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First Republic Bank says it has shored up its finances with additional funding from the US Fed and JPMorgan Chase, giving the bank $70B in unused liquidity (Rachel Louise Ensign/Wall Street Journal)

Rachel Louise Ensign / Wall Street Journal: First Republic Bank says it has shored up its finances with additional funding from the US Fed and JPMorgan Chase, giving the bank $70B in unused liquidity — Fresh funding gives the bank $70 billion in unused liquidity — First Republic Bank FRC -14.84%decrease; red down pointing triangle

Oscars 2023: all the latest from film’s biggest awards show

Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All At Once. | Image: A24 A big year in film means a big night celebrating it. Continue reading…

A developer runs Meta’s 13B LLaMA model, considered to be competitive with GPT-3, on his laptop, showing local language models are feasible on consumer hardware (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: A developer runs Meta’s 13B LLaMA model, considered to be competitive with GPT-3, on his laptop, showing local language models are feasible on consumer hardware — The open release of the Stable Diffusion image generation model back in August 2022 was a key moment.

Hackaday Links: March 12, 2023

With a long history of nearly universal hate for their products, you’d think printer manufacturers would by now have found ways to back off from the policies that only seem to keep aggravating customers. But rather than make it a financially wiser decision to throw out a printer and buy a new one than to

The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC: all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13 (U.S. Department of the Treasury)

U.S. Department of the Treasury: The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC: all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13 — WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen …

New York shuts down Signature Bank as US regulators cite a “systemic risk exception” like for SVB, announcing all of Signature’s depositors will be “made whole” (CNBC)

CNBC: New York shuts down Signature Bank as US regulators cite a “systemic risk exception” like for SVB, announcing all of Signature’s depositors will be “made whole” — U.S. regulators said Sunday it shut down New York-based Signature Bank, a second financial institution …

Etsy is delaying seller payouts following Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Etsy says some sellers won’t receive their payments on time due to the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. In an email sent out to impacted shop owners, the company says it used the shuttered institution to send out deposits to “some sellers” and that they may not

A Parts Bin Cyberdeck Built for Satellite Hacking

While there’s little in the way of hard rules dictating what constitutes a cyberdeck, one popular opinion is that it should be a piecemeal affair — a custom rig built up of whatever high-tech detritus the intrepid hacker can get their hands on, whether it be through trades or the time-honored tradition of dumpster diving.

Sources: US officials are considering the extraordinary step of protecting all uninsured SVB deposits, if the FDIC is unable to find a buyer for the failed bank (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Sources: US officials are considering the extraordinary step of protecting all uninsured SVB deposits, if the FDIC is unable to find a buyer for the failed bank — Extraordinary step eyed if plan fails to sell the failed bank to another institution — Federal authorities …

Sources: US officials are considering the extraordinary step of protecting all uninsured SVB deposits, if the FDIC is unable to find a buyer for the failed bank (Washington Post)

Sources: regional banks are the likeliest bidders to prevail in the sale process for Silicon Valley Bank, not “too big to fail” banks like JPM or BoA (Lauren Tara LaCapra/The Information)

Lauren Tara LaCapra / The Information: Sources: regional banks are the likeliest bidders to prevail in the sale process for Silicon Valley Bank, not “too big to fail” banks like JPM or BoA — Regional banks are the likeliest bidders to prevail in the sale process for Silicon Valley Bank, people familiar with the matter

Building the Sanni Cartridge Reader To Back Up and Restore Games and Saves

Game cartridges are generally seen as a read-only medium with the contents as immutable as text chiseled into a granite slab, and with accompanying save files on the cartridge surviving for generations. The unfortunate truth is that as with any media storage, cartridges can and do fail, and save files are often just ethereal bits

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5: Everything we know and what we want to see

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Samsung is currently the market leader in the foldable phone space. There’s high interest in the next set of foldable devices the company will launch, and that’s where the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 comes in. The clamshell device has seen regular improvements through the years. The Galaxy Z

Sources: the FDIC started an auction late Saturday for SVB and final bids will be due by Sunday afternoon; it’s possible that no deal will be reached (Matthew Monks/Bloomberg)

Matthew Monks / Bloomberg: Sources: the FDIC started an auction late Saturday for SVB and final bids will be due by Sunday afternoon; it’s possible that no deal will be reached — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. kicked off an auction process late Saturday night for Silicon Valley Bank, with final bids due by Sunday

A look at the unusually high executive turnover at Apple, which has lost 11 key people just below the Senior VP level, since the second half of 2022 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at the unusually high executive turnover at Apple, which has lost 11 key people just below the Senior VP level, since the second half of 2022 — Apple is facing an unprecedented wave of executive departures. Also: The company will shake up its sales operations with a focus on

Sources: the UK is seeking a buyer for the British arm of SVB, which had ~£7B in deposits on Friday, with an UAE-based company as the “lead white knight” (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: the UK is seeking a buyer for the British arm of SVB, which had ~£7B in deposits on Friday, with an UAE-based company as the “lead white knight” — ‘Lead white knight’ eyeing British arm of tech lender that had billions in deposits

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on SVB: we are trying to meet the needs of depositors, but are not looking to bail out investors and owners of large banks (CBS News)

CBS News: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on SVB: we are trying to meet the needs of depositors, but are not looking to bail out investors and owners of large banks — The following is a transcript of an interview with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that aired on “Face the Nation” on Sunday, March 12,

From AirPods 4 to iPhone 15 – What colors would we like to see?

With the new yellow color available for the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, we asked ourselves what other colors we’d like to see.

‘Like a Dragon: Ishin!’ Is a True Yakuza Game

Even with no actual Yakuza in it, the latest installment in the franchise is excellent, and a credit to its historic setting.

Denon AH-C830NCW vs AirPods 3 – an easy win, but not for who you’d think

The AirPods 3 are a great pair of in-ear wireless buds, but can some simple upstarts cause them issues? The Denon AH-C830NCW may have a mad name, but they might be even better.

How to build an Alexa-based smart home

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority When you’re new to smart homes, knowing where to start can be tough. There are a lot of options out there — particularly when it comes to Amazon Alexa, which is the best-supported consumer platform out there, with hundreds of accessories and a large number of compatible smart speakers.

More than a bailout, SVB needs a white knight, someone who can come in and take over the bank that has been at the heart of the US innovation economy (Om Malik/On my Om)

Om Malik / On my Om: More than a bailout, SVB needs a white knight, someone who can come in and take over the bank that has been at the heart of the US innovation economy — After three decades of being part of the Silicon Valley ecosystem — as a reporter, writer, entrepreneur, and

Hack Your Heathkit to Trace MOSFET Curves

[TRX Lab] has an old Heathkit model IT-1121 curve tracer, and wants to modify it so he can plot the I-V curves of MOSFETs. For the uninitiated, curve tracers are used to determine the precise characteristics of components by measuring the output for a set of specific inputs – either voltage or current depending on

More than a bailout, SVB needs a white knight, someone who can come in and take over the bank that has been at the heart of the US innovation economy (Om Malik/On my Om)

This Open Hardware Li-Ion Charger Skips the TP4056

There’s a good chance that if you build something which includes the ability to top up a lithium-ion battery, it’s going to involve the incredibly common TP4056 charger IC. Now, there’s certainly nothing wrong with that. It’s a decent enough chip, and there are countless pre-made modules out there that make it extremely easy to

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