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An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says that the @SECGov's “twitter account was compromised”, and that the agency has not approved spot bitcoin ETFs — The X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is deciding whether to approve bitcoin ETFs, “was compromised,” the regulator told CoinDesk.
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Threads: @pkedrosky. X: @garygensler, @secgov, @senatorhagerty, @senlummis, @cgasparino, @lopp, @repannwagner, @gaborgurbacs, @rephuizenga, @eric_bigfund, @elonmusk, @twobitidiot, @jespow, @jbsdc, @ryansadams, @herminewong_xyz, @ohaiom, @tomhschmidt, @prestonjbyrne, @dystopiabreaker, @tree_of_alpha, @beeple, @0xmert_, @bonecondor, @mcshane_writes, @krakenfx, @autismcapital, @ntmoney, @bushidotoken, @racheltobac, @johnedeaton1, @jimstewartson, @alexeiarora, @davidsacks, @bitfinexed, @darky999, @dancow, @udiwertheimer, @stevenkelly49, @lopp, @leonidasnft, @chiweethedog, @hdevalence, @dystopiabreaker, @stevenkelly49, @williamturton, @denniskelleher, @greg16676935420, @taylorbuley, @coinbase, @bgarlinghouse, @danprimack, @jseyff, @tyler, @theflowhorse, @packym, and @robinwigg. Forums: Hacker News
| CNBC: |
X confirms the @SECGov account was compromised and says “the compromise was not due to any breach of X's systems” and that the account didn't have 2FA enabled — - X said late Tuesday it has completed a preliminary probe into the compromised account of the U.S. Securities …
Source: @safety. More: CyberScoop, Reuters, Cointelegraph, Associated Press, NBC 7 San Diego, CryptoPotato, Cryptonews, The Crypto Basic, CoinDesk, Gizmodo, Tech Xplore, and The Block
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitch could cut ~500 employees, or ~35% of its staff, as soon as January 10, after concerns over company losses and several top executives leaving — Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year. — Amazon.com Inc.'s livestreaming site Twitch is poised …
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Valve's Steam plans to add an “AI disclosure section”, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content, and to let gamers report illegal AI content — New survey update will ask developers to disclose how their games use generative AI.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Humane laid off 10 staff, or 4% of its workforce, to cut costs and plans to lower budgets in 2024, as the company reshuffles some executive positions — Humane laid off 4 percent of employees this week in a move that was described as a cost cutting measure to those who were impacted …
More: TechCrunch, Business Today, and Engadget
| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with AI voiceover company Replica Studios, requiring consent to create voice replicas for use in video games and safe storage of assets — The union announced the deal with Replica Studios on Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union's executive director …
More: SAG-AFTRA, Silicon Republic, CNET, gamedeveloper, Video Games Chronicle, Pocket Gamer.biz, Cointelegraph, IGN, PC Games Insider, The Hollywood Reporter, GamesHub, Cryptopolitan, Game Rant, The Wrap, Shacknews, Deadline, Mashable, NBC News, Deadline, Los Angeles Times, Decrypt, GamesIndustry.biz, Axios, Bloomberg, Engadget, and Deadline
X: @sirlarr, @lilyprojp, @pumpkindaddyy, @the_streamr, @cathycryan, @discussingfilm, @bravadochara, and @therealrutledge. Forums: Slashdot
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Startup Rabbit debuts the R1, a $199 handheld AI device meant to be a virtual assistant to complete tasks without a smartphone, shipping in late March 2024 — The startup has developed a virtual assistant that learns whatever digital errands you teach it. The interface is extra cute …
More: The Verge, International Business Times, Sparrows News, AppleInsider, Cryptopolitan, Business Wire, Android Authority, TechRadar, Engadget, The Bondi Blog, Liliputing, TechSpot, TechCrunch, and 9to5Google
Threads: @reckless1280. X: @rabbit_hmi, @rabbit_hmi, @ostynhyss, @maxkordek, @scottbelsky, @dangrover, @ctjlewis, @peer_rich, @nickfloats, @jsngr, @8teapi, @nickadobos, @amasad, @edzitron, @mahyarm8, @jetscott, @doganuraldesign, @raywongy, @holdenmatt, @ianzelbo, @scobleizer, @levelsio, @linusekenstam, @gfodor, @stevemoser, @simonw, and @rabovitz
| Nelson Aguilar / CNET: |
Google and Samsung merge their respective Nearby Share and Quick Share features under the Quick Share name, for a more unified cross-Android sharing experience — Apple has AirDrop. Android now has Quick Share. — At CES 2024 today, Google announced Quick Share, a collaboration …
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Sam Lover, Gizchina, GSMArena.com, ProPakistani, Pulse 2.0, Sammy Fans, Bloomberg, Pocket-lint, Wccftech, SlashGear, and Chrome Unboxed
Bluesky: @stshank.bsky.social and @mranthropology.bsky.social
X: @mishaalrahman, @sondesix, and @mishaalrahman
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
HPE plans to acquire networking gear maker Juniper Networks for about $14B, or $40 per share, in an all-cash deal; JNPR jumps 21%+ — Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it's agreed to buy networking gear vendor Juniper Networks for about $14 billion, or $40 per share, in an all-cash deal.
