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Cybersecurity company Resecurity says hackers obtained login credentials for customer support services used by Amazon, Alibaba, Apple, Goldman, BMW, and others (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)

Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: Cybersecurity company Resecurity says hackers obtained login credentials for customer support services used by Amazon, Alibaba, Apple, Goldman, BMW, and others — In an episode that underscores the vulnerability of global computer networks, hackers got ahold of login credentials for data centers …

Meta plans to update its TOS for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users in the UK and will begin moving those users from its Irish subsidiary to US agreements (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Meta plans to update its TOS for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users in the UK and will begin moving those users from its Irish subsidiary to US agreements — Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company’s Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move

Daily Authority: 🍎 Where have we seen One UI 5.1 before?

Good morning! Last day at home before I head out to Barcelona for MWC. Think I’ll take the Nintendo Switch along so I can make more headway in Metroid Prime Remastered. Anyway, we’ve got a few highlights in the newsletter today, such as One UI versus iOS and a pricey Studio Ghibli collectable. One UI

Poll: Do you use an authenticator app?

The other day Twitter made SMS-based two-factor authentication paid on its platform. But that’s not the only way to secure your Twitter or any other accounts using two-factor authentication. There are multiple authenticator apps that do the job just fine. They are also more secure than the SMS-based solution, which can be compromised by SIM

The first Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 foldable might not come from Samsung

Z Fold 4 (unfolded) Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A veteran tipster has dished out a few Vivo X Fold 2 details. They add that this device will be the first foldable phone with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor is the latest and greatest Android phone chipset

Exploring the History of EPROM in the Soviet Union

An article on the history of EPROMs in the Soviet Union by [Vladimir Yakovlev] over at The CPU Shack Museum caught our attention. It is part one of a series on the topic, and walks you through the earliest Soviet EPROMs families. Early EPROM programmer using punched paper tape (Intel, Electronics Magazine 1971) The first

Oracle’s new Java subscription model to cost a lot more: Gartner

Oracle’s new Java subscription licensing model could cost existing and new customers a lot more, according to a research paper from market research firm Gartner. On January 23, Oracle replaced its former Java SE and Java SE Desktop subscription with a new Java SE Universal subscription that changes the licensing model to a per employee

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company signed a binding, 10-year contract to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo consoles on the same day as Xbox (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company signed a binding, 10-year contract to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo consoles on the same day as Xbox — Microsoft’s deal with Nintendo to bring “Call of Duty” games to Nintendo systems — if Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition …

Microsoft more than triples Bing Search API prices to recoup investments

A comparison of the prices reflects a 3x to 10x increase across different tiers for Bing Search and Bing Image Search APIs.

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)

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: 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 — Linux 6.2 was released yesterday, and Linus Torvalds described the latest Linux kernel release as, “Maybe it’s not a sexy LTS release …

Mumbai-based Mintoak, which lets banks deploy and scale services like payments and lending to their SMB customers, raised a $20M Series A led by PayPal Ventures (Bhavya Dilipkumar/Moneycontrol)

Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol: Mumbai-based Mintoak, which lets banks deploy and scale services like payments and lending to their SMB customers, raised a $20M Series A led by PayPal Ventures — The startup plans to use the raised capital to ramp up its tech stack and double down on the existing product portfolio.

FTX Japan will resume crypto and fiat withdrawals from February 21, 2023 through its crypto exchange Liquid Japan; FTX acquired Liquid in 2022 (Osato Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: FTX Japan will resume crypto and fiat withdrawals from February 21, 2023 through its crypto exchange Liquid Japan; FTX acquired Liquid in 2022 — – FTX Japan will begin processing withdrawals for customers from tomorrow. — The company is also looking to resume other business operations.

