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Source: Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise; the phones are in early development and not set for production in 2024 or 2025 — Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise like a clamshell, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, CNET, TechCrunch, Reuters, Thurrott, Business Times, Wccftech, Root-Nation.com, Patently Apple, Macworld, TechSpot, Trusted Reviews, BGR, PCMag, PhoneArena, Benzinga, TechRadar, Gizmodo, New York Post, Tom's Guide, Cult of Mac, Lifewire, iDownloadBlog.com, Supercharged, Android Authority, SamMobile, Android Headlines, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Digital Trends, Mashable, iMore, Engadget, Invezz, and Investing.com
X: @waynema, @oddstocktrader, @xrandrew, @deitaone, and @sizpatel
LinkedIn: Eduardo Alcivar, MBA, Caroline Giegerich, Alex Kantrowitz, and Emil Protalinski. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Apple partners with University of California researchers to release open-source AI model MGIE, which can edit images based on natural language instructions — Apple has released a new open-source AI model, called “MGIE,” that can edit images based on natural language instructions.
More: Apple on GitHub, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, The Decoder, Supercharged, iMore, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, Cryptopolitan, MacDailyNews, BGR, MacRumors, Appleosophy, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, and Dataconomy
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/artificial, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft updates Copilot with a redesigned look, a new AI model for Copilot's Balanced mode called Deucalion, and new AI image creation and editing features — In a startling move, Microsoft today announced a redesigned look for its Copilot AI search and chatbot experience on the web …
More: The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft on YouTube, The Verge, Windows Central, Search Engine Land, TechRadar, TechCrunch, Engadget, Neowin, Thurrott, GeekWire, Neowin, Windows 11 Forum, 9to5Google, and Voicebot.ai
X: @mparakhin, @microsoft, @jordirib1, @jordirib1, @mikeschechter, @msbing_dev, @microsoft, @tomwarren, @satyanadella, @yusuf_i_mehdi, and @jenny____ai
LinkedIn: Jordi Ribas and Steve Clayton
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand advisory: China-backed hacking group Volt Typhoon has had access to some major US infrastructure for over five years — China-backed hackers have had access to some major U.S. critical infrastructure for “at least five years,” according to an intelligence advisory released Wednesday.
More: Cybersecurity …, CNN, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, PCMag, The Record, The Register, CyberScoop, NBC News, DataBreachToday.com, SecurityWeek, Reuters, Engadget, and CPO Magazine
X: @cisagov, @dhsgov, @ncsc, @johnhultquist, @nsacyber, @jseldin, @cisacyber, @cisajen, @ausambcybertech, @cybergovau, and @cisacyber. LinkedIn: Sam Sabin
| Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News: |
Apple Vision Pro teardown: 50 Vision Pro pixels fit into a single iPhone 15 Pro pixel, the display is not technically 4K, has a ~100° field of view, and more — After the whirlwind of team activity that was our initial Vision Pro teardown, we've been digging much, much deeper into those dual displays …
More: iFixit on YouTube, Engadget, UploadVR, Macworld, Wccftech, The Verge, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, HotHardware, MacRumors, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, and MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Disney plans to invest $1.5B for a stake in Epic Games and work with the gaming studio to create new games with content from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and more — - Disney is investing $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Epic Games in its biggest jump yet into the gaming world.| Chainalysis: |
Ransomware payments in 2023 hit a record $1.1B, up from $567M in 2022 and $983M in 2021, after a major escalation of the frequency, scope, and volume of attacks — The Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Crime Report — Coming soon — In 2023, ransomware actors intensified their operations …
More: NBC News, Tech Monitor, Privacy Affairs, WHDH-TV, Cointelegraph, BleepingComputer, The Guardian, Reuters, Cryptonews, Wired, Milk Road, The Record, PCMag, and The Stack
LinkedIn: Joshua Hecker and Jacqueline Burns Koven
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
OpenAI says DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to images with C2PA metadata but acknowledges the metadata can “easily be removed either accidentally or intentionally” — OpenAI's image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out support for standards …
More: OpenAI, PCMag, Tech Monitor, Fast Company, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Neowin, MediaNama, Ben's Bites, WinBuzzer, Windows Central, Mashable, Silicon Republic, Windows 11 Forum, BGR, PR Daily, Forbes, Proactive, Gizmochina, and Windows Report
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @openai, @iuliabaltoi, @slyon66, @gdb, @henkvaness, @mer__edith, and @af_mada
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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X: @emilybell, @mer__edith, @alexeheath, @nickclegg, @nickclegg, @metanewsroom, and @andymstone
LinkedIn: Sam Gregory, Henry Ajder, and Erin Egan
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
