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Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% YoY to 300.3M in Q4 2022, the largest ever drop in a quarter; Apple dropped 14.9%, Samsung 15.6%, and Xiaomi 26.3% — Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% year over year to 300.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) …
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Q&A with DoNotPay's Joshua Browder on pivoting from legal issues to refocus on consumer support after getting “distracted”, ChatGPT, future plans, and more — When British-American entrepreneur Joshua Browder first launched his legal services chatbot DoNotPay in 2015 …
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Hands-on with DoNotPay, a service claiming to be the first robot lawyer: slow, drafted a terrible defamation demand letter, missed legal issues, and more — Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. — I've been going pretty hard on DoNotPay … | Axios: |
Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban — - “We've always believed that Americans should be able to hear from the people who want to lead the country,” Clegg told Axios.
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Under increasing pressure in the US, ByteDance and TikTok shift their strategy for dealing with officials by going on the offense and speaking out publicly — Keeping its head down has not paid off for the company, which now faces regulatory pressure on many fronts. So it is starting to speak out.
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Sources: Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison told staff their goal is to go public or let employees sell shares in private markets in the next year — Fintech startup hires Goldman, JPMorgan to advise on direct listing or private-market transaction involving employees' shares| Connie Guglielmo / CNET: |
CNET's EIC reflects on the outlet's AI use and lessons learned, like ensuring that bylines and disclosures are visible and plagiarism checks are done properly — New tools are accelerating change in the publishing industry. We're going to help shape that change.
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The FBI, DOJ, Secret Service, and European agencies seize ransomware gang Hive's website and decryption keys; FBI had access to Hive's network since July 2022 — The infrastructure behind Hive, one of the most prolific ransomware operations, has been seized by law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe.| Wall Street Journal: |
New York AG Letitia James asks Madison Square Garden Entertainment for information on the alleged use of facial recognition to deny access to ticket holders — Probe related to company's alleged use of the technology to bar certain ticket holders from its venues
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A brief history of VR/AR/MR devices and why hardware challenges have limited mainstream adoption, which could likely slow the metaverse's emergence and growth — Modern efforts to build extended reality (XR) devices—i.e., dedicated virtual reality (VR), dedicated augmented reality (AR) …
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A 116-page bankruptcy document lists FTX's creditors, including AWS, Apple, Meta, LinkedIn, Netflix, Binance, the WSJ, and the Prime Minister of the Bahamas — - FTX owes money to a wide range of individuals, businesses, and entities, including major digital asset firms, banks, star athletes, and governments.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
The University of Texas at Austin plans to launch a large-scale, low-cost online MSc program in AI, the first of its kind among elite computing schools — Amid a boom in new tools like ChatGPT, the Austin campus plans to train thousands of students in sought-after skills in artificial intelligence.| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Google's evolving legal strategy to combat the DOJ's antitrust claims; sources say Google believed an ad unit spinoff could help end multiple cases — The latest U.S. lawsuit against Google compounds the legal issues the company faces worldwide while broadening the scope …
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Sources: Meta pays BuzzFeed to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train online creators to grow, as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022 — Partnership marks latest iteration of yearslong relationship between digital publisher and social-media giant
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NEA raised $3.05B for a fund focused on early-stage deals and $3.18B for a debut growth equity fund and says it filed to become a registered investment advisor — NEA said Thuesday that it's raised just over $6.2 billion for a pair of new funds; comprised of $3.05 billion for its 18th fund … | Francois Murphy / Reuters: |
Austrian police say a hacker, arrested in November, tried to sell the name, gender, address, and DOB of “presumably every citizen” in Austria, or ~9.1M people — A Dutch hacker arrested in November obtained and offered for sale the full name, address and date of birth …
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German software maker SAP plans to cut ~3,000 jobs in 2023, or ~2.5% of its staff, and explore selling its remaining Qualtrics stake; SAP's stock is up 9%+ YTD — SAP SE is planning to cut about 3,000 jobs this year while exploring a sale of its remaining stake in Qualtrics International Inc … | Wall Street Journal: |
NSO Group CEO Yaron Shohat, named in August 2022, acknowledges clients sometimes misused Pegasus, but defends selling hacking tools to police and intel agencies — Yaron Shohat acknowledges mistakes but defends the technology as vital — WASHINGTON—Embattled Israeli technology firm NSO Group acknowledged … Sponsor Posts
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