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Sources: Apple plans to add new fees and restrictions after allowing EU users to download apps from outside the App Store, including reviewing sideloaded apps — Meta, Spotify and other companies are weighing new options for customers as Apple makes changes to comply with new European law
More: The Verge, MacRumors, Engadget, ZDNet, New York Post, PYMNTS.com, Macworld, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, TechRadar, The Messenger, Thurrott, iMore, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, BGR, Cult of Mac, TweakTown, Supercharged, MacDailyNews, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, iClarified, MSPoweruser, and Notebookcheck
Threads: @bzamayo and @trevorcroker
Mastodon: @elkmovie@mastodon.social, @elkmovie@mastodon.social, @ff00aa@mastodon.social, and @rileytestut@mastodon.social. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Ariel Shapiro / The Verge: |
Ahead of the EU's DMA, Spotify shares iOS app mockups with full in-app payments, rolling out in part on March 7; Apple hasn't yet shared its changes for the DMA — For years, Apple's App Store policies have made it impossible for apps to sell digital services and goods on their own terms.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Ring plans to stop letting police request footage from users' video doorbells and cameras via its tool next week; police and fire departments will need warrants — - Move dials back company's longtime public-safety stance — Law enforcement will now have to seek warrants for video
More: The Verge, AppleInsider, The Ring Blog, CNBC, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Engadget, TechCrunch, GeekWire, The Information, Gizmodo, The Messenger, PetaPixel, and nltimes.nl
Mastodon: @mjgardner@social.sdf.org, @Jeremiah@alpaca.gold, and @jake4480@c.im
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them — Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others.
Threads: @matthewfacciani and @simondowens
Mastodon: @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green, @carnage4life@mas.to, @ppatel@mstdn.social, and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
Bluesky: @crabofdoom.bsky.social and @lolgop.bsky.social
LinkedIn: Kate Knibbs and Emil Protalinski
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Apple's acquisitions, job postings, and academic papers detail the company's AI plans; PitchBook says Apple acquired 21 AI startups since the start of 2017 — Acquisitions, job postings and academic papers suggest tech company is preparing to run AI through its devices| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Web Summit CEO Katherine Maher, who was hastily appointed at the end of October 2023 to replace Paddy Cosgrave, plans to step down on March 1 to join NPR as CEO — Technology can sometimes move at the speed of light. And so, too, can technology executives.
More: Business Post, The Verge, NPR, Variety, and Independent.ie
Threads: @lorakolodny and @lpolgreen
X: @krmaher, @krmaher, and @ingridlunden
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The UK NCSC's all-source intelligence assessment: ransomware attacks will almost certainly increase in both volume and impact over the next two years due to AI — Ransomware attacks will increase in both volume and impact over the next two years due to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, British intelligence has warned.| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
ASML reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €7.2B, net profit up 9% YoY to €2B, both above est., orders up 3x QoQ to €9B+, and expects 2024 net sales to be flat YoY — ASML Holding NV (ASML.AS), Europe's biggest technology company by market value, on Wednesday reported better … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia's RTX GPUs can now upgrade SDR video to HDR using AI, supported in both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome on Windows PCs with HDR enabled — Nvidia is launching a new feature for all RTX GPU owners today: RTX Video HDR. … You just need an HDR10-compatible monitor with HDR enabled in Windows.
More: NVIDIA, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, Fast Company, PC Gamer, Yahoo News, [H]ard|Forum, NewsBytes, TweakTown, The Decoder, WorthPlaying, Wccftech, and guru3d.com
X: @nvidiageforce, @pellynv, @tomwarren, @pellynv, and @nvidiageforce
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, and r/nvidia
| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
The US National Science Foundation partners with OpenAI, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others to launch NAIRR, a pilot to expand researchers' access to AI tools — The pilot program, called the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, follows President Biden's executive order mandating lower entry to AI infrastructure.