Tidy Breadboard uses Banana Bread

Self-described passionate maker in the electronics and 3D printing world, [Jakob], aka [testudor], was getting frustrated trying to connect banana plugs to solderless breadboards. Project Banana Bread was born — small banana jack adaptors and a companion tray with pockets to hold up to six modules. The base in the photo is made from 5083

India and Singapore link their digital payment systems, UPI and PayNow, to enable instant payments between the two countries with an initial cap of S$1K per day (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India and Singapore link their digital payment systems, UPI and PayNow, to enable instant payments between the two countries with an initial cap of S$1K per day — India and Singapore have linked their digital payments systems, UPI and PayNow, to enable instant and low-cost fund transfers …

A January 2023 survey of 300 HR leaders at US companies revealed that 98% of them say software and algorithms will help them make layoff decisions this year (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: A January 2023 survey of 300 HR leaders at US companies revealed that 98% of them say software and algorithms will help them make layoff decisions this year — As layoffs ravage the tech industry, algorithms once used to help hire could now be deciding who gets cut

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

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: London-based quantum computing startup Quantum Motion has raised £42M led by Bosch Ventures — U.K. quantum computing company Quantum Motion has raised £42 million ($50.5 million) in an equity round of funding led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC), with participation from Porsche …

Clear PLA Diffuses LEDs

[Chuck] often prints up interesting 3D prints. But we enjoyed his enhancement to a cheap LED Christmas tree kit. The original kit was simply a few green PCBs in the shape of a tree. Cute, but not really something a non-nerd would appreciate. What [Chuck] did, though, is printed a clear PLA overcoat for it

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)

Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: Ride-hailing service inDrive, whose gross revenue increased 88% in 2022, raised $150M in debt that links repayment to its performance, from General Catalyst — InDrive, the second-most downloaded ride-hailing app in the world, raised $150 million using an unusual debt instrument that links repayment to the company’s performance.

Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications is a Treasure Trove

Having a big bookshelf of ham radio books and magazines used to be a point of bragging right for hams. These days, you are more likely to just browse the internet for information. But you can still have, virtually, that big shelf of old ham books, thanks to the DLARC — the digital library of

Samsung says that weird thing on the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s display is not a defect

Galaxy S23 Ultra Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Several users have noticed a bubble-like formation on the display of their Galaxy S23 Ultra. Samsung says that the phone’s screen can sometimes appear squashed or pressed, but it’s not a product defect. Multiple Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra users have noticed a strange deformity of sorts

Clear PLA Diffuses LEDs

Automating the Most Analog of HVAC Equipment

Burning wood, while not a perfect heating solution, has a number of advantages over more modern heating appliances. It’s a renewable resource, doesn’t add carbon to the atmosphere over geologic time scales like fossil fuels do, can be harvested locally using simple tools, and it doesn’t require any modern infrastructure to support it. That being

Google’s Pixel Fold could be surprisingly heavy compared to other foldables

Credit: How To I Solve/Steve Hemmerstoffer A report claims Google’s upcoming foldable phone could be quite heavy. The weight of the Pixel Fold may be due to the battery. The handset allegedly has the largest battery in a foldable to date. It’s not uncommon for foldable phones, like the Galaxy Z Fold 4, to be

TrendForce: DRAM’s average price fell 31.4% in Q3 and 34.4% in Q4 2022, among the worst drops since 2006; Samsung plans to spend $30B+ in 2023 to grow capacity (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: TrendForce: DRAM’s average price fell 31.4% in Q3 and 34.4% in Q4 2022, among the worst drops since 2006; Samsung plans to spend $30B+ in 2023 to grow capacity — The memory chip industry is going through a historic decline in demand, with two of the worst quarterly drops on record

7 Painful Blunders Killing Your Digital Content Usability

While digital content creators focus on the “bones” and “meat” of their assets, worrying about the info comprehensiveness and other factors critical for visibility and higher rankings in search engines, they often forget about its “skin.” Yes, content is king in digital marketing, but it’s the retinue that makes the king. Speaking of digital content,

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