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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta's internal four-year AR/VR roadmap: three Quest headsets, smart glasses with a display and a “neural interface” smartwatch in 2025, and AR glasses in 2027 — During an internal presentation, Meta execs laid out plans for three new Quest headsets, AR glasses in 2027, and a ‘neural interface’ smartwatch.
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
After a lengthy, unexplained outage over the weekend due to an update, Solana Labs plans to improve its upgrade process to ensure reliability and uptime — Solana co-founder said last week's 1.14 network update has raised concerns about maintaining stability during major updates.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The House Foreign Affairs Committee votes 24 to 16 to give President Joe Biden the power to ban TikTok and other apps; committee Democrats opposed the bill — The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and other apps.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Twitter users globally reported multiple outages for over two hours, including the timeline failing to load on web and mobile; most users could still tweet — Twitter was having difficulties this morning, with users reporting that the site's timelines were inaccessible.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
In a letter, YouTube head Neal Mohan outlined his key priorities and teases upcoming features, including generative AI tools for creators and Shorts updates — Neal Mohan, the new head of YouTube, outlined his key priorities and teased some upcoming features for the media platform …
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to focus on creating a “positive human impact”, now operates as a closed-source and for-profit entity as ChatGPT explodes — OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?
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| Politico: |
How the UK's Online Safety Bill became an overwrought law that may not achieve its aims due to repeated policy changes by four prime ministers since 2019 — LONDON — Britain's attempt to rein in the internet has turned into a political omnishambles. — The country's masterplan …
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
A look at Russia's cyberattack on Viasat's KA-SAT network in February 2022, leading some countries and the satellite industry to rethink satellite cybersecurity — Andreas Wickberg loves snowmobiling to the house he built in the icy reaches of Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft's Windows 11 announcement, adding the new Bing “directly into the taskbar”, was wildly misleading as using Bing Chat still requires opening Edge — What the hell, Microsoft? — Yesterday, Microsoft made a big hubbub about a new Windows 11 update that allegedly puts AI …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok adds new well-being features for teens and others, including screen time controls, default settings for teens, and expanded Family Pairing — TikTok announced today that it's introducing new well-being features for teens, families and its broader community.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Decentralized social network Bluesky launches in the iOS App Store as an invite-only beta; Twitter started Bluesky in 2019 and spun off the project in 2022 — Bluesky, the Twitter alternative backed by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, has hit the App Store and more testers are gaining access.
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| Elad Gil / Elad Blog: |
Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning in late 2023 to 2024, as companies run out of cash from “free rounds” fueled by low interest rates — The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Salesforce is still paying Matthew McConaughey $10M a year to act as a “creative adviser” despite thousands of layoffs and multiple activist investors — The $160 billion business-software company has joined the tech industry's retrenchment, laying off thousands
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Sources: Elliott Management nominated a slate of directors for Salesforce's board, likely including Elliott's Jesse Cohn, ahead of the company's Q4 earnings — - Activist investor Elliott Management has nominated a slate of directors for Salesforce's board, sources told CNBC's David Faber Wednesday.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter reverses its violent speech policy to ban users from voicing “wishes of harm” on people and adds rules on threats of damaging homes and infrastructure — Twitter is once again tightening its rules around what users are permitted to say on the platform.
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| Nektaria Stamouli / Politico: |
A profile of Christos Rammos, a key investigator of the spyware scandal that has engulfed Greek politics and PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis since summer 2022 — ATHENS — Christos Rammos is turning the screws on Greece's government. — Rammos has been the key investigator of the surveillance scandal …
Tweets: @politicoeurope, @nstamouli, @nstamouli, and @e_triantafillou
| Blake Hester / VICE: |
How the proliferation of shock sites like Goatse, which can be traced back to Rotten.com, defined the modern internet era and informed how we use the web today — We owe the cultural evolution of the internet to the likes of ‘Two Girls, One Cup,’ ‘Goatse,’ and ‘Tubgirl.’
Tweets: @adribbleofink, @doncald, @metallicaisrad, @michaelbarthel, @yacobg42, @noahjspringer, and @noescapevg
| Patrick George / The Verge: |
Volkswagen Group plans to roll out an app store for its car brands soon, including apps from TikTok, Spotify, Yelp, and other third-party car-optimized apps — If you've long felt like the one thing missing from your Audi was in-car TikTok, fret no more. Volkswagen Group is the latest …
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| Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: |
Nansen: investors pulled $6B+ out of the BUSD stablecoin in the past month after US regulatory pressure; BUSD was ~40% of Binance's trading volume in December — New York regulatory move accelerates withdrawal from BUSD stablecoin — Investors have pulled more than $6bn …
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A survey of 810 Uber and Lyft California drivers: ~66% have experienced deactivation, 30% of whom were never told why, and 43% were sexually harassed on the job — SAN FRANCISCO - A new report released today by the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and Rideshare Drivers United (RDU) … Sponsor Posts
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