More: NSF, The Register, SiliconANGLE, The Hill, Computerworld, Axios, NVIDIA, Microsoft On the Issues, Nextgov/FCW, Cerebras, and FedScoop
X: @darpa, @sentoddyoung, @brigittetousi, @githubpolicy, @allen_ai, and @nsf
LinkedIn: Andrew Wheeler and Jennifer Glore
| Eamon Farhat / Bloomberg: |
IEA: electricity used by data centers, crypto, and AI could grow 100%+ in the next three years; Ireland's data centers could use 32% of its electricity by 2026 — - Cryptocurrency, AI to dominate demand, IEA report finds — Increase in demand will be covered by renewables, nuclear
More: The Verge, The Register, Network World, The Messenger, IEA, Silicon Republic, Data Center Knowledge, FinSMEs, and Tech Xplore
X: @tunguz, @iea, and @technology
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
A US federal judge denies the NSO Group's motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit and orders the Pegasus spyware maker to answer Apple's complaint by February 14 — Apple has won an early battle against the NSO Group in court today. Apple sued the Pegasus spyware maker in November 2021 … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
eBay plans to cut ~1,000 full-time jobs, or ~9% of its workforce, and scale back the number of contracts within its “alternate workforce” over the coming months — - EBay said Tuesday it's laying off 1,000 full-time employees. — CEO Jamie Iannone told employees the company will …
More: eBay Newsroom, The Verge, The Register, Fortune, Fast Company, Associated Press, Digital Trends, Investor's Business Daily, NPR, HotHardware, New York Post, Tech.co, The Messenger, Proactive, Chain Store Age, Mashable, Android Headlines, Engadget, TechStartups, TechRadar, PYMNTS.com, RTÉ, Neowin, TechCrunch, Silicon Florist, Silicon Valley Business …, Livemint, South China Morning Post, Reuters, and Bloomberg
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Klarna launches Klarna Plus, a $7.99/month subscription plan in the US, with waived service fees when using its One Time Card, double rewards points, and more — - Swedish fintech firm Klarna is launching a monthly subscription plan in the U.S. to lock in its heaviest users ahead …
More: Klarna US, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Payments Dive, Robots.net, TechCrunch, and Finextra
| Reuters: |
Massachusetts court filing: Google reached a settlement in an AI chip patent infringement lawsuit filed by Singular Computing, which sought $1.67B in damages — Google (GOOGL.O) on Wednesday reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit over chips that power the company's artificial … | Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co: |
A look at some long-term issues facing the gaming industry, including deep layoffs, weak revenue growth, growing development costs, and declining VC investments — To players and outside observers, 2023 looks like one of the 70-year-old gaming industry's greatest-ever years.
More: Android Police. X: @carnage4life, @karstenw, @ballmatthew, @frozenfire42, @alexherrity, and @rianflo
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A profile of AI expert Kai-Fu Lee, who helped Microsoft and Google get established in China and whose startup 01.AI seems to be winning the open-source AI race — Kai-Fu Lee, an AI expert and prominent investor who helped Google and Microsoft get established in China, says his new startup 01.AI … | Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch changes the Prime Gaming subscription payout model to a fixed rate, expands the Partner Plus Program, and removes the $100K cap for 70/30 revenue share — Twitch is making big monetization changes again in an attempt to make a more sustainable system, lowering earnings in some places and raising them in others.
More: Twitch, TechCrunch, and Dexerto
X: @greibach_vt, @shindags, @twitch, @morgan_sung, and @morgan_sung
| Bloomberg: |
EquiLend, which processes $2.4T+ of securities-lending transactions per month, goes down after a January 22 cyberattack and says restoration may take a few days — - EquiLend says it may take days to recover from cyber incident — Firm is at heart of Wall Street's securities-lending industry
More: BleepingComputer, Finextra, The Stack, and Securities Finance Times
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
London- and Tallinn-based VC firm Plural, led by some of Europe's best known startup founders, raised a €400M fund to invest in early-stage “deep tech” startups — The firm offers a Silicon-Valley approach to backing start-ups as an alternative to the traditional VC model
X: @soundboy, @ryan_browne_, @khelioui, @taavet, @carinanamih, and @pluralplatform. LinkedIn: Kate Connolly
| Noam Cohen / Bloomberg: |
As Wikimedia Russia shutters, a look at the Kremlin-compliant Wikipedia alternative Ruwiki, led by a former Wikimedia Russia director and launched on January 15 — A campaign to replace the country's Wikipedia with a more pliant alternative seems near completion.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
BeReal plans to let brands and celebrities join, starting on February 6, and says the app now has 23M DAUs, up from 20M DAUs in August 2023 — BeReal, a rising social media app that emphasizes authenticity, is making its first outreach to brands and celebrities.| Bloomberg: |
Oppo and Nokia sign a patent cross-licensing deal, ending a years-long dispute, letting the Chinese smartphone maker sell in key European markets like Germany — - Patent cross-licensing agreement ends years-long dispute — Chinese brand is the No.4 smartphone maker in the world| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google releases a Gemini-powered chat-based tool in beta for building Search ad campaigns in Google Ads to all English language advertisers in the US and the UK — Google announced today that Gemini, its family of multimodal large language models, now powers the conversational experience within the Google Ads platform.| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
NYC-based Bilt Rewards, which converts rental payments to points, raised $200M led by General Catalyst at a $3.1B valuation, and says users spend $20B annually — - General Catalyst, Eldridge invest in $200 million equity round — Startup wants to add neighborhood merchants to rewards program
More: Crunchbase News, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Pulse 2.0, and Crowdfund Insider. LinkedIn: Vishal Lugani
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