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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Beeper debuts Beeper Mini for Android, which lets users send iMessages using E2EE, without having to use a new number or log in with an Apple ID, for $2/month — Earlier this year, a developer slid into Eric Migicovsky's DMs with a spectacular claim: that he had reverse engineered Apple's iMessage …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft plans to offer three additional years of monthly Windows 10 security updates, paid for annually, after the OS' end-of-support date on October 14, 2025 — Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7. — Windows 10's end-of-support date is October 14, 2025.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Copilot with DALL-E 3 and says GPT-4 Turbo support and a Code Interpreter feature are coming soon; Bing will get “Deep Search” functionality — Microsoft is detailing a number of new features coming to its Copilot service soon, including OpenAI's latest models.
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| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Coinbase Wallet, available in 170+ countries, now lets users send crypto on any platform where they can share a link, including email, social and messaging apps — Recipients need to download a Coinbase Wallet to receive the funds, but the crypto exchange says they've simplified the process for less tech-savvy users.| Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat: |
Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024, saying the country was “prohibitively expensive” to operate in despite working to reduce costs — Games livestreaming platform Twitch is shutting down its business operations in South Korea February 27, 2024.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Elon Musk's xAI files with the US SEC to raise up to $1B in an equity offering, saying the startup has raised nearly $135M from four investors since November 29 — - X.AI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
ESET researchers have found 18 “SpyLoan” malicious loan Android apps, which have been downloaded 12M+ times from the Google Play store alone, in 2023 so far — More than a dozen malicious loan apps, which are generically named SpyLoan, have been downloaded more than 12 million times …
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says Huawei, Intel, and an expanding group of semiconductor startups pose a stiff challenge to Nvidia in the race to produce the best AI chips — - Huawei returned to global spotlight with a made-in-China chip — Nvidia makes the most in-demand artificial intelligence chips
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Source: VC firm OpenView laid off most of its staff and does not plan to make new investments, after several partners recently left the firm — OpenView Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm that has backed enterprise software firms such as Calendly and Expensify … | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Leaked docs show concern at OctoML about helping its customer Civitai make AI images; OctoML co-founder Thierry Moreau said some “could be categorized as” CSAM — Content warning: This story covers synthetic child sexual abuse images. — OctoML, a Seattle-based startup …
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| Sarah Fielding / Engadget: |
Discord redesigns its mobile app, offering separate messages and server tabs, new messaging features, a Midnight theme, and speed and data usage improvements — It also introduced a Midnight theme for a pure black background. — Discord bluntly describes the mobile app it launched in 2015 … | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Alibaba's paper on its Animate Anyone AI model goes viral after videos show the model can replace TikTok influencers after being trained on TikTokers' videos — A team of researchers from Chinese retail and technology giant Alibaba released a paper this week detailing a new model, which they call “Animate Anyone.”
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| Bloomberg: |
AT&T chooses Ericsson to modernize its wireless network with an architecture utilizing open standards, a ~$14B project over five years; ERICB closes up 6.08% — - Infrastructure deal aims to modernize network over five years — Deal is a blow to Nokia, which will delay profit targets
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| Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg: |
Massachusetts-based Dust Identity, which links physical items to digital records with diamond dust marks, raised a $40M Series B led by Castle Island Ventures — - Company marks goods with invisible diamond dust for tracing — Aim is to combat counterfeiting in growing memorabilia market
More: PR Newswire and FinSMEs
| Financial Times: |
Binance CEO Richard Teng refuses to disclose the location of the company's global headquarters, maintaining a stance taken by former CEO Changpeng Zhao — Richard Teng maintains stance on that information held before crypto exchange pleaded guilty to US charges last month| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
At an all-hands meeting, Cruise President Mo Elshenawy said the company has hit an “all-time low” and its tech needs to be “significantly better” than humans — General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has hit an “all time low,” said its new leader …
More: Forbes
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Asana reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $166.5M, vs. $164.09M est., but warns macroeconomic headwinds continue to impact its net retention rates; ASAN drops 10%+ — Shares in Asana Inc. were down by over 12% in late trading today after the work management software company warned …
More: Asana, Inc., Investing.com India, Barron's Online, and MarketWatch
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based ZestMoney, a Goldman Sachs-backed BNPL startup that raised $130M+ and was once valued at $450M, plans to shut down after failing to find a buyer — ZestMoney, a buy now pay later startup whose ability to underwrite small ticket loans to first-time internet customers attracted …
More: Entrackr, PYMNTS.com, Tech in Asia, Livemint, Inc42 Media, Business Today, BloombergQuint, and Moneycontrol
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Gecko Robotics, whose robots inspect infrastructure for industries including energy, defense, and manufacturing, raised $100M at a $633M post-money valuation — - Company is valued at $633 million by USIT, Founders Fund — Pittsburgh-based startup builds inspection robots and software
More: Technical.ly, The Robot Report, and RoboticsTomorrow.com
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
SAG-AFTRA members ratify the union's new three-year contract with studios as 78% voted in favor; some members remained unhappy about the deal's AI protections — The SAG-AFTRA vote formally ends six months of labor strife, though some members were not happy about the contract's artificial intelligence protections.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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