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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK government lays out plans to regulate crypto, including measures to strengthen rules for lending, disclosures, financial intermediaries, and custodians — - The U.K. laid out plan to regulate the cryptocurrency industry. — The proposals include strengthening rules on crypto lending …
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Tweets: @binance, @cz_binance, @emilyjnicolle, @jamespmcleod, @wallstreetsilv, @collins_belton, @gonbegood, @gonbegood, @gonbegood, @alex_dreyfus, @gonbegood, @katie_martin_fx, @arthur_0x, @ruskin147, @ryan_browne_, @zsk, @nickdemarco_, @ryan_browne_, @frances_coppola, @joetidy, @smtuffy, and @ryan_browne_
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel cuts employee pay and perks to preserve cash for investment, ranging from 25% for CEO Pat Gelsinger, 15% for leadership, and 5% for mid-level managers — Intel Corp., struggling with a rapid drop in revenue and earnings, is cutting management pay across the company to cope …
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| David Satin / The Streamable: |
Netflix lists its rules and exemptions to prevent password sharing, including that all devices should be on the same “primary” Wi-Fi at least once every 31 days — After months of warning subscribers that anti-password sharing measures were coming to Netflix, the company appears to be finally set to unleash them.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: a US judge rejects the FTC's bid for a preliminary injunction to block Meta's Within acquisition, giving the FTC one week to decide whether to appeal — Meta Platforms Inc. won court approval to buy virtual reality startup Within Unlimited, defeating an effort to block the deal …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
A report by the White House's NTIA describes Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores and suggests legislation to improve competition and choice — A new Biden administration report describes Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores and suggests legislation …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources and documents: Google asks employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including Apprentice Bard, a chatbot that uses its LaMDA conversational tech — - Google is testing ChatGPT-like products that use its LaMDA technology, according to sources and internal documents acquired by CNBC.
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| Politico: |
Sources: the UK's semiconductor plan, which missed a publication deadline last fall, has suffered from government disarray, as the US and EU move forward — LONDON — As nations around the world scramble to secure crucial semiconductor supply chains over fears about relations with China, the U.K. is falling behind.
Tweets: @jack_blanchard_, @pascallth, @g_lanktree, and @chinaresearchgp
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Indiana-based blockchain startup SIMBA Chain, which has worked on various US military projects, raised $30M from the US Air Force, after raising $1.5M in 2020 — The USAF has granted SIMBA Chain a $30 million funding increase as part of its aims of “identifying and advancing technologies …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia is working to fix a Discord bug that slows the memory clocks on some of its GPUs by up to 200MHz, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti — Discord is slowing down graphics card memory clocks on some Nvidia GPUs. A recent Discord update has introduced a bug that slows down memory clocks …
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: UMG is in talks with Tidal and others to overhaul streaming economics to pay artists more; ideas include a “bonus pool” and “superfan” subscriptions — Group looks into options such as cracking down on bots and adding ‘superfan’ subscriptions| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Meta's Ready at Dawn studio plans to shutter Echo VR, one of the best-rated and most popular free Quest games, after layoffs, to focus on “our next project” — As a parting gift, players can claim lots of premium cosmetic items for free — The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix adds spatial audio to its $20 per month Premium plan, available for over 700 of its most popular titles; Standard and Basic will get limited support — Listen to this: Netflix is hoping audiophiles will upgrade to the $20-per-month Premium tier to gain access to the streamer's full collection … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches its MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, playoffs, and more for $14.99/month or $99/year — Today, Apple launched MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, Audi 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs …
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Tweets: @houstondynamo, @chicagofire, and @fcdallas
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of OpenAI's ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, in the coming weeks; OpenAI plans to launch a ChatGPT app — Microsoft's second-place search engine Bing is poised to incorporate a faster and richer version of ChatGPT, known as GPT-4 …
Tweets: @carlquintanilla, @semaforben, and @reedalbergotti
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Digital fingerprinting startup Addressable, which claims to have matched over 17M anonymous crypto wallets with social media accounts, raised a $7.5M seed — Marketo, which was developed - among other things.- to enhance marketing around social media users, ended up being acquired by Adobe.| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
As memory prices plunge, SK Hynix reports a ~$1.4B Q4 operating loss, its biggest quarterly operating loss yet, vs. ~$900M est., and a 38% YoY drop in revenue — South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. reported its biggest quarterly loss on record, due to plunging prices in memory chips as tech demand fell worldwide.
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Tweets: @samkimasia and @samkimasia
| Bloomberg: |
Western Digital raised $900M from Apollo Global and Elliott, sources say as a precursor to a merger with Japan's Kioxia, as the memory chip industry struggles — Western Digital Corp. is receiving a $900 million investment led by Apollo Global Management Inc., getting financial firepower …
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| David Satin / The Streamable: |
Peacock has stopped offering its free tier to new subscribers; existing users will continue to have access — Peacock will no longer offer their free tier for new subscribers, The Streamable has confirmed. Instead, new users who attempt to sign up for NBCUniversal's streaming service … | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Egyptian microfinance lending and payments service MNT-Halan raised $260M in equity and $140M in debt via bond issuances at a ~$1B post-money valuation — Egyptian fintech and e-commerce ecosystem MNT-Halan has raised up to $400 million in equity and debt financing from local and global investors …
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Cape Town-based Lulalend, which uses its proprietary credit scoring algorithm to offer short-term loans to SMBs, raised a $35M Series B and launches a neobank — In most African countries, access to credit remains limited for many small businesses, with the reasons ranging from the inability …
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| Chainalysis: |
Analysis: 2022 was the biggest year ever for crypto hacking, with $3.8B stolen, primarily from DeFi protocols and by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group — 2022 was the biggest year ever for crypto hacking, with $3.8 billion stolen from cryptocurrency businesses.
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Tweets: @chainalysis, @chainalysis, @chainalysis, and @chainalysis
| Karl Brauer / Forbes: |
Cars & Bids, a car auction site founded by Doug DeMuro, a popular automotive YouTuber who has 4.5M subscribers, raised $37M from The Chernin Group — Doug DeMuro is arguably the most successful automotive YouTuber in the relatively short history of that young medium.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Anker admits its Eufy security cameras are not natively E2E encrypted and produced unencrypted video streams for Eufy's web portal, but says the flaws are fixed — / Anker admits its always-encrypted cameras weren't always encrypted — and promises to do better. … First, Anker told us it was impossible.
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