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A recap of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, with testimony from the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord — The chief executives of five major tech companies are testifying Wednesday about allegations they failed to protect children from abuse on their platforms …
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LinkedIn: Aaron Haddock, Ph.D., Leah Plunkett, and Heidi Saas
| New York Times: |
US lawmakers release 90 pages of Meta emails from 2021, showing Mark Zuckerberg rejected calls to bulk up resources for children's well-being and safety — Lawmakers released internal emails detailing the company's failed efforts to add staff to focus on the online safety of minors, hours before a hearing on the topic.
More: Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, The Information, New York Post, The Messenger, and Washington Post
Mastodon: @kissane@mas.to, @kissane@mas.to, @kissane@mas.to, and @b_fung@masto.ai. X: @naominixwrites
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA — On the eve of Wednesday's big tech hearing (both big tech and a big hearing — five CEOs are testifying as we speak) …
More: Techdirt, Business Insider, The Hill, NBC News, Daily Camera, Mashable, and Politico
X: @fboversight, @designitforus, @fboversight, @senblumenthal, and @tech_oversight. LinkedIn: Gary Pope. Forums: r/technology
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
US Senate hearing: Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google app stores should verify ages; Linda Yaccarino says X isn't “the platform of choice for children” — Social media CEOs testify before a committee examining ways to curb harms from online platforms
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Threads: @alex.stamos. Bluesky: @tylerking.bsky.social. X: @globalaffairs, @katebevan, @heritage, @zamaan_qureshi, @robleathern, @franceshaugen, @netchoice, @weprotect, and @cspan
| Angela Yang / NBC News: |
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
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X: @alexbarinka and @kurtwagner8
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
The FBI and US DOJ disrupt Volt Typhoon, a uniquely dangerous Chinese hacking operation to hijack hundreds of Cisco and Netgear routers at end-of-life status — Chinese hackers prepare to ‘wreak havoc’ against Americans, FBI Director Chris Wray tells Congress
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X: @cisajen, @cisajen, @ericgeller, @ddimolfetta, @committeeonccp, @ericgeller, @carlypage_, @ericgeller, @dnvolz, and @eamonjavers. LinkedIn: Dustin Volz
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen confirms “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts”, after ZachXBT noted outflows of 213M XRP, worth $112.5M — - Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said Wednesday that there had been “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts.”| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says GPT-4 poses “at most” a slight risk of helping create biological threats, according to early tests to evaluate “catastrophic” risks from LLMs — Artificial intelligence startup carried out tests as part of efforts to understand and prevent any “catastrophic” risks from its technology.
More: OpenAI, VentureBeat, and The Decoder
X: @openai, @tlbtlbtlb, @nathanbenaich, @jack24dd30, @gdb, @tolgabilge_, @sjgadler, @aleks_madry, and @tejalpatwardhan. LinkedIn: Aleksander Madry. Forums: Hacker News
| Jeffrey Gottfried / Pew Research Center: |
US adults survey: 83% use YouTube; 68% use Facebook; 47% use Instagram; 27% to 35% use Snapchat, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest; 22% use X and Reddit — YouTube and Facebook are by far the most used online platforms among U.S. adults; TikTok's user base has grown since 2021
More: Engadget, The Hill, TechCrunch, PCMag, and TechSpot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says that Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Copilot features will be available on Apple Vision Pro on February 2 — Microsoft is launching a suite of its Microsoft 365 apps on Apple's Vision Pro headset later this week.
