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Brazilian neobank Nubank reports Q4 revenue up 128% YoY to $1.45B, $58M net income, up from $66.1M net loss YoY, and says it ended 2022 with 74.6M customers (Manya Saini/Reuters)

Manya Saini / Reuters: Brazilian neobank Nubank reports Q4 revenue up 128% YoY to $1.45B, $58M net income, up from $66.1M net loss YoY, and says it ended 2022 with 74.6M customers — Nu Holdings Ltd (NUN.MX) reported a surge in fourth-quarter gross profit on Tuesday, as customers flocked to the core lending products offered

Tel Aviv-based MDI Health, whose AI-powered service helps clinicians customize and manage medication for patients, raised a $20M Series A led by Intel Capital (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Tel Aviv-based MDI Health, whose AI-powered service helps clinicians customize and manage medication for patients, raised a $20M Series A led by Intel Capital — The Israeli startup’s platform allows clinicians to make informed decisions on prescriptions based on multi-drug interactions …

Microsoft releases 77 security fixes, patching three actively exploited zero-day flaws in Windows and Office, and nine critical RCE vulnerabilities (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft releases 77 security fixes, patching three actively exploited zero-day flaws in Windows and Office, and nine critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft’s February 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 77 flaws.

Google Photos is broken on the latest iOS update (Update: Fixed)

The Google Photos app is crashing for many people on iOS. The issue seems to occur after the iOS 16.3.1 update. Update: February 15, 2023 (12:27 AM ET): Google has confirmed on Twitter that it has solved an app crashing issue in the Google Photos iOS app. The company said you should update to the

At a recent event, senior executives at gaming firms like Tencent and NetEase said they are looking to better promote China’s culture, as regulations ease up (South China Morning Post)

South China Morning Post: At a recent event, senior executives at gaming firms like Tencent and NetEase said they are looking to better promote China’s culture, as regulations ease up — China’s major video gaming companies are looking to better promote the nation’s culture and uphold social values …

Some users report that “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible messages (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)

Andrew Griffin / The Independent: Some users report that “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible messages — System appears to be suffering a breakdown as it ponders why it has to exist at all — Microsoft is adding Chat GPT tech to Bing

Filing: Berkshire Hathaway cut its holdings of TSMC’s American depositary shares by 86% last quarter to 8.29M, valued at $617.7M; TSMC’s stock drops 3.8%+ (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Filing: Berkshire Hathaway cut its holdings of TSMC’s American depositary shares by 86% last quarter to 8.29M, valued at $617.7M; TSMC’s stock drops 3.8%+ — Warren Buffett slashed his holding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. just months after disclosing a major stake …

OpenSPICE: A Portable Python Circuit Simulator

[Roman Parise] and [Georgios Is. Detorakis] have created OpenSPICE a fork of the PySpice project, adding a new simulation engine written entirely in Python. This enables the same PySpice simulations to be executed on any platform that runs python (which we reckon is quite a few!) whilst leveraging the full power of the python infrastructure.

SandboxAQ, a startup spun out of Alphabet that is developing post-quantum cryptography and simulation software for drug and material development, raised $500M (Jane Lanhee Lee/Reuters)

Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: SandboxAQ, a startup spun out of Alphabet that is developing post-quantum cryptography and simulation software for drug and material development, raised $500M — Sandbox AQ, a startup spun off from Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) last year, said on Tuesday it raised $500 million as it helps customers prepare for a quantum

How to check Uber prices

Are you trying to take a ride somewhere? Uber is an easy way to get around if you have no access to a vehicle. It can also get expensive, though. Especially during busy days, peak hours, and holidays. Today we’ll teach you how to check Uber prices before you high a ride with a driver.

Google Fiber’s 5-gig internet service starts rolling out in three cities

Image: Google Fiber Google Fiber is now offering 5 Gbps speeds in certain markets (via Engadget). Customers in Kansas City, West Des Moines, and the Salt Lake City metropolitan area will be the first to get the option for the speedier tier, which is rolling out now. Late last year, Google started testing limited access

A look at Vietnam’s plans to make Ho Chi Minh City a startup hub; report: Vietnam drew a record $2.6B in VC funding across 233 deals in 2021, up from $700M YoY (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A look at Vietnam’s plans to make Ho Chi Minh City a startup hub; report: Vietnam drew a record $2.6B in VC funding across 233 deals in 2021, up from $700M YoY — On a recent morning, Vinnie Lauria found himself weaving through the clogged, narrow streets of Ho Chi Minh City on a