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports December 2023 revenue down 8.4% YoY to ~$5.7B, Q4 revenue flat YoY to ~$20.1B, beating estimates, and 2023 revenue down 4.5% YoY to ~$69.56B — - Chipmaker's holiday period stopped bleeding of prior quarters — TSMC has advised cautious optimism about semiconductor rebound
More: AppleInsider, South China Morning Post, TSMC, and Reuters
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Apple pulls Binance, Kraken, Mexc, KuCoin, and four other crypto exchanges from the App Store in India, after they were flagged for operating “illegally” — Apple has pulled apps of at least nine crypto exchanges including Binance and Kraken from its App Store in India …
More: Metaverse Post, Bitcoin Insider, CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, Benzinga, Moneycontrol, CoinGape, Watcher Guru, and Crypto Daily
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
SIA: global chip revenue rose 5.3% YoY to $48B in November 2023, the first YoY growth since August 2022; China sales rose 7.6% YoY and Americas rose 3.5% YoY — - Recovery among chip makers may be uneven as demand returns — Global chip sales rose for the first time in more than a year …
More: eeNews Europe, Silicon Republic, Business Post, and Tech in Asia
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The FCC plans to shut down the two-year-old Affordable Connectivity Program, which currently has 23M enrolled households, as the GOP withholds funding — FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money. — The Federal Communications Commission is about to start winding … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Intel unveils AI-enabled SoCs for cars and agrees to buy Silicon Mobility, a French fabless silicon and software company that develops EV energy management SoCs — Intel Corp. is making an ambitious play for the automotive sector with the launch of specialist versions of its newest, artificial intelligence-enabled chips.
More: Intel, Wall Street Journal, Phandroid, Business Today, Forbes, AnandTech, and The Verge
| Andre Gee / Rolling Stone: |
Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff uploads its 50TB cache of 366,420 mixtapes and free albums to the Internet Archive, after a server crash in March 2023 — DatPiff uploaded its extensive free mixtape catalog to the Internet Archive to protect it for the foreseeable future| Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press: |
A US federal judge temporarily halts the enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps — A federal judge issued an order Tuesday temporarily halting enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Aeva, founded by Apple veterans, reaches a $1B deal with Germany's Daimler Truck for self-driving sensors for trucks expected in 2027, but offers few details — Aeva Technologies (AEVA.N) on Tuesday said that it has reached a $1 billion deal with Germany's Daimler Truck (DTGGe.DE) … | Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Meituan's market cap fell ~60% from ~$138.2B to ~$56.4B since the start of 2023, weighed down by rising competition and a slowdown in its food delivery business — - Chinese food delivery giant Meituan lost about $82 billion in market cap in 2023 from its yearly high, according to CNBC calculations.| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
YouTube partners with Mass General Brigham and the Mexican Red Cross to show brief, step-by-step first-aid videos atop searches about heart attacks and more — If you search YouTube for what to do if someone is suffering a heart attack, the platform will now display credible first-aid explainer videos …
More: CNBC
| Bloomberg: |
Magnitt: startups in Saudi Arabia raised $1.4B in 2023, up 33% YoY, for a 52% share of VC funding in the MENA region, beating the UAE for the first time — - Saudi Arabia dominates tech scene with 52% share of funding — Overall regional funding drops 23% amid shifting landscape| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Pennsylvania becomes the first US state to use ChatGPT Enterprise in a pilot with OpenAI, in which state employees will use AI tools for daily operations — State employees in Pennsylvania will begin using ChatGPT to assist with their work in the coming weeks.
More: Governor Josh Shapiro, Analytics India Magazine, GovTech, and The Verge
| Adam D'Angelo / Quora: |
Quora raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz and plans to accelerate the growth of Poe and pay bot creators through its creator monetization program — We are excited to announce that we have raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz. This funding will be used to accelerate the growth of Poe … | Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Some startup founders are building up protections, including implementing supervoting shares or dual-class shares, to avoid getting ousted like Sam Altman — They are building up protections and share classes after watching OpenAI saga play out — There's a new task on the 2024 to-do list for founders … | New York Times: |
Sources: as US-China tensions rise, Microsoft debates what to do with its prized 800-person Beijing research lab, opened in 1998; Microsoft has added guardrails — Amid U.S.-China tensions, the company has faced questions over whether operating an advanced research lab in Beijing is politically tenable.| Financial Times: |
Demis Hassabis, chief of DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs, believes the company would halve drug discovery times after inking deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis — Chief of Google's AI unit and Isomorphic Labs spells out targets following $3bn Eli Lilly-Novartis partnerships
X: @kymawhite
| Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese companies are repurposing Nvidia's gaming chips for AI to counter US' sanctions; RTX 4090 is one of the most popular models to be repurposed — US export controls force developers to strip components from PC graphics cards — Chinese companies are resorting to chips repurposed …
More: Finbold and guru3d.com
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