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Microsoft releases a Windows 11 update that adds the new AI-powered Bing search to the taskbar, Phone Link for iOS, screen recording, Notepad tabs, and more — Microsoft is releasing a big update to Windows 11 today that adds the company's new AI-powered Bing search to the taskbar.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Decentralized social network Bluesky debuts in the iOS App Store as an invite-only beta; Twitter started Bluesky in 2019 and spun off the project in 2022 — Bluesky, the Twitter alternative backed by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, has hit the App Store and more testers are gaining access.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Three SIM-swapping gangs separately claimed multiple times on Telegram to have phished staff at T-Mobile throughout 2022, far more often than other US carriers — Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 … | Reuters: |
Former FTX Director of Engineering Nishad Singh pleads guilty to six US criminal charges, becoming the third FTX exec close to SBF to plead guilty and cooperate — Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter changes its violent speech policy to ban users from voicing “wishes of harm” on people, a policy reversal, as well as homes and essential infrastructure — Twitter is once again tightening its rules around what users are permitted to say on the platform.
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| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Sources: Visa and Mastercard pause partnering with crypto companies and delay product launches until market conditions and the regulatory environment improve — U.S. payment giants Visa (V.N) and Mastercard (MA.N) are slamming the brakes on plans to forge new partnerships with crypto firms … | Wall Street Journal: |
Memo and sources: Instacart told employees that its Q4 revenue increased 50%+ YoY, Q4 gross profit rose 80%+ YoY, and 2022 revenue grew 39% YoY to ~$2.5B — The company increased revenue 39% in 2022 despite slowing sales on its grocery delivery app — Instacart Inc. generated sharply higher sales … | Florence Ion / Gizmodo: |
Google rolls out fall detection to all Pixel Watch users, four months after its launch, saying the feature “has been extensively tested” to avoid false alarms — The long-awaited feature can be toggled on through the settings starting today. — Four months after its launch …
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| Elad Gil / Elad Blog: |
Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning in late 2023 to 2024, as companies run out of cash from “free rounds” fueled by low interest rates — The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Typeface, which offers generative AI for marketing copy and images, emerges from stealth with $65M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, M12, and Menlo Ventures — Typeface, a startup developing an AI-powered dashboard for drafting marketing copy and images, emerged from stealth this week …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU narrows its long-running Apple antitrust probe, dropping an IAP charge to focus on denying apps from being able to tell users about subscription options — Antitrust investigation to look at how tech giant deals with subscription information from streaming services such as Spotify| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft expands PC Game Pass to 40 new countries, including in Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, taking the service's total to 86 — The Xbox console has been the key to Microsoft Corp.'s clout in the gaming industry since its release more than two decades ago.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Memo: Dish CEO Erik Carlson tells staff that “certain data was extracted” in a cyberattack that has kept the company's systems down for days; DISH falls 5%+ — Dish has told employees that it's “investigating a cybersecurity incident” and that it's “aware that certain data was extracted” …
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| PYMNTS.com: |
Robotics startup Fulfil, which offers automated micro-fulfillment centers for online grocers, emerges from stealth with a $60M Series B led by Eclipse — As grocers look to escape reliance on aggregators, tech providers are offering new automated solutions.
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
After declining Twitter engagement, a writer games the For You feed, which he suspects uses invisible subreddit-like Topics to algorithmically organize tweets — Read to the end for some really good horse content — I Gave Into The New Twitter Algorithm And I Went Way Too Viral
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with iHeartMedia's Conal Byrne on overseeing podcasting at the company, the industry maturing, RSS, radio and podcast ads, subscriptions, and exclusivity — Amid layoffs and a looming recession, folks are concerned about the audio industry. iHeart's podcast head Conal Byrne is not worried.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Internal roadmap: Meta to release three new Quest headsets, smart glasses with a display in 2025 alongside a neural interface smartwatch, and AR glasses in 2027 — During an internal presentation, Meta execs laid out plans for three new Quest headsets, AR glasses in 2027, and a ‘neural interface’ smartwatch.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Qualcomm and Thales announce the certification of the first commercially deployable iSIM, putting eSIM-like functionality directly into a phone's main processor — Never mind eSIMs — your next phone might have a more advanced way of connecting to your carrier.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Salesforce is still paying Matthew McConaughey $10M a year to act as a “creative adviser” despite thousands of layoffs and multiple activist investors — The $160 billion business-software company has joined the tech industry's retrenchment, laying off thousands| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Dell updates the XPS 15 and 17 laptops with Intel's 13th-Gen H-series CPUs and Nvidia's RTX 40-series GPUs, starting at $2,949 and $3,399, available on March 2 — Dell sticks to chip upgrades for the latest models. — Dell has begun refreshing its popular XPS lineup of desktops and laptops …
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Chinese media warns Elon Musk, effectively saying not to bite the hand that feeds you, after he replied to a tweet implying COVID-19 originated from a Wuhan lab — - Chinese state-run media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he was risking his relationship with China, after the executive retweeted about a …
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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Yuga Labs unveils TwelveFold, its first Bitcoin NFT project, which consists of 300 limited-edition generative art pieces each attached to an individual Satoshi — TwelveFold, a limited series of just 300 generative Ordinals NFT art pieces on Bitcoin, will be auctioned later this week.
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