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Canada’s Hut 8 Mining plans to merge with rival US Bitcoin Corp, creating a crypto mining giant in North America called Hut 8 Corp with a ~$990M market cap (Mehnaz Yasmin/Reuters)

Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: Canada’s Hut 8 Mining plans to merge with rival US Bitcoin Corp, creating a crypto mining giant in North America called Hut 8 Corp with a ~$990M market cap — Canada’s Hut 8 Mining Corp. (HUT.TO) plans to merge with rival U.S. Bitcoin in an all-stock deal to create a mining

Jobber, which offers operations management tools for home service businesses, raised a $100M Series D led by General Atlantic and passed $100M in 2022 revenue (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Jobber, which offers operations management tools for home service businesses, raised a $100M Series D led by General Atlantic and passed $100M in 2022 revenue — Despite exceeding $100 million USD in revenue last year, CEO says Jobber remains “super early” in terms of market penetration.

Mastodon reports having ~1.4M MAUs, down from over 2.5M in November 2022, as some newcomers complain the service is hard to use and others return to Twitter (Amanda Hoover/Wired)

Amanda Hoover / Wired: Mastodon reports having ~1.4M MAUs, down from over 2.5M in November 2022, as some newcomers complain the service is hard to use and others return to Twitter — Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the exodus from Elon Musk’s Twitter, suggesting the decentralized platform is not a

Hubble Captures Stunning New View of the Tarantula Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope has been churning out scientific revelations for more than 30 years, and remarkably, it still works. The new James Webb Space Telescope might be more capable. However, Hubble still has an edge over all the ground-based telescopes on Earth, as evidenced by its latest observations of the Tarantula Nebula. This image

The LockBit ransomware gang claims responsibility for an attack on the UK’s Royal Mail that halted international shipping, contradicting an earlier statement (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The LockBit ransomware gang claims responsibility for an attack on the UK’s Royal Mail that halted international shipping, contradicting an earlier statement — The LockBit ransomware operation has claimed the cyberattack on UK’s leading mail delivery service Royal Mail that forced the company …

Chrome and Edge Browsers to Get Nvidia RTX AI Video Upscaling

Nvidia has been at the forefront of using AI to upscale images for several years now. Although it begun this journey by using it for video games via Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), it’s now taking it to an unexpected platform: the web browser. On Feb. 7, Chrome 110 will get a wide release, with

Filings: Digital Currency Group begins selling shares in investment vehicles run by its subsidiary Grayscale at a steep discount, seeking to repay creditors (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Filings: Digital Currency Group begins selling shares in investment vehicles run by its subsidiary Grayscale at a steep discount, seeking to repay creditors — Digital assets conglomerate sells down holdings in prized investments at a discount to pay creditors

Daily Authority: 👀 OnePlus Pad Peek

Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority. This week I’m looking forward to heading off on a murder mystery weekend at a remote Scottish hotel. Hopefully, I’ll survive the night! We’ve got lots of news for you today, as the OnePlus 11 launches globally later alongside the OnePlus Pad. We’ve got leaks for the

Nintendo cuts its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and revises Switch sales forecasts from ~19M to ~18M (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Nintendo cuts its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and revises Switch sales forecasts from ~19M to ~18M — Nintendo Co. cut its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, underscoring uncertainty around its aging Switch console and the global gaming environment.

Internal memo: Meta plans to revamp Horizon Worlds, including opening the app to users aged 13-17, seeking to improve user retention as competition intensifies (Salvador Rodriguez/Wall Street Journal)

Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: Internal memo: Meta plans to revamp Horizon Worlds, including opening the app to users aged 13-17, seeking to improve user retention as competition intensifies — Memo highlights social-media giant’s plan to revitalize app, boost users in 2023 — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META -0.25%decrease …

Data is a stumbling block for most multicloud deployments

Data issues are not new: data integration, data security, data management, and defining single sources of truth. However, what is new is combining these issues with multicloud deployments. Many of these problems can be avoided with a bit of upfront planning and using common data architecture best practices that have been understood for years. The

IT career roadmap: Mobile app developer

Mobile devices play a large and growing role in nearly every aspect of our daily lives, so it’s not surprising there would be a growing need for mobile app developers. Mobile app developers create applications for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. This might include creating mobile versions of web or computer-based applications. It might

The role of the database in edge computing

The concept of edge computing is simple. It’s about bringing compute and storage capabilities to the edge, to be in close proximity to devices, applications, and users that generate and consume the data. Mirroring the rapid growth of 5G infrastructure, the demand for edge computing will continue to accelerate in the present era of hyperconnectivity.