An interview with Nebojša Vujinović Vujo, who runs 2,000+ AI-generated news sites, often hosted on once-popular domains, and claims to have ~12 human editors — Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles.| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$36.7B, net income down 69% YoY to ~$2B, Taobao and Tmall revenue up 2% YoY to ~$18B, and approves a $25B share buyback — - The move may appeal to some investors as growth plateaus — Alibaba is grappling with market and internal uncertainty| Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: |
Disney begins emailing Disney+ subscribers about TOS changes that will make sharing accounts harder, days after sending out similar notices to Hulu subscribers — Today, Disney Plus began sending out emails informing subscribers about new changes to its terms of service that will …
More: HotHardware, ZDNet, Engadget, T3, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Thurrott, TechRadar, Mashable, TechHive, PhoneArena, Inc.com, GSMArena.com, and Cord Cutters News
Forums: r/technology and r/popculturechat
| Reuters: |
Arm reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $824M, vs. $761.6M est., and forecasts Q4 sales and adjusted profit above expectations; ARM jumps 21%+ — Arm Holdings on Wednesday forecast fiscal fourth-quarter sales and adjusted profit above Wall Street expectations as customers aim to design new chips …
More: Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Arm
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 30% YoY to $749.9M, bookings up 25% YoY to a record $1.1B, DAUs up 22% YoY to 71.5M, and $2.8B in 2023 revenue; RBLX jumps 13%+ — - Roblox reported results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year that beat consensus estimates on the top and bottom lines.
More: Roblox, Game Developer, Pocket Gamer.biz, Bloomberg, Proactive, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, and PYMNTS.com
X: @davidbaszucki and @roblox
| Mozilla Foundation: |
An in-depth look at Common Crawl, the 9.5PB+ web crawl archive dating back to 2008 run by a small nonprofit, its role in generative AI, its datasets, and more — Common Crawl's Impact on Generative AI — Common Crawl's mission: Enabling others to work like Google — Common Crawl's data: Machine scale analysis| Connor Jones / The Register: |
Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center says Iran's cyber operations in Israel show how Iran could target the 2024 US elections, including AI-generated fake news — Tactics are more sophisticated and supported in greater numbers — Iran's anti-Israel cyber operations are providing a window …
More: Microsoft On the Issues, ComputerWeekly.com, and CyberScoop
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Mechanical Orchard, which helps companies migrate systems from mainframes to the cloud, raised a $24M Series A led by Emergence Capital at a $95M valuation — Mechanical Orchard has raised $24 million from Emergence Capital at a $95 million valuation after reaching $10 million in revenue and profitability in just over a year.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Google Maps for Android to overlay the weather and air quality index when browsing the map layer, a feature the iOS app has had for some time — Like the iOS app, Google Maps for Android now overlays the weather and AQI when you're browsing the map layer.
More: Thurrott, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, TechRadar, TalkAndroid.com, Sammy Fans, Android Police, ZDNet, autoevolution, Business Standard, and Android Central. Forums: r/Android
| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.9B, Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $37.6B, a $1.9B net income, 150M MAUs, and first full-year operating profit of $1.1B — Rides, deliveries and ads increase as company celebrates ‘inflection point’ — Uber has reported its first annual operating profit …
More: San Francisco Business Times, The Guardian, The Information, Bloomberg, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Uber, CNBC, Constellation Research, Proactive, and Fast Company
Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social. X: @mgsiegler, @ericjackson, @divestech, @deitaone, @altcap, @alphasenseinc, @thetranscript_, and @dkhos
| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
PayPal reports Q4 revenue up 9% YoY to $8B, vs. $7.87B est., and total payment volume up 15% YoY to $409.8B, vs. $404.45B est. — PayPal (PYPL.O) beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday as more Americans used its payments platform for shopping during the holiday season.| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads is testing the ability to save posts, a “heavily requested feature” that allows users to bookmark posts and revisit them later — Instagram Threads is getting a highly requested feature that puts it in closer competition with X/Twitter.
More: Engadget, The Verge, and Social Media Today
Threads: @mosseri, @mattnavarra, @annabyang, @diane_montes_harris, @keithedwards, @mcuban, @thelenaej, @uscpsc, and @thejackforge
| Alexandre Rajbhandari / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based payments company Worldline plans to lay off around 8% of its global workforce, or ~1,400 jobs, as it seeks to cut annual costs by €200M from 2025 — - Company seeks to cut annual costs by €200 million from 2025 — Worldline employs about 18,000 staff in more than 40 countries
More: PYMNTS.com, Finextra, Dow Jones Newswires, and Reuters
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