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A live blog of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, including testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, Linda Yaccarino, and Evan Spiegel — The chief executives of five major tech companies are testifying Wednesday about allegations they failed to protect children …
More: The Verge, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, The Verge, Politico, Bloomberg, New York Times, NBC News, Deadline, Fight for the Future, C-SPAN on YouTube, Associated Press on YouTube, Fast Company, and The Hill
X: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @kurtwagner8, @danprimack, @mattbinder, @sayhar, @jrhuddles, @tech_oversight, @kurtwagner8, @fairplayforkids, @kyle_a_morse, @gretchenspeters, @wexler, @alexbarinka, @davidshepardson, @kurtwagner8, @andymstone, @ali_lev, @cagoldberglaw, @parents4sos, @lincolnsbible, @evan_greer, @progresschamber, @zsk, @stevenlevy, @benjamingoggin, @kurtwagner8, @jason_kint, @zsk, @aricohn, @ttp_updates, @mikeisaac, @aftunion, @amyklobuchar, @kurtwagner8, @benjamingoggin, @adamkovac, @marisasheahill, @designitforus, @mikeisaac, @cagoldberglaw, @asilbwrites, @ttp_updates, @franceshaugen, @zsk, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @kurtwagner8, @aricohn, @iamsophianelson, @aricohn, @anacabrera, @cspan, @cagoldberglaw, @cagoldberglaw, @rebeccamkern, @mikeisaac, @benjamingoggin, @alexbarinka, @_andyburrows, @parents4sos, @franceshaugen, @zsk, @zamaan_qureshi, @adamkovac, @aricohn, @cendemtech, @judiciarydems, @mollyroseorg, @bebraveglobal, @elizableu, @judiciarydems, @judiciarydems, and @haajrahgilani
LinkedIn: Leah Plunkett and Aaron Haddock, Ph.D.
| New York Times: |
US lawmakers release 90 pages of Meta emails from 2021, showing Mark Zuckerberg rejected calls to bulk up resources for children's well-being and safety — Lawmakers released internal emails detailing the company's failed efforts to add staff to focus on the online safety of minors, hours before a hearing on the topic.
More: The Information, The Messenger, The Verge, Bloomberg, New York Post, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, and 9to5Mac
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
US Senate hearing: Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google app stores should verify ages; Linda Yaccarino says X isn't “the platform of choice for children” — Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and X's Linda Yaccarino are among five social media heads to face questioning by Congress
More: TechCrunch, The Hill, CNN, NPR, Livemint, Axios, The Guardian, Business Post, NBC News, Bloomberg, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Washington Post, CNBC, Axios, The Times, USA Today, Tech Xplore, NetChoice, Bloomberg, BBC, and Agence France-Presse
Bluesky: @tylerking.bsky.social. X: @globalaffairs, @franceshaugen, @katebevan, @heritage, @zamaan_qureshi, @robleathern, @netchoice, @weprotect, and @cspan
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
The FBI and DOJ disrupt Volt Typhoon, a uniquely dangerous Chinese hacking operation to hijack thousands of Cisco and Netgear routers at the end of their lives — Chinese hackers prepare to ‘wreak havoc’ against Americans, FBI Director Chris Wray tells Congress
More: BleepingComputer, Cybersecurity …, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, The Messenger, ABC News, US Department of Justice, CNN, and Reuters
Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange and @kevinbowrin@ottawa.place
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
UMG plans to stop licensing content to TikTok after their deal expires on January 31, saying they didn't reach terms over issues like artist compensation and AI — UMG said that its agreement with TikTok is set to expire on Jan. 31. “The companies have not agreed to terms for a new agreement …
More: UMG, Engadget, TikTok, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Verge, Associated Press, TMZ.com, WHDH 7News, New York Daily News, PR Newswire, Pandaily, Vibe, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Financial Times, Consequence, The Sun, T3, Social Media Today, New York Times, Neowin, Mashable, PhoneArena, The i Paper, Livemint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech.co, Cybernews.com, The Register, Dexerto, Music Technology Policy, UPROXX, and The Messenger
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LinkedIn: Lyonel D. and Caroline Giegerich
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen confirms “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts”, after ZachXBT noted outflows of 213M XRP, worth $112.5M — - Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said Wednesday that there had been “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts.”| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
A look at the four major categories of apps that could emerge at the intersection of crypto and AI, and the prospects and challenges of each category — Special thanks to the Worldcoin and Modulus Labs teams, Xinyuan Sun, Martin Koeppelmann and Illia Polosukhin for feedback and discussion.
More: Cryptopolitan, CCN.com, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, and Cointelegraph
Forums: Hacker News and r/ethtrader
| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
An FTX lawyer says the exchange expects to fully repay its customers and has abandoned efforts to restart the platform due to a lack of buyers — Its FTT token surged about 11% after the news. — 10 Years of Decentralizing the Future — May 29-31, 2024 - Austin, TexasThe biggest …
More: YouTube, Blockworks, Decrypt, The Verge, Reuters, Bloomberg, Milk Road, and Watcher Guru
| Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
UK prosecutors say the Met Police seized 61K bitcoin, worth £1.4B+, in 2018, as part of a trial over an alleged ~£5B investment fraud in China between 2014-2017 — One of the world's largest seizures revealed during trial of woman accused of laundering cryptocurrency for her former employer| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
A look at Ubisoft's problems, as insiders fear further layoffs: a wild goose chase of popular fads, like NFTs, constant delays, low player numbers, and more — As industry-wide layoffs continue to plague headlines, Ubisoft, the sixth-largest video game company by employees, is at a crossroads.