Sources: Apple plans to evaluate Pay Later borrowers based on spending history, the Apple devices they own, whether they applied for an Apple Card, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to evaluate Pay Later borrowers based on spending history, the Apple devices they own, whether they applied for an Apple Card, and more — With Apple Inc. pushing into the lending business with a “buy now, pay later” service, the company is laying out rules for how it

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge, photo by Christian Marquardt / Getty Images This story is based on interviews with people familiar with the events involved and supported by documents obtained by Platformer. At 2:36 on Monday morning, James Musk sent an urgent message to Twitter engineers. “We are debugging an issue with

Sony’s PSVR2 teardowns reveal how the headset tracks the Sense controllers

Image: Sony The PlayStation VR2 headset can track the accompanying Sense controllers thanks to a bunch of IR LEDs hidden in the orb-shaped controllers, according to new teardown videos Sony posted Tuesday evening. Under the Sense controller cover, the controller itself has a ring of 14 IR LEDs and three placed elsewhere for tracking, as

Sources: Twitter’s engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk’s tweets over everyone else’s after Musk complained Biden’s Super Bowl tweet outperformed his (Platformer)

Platformer: Sources: Twitter’s engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk’s tweets over everyone else’s after Musk complained Biden’s Super Bowl tweet outperformed his — After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm

Tweetbot’s creators added an edit button to their Mastodon client

Image: Tapbots The developers who created the now-discontinued Tweetbot client have added an edit button to Ivory, their app for Mastodon. This comes bundled with a couple of other updates for Ivory’s iOS app, including the ability to report users and posts, as well as support for Mastodon’s server language translation services. Tapbots, the company

Canada-based Descartes Systems Group, a logistics and supply chain software provider, acquires US-based final-mile logistics provider GroundCloud for ~$138M (Charlize Alcaraz/BetaKit)

Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit: Canada-based Descartes Systems Group, a logistics and supply chain software provider, acquires US-based final-mile logistics provider GroundCloud for ~$138M — Descartes aims to apply GroundCloud’s safety content, compliance solutions across more industries.

Too Cool for 8-bit Retro? Try 1-bit Gaming

While the world has been racing for higher and higher bit counts for CPUs, there are always those that buck the trend. Consider the venerable Motorola MC14500B, a 1-bit CPU, no kidding. [Usagi Electric] built up a computer based on one of these chips using a breadboard but has since pulled it apart to use

HBO Max vs Netflix: Who’s top dog in the streaming wars?

Credit: Amazon With recent price hikes and a controversial move to crack down on account sharing, Netflix is still the king of streamers, but people are looking for alternatives. One of the biggest streaming success stories of the last few years has been HBO Max. Both services position themselves as one-stop streamers with huge, varied

GlobalFoundries reports record Q4 revenue, up 14% YoY to $2.1B, net income up 1,453% YoY to $668M, and FY 2022 revenue up 23% YoY to $8.1B; GFS closes up 8.44% (Dan O’Shea/Fierce Electronics)

Dan O’Shea / Fierce Electronics: GlobalFoundries reports record Q4 revenue, up 14% YoY to $2.1B, net income up 1,453% YoY to $668M, and FY 2022 revenue up 23% YoY to $8.1B; GFS closes up 8.44% — As recent earnings reports showed how many semiconductor designers struggled during the latter half of 2022 …

Instagram is getting rid of live shopping

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram will no longer let creators tag products in livestreams starting in March, the company announced on Tuesday. “Beginning on March 16, 2023, you will no longer be able to tag products in live broadcasts on Instagram,” the company wrote on an Instagram support page. “This change will help

A US jury convicts Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin for his role in a $90M insider trading scheme that hacked companies to get non-public financial data (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)

Sean Lyngaas / CNN: A US jury convicts Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin for his role in a $90M insider trading scheme that hacked companies to get non-public financial data — A federal jury in Boston has convicted a prominent Russian businessman for his alleged role in a $90-million insider trading scheme …

Amazon’s weird toaster-shaped robotaxi hits the road in a ‘first’ for the company

Image: Zoox Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, said that its toaster-shaped driverless vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals was approved to drive on public roads with passengers in California. The company celebrated the milestone as the “first time in history a purpose-built robotaxi — without any manual controls — drove autonomously

Ford to Pause F-150 Lightning Production, Deliveries Over Battery Issue

(Image: Ford)Ford is pausing production and shipments of its F-150 Lightning, the highly anticipated, first-of-its-kind electric pickup from a mainstream automaker. Company sokesperson Emma Bergg confirmed for Motor Authority Tuesday that it would temporarily freeze the F-150 Lightning’s assembly line and shipment schedule thanks to a potential battery issue. The issue was uncovered during pre-delivery

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