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 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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The real aim of the Big Tech layoffs is to bring workers to heel and cultivate an insecure workforce, as an actual recession has yet to hit the tech sector (Brian Merchant/Los Angeles Times)

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Sources: as Apple launches MLS Season Pass, the company is shopping ad packages for up to ~$4M per season, without guaranteeing advertisers viewership numbers (Gerry Smith/Bloomberg)

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A look at US cases that may define the bounds of free speech online, including Gonzalez v. Google, Twitter v. Taamneh, and a fight over CA's kid safety law (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

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Tech Nation, the UK government-sanctioned tech ecosystem builder, plans to cease operations on March 31 after losing its grant funding to a Barclays-run program (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

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A National Labor Relations Board judge rules Amazon violated US federal labor laws as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two New York City facilities (Robert Iafolla/Bloomberg)

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Children as young as nine exposed to pornography The consumption of pornography is widespread among children, the children's commissioner says. January 31, 2023 at 06:18AM

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Sources: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony won't be part of E3 to be held in-person from June 13 to June 16, 2023; conference didn't happen in 2022 due to COVID-19 (Kat Bailey/IGN)

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The US NLRB says comments by Apple executives and policies imposed on employees violate workers' rights, after a complaint by a former Apple employee in 2021 (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

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ElevenLabs found an uptick in "voice cloning misuse cases" during its recent beta; Motherboard finds deepfake voices of Emma Watson, Joe Rogan, others on 4chan (Joseph Cox/VICE)

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Sources: Twitter made its first interest payment under Elon Musk to a group of seven banks; the payment was due around January 27 and estimated to be ~$300M (Bloomberg)

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The US' Berman amendments, passed during the Cold War to protect the free flow of content between the US and hostile countries, may complicate a TikTok ban (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal)

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After layoffs, Meta, which used remote work during the pandemic to advance its diversity goals, now faces an uphill battle to continue making progress with DEI (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

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Kuo: Apple plans to release a foldable iPad in 2024, featuring a carbon fiber kickstand, as well as an updated iPad mini, after a quiet 2023 for the iPad (Jon Porter/The Verge)

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The memory-chip sector, known for boom-and-bust cycles, is facing one if its worst-ever routs, as inventory glut and a fight for marketshare has cratered prices (Bloomberg)

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Source: Baidu is planning to launch an AI chatbot similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT in March 2023, initially embedded into its main search services (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

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Analysis: US Black Web3 founders raised $60M in 2022, up from $16M in 2021; total money raised by US Web3 startups in 2022 fell to $11.9B from $16.5B in 2021 (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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Court records since 2011 show how police in some US states used digital data, like text messages, search history, and emails, in abortion-related prosecutions (TechCrunch)

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How the "enshittification" cycle, in which platforms first are good to users and business customers before abusing them, has infected TikTok, Amazon, and others (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)

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The White House publishes a roadmap for mitigating risks posed by cryptocurrencies and urges Congress to hasten efforts to create a crypto regulatory framework (Sander Lutz/Decrypt)

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Toronto-based Smile CDR, which offers services for health and clinical data interoperability, raised a ~$30M Series B led by UPMC Enterprises and others (Charlize Alcaraz/BetaKit)

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OpenWeb, which helps outlets target readers with ads and manage comments, acquires Jeeng, an audience management service used by over 650 publishers, for $100M (CTech)

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San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis (David Ingram/NBC News)

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Meme-stock mania companies, including GameStop and AMC Entertainment, have raised $4.7B since the hype began in January 2021, but failed to boost performance (Financial Times)

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Q&A with Princeton CS professor Arvind Narayanan on why he calls ChatGPT a "bullshit generator", his worries over its boom, developing his AI taxonomy, and more (Julia Angwin/The Markup)

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AmazonSmile closes: Charities say they will suffer Amazon will soon close its charity scheme that allows people to donate by shopping. January 28, 2023 at 07:04AM

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New York City-based Paradigm, whose tech streamlines data aggregation and patient recruitment to speed up clinical trials, launches with a $203M Series A (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)

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Counterpoint: China's smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% as it became the country's No. 2 brand (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

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Source: the SEC is investigating Elon Musk's role in shaping Tesla's self-driving car claims, as part of a probe into the company's statements about Autopilot (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Joe Biden's administration secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery to China (Bloomberg)

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Google researchers detail MusicLM, an AI model that generates high-fidelity music from text descriptions trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Sources: OpenAI hired ~1,000 contractors over the past six months, 40% of them programmers creating data for its models to learn software engineering tasks (Semafor)

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US hacks back against Hive ransomware crew The US Department of Justice says its operation against the cyber gang was a 21st Century stakeout. January 27, 2023 at 02:11AM

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Sources: Amazon plans to launch an NFT initiative in April, with more than a dozen crypto-native partners and a focus on blockchain-based gaming (Michael Bodley/Blockworks)

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Intel reports Q4 revenue down 32% YoY to $14B, vs. $14.46B est., Data Center and AI down 33% YoY, and Q1 2023 revenue guidance below estimates; stock drops 7%+ (Chavi Mehta/Reuters)

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to require that Uber and Lyft have zero-emission fleets by 2030, potentially affecting an estimated 100K+ for-hire vehicles (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Substack introduces private accounts, search and chat improvements, easy template creation, toggling between publications, inline footnotes, and LaTeX support (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Yandex says a former employee is responsible for the leak of a 44.7GB source code repository on a hacking forum and that the company's systems were not hacked (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Sources: Meta is paying BuzzFeed to help generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train creators as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022 (Wall Street Journal)

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Iranian and Russian hackers targeting politicians and journalists, warn UK officials Politicians and journalists are being targeted with espionage attacks, the UK government is warning. January 26, 2023 at 06:08AM

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North Carolina-based Zift Solutions, whose ZiftOne tool helps companies manage channel marketing, sales, and operations, raised $70M led by Investcorp (Edward Gately/Channel Futures)

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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 (Axios)

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SK Hynix announces its LPDDR5T chip for mobile devices, with a 9.6Gbps data transfer speed, 13% faster than the previous LPDDR5X (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

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London-based crypto exchange Luno, owned by DCG, lays off 35% of its global workforce, citing market "turbulence"; Luno has a headcount of ~960 per LinkedIn (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

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The new 256GB Mac mini with M2 and 512GB 14-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro have slower SSD speeds than previous M1 models because they have fewer NAND chips (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

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Microsoft reports Q2 devices revenue down 39% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue down 13%, Xbox content and services revenue down 12%, and Windows OEM revenue down 39% (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Microsoft Q2: revenue up 2% YoY to $52.7B, net income down 12% YoY to $16.4B, Dynamics 365 revenue up 21% YoY, LinkedIn revenue up 10% YoY; stock rises 4%+ (Microsoft)

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US accuses Google of 'driving out' ad rivals A federal lawsuit alleges the tech giant's anti-competitive actions mean more websites need paywalls. January 25, 2023 at 02:21AM

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Research: African tech startups raised $1.55B in 71 debt deals in 2022, up from $767M in 2021, and startup funding rose 8% YoY, compared to a 35% drop globally (Ruth Olurounbi/Bloomberg)

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Netflix, Apple and Amazon accounted for 19 Oscars nominations, down from 37 in 2022, and only one streaming title garnered more than one nomination (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

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