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Sources: Apple pivots to a less ambitious design for its upcoming EV, from Level 4 autonomy to Level 2+, and pushes back its launch from 2026 to 2028 or later — - After board meetings, car downgraded to Level 2+ autonomy — Company pushes back launch from 2026 to 2028 at the earliest
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces AI features for Chrome on Mac and Windows: Organize Similar Tabs and custom themes rolling out soon in the US, and Help Me Write in February — Google's Chrome web browser is getting an infusion of AI technology in the latest release. The company announced today it's soon adding …
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Threads: @shorty_jooce. Mastodon: @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social and @glenngabe@mas.to. Forums: Slashdot
| CNBC: |
Netflix buys the exclusive rights to WWE programs like Raw, airing in 2025 in the US, Canada, Latin America, and more; filing: the 10-year deal is worth $5B+ — - Netflix and TKO Group Holdings said Tuesday that the streaming platform will air the WWE's flagship program Raw starting next year.
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Threads: @chriswelch. X: @netflix, @sherman4949, @tim_bays, @conorsen, @conorsen, @teamkaos1998, @sarafischer, @conorsen, @edludlow, @sherman4949, @tripleh, @buccocapital, @tvgrimreaper, @wwe, @sherman4949, and @ianjsilvera
| The Information: |
Source: Brex told employees that the fintech is cutting 282 jobs, or ~20% of its staff, saying the team grew “too quickly” and its CTO and COO are stepping down — Brex is cutting 20% of its workforce and shaking up senior management ranks in a new effort to slash its cash burn …
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| Bloomberg: |
Attain: Boomers and Generation X consumers in the US shopped more frequently and spent more than Gen Z on Temu in 2023; Boomers shopped twice as much as Gen Z — - Boomers shopped twice as much on app as Gen Z consumers — Broad appeal lifts Temu's effort to take on Amazon in US| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
MIT CSAIL study: only 23% of US wages for doing vision tasks would be economically attractive to automate with AI, due to large upfront and operating expenses — Will AI automate human jobs, and — if so — which jobs and when? — That's the trio of questions a new research study …
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden admin preps an EO that aims to restrict the flow of sensitive data via intermediaries, like data brokers, to foreign adversaries like China — - Concern about countries accessing US data through legal means — White House worried about AI being used to mine information
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| Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: |
French's CNIL fines Amazon France Logistique €32M for an illegal and “excessively intrusive” surveillance system set up to monitor the performance of its staff — French regulator CNIL said on Tuesday it had fined Amazon France Logistique (AMZN.O) 32 million euros ($35 million) …
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
A look at Palworld, a Pokémon-like game launched on January 19, which has sold 5M+ copies and is now the most played game on Steam, amid IP infringement claims — The Pokémon-like has sold over 5 million copies in the three days since its early access launch.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU plans to exempt Microsoft's Bing, Edge, and Advertising services from the DMA, as an EU probe tentatively concluded they're not dominant enough — - EU probe comes ahead of March roll-out of Digital Markets Act — Apple's iMessage service is already expected to be exempt| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Framework Laptop 16 review: the modular system offers unprecedented customization, is competent at mid-range gaming, but ran hot, froze, and glitched in testing — The Framework Laptop 16 is the most ambitious notebook I've ever touched. There's never been anything like it before.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: Figma is refreshing employee equity packages and offering buyouts as the startup resets its valuation from $20B to $10B, after the scrapped Adobe deal — CEO Dylan Field promised to refresh employee equity packages and offered three months' pay to any who wished to depart as Figma reset … | Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
A bug in Ethereum's Nethermind client took down ~8% of Ethereum's validators on January 21, raising concerns about Geth, which powers ~85% of ETH validators — The lion's share of Ethereum's validators rely on the same piece of software to power their operations. According to some experts, this could be a big risk.
More: Blockworks, Bankless Times, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin News, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Crypto Daily, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, Unchained, Cointelegraph, and Cryptopolitan
X: @coinbasecloud, @0xcygaar, @daddysether, @0xwittgenstein, @0xpatches, @daddysether, @backthebunny, @ether_fi, @evan_van_ness, @cryptoquoc, @cryptoquoc, @icebergy_, @monetsupply, @0xpatches, @0xnirlin, @0xcygaar, @ethereumthaila1, @chainyoda, @orageux101, @zeneca, @llamaonthebrink, @iamdcinvestor, @ethereanmaximus, @chainyoda, @yorickdowne, @iamdcinvestor, @cryptoquoc, @ryanberckmans, @coinbasecloud, and @0xpatches. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as “free”, unless they are free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads were misleading — Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Intuit to stop promoting its software products and services as …
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| Ben Sin / XDA Developers: |
A review of the $800+ OnePlus 12, launching on February 6: specs that rival the $1,300+ S24 Ultra's, but no AI features and the curved display feels outdated — - OnePlus 12: Pricing and Availability — The OnePlus Open stole a lot of thunder from the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 last fall …
More: Dexerto, Android Central, PhoneArena, ZDNet, Android Police, Wired, Android Headlines, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, Pocket-lint, and SlashGear
| Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
An interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu about the R1's design, collaborating with Teenage Engineering, why he didn't want to make a phone or an app, and more — Few people knew who Jesse Lyu was when he posted a video of himself to X, standing in front of a black backdrop in a black T-shirt, holding a bright orange gadget.
X: @bharatvasan, @vkhosla, @altcap, @vkhosla, and @ctrlzee
LinkedIn: Mark Wilson, JR Dawkins, Gregor Berkowitz, and Matthew Price, Ph.D.
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Clerk, which helps app developers authenticate and manage users, raised a $30M Series B led by CRV and claims to have ~1,300 paying customers managing 16M users — Clerk, a startup creating a suite of embeddable UIs, APIs and admin dashboards that app developers can use to authenticate and manage users … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Mortgage lender loanDepot says the “sensitive personal information” of ~16.6M people was stolen in a January 6 ransomware attack and offers them free services — Mortgage lender loanDepot says that approximately 16.6 million people had their personal information stolen in a ransomware attack disclosed earlier this month.
More: TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, Business Wire, Cybernews.com, 9to5Mac, and Security Affairs
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Bluewhite, which offers “robots-as-a-service” including autonomous robots that can be retrofitted to tractors, raised a $39M Series C led by Insight Partners — Agriculture has a long heritage of being constantly disrupted by technology, an evolution that has continued to play out until today.
More: SiliconANGLE, Globes Online, FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, and PR Newswire
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