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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says the social network, launched on iOS in February 2023, is now open to the public, has 3M+ users, and plans to add developer tools — The upstart social network has been by invitation only since its launch last year — When Jack Dorsey, then Twitter's CEO …
More: Bluesky, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, PCMag, Thurrott, Business Post, Bloomberg, TestingCatalog, and Neowin
Mastodon: @martin@nondeterministic …, @willoremus@mastodon.social, and @scalzi@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @bsky.app. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Forums: Hacker News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple tells Vision Pro users who forget their passcode to bring the device to a store or mail the device to AppleCare support to erase and reset the device — Buyers of Apple Inc.'s new Vision Pro headset are finding it can be a major hassle if they lose their passcode.
More: PCMag, Macworld, HotHardware, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, T3, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Neowin, iMore, MySmartPrice, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, SamMobile, TechRadar, Cybernews.com, Patently Apple, Benzinga, PhoneArena, BGR, Appleosophy, Business Today, Digital Trends, and AppleInsider
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple Vision Pro review: disappointing for productivity, a very narrow field of view, and the Guest User feature is bad, all making the device hard to recommend — No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. — CmdrTaco, Slashdot — My one small comfort in the cold Wisconsin winters …
More: MacRumors, Patently Apple, and Sportico
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
More: 404 Media, UploadVR, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Redmond Pie, MacStories, AppleInsider, iMore, Business Insider, Dataconomy, O'Grady's PowerPage, SamMobile, Business Standard, Trusted Reviews, MySmartPrice, Phandroid, Benzinga, Android Central, PhoneArena, GSMArena.com, MIXED Reality News, 9to5Google, and MacRumors
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LinkedIn: Matthew Hawn and Benedict Evans
Forums: r/apple, r/VisionPro, r/VisionPro, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Google's TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware — The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite efforts to better regulate it.| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta proposes standards to identify AI content that its industry peers could use, and plans to label AI images posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads — The social network wants to promote standardized labels to help detect artificially created photo, video and audio material across its platforms.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces Monitor Plus, a $14/month US service that scans 190+ data broker sites and automatically submits requests for removal of the user's data — Mozilla today is introducing a new subscription service that will help people locate and remove their personal and sensitive information from data broker websites around the web.
More: The Mozilla Blog, The Verge, Engadget, Phoronix, Mozilla, Ars Technica, PCMag, Lifewire, and TechRadar
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q3 net sales down 6% YoY to ~$4B, net profit up 18% YoY to ~$919M, and forecasts 15.5M Switch sales in the current fiscal year, up from 15M YoY — - Nintendo said it now expects to sell 15.5 million of its flagship Switch consoles in its current fiscal year, upping a previous forecast.
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| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Sources: Tencent plans to adapt acclaimed role-playing console game Elden Ring into a mobile version, after acquiring licensing rights from FromSoftware in 2022 — China's Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) has been working to adapt acclaimed action role-playing console game “Elden Ring” …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta expands its Take It Down tool, which helps teens combat non-consensual sharing of intimate imagery, to 25 languages — Meta is introducing a few new updates and efforts to help teens on its platforms combat sextortion, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Sources: SMIC plans to use its stock of US and Dutch-made equipment to build 5nm Kirin chips designed by Huawei's HiSilicon for smartphones, despite US curbs — SMIC and Huawei plan to make new 5nm processor, supporting Beijing's goal for advanced semiconductors
More: Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Business Insider, TechPowerUp, Huawei Central, The Information, and Wccftech
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to €3.7B, MAUs up 23% YoY to 602M, subscribers up 15% YoY to 236M, a €75M operating loss, and expects 618M MAUs in Q1 2024 — - Spotify posts second-largest gain ever for the quarter — Company has been cutting costs in drive to become profitable
More: 9to5Mac, Thurrott, Spotify, TechCrunch, BGR, The Verge, Axios, Deadline, Proactive, Music Ally, Hollywood Reporter, and Variety
| Forbes: |
Admissions essay reviewers say that certain words, such as “tapestry”, appear more frequently in submissions now and can be seen as red flags that AI was used — ChatGPT and other generative AI are being widely used in higher education in school admissions.| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
DocuSign plans to lay off 6% of its workforce, or ~440 jobs, and will incur a $28M-$32M charge, after acquisition talks seemingly fell through; DOCU drops 6%+ — - Deal talks with Bain, Hellman & Friedman stalled over price — Restructuring to help DocuSign grow as independent company
More: Independent.ie, Reuters, The Information, TechCrunch, and CNBC
| Antoaneta Roussi / Politico: |
The UK, the US, France, Poland, and other nations, plus Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others, sign a statement recognizing the need for more action on spyware — Governments have struggled to stop the spread of commercial hacking tools. — The United Kingdom, France and allied countries …
More: Reuters, The Record, GOV.UK, GOV.UK, and ComputerWeekly.com
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M+ subscribers, up from 5M+ in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M+ channels receiving ad revenue share — CEO Neal Mohan also says more than 3 million channels now receive ad-revenue share, touts 1 billion hours viewed on TV daily| James Hunt / The Block: |
Solana suffers a major outage, lasting for over two hours, and says validators should prepare for a network restart, the first big outage since February 2023 — - Solana has confirmed an outage on its mainnet, with engineers across the ecosystem currently investigating.
More: Blockworks, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Finbold, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, Milk Road, Bitcoin News, NewsBTC, Coinspeaker, CoinStats, CCN.com, Metaverse Post, The Crypto Basic, Watcher Guru, Protos, Blockonomi, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptonews, CoinGape, and CryptoSlate
X: @solanastatus, @mtromp, @testinprodcap, @solanastatus, @solanastatus, @poordart, @altcoingordon, @alpha_pls, @hlopez_, @0xsisyphus, and @0xbags. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announces an event next week to share “our vision for the future of Xbox”, amid rumors that Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5 — Details of Microsoft's multi-platform plans have been gradually leaking, with The Verge revealing over the weekend …
More: Forbes, VentureBeat, Video Games Chronicle, Dataconomy, Dexerto, MSPoweruser, DOC_ DARK1985 on YouTube, OC3D, T3, Android Authority, PC Games Insider, SamMobile, and Stevivor
Threads: @tomwarrenuk. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @xboxp3, @peterovo5, @jezcorden, @synthpotato, @riskit4tb, @costofmind, @themrpasquale, @tomwarren, @genepark, @zhugeex, @mlickles, @stephenseanford, @zhugeex, @yungkiryu, @klobrille, @imranzomg, @andy_vgc, @stephentotilo, @devinkofsky, @genepark, @genepark, and @dmc_ryan
Forums: r/technology, r/videogamedunkey, r/gaming, and r/playstation
| Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide: |
Roblox rolls out real-time AI chat translations, with support for 16 languages, built on an LLM trained on open-source and internal Roblox data — Works in 16 languages — Metaverse platform Roblox is bringing a new AI translation tool online for its millions of users around the world …
More: Roblox Blog, PC Gamer, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Dataconomy, Engadget, Coinspeaker, Decrypt, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and Skynet Today
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Google agrees to pay $350M to settle a lawsuit over a Google+ security lapse that exposed personal data; people who bought stock in 2018-2019 can get a share — Individual Google shareholders may be eligible to apply for some of the money — SAN FRANCISCO — Google agreed to pay $350 million …
X: @rustybrick
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