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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook compares Vision Pro debut to the birth of Mac, iPod, and iPhone in a memo to employees — Apple Inc. faithful lined up at its US stores on Friday to pick up the first Vision Pro headsets, ushering in what the company calls “the era of spatial computing.”
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LinkedIn: Paul Melvin, Hyunjae Kim, Tara Sigaroudi, Mauricio Santamaria, and Callum Spencer
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| James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in January, the US DOJ charged three people over a phone-hacking scheme that included the FTX hack to steal $400M+ during the exchange's 2022 collapse — The hack coincided with the crypto exchange's meltdown more than a year ago — Federal investigators appear to have cracked …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future” — Google officially removed the cache link from the Google Search results snippets last week and Google confirmed that it will remove …
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Gianna Brachetti-Truskawa, Neil Smith, Dave Davies, and Glenn Gabe. Forums: Hacker News
| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Meta's stock rises 20%+, adding ~$200B to its market cap, the biggest single-session market value addition, eclipsing Apple's and Amazon's $190B gains in 2022 — - Stock also holds record for the biggest wipeout in history — Shares surge after big earnings beat, buyback, dividend plans
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Patricia Hernandez / The Guardian: |
A profile of Gary Bowser, a 54-year-old programmer who served 14 months in prison in 2022 and 2023 for pirating games and was ordered to pay $14.5M to Nintendo — The hacker whose involvement with anti-piracy software ended in a jail sentence has emerged from prison struggling to make rent as he starts paying his fine.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
How the EFF, Techdirt, MuckRock, and DDoSecrets are pushing back against legal threats aimed at censoring their reports on Appin's alleged hacker-for-hire past — A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight the legal threats aimed at making reports of one Indian company's hacker-for-hire past disappear.| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify and Joe Rogan sign a new multiyear deal, estimated to be worth $250M; Rogan's show will be available across podcast platforms and as videos on YouTube — Hit show to be distributed broadly, including on YouTube, rather than exclusively on audio-streaming service
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| Gian Volpicelli / Politico: |
EU countries strike a deal on the AI Act, after announcing pro-innovation measures and an AI Office; the bill still needs the EU Parliament's formal approval — The bloc's law to regulate AI overcomes threats of late opposition. — Free article usually reserved for subscribers
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LinkedIn: Tobias Bräutigam and Peter van der Putten
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Baidu Venture is in talks to sell its stakes in US startups, including AI robotics startup Machina Labs, to US buyers, as US-China relations sour — A venture capital firm backed by Chinese internet firm Baidu is in talks to sell a portfolio of stakes in a range of U.S. startups … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
On Apple's Q1 earnings call, CFO Luca Maestri said that the EU represents “roughly 7% of our global app store revenue” — Nearly a week after Apple announced big changes to the App Store because of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules, the company … | William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus review: slightly bigger and brighter displays with flat edges, and the AI features are occasionally great but sometimes weird — With its newest devices, Samsung cleverly mixes original AI features with some familiar concepts.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Hands-on with Perplexity and the $20-per-month Perplexity Pro tier, which show that AI-powered search engines could loosen Google's grip on the search market — A start-up called Perplexity shows what's possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence.
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| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who was convicted for leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on February 1 for espionage and more — A former CIA software engineer who was convicted of carrying out the largest data breach in the agency's history was sentenced … | Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: some independent record labels are pushing back on Apple's plans to pay more for spatial audio tracks, saying it benefits larger record companies — Groups behind Adele and Phoebe Bridgers among those against songs recorded in higher-quality audio receiving more money
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| Reuters: |
Byju's US unit Alpha files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, listing liabilities between $1B and $10B and assets between $500M and $1B — A U.S. unit of Indian education technology startup Byju's has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. court of Delaware …
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