More: Microsoft Tech Community, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Microsoft Tech Community, GeekWire, The Messenger, Patently Apple, Engadget, and Neowin
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| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
A look at four major categories of promising applications that could emerge at the intersections of crypto and AI, and the prospects and challenges of each — Special thanks to the Worldcoin and Modulus Labs teams, Xinyuan Sun, Martin Koeppelmann and Illia Polosukhin for feedback and discussion.| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
An FTX lawyer says the defunct crypto exchange expects to fully repay its customers and has abandoned efforts to restart the platform, due to a lack of buyers — Its FTT token surged about 11% after the news. — 10 Years of Decentralizing the Future — May 29-31, 2024 - Austin …
More: YouTube, Bloomberg, The Guardian, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, The Verge, Decrypt, Blockworks, Milk Road, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, The Block, and Watcher Guru
| Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
UK prosecutors say the Met Police seized 61K bitcoin, worth £1.4B+, in 2018, as part of a trial over an alleged ~£5B investment fraud in China from 2014 to 2017 — One of the world's largest seizures revealed during trial of woman accused of laundering cryptocurrency for her former employer
More: Reuters, Financial Times, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, Sky News, Crypto Daily, Bloomberg, CryptoSlate, and CoinDesk
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q1 adjusted revenue up 5% YoY to $9.92B, vs. $9.51B est., handset chip sales up 16% YoY to $6.69B, and net income up 24% YoY to $2.77B — - Qualcomm beat on revenue and earnings in the quarter. — The company said it shipped $6.69 billion in handset chips during the December quarter …
More: MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, NBC 7 San Diego, Proactive, and Qualcomm. X: @benbajarin
| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOJ says eBay agreed to pay $59M to settle allegations of violating the Controlled Substances Act by allowing the sale of pill presses and other items — Justice Department says eBay has also agreed to enhance its compliance program — EBay will pay $59 million to settle …
More: US Department of Justice, USA Today, eBay Newsroom, ABC News, Engadget, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Hill, and NBC Bay Area
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers on a usage basis, raised a $43M Series B led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $78M+ — Metronome, a startup that helps software companies offer usage-based billing, has raised $43 million in a Series B funding round led by NEA.
More: PYMNTS.com, FinSMEs, Metronome, and Metronome
X: @getmetronome, @npew, @sch, @jesse_miller, @trifamenz, @azharthegreat, and @briannekimmel. LinkedIn: Damien Weiss
| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
A look at Ubisoft's problems as insiders fear further layoffs: a wild goose chase after the latest fad, like NFTs, constant delays, low player numbers, and more — As industry-wide layoffs continue to plague headlines, Ubisoft, the sixth-largest video game company by employees, is at a crossroads.
More: Game Rant, Game World Observer, and Gameranx
Forums: r/gamernews, r/StarWarsOutlaws, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: a $200 price cut to $999, 16GB of VRAM, and impressive 4K performance, but a bulky adapter and outperforms the RTX 4070 a little — Nvidia's RTX 4080 Super is the third and potentially final of Nvidia's refreshed 40-series GPUs.
More: Eurogamer.net, TechPowerUp, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, KitGuru, PC Gamer, Ars Technica, Trusted Reviews, Game Rant, Wccftech, BabelTechReviews, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Tom's Hardware, Digital Trends, HotHardware, TechRadar, Forbes, ExtremeTech, and IGN. Forums: r/sffpc
| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
Silicon Valley's powerful companies claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but instead are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal, and authoritarian technocracy — Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It's past time we call it what it is.
More: Axios, Fast Company, and 9to5Mac
X: @worsematt, @deljohnsonvc, @jason_kint, @paulmarin90, @garymarcus, @adriennelaf, @adriennelaf, @adriennelaf, @julianwaller, @yappelbaum, @theatlantic, @dlberes, @jeffjarvis, @andersen, and @moonalice
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| John Seabrook / New Yorker: |
A profile of UMG chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge, who helped record labels rake in billions from streaming and now hopes to do the same with generative AI — Lucian Grainge, the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence?| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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LinkedIn: Lyonel D., Drew Thurlow, Caroline Giegerich, and Emil Protalinski
| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
Legislators and privacy experts detail how the tech industry has sought to water down state privacy regulation in the US; 13 US states now have privacy laws — New Jersey's governor signed a hard-fought data privacy law earlier this month, making the state one of eight nationwide … Sponsor Posts
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