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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta confirms its services suffered a broad outage, which started at ~10am ET, affecting Facebook, Instagram, Threads, the Graph API, Ads Manager, and more — Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all experiencing issues. The three Meta-owned platforms aren't working for many users …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google outlines updates to comply with the EU's DMA: search changes to prioritize large intermediaries and aggregators, new tools for app developers, and more — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday outlined changes to search results and new tools for apps developers to promote their products … | Financial Times: |
As Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft comply with the EU's DMA before March 7, experts are skeptical its rules will have the desired effect — This week is the deadline for large online platforms to comply with new EU regulations on competition. Too little too late, say some
More: Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Patently Apple, New York Times, New York Times, and Bloomberg
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| CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin surpassed $69K, eclipsing its previous all-time high set on November 10, 2021, with US spot bitcoin ETFs a likely catalyst of the latest bull run — The success of the spot ETFs which opened for business on January 11 was the catalyst for this latest bull run for the world's largest crypto.
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Chinese smartphone sales declined 7% YoY in the first six weeks of 2024; Huawei rose 64% YoY while Apple fell 24% YoY, Oppo fell 29% YoY, and Vivo fell 15% YoY — - Growth: China's smartphone unit sales declined by 7% YoY during the first six weeks of 2024.
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| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Cloudflare announces Firewall for AI, a protection layer that companies can deploy in front of LLMs to find abuses and attacks before they can reach the models — Cloudflare Inc., a global cloud connectivity provider company, today announced the development of Firewall for AI to provide companies …
More: PCMag, The Cloudflare Blog, SC Media, Security Boulevard, Help Net Security, and TechRadar
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The US Treasury sanctions spyware group Intellexa Consortium's founder and one of his business partners, the first US sanctions on people over spyware misuse — The U.S. government announced Tuesday sanctions against the founder of the notorious spyware company Intellexa and one of his business partners.
More: U.S. Department …, The Record, CyberScoop, CNN, NBC News, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Axios
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil Surface Pro 10 with an OLED screen and Surface Laptop 6, both with Intel Core Ultra and Snapdragon X Elite chips, on March 21 — Microsoft's first AI PCs will be unveiled on March 21, ahead of next-gen Windows 11 AI features coming this fall. — What you need to know
More: The Verge, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, MSPoweruser, and Trusted Reviews
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
OpenAI updates ChatGPT with a Read Aloud feature that auto-detects 37 languages and reads GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 responses out loud on the web, Android, and iOS — OpenAI's new Read Aloud feature for ChatGPT could come in handy when users are on the go by reading its responses in one of five voice options out loud to users.
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| TechCrunch: |
X's audio and video calls, which are on by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users' IP addresses to each other unless they toggle an enhanced privacy setting — The new X calling feature can hurt your privacy — In his quest to turn a simple and functioning Twitter app into X …
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| Bobby Borisov / Linuxiac: |
StatCounter: Linux hit 4.03% desktop OS market share in February 2024, after taking 30 years to hit 3% in June 2023, as distros adopt more user-friendly designs — According to StatCounter's data, by the end of February 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.03% desktop market share.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Nothing debuts the 6.7" Phone (2a), its first budget phone, with a 5,000mAh battery and a MediaTek chip, starting at £319 for 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage — Budget phones tend to be pretty forgettable, but the Nothing Phone 2A isn't your average budget phone — that much is obvious just looking at it.
More: 9to5Google, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, CNET, Android Police, The Guardian, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Android Central, PCMag, Wired, BGR, SlashGear, and Stuff
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic's pricing for Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, which all have a 200K-token context window, ranges from “super expensive” to “radically competitive” — Willison: “No model has beaten GPT-4 on a range of widely used benchmarks like this.”
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
At an event, Sergey Brin said Google “definitely messed up” Gemini's image generation debut and it's “not our intention” for Gemini to lean left “in many cases” — - Google's Sergey Brin spoke to a roomful of entrepreneurs over the weekend at the “AGI House” in Hillsborough, California.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Financial Times: |
Microsoft files a motion to dismiss the NYT's copyright lawsuit, accusing the NYT of “doomsday futurology” for predicting ChatGPT could ruin the news business — Tech group and OpenAI investor files motion to dismiss case alleging copyright infringement| Reuters: |
A BlackCat ransomware gang website shows a takedown notice; the UK NCA denies involvement and experts suggest an exit scam after an alleged UnitedHealth payment — A website used by hackers responsible for a breach at UnitedHealth Group (UNH.N) has been replaced by a notice saying it has been seized by international law enforcement.| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax raised $600M+ led by Alibaba at a $2.5B+ valuation; the round remains in progress and HongShan has committed funds — - Minimax scores funding from investors including HongShan — Alibaba has spearheaded two major deals so far this year
More: Benzinga, Pandaily, and Tech in Asia
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google rolls out updates to its Search ranking, including downranking content that summarizes others' work, to counter the spread of AI content in results — Google is rolling out a few new changes to its ranking systems in search, which are designed to help surface good content in your results …
More: Search Engine Land, The Keyword, Fast Company, and Search Engine Journal
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says that after a software update the M3 14-inch MacBook Pro will be able to drive two external monitors when its lid is closed, like the M3 Air can — Apple introduced the M3 MacBook Air with a headlining new feature. For the first time, the Apple silicon MacBook Air will be able to simultaneously drive two external monitors.
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X: @bzamayo, @parkerortolani, @jetscott, @mkbhd, @apollozac, and @stevemoser
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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