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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: Engadget, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, The Verge, The Verge, The Guardian, Bloomberg, New York Times, The Hill, NBC News, Deadline, C-SPAN on YouTube, Fight for the Future, and Associated Press on YouTube
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LinkedIn: Heidi Saas, 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: Bloomberg, The Information, The Messenger, The Verge, Rolling Stone, New York Post, Washington Post, and 9to5Mac
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| 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” — Social media CEOs testify before a committee examining ways to curb harms from online platforms
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| Angela Yang / NBC News: |
Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to parents in the audience of a US Senate hearing who say that Meta's apps contributed to their children's suicide or exploitation — “I'm sorry for everything you've all gone through,” the Meta CEO said at a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing called …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
The FBI and US DOJ disrupt Volt Typhoon, a uniquely dangerous Chinese hacking operation to hijack hundreds of Cisco and Netgear routers at end-of-life status — Chinese hackers prepare to ‘wreak havoc’ against Americans, FBI Director Chris Wray tells Congress
More: US Department of Justice, ABC News, BleepingComputer, Associated Press, Axios, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, The Messenger, CBS News, Reuters, International Business Times, CNN, NBC News, RestorePrivacy, and Nextgov/FCW
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| 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.”| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
An FTX lawyer says the defunct crypto 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 …
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| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Lyonel D., and Caroline Giegerich
| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
A look at four major categories of promising applications that could emerge at the intersections of crypto and AI, and the prospects and challenges of each — Special thanks to the Worldcoin and Modulus Labs teams, Xinyuan Sun, Martin Koeppelmann and Illia Polosukhin for feedback and discussion.
More: Blockworks, Cryptopolitan, CCN.com, CoinDesk, and Cryptonews
Forums: Hacker News and r/ethtrader
| 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 from 2014 to 2017 — One of the world's largest seizures revealed during trial of woman accused of laundering cryptocurrency for her former employer
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Sky News, CoinDesk, Cryptopolitan, Crypto Daily, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and Bitcoin News
| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
A look at Ubisoft's problems as insiders fear further layoffs: a wild goose chase after the latest fad, 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, TheGamer, Pure Xbox, Metro.co.uk, and GamingBolt
Forums: r/gamernews, r/StarWarsOutlaws, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOJ says eBay agreed to pay $59M to settle allegations of violating the Controlled Substances Act by allowing the sale of pill presses and other items — Justice Department says eBay has also agreed to enhance its compliance program — EBay will pay $59 million to settle …
More: US Department of Justice, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Hill, USA Today, ABC News, eBay Newsroom, Reuters, and NBC Bay Area. X: @dojcivil
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: a $200 price cut to $999, 16GB of VRAM, and impressive 4K performance, but a bulky adapter and outperforms the RTX 4070 a little — Nvidia's RTX 4080 Super is the third and potentially final of Nvidia's refreshed 40-series GPUs.
More: Eurogamer.net, TechPowerUp, PCMag, Ars Technica, HotHardware, Forbes, KitGuru, PC Gamer, Dexerto, Tom's Hardware, ExtremeTech, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TechRadar, IGN, Trusted Reviews, Wccftech, BabelTechReviews, Digital Trends, and VideoCardz.com. Forums: r/sffpc
| 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 a memory chip price recovery — - 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.| 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: Fast Company, Axios, and 9to5Mac
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| 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, 404 Media, Mashable, 9to5Mac, and PetaPixel
X: @hawleymo, @senatordurbin, and @senamyklobuchar
Forums: r/technews, r/politics, and r/offbeat
| 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| 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| 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, Finextra, Bloomberg, NDTV, Business Today, Inc42 Media, MediaNama, and Reuters
X: @adityakalra and @varunkrish
| 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.”| 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 … | Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Sources: Cruise does not expect to see its robotaxis on city streets again until Q4 2024 and is considering Houston and Dallas as likely cities for a relaunch — General Motors' (GM.N) Cruise self-driving car unit faces a trip that could last the better part of this year to convince regulators … | 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: The Register, SC Media, Coveware, PCMag, Digital Information World, and Axios
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Q2: devices revenue down 9% YoY, Windows OEM revenue up 11% YoY, Xbox content and services revenue up 61% YoY, search and news ad revenue up 8% YoY — Microsoft just posted the second quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $62 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q2.
More: Engadget, MSPoweruser, Pure Xbox, and Constellation Research
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