C++ still shining in language popularity index

C++, already established as a rising star in the Tiobe programming language popularity index, continues to make great strides so far in 2023. The language scored an increase of 5.93% this month over the same time last year, far ahead of all other languages, software quality services vendor Tiobe said. In January, C++ won the

A New York City public middle and high school for girls is using ChatGPT-generated lesson plans to help students examine the chatbot’s usefulness and pitfalls (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Natasha Singer / New York Times: A New York City public middle and high school for girls is using ChatGPT-generated lesson plans to help students examine the chatbot’s usefulness and pitfalls — Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence.

How AI de-aging VFX are increasingly used on actors, including Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, and the possible impact on Hollywood’s economics (David Smith/The Guardian)

David Smith / The Guardian: How AI de-aging VFX are increasingly used on actors, including Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, and the possible impact on Hollywood’s economics — Stars like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are being rendered younger digitally but voices in the industry express concern about where we might be

SoftBank reports a ~$5B loss for its Vision Fund in Q3, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and investments of less than $350M in only a few startups (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: SoftBank reports a ~$5B loss for its Vision Fund in Q3, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and investments of less than $350M in only a few startups — SoftBank Group Corp.’s first earnings report without founder Masayoshi Son went a lot like those he presided over the past few years …

A PlayStation Vita emulator for Android is launching in just a few days

Credit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority An Android version of the Vita3K PlayStation Vita emulator will launch on Sunday. This will be the first proper working PlayStation Vita emulator on Android. One of the best things about Android is that it’s easy to download emulators to play your favorite console games. We’ve already seen top-notch

OG DOOM Shows off the Origins of Multi-Monitor

We have a thing for DOOM, and we admit it. The source was released, and clever hackers have ported the engine to every system imaginable. It’s a right of passage, when hacking a machine, to run DOOM on it — be it a VoIP phone, or tractor. But the original 1993 release does have a few

An interview with Apple executives Tim Millet and Bob Borchers on M2, building on M1, transitioning from Intel, the future of Mac gaming, Metal APIs, and more (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: An interview with Apple executives Tim Millet and Bob Borchers on M2, building on M1, transitioning from Intel, the future of Mac gaming, Metal APIs, and more — On M2 chips, Mac mini and how the Mac will thrive in gaming — Apple’s M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when

An FTC official says the agency does not plan to appeal its US federal court loss over Meta’s Within acquisition, but could still appeal to an internal judge (Reuters)

Reuters: An FTC official says the agency does not plan to appeal its US federal court loss over Meta’s Within acquisition, but could still appeal to an internal judge — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it will not appeal its loss in federal court in its fight to stop Meta Platforms …

WhatsApp updates Status, adding a Private Audience Selector, Status Reactions, 30-second Voice Status messages, and more, rolling out on iOS, Android, and web (WABetaInfo)

WABetaInfo: WhatsApp updates Status, adding a Private Audience Selector, Status Reactions, 30-second Voice Status messages, and more, rolling out on iOS, Android, and web — WhatsApp has just announced a set of new features for status updates, which will be available to users on both iOS and Android devices over the coming weeks.

SoftBank reports a ~$5B loss for its Vision Fund in Q3, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and investments of less than $350M in only a few startups (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: SoftBank reports a ~$5B loss for its Vision Fund in Q3, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and investments of less than $350M in only a few startups — SoftBank Group Corp.’s startup investment unit reported another quarterly loss, hurt by sluggish valuations throughout the technology landscape.

Microsoft one ups Google with surprise AI event later today!

Credit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Microsoft is holding a press conference later today, and ChatGPT announcements are very much on the cards. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is also in Redmond for the event. We might finally see Microsoft announce ChatGPT integration for Bing. A day after Google announced its ChatGPT competitor — Bard —

Document: prosecutors and SBF’s lawyers agree to let SBF use Zoom, email, WhatsApp with restrictions, and more, but not Signal and other ephemeral apps (Brian Quarmby/Cointelegraph)

Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph: Document: prosecutors and SBF’s lawyers agree to let SBF use Zoom, email, WhatsApp with restrictions, and more, but not Signal and other ephemeral apps — The agreement comes as a result of federal prosecutors looking to ban SBF from contacting current or former FTX and Alameda employees while on house arrest.

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