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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta confirms a technical issue caused an outage affecting Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Meta Quest logins, and more, for over two hours — Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all experiencing issues. The three Meta-owned platforms aren't working for many users, with the widespread outage seeming to start around 10AM ET.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will end support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 on March 5, 2025, and consequently, for the Amazon Appstore on Windows as well — Microsoft is ending support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 next year. The software giant first announced it was bringing Android apps …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans a March 21 announcement of a Surface Laptop 6 and OLED Surface Pro 10, both offered with Intel Core Ultra or Snapdragon X Elite chips — 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
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| 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 …
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| 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| 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an alleged UnitedHealth payment — A website used by hackers responsible for a breach at UnitedHealth Group (UNH.N) has been replaced by a notice saying it has been seized by international law enforcement.
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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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| 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 …
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| 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.
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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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| 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.
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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.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 17.4 launches with new EU App Store business terms, with some last-minute tweaks like no longer needing a €1M stand-by letter of credit to start a store — With the launch of iOS 17.4, Apple's app ecosystem changes in the European Union have gone into effect.
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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, Security Boulevard, Ben's Bites, SC Media, Help Net Security, and TechRadar
| 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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| 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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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Insider cybersecurity risk startup Dtex Systems, which uses ML to monitor networks, raised a $50M Series E from CapitalG at a $400M post-money valuation — - CapitalG has invested in major cybersecurity companies like CrowdStrike and ZScaler. … - The company — which has now raised …
More: Business Wire and SecurityWeek
| 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: SiliconANGLE, Cryptopolitan, Tech in Asia, and Benzinga
| Financial Times: |
UK digital bank Monzo raised $430M led by Alphabet's CapitalG at a $5B valuation, up from $4.5B in December 2021, and plans to use funds to expand in the US — London-based digital bank raised $430mn from investors including CapitalG and HongShan — Monzo has secured a fresh round … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic announces Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, aiming to reduce AI model hallucinations; Opus and Sonnet are available now, and Haiku in the coming weeks — The startup says new versions of Claude will be twice as likely to answer a question correctly.
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