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Microsoft unveils a Copilot keyboard key, shipping in new PCs and laptops from its partners, the first major change to the PC keyboard layout in nearly 30 years — Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it's kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs.
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| Sarah Martin / The Guardian: |
The CEO of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse, introduced to investors in 2021, doesn't appear to exist; Chainalysis: consumers lost $1.3B to HyperVerse in 2022 — Exclusive: Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass now requires users to set a master password with a minimum of 12 characters, after enforcing the requirement for new accounts or resets in April 2023 — LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security.
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As Google restricts third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users, marketers, adtech companies, and publishers say Google has not done enough to prepare the market — Search giant plans to remove a technology seen as critical to the digital-ad industry — Google is going forward …
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| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
Dell announces the $1,299+ XPS 13, the $1,699+ XPS 14, replacing the XPS 13 Plus, and the $1,899+ XPS 16, offering Intel Core 7 and 9 and up to 4TB of storage — This might not be the biggest shake-up of the Dell XPS lineup ever, but between some bigger laptops and a total revamping of the XPS portfolio, it feels like a big deal.
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Perplexity, which offers an AI-based “answer engine” with ~10M MAUs to compete with Google, raised $74M at a $520M valuation from IVP, Jeff Bezos, and others — Perplexity, with a fraction of Google's users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup in recent years| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2, an update to the XR2 Gen 2 used in Meta's Quest 3, offering 4.3K resolution at 90fps per eye, up from 3K per eye — The new chipset is designed as a step up from the XR2 Gen 2 in the Meta Quest 3, capable of rendering high-resolution visuals like the ones promised by Apple's Vision Pro.
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Sources: OpenAI offered some media companies as little as between $1M and $5M per year to license their news articles for use in model training, a tiny amount — OpenAI has offered some media firms as little as between $1 million and $5 million annually to license their news articles for use … | Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Mobileye stock drops 25% after the self-driving tech company warned that customer orders may fall in Q1 as automakers stocked up during chip shortages — - Mobileye shares plunged as much as 25% Thursday after the company warned that customer order numbers would fall short of the year-ago quarter.| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
The White House awards $162M in federal grants to Arizona-based Microchip Technology to expand its Oregon and Colorado facilities, the second CHIPS Act award — The Biden administration said its second grant under a new program would help Microchip Technology expand its facilities in Oregon and Colorado.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
In a letter to a group of victims of its October 2023 breach, 23andMe blames them, saying that “users negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords” — Facing more than 30 lawsuits from victims of its massive data breach, 23andMe is now deflecting the blame …
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
The US NLRB rules that Alphabet illegally refused to negotiate with a group of YouTube Music contract workers working at Cognizant after they voted to unionize — - YouTube Music staff voted to join Alphabet union last year — Google to appeal, says workers are employees of Cognizant
More: The Daily Beast
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: TikTok aims to grow TikTok Shop US' merchandise volume tenfold to $17.5B in 2024 and plans to launch TikTok Shop in Latin America in the coming months — - ByeDance's video app is fast expanding beyond advertising … The 2024 merchandise volume goal for the US version of TikTok Shop …
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: VC investment in the US fell 30% YoY to $170.6B in 2023, the lowest since 2019, and declined 35% YoY to $345.7B globally, the lowest since 2017 — New data paint a bleak picture for Silicon Valley last year. — The value of venture capital deals in the US last year fell to levels …
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