Friday’s top tech news: job cuts come for Google
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Read More[Bruce Land] of Cornell University will be a familiar name to many Hackaday readers, searching the site for ‘ECE4760′ will bring up many interesting topics around embedded programming. Every year [Bruce] releases yet more of the students’ work out into the wild to our great delight. This RP2040-based project is a bit more abstract than
Read MoreJeff Gifford / Phoenix Business Journal: VR edtech company Dreamscape Learn, developed through a two-year partnership between Arizona State University and Dreamscape Immersive, raised a $20M Series A — An immersive learning educational technology company developed in collaboration with Arizona State University has raised $20 million …
Read MoreChe Pan / South China Morning Post: China’s second-largest chip foundry Hua Hong signs a $6.7B wafer fab deal to produce 65nm, 55nm, 40nm, and other chips, as China pivots away from sub-14nm tech — China’s second-largest chip foundry Hua Hong Semiconductor Group, a state-backed semiconductor investment fund and a Wuxi entity signed …
Read MoreCan Duruk / Margins: The main reason ChatGPT is a threat to Google is because the latter’s monopoly position allowed search to degenerate into a spam-ridden, SEO-fueled hellscape — I hate monopolies and welcome our AI overlords … I don’t really cook often, but I do love making pasta aglio e olio.
Read MoreSoon you may be able to more-or-less set one of the tabs as default. Twitter’s next update should make it less insistent that you use the “For You” algorithmic timeline, according to a tweet from Elon Musk. He says the app will “stop switching you back to recommended tweets,” and remember if you left it
Read MoreWhile some people are happy with a simple coffee table to hold their snacks while watching Star Trek reruns, others want their furniture to go where no furniture has gone before. [Olivier Gomis] has definitely satisfied this need with his Wormhole Coffee Table. [YouTube] The complicated shape and curvature of a (3D representation of a)
Read MoreSarah Wynn / The Block: The US SEC charges Avraham Eisenberg with manipulating Mango Markets’ governance token MNGO to steal $116M of crypto assets and says MNGO was sold as a security — – The SEC brought charges against Avraham Eisenberg on Friday after the U.S. securities regulator said Eisenberg stole $116 million from Mango
Read MoreMia Sato / The Verge: In a staff call, CNET and Red Ventures executives said they were pausing AI-generated content on CNET and other websites and detailed their proprietary AI tool — The call, which lasted under an hour, was held a week after CNET came under fire for its use of AI tools on
Read MoreLora Kolodny / CNBC: Internal records: Twitter now has around 1,300 active employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers, and about 1,400 non-working employees — – Internal records show that Twitter has shed about 80% of its employees since Elon Musk took over and headcount is hovering around 1,300 employees today.
Read MoreThe switch away from the serif-laden typeface is being made for accessibility and legibility reasons, the agency says.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok has confirmed to Forbes that some of its US employees have the ability to boost videos in order to “introduce celebrities and emerging creators to the TikTok community.” The statement comes as part of a report about TikTok’s “Heating” button, which Forbes says can be used to
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk will never stop posting, no matter who tells him to stop. That was one of the takeaways from his brief testimony during his securities fraud trial, which took place in a San Francisco courthouse Friday. Lawyers for the plaintiffs peppered Musk with questions about his tweets
Read MoreThe mobile operator just suffered at least its fifth data breach since 2018, despite promising to spend a fortune shoring up its systems.
Read MoreCredit: Kuba Wojciechowski A render of Mobvoi’s next-generation TicWatch has leaked online. The leak claims the new TicWatch may ship with Wear OS 3 and a Snapdragon W5 Plus chip. Mobvoi may skip a generation and call the device the TicWatch Pro 5. If you’ve been waiting for news on Mobvoi’s next smartwatch, you can
Read MoreReed Hastings, cofounder and longtime CEO of the streamer, is stepping down after years of disrupting both the video rental market and Hollywood itself.
Read MoreWhat’s better than 3D printing a tank chassis with working tracks? How about 3D printing the entire thing, moving parts and all, as a single piece? That’s [3D Honza]’s PiPBOT-1, and it’s the culmination of a whole lot of design work. The design prints flat, then folds up into its final form. [3D Honza] has
Read MoreJosh Scott / BetaKit: Waterloo-based Magnet Forensics, which develops digital investigation software, agrees to be acquired by Thoma Bravo for CA$1.8B — Kitchener-Waterloo’s Magnet Forensics has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by software-focused American private equity firm Thoma Bravo.
Read MoreHumble Bundle’s Winter sale goes live today | Image: Humble Bundle Here’s your PSA to remind you that the Humble Bundle Winter Sale has started, knocking up to 90 percent off a variety of titles until February 7th. The sale features discounts on a plethora of AAA and eccentric indie games, but we’ve put together
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Even Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, now believes that the platform put a lopsided emphasis on videos and Reels last year — and traditional photo posts were worse off because of it. In one of the answers from his weekly Q&A with users today, he acknowledged, “I
Read MoreJosh Scott / BetaKit: Waterloo-based Magnet Forensics, which develops digital investigation software, agrees to be acquired by Thoma Bravo for CA$1.8B — Kitchener-Waterloo’s Magnet Forensics has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by software-focused American private equity firm Thoma Bravo.
Read MoreHumble Bundle’s Winter sale goes live today | Image: Humble Bundle Here’s your PSA to remind you that the Humble Bundle Winter Sale has started, knocking up to 90 percent off a variety of titles until February 7th. The sale features discounts on a plethora of AAA and eccentric indie games, but we’ve put together
Read MoreThe switch away from the serif-laden typeface is being made for accessibility and legibility reasons, the agency says.
Read MoreWhat’s better than 3D printing a tank chassis with working tracks? How about 3D printing the entire thing, moving parts and all, as a single piece? That’s [3D Honza]’s PiPBOT-1, and it’s the culmination of a whole lot of design work. The design prints flat, then folds up into its final form. [3D Honza] has
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