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 (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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HP reports Q1 revenue down 19% YoY to $13.8B, vs. $14.1B est., Personal Systems net revenue down 24% YoY to $9.2B, and Printing net revenue down 5% YoY to $4.6B (Reuters)

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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 (Wall Street Journal)

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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 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Qualcomm and Thales unveil the certification of the first commercially deployable iSIM, putting eSIM-like functionality directly into the phone's main processor (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

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Typeface, which offers generative AI for marketing copy and images, emerges from stealth with $65M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, M12, and Menlo Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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FTX's Nishad Singh pleads guilty to fraud charges Former FTX engineer says he is 'unbelievably sorry' for his role in the alleged crypto scheme. March 01, 2023 at 12:54AM

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US-based MKS Instruments, a little-known but key chip equipment supplier, says a "ransomware event" on "production-related systems" will cause delays into March (Financial Times)

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White House gives federal agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have TikTok installed on government devices and adjust IT contracts with vendors accordingly (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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The tiny diamond sphere that could unlock clean power A diamond sphere made in Germany was key to December's breakthrough fusion experiment in California. February 28, 2023 at 05:30AM

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Meta is forming a team to get generative AI into its products, led by Ahmad Al-Dahle, who joined Meta in 2020 after 16 years at Apple and reports to Chris Cox (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple has restarted work on an iPhone SE 4 with a 6.1" OLED screen and an Apple-designed 5G modem; Ross Young: China's BOE will supply the display (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

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Memo: the Canadian government will ban TikTok from all federal mobile devices, effective March 1, "to ensure the security and protection of government systems" (Christopher Nardi/National Post)

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Tesla stops FSD beta installations in the US and Canada until a future OTA update addresses an NHTSA recall; owners with FSD installed may keep using it, as is (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

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Missing Chinese tech banker 'assisting' authorities Bao Fan's disappearance this month renewed concerns of a potential crackdown on finance and tech figures. February 27, 2023 at 07:25AM

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Some experts, particularly those advocating for "ethical AI" or "responsible AI", say Microsoft and OpenAI's new Bing experiment is dangerous for the public (Wall Street Journal)

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Ocean plastic: How tech is being used to clean up waste problem An organisation is scaling up its attempts to solve the world's marine plastic waste problem. February 27, 2023 at 05:42AM

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The high-tech weeding machines cutting herbicide use Using AI technology, the latest weeding systems can automatically find and spray individual weeds. February 27, 2023 at 05:40AM

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Reports: 50+ Twitter staff were laid off over the weekend, including Twitter's product lead Esther Crawford, and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Source: Esther Crawford, who has become one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk's takeover, is out as chief executive of Twitter Payments (Zoë Schiffer/@zoeschiffer)

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As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators say they are often being asked to prove that they're human (Kate Lindsay/The Verge)

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Q&A with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson about inventing the metaverse concept, his blockchain startup Lamina1, not using ChatGPT to help write novels, and more (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY; China accounted for 55% of filings, the US accounted for 26%, and UK for 0.26% (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen's board, after the startup offered a "pay to play" deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

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Experts caution the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond toward automation, creating a dangerous slippery slope (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

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The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

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HMD Global announces the £150 Nokia G22, claims users will be able to replace its battery in around 5 minutes and screen in 20 minutes using a kit from iFixit (Jon Porter/The Verge)

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The tech helping people get a better night's sleep Individuals suffering from insomnia are increasingly turning to tech for assistance. February 20, 2023 at 05:30AM

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Amazon plans to integrate its logistics network and SaaS tools with India's Open Network for Digital Commerce, after Paytm and others committed to joining ONDC (Moneycontrol)

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OpenAI details its preparations for "if AGI is successfully created", including being cautious with its models and operating as if the risks are existential (Sam Altman/OpenAI)

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Source: Apple has hired a TV and digital video advertising executive, Lauren Fry, to help build a video ad business for Apple TV+ (Sahil Patel/The Information)

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Canada's second-largest telecom TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a hacker put up private GitHub repositories and payroll records for sale (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

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Financial institutions like BofA, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase are restricting internal use of tools like ChatGPT (Bloomberg)

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Block reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $4.65B, vs. $4.61B est., Square gross profit up 22% YoY to $801M, and Cash App gross profit up 64% YoY to $848M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Filing: DOJ seeks court sanctions against Google in its antitrust suit, citing Google's policy of deleting certain employee chats automatically after 24 hours (Brian Fung/CNN)

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Vitally, which makes customer success software that combines productivity and collaboration tools, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $40.6M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Google expands Magic Eraser, which lets users remove parts of a picture, from Pixel devices to Google One subscribers using Google Photos on Android or iOS (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

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Jamf finds Mac cryptomining malware in pirated copies of Final Cut Pro and warns the power of Apple Silicon Macs is making them popular cryptojacking targets (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

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An interview with SEC chair Gary Gensler on meeting Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX executives in March 2022 and October 2021, how tokens are securities, and more (Ankush Khardori/New York Magazine)

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A look at Twitter v. Taamneh and the US Supreme Court's struggle to determine whether social media companies can be held responsible for aiding terrorism (Bloomberg)

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Child abuse material found on VR headsets, police data shows Virtual reality technology is exposing children to new risks online, the NSPCC warns. February 22, 2023 at 09:36PM

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Mercedes-Benz partners with Google to bring navigation software and YouTube to its next-gen car OS and strikes a multibillion-dollar sensor deal with Luminar (Reuters)

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Artifact, the personalized news reader created by Instagram's co-founders, opens to the public, with new features and no sign-up required, on Android and iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Apple hit major milestones in a Jobs-era project to develop noninvasive blood glucose monitoring, as part of its Google X-like Exploratory Design Group (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Max Cutler, Spotify's head of audio talk shows and partnerships who oversaw deals with creators like Joe Rogan, is leaving, according to a source and a memo (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

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Microsoft defends $69bn Activision deal Opponents, including Sony, challenged the proposal at an EU hearing held behind closed doors. February 22, 2023 at 12:27AM

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Over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February, as some worry that the AI boom could turn the craft into a commodity (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

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Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.2, the first mainstream Linux kernel to support Apple's M1 chips, which is expected to become Ubuntu 23.04's default kernel (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet)

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Ride-hailing service inDrive, whose gross revenue increased 88% in 2022, raised $150M in debt, that links repayment to its performance, from General Catalyst (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)

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London-based quantum computing startup Quantum Motion has raised £42M led by Bosch Ventures (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

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