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Messaging app Signal finally rolls out usernames in beta, letting users conceal their phone numbers; Signal still requires inputting a phone number to register — We tested the end-to-end encrypted messenger's new feature aimed at addressing critics' most persistent complaint. Here's how it works.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/signal
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Gary Geaves, Apple's longtime VP in charge of acoustics, is stepping down, replaced by Ruchir Davé, adding to the hardware engineering group's upheaval — - Apple acoustics chief Gary Geaves is stepping down from role — Executive has been key to development of AirPods and HomePod
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| Tom Wilson / Reuters: |
Circle no longer plans to mint USDC tokens on the Tron blockchain, effective immediately, to “ensure that USDC remains trusted, transparent, and safe” — Major U.S. crypto firm Circle will end support for its USDC token on the Tron blockchain network, a decision the company said on Wednesday …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Demos from AI chipmaker Groq go viral after the startup's inference engine shows lightning-fast speeds when running LLMs, including for real-time conversations — Two AI companies are claiming the science fiction term, “Grok,” as their own, but only one is turbocharging the AI industry.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
A look at TDCommons, a website launched by Google in 2015 that publishes technical details of ideas from companies and individuals to head off patent disputes — TDCommons is a free space for inventors to lay claim to breakthroughs without having to file a patent. Why is it so off the radar?| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
DefiLlama: the total value of tokens sent to the Bitcoin DeFi market surpassed $1B; CryptoSlam: daily NFT sales volume on Bitcoin beat Ethereum in early January — Bitcoin goes DeFi — In 2013, a 19-year-old Vitalik Buterin proposed the creation of Ethereum because Bitcoin couldn't support …
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's says the $200M rights issue that cuts its valuation by 99% to $20M-$25M is fully subscribed; source: some of Byju's major investors are yet to take part — Byju's says its recently launched $200 million rights issue has been fully-subscribed, but the startup's founder urged … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Authorities arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue arrest warrants and a decryption tool, seize 200+ crypto wallets; US indicts two Russians — Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool …
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| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Xbox growth, job cuts, and why getting rid of physical Xbox discs is “not a strategic thing for us” — Microsoft's gaming chief Phil Spencer is upbeat about his vast Xbox team's future. But he also tells Game File …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts a monthly Apple Music Replay, offering insights like total listening time, top songs, artists, and albums, and releases 2024's Replay Mix playlist — Apple today updated the Apple Music Replay experience, available at replay.music.apple.com, with visualizations of your favorite music habits …
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Meta and Microsoft are lobbying EU regulators to reject Apple's proposed App Store changes to comply with the DMA, saying Apple's plans don't go far enough — Meta and Microsoft want Brussels regulators to extract more concessions that unpick iOS mobile software
More: MSPoweruser, Cult of Mac, games fray, and MobileSyrup
| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce plans to retire at the end of March after taking the position in 2021; Deputy Director David Luber plans to assume the role — His departure comes amid heightened security fears in 2024 and debate over whether to renew a controversial spying power.
More: National Security …, CyberScoop, The Record, and Cybersecurity Dive
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: some ByteDance executives expressed concerns over running the video editing app CapCut from China given the political scrutiny facing TikTok in the US — Last year, the second most downloaded free app in the U.S. on iPhones was CapCut, a video-editing app made by TikTok's parent ByteDance … | Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
How livestreaming talent agencies in China recruit influencers, often signing them to multiyear contracts that cost tens of thousands of dollars to breach — Chinese livestream agencies promise influencers fame and money, but end up trapping them in multi-year contracts.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Q&A with Intel Foundry Services SVP and GM Stu Pann on the company's goal of becoming the world's second-largest foundry by 2030, making Arm chips, and more — Intel poised to compete with TSMC — Intel's previous struggles with developing new process node technologies resulted … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Attackers have been signing up spam accounts on smaller Mastodon servers over the past several days; Eugen Rochko said previously only big servers were targeted — A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web … | Brandi Vincent / DefenseScoop: |
Scale AI signs a one-year contract with the Pentagon to provide a means to test and evaluate LLMs that can be used for military planning and decision-making — The company will create a comprehensive T&E framework for generative AI within the Defense Department.
More: Washington Post and Cryptopolitan
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