More: Game World Observer, Gameranx, Metro.co.uk, TheGamer, Pure Xbox, and GamingBolt
Forums: r/gamernews, r/StarWarsOutlaws, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q4 revenue down 3.8% YoY to ~$51B, vs. ~$52.1B est., operating profit down ~35% YoY to ~$2.1B, vs. ~$2.6B est., and rising 2024 memory demand — - Samsung on Wednesday reported a 34.57% drop in operating profit in the fourth quarter from a year ago, in line with its guidance issued earlier this month.
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| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
Silicon Valley's powerful companies claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but instead are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal, and authoritarian technocracy — Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It's past time we call it what it is.
More: Axios and 9to5Mac
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: a $200 price cut to $999, 16GB of VRAM, and impressive 4K performance, but not a big performance boost over the RTX 4070 — Nvidia's RTX 4080 Super is the third and potentially final of Nvidia's refreshed 40-series GPUs. The RTX 4070 Super got …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Bipartisan Senators unveil the DEFIANCE Act, which would let people sue over deepfake porn and other AI “intimate” images, after the viral Taylor Swift images — US lawmakers have proposed letting people sue over faked pornographic images of themselves, following the spread …
More: The Guardian, 9to5Mac, Mashable, and PetaPixel
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Forums: r/technews, r/politics, and r/offbeat
| Tej Parikh / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson on generative AI, potential productivity gains, his “J-curve” and “Turing trap” concepts, AI drawbacks, and more — The Stanford professor on what generative AI will mean for productivity, jobs and the society of the future| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
ByteDance co-founder and CEO Liang Rubo urges staff to resist mediocrity after the company missed the initial wave of generative AI, in a company-wide meeting — - Co-founder said the company showed signs of complacency — Chinese peer Baidu claims its model can rival OpenAI's ChatGPT
More: Reuters, South China Morning Post, Neowin, TechNode, and Pandaily
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
23andMe's stock, which hit a $6B valuation after a 2021 IPO, has crashed 98% and 23andMe may run out of cash by 2025, as CEO Anne Wojcicki plots a turnaround — From celebrity ‘spit parties’ to a drop in the bucket: The once-hot DNA-testing company is struggling to profit
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
The Reserve Bank of India issues new curbs against Paytm's Payments Bank, including barring new deposits, credit transactions, and more after February 29 — The Reserve Bank of India issued new strict curbs on Paytm's Payments Bank, which processes transactions for financial services giant Paytm …
More: rbi.org.in, Moneycontrol, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Finextra, Reuters, NDTV, Business Today, Inc42 Media, and MediaNama
X: @adityakalra and @varunkrish
| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to $86B, net income up 52% to $20.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 26% to $9.2B, and headcount down 4%+; GOOG drops 5%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - January 30, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.
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Threads: @crumbler. Bluesky: @epro.social. X: @traceyryniec, @thetranscript_, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @wanguws, @thetranscript_, and @munster_gene
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Sources: Google splits up its 30-strong Responsible Innovation team, after leader and founder Jen Gennai suddenly left; RESIN conducted 500+ reviews in 2023 — A crucial team at Google that reviewed new AI products for compliance with its rules for responsible AI development faces … | Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $62B, net income up 33% YoY to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 15% YoY, and LinkedIn revenue up 9% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — January 30, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended December 31, 2023 …
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Bluesky: @epro.social. X: @withbelay, @garymarcus, @carnage4life, @thetranscript_, @jordannovet, @jordannovet, @jordannovet, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, and @divestech. LinkedIn: Jack Rowbotham
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
More: Wall Street Journal, ComputerWeekly.com, and Axios
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sen. Brian Schatz on Congress' dysfunction in the tech space, regulating tech firms, the EU's DMA, AI, deepfakes, social media laws for kids, and more — Today, I'm talking with Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii. He's been in the Senate for a little more than a decade now, and he's seen a lot in that time.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Ransomware negotiation firm Coveware: the number of ransomware victims paying ransom demands dropped to a record low of 29% in Q4 2023, down from 85% in Q1 2019 — The number of ransomware victims paying ransom demands has dropped to a record low of 29% in the final quarter of 2023, according to ransomware negotiation firm Coveware.
More: Coveware, PCMag, Digital Information World, and Axios
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based Oasis Security, which offers tools for “non-human” identity management, emerges from stealth and raised a $5M seed and $35M Series A led by Sequoia — When people hear the term “identity management” in an enterprise context, they typically think of apps … | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Binance left a cache of code, infrastructure diagrams, passwords, and more on a public GitHub repository for months; GitHub removed after Binance's request — A takedown request said the GitHub account was “hosting and distributing leaks of internal code which poses significant risk to BINANCE.”| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Analysis: tech layoffs in 2024, which Layoffs.fyi estimates have totaled 25,000 across ~100 companies so far, are more strategic than the mass layoffs in 2023 — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have been on a layoff spree this month, with the latest cuts differing from last year's mass reductions.Sponsor Posts
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