvisor up to $7.2 million for its use of deceptive …
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| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Source: CEO Satya Nadella voiced concerns for years that Microsoft was slow to commercialize its AI research; in 2022, its researchers said rivals seemed ahead — For more than a decade, Microsoft Research, the company's in-house research group, has touted artificial intelligence breakthroughs … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
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