Sarah Whitten / CNBC: Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 1.9% YoY to $7.85B, $55M net income, down from $607M YoY, 231M paid memberships, adding 7.66M subscribers vs. 4.57M expected — – Netflix added 7.66 million paid subscribers during the fourth quarter, more than the 4.57 million Wall Street expected.
Read MoreImage: James Bareham / The Verge Fake bylines. Content farming. Affiliate fees. What happens when private equity takes over a storied news site and milks it for clicks? Continue reading…
Read MoreKarissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter quietly updates its developer agreement with a clause banning third-party clients, after claiming the company was “enforcing long-standing API rules” — In case there was any doubt about Twitter’s intentions in cutting off the developers of third-party apps …
Read MoreMortal Kombat 11 was one of the big AAA launch titles for Stadia, but it hasn’t gotten many since then. It was just over three years ago when Stadia went online for “founders” who bought Google’s cloud gaming bundle, and now it’s all over. As Google previously announced, the Stadia shutdown happened last night, ending
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Netflix plans to roll out paid password sharing “more broadly” later in Q1 2023 and expects some “cancel reaction” before an improvement in overall revenue — The era of Netflix password sharing will soon come to a close. Netflix has plans to enforce password-sharing rules …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Smart Reply has disappeared from the Google Voice app. The Google Play Store and App Store confirm the feature has been removed. Android still offers reply suggestions. If you’re a heavy user of the quick reply suggestions on Google Voice, we have some bad news for you. The Smart
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has updated its developer rules to ban third-party clients, almost a week after it unceremoniously blocked the apps’ access to its platform, offering almost no explanation to what was going on (via Engadget). The new rules state that you can’t use Twitter’s API or content to “create
Read MoreCatherine Larkin / Bloomberg: SEC filing: T-Mobile says a hacker stole data for ~37M customer accounts, including names and addresses, but no passwords, SSNs, or financial information — T-Mobile US Inc. said a hacker obtained data for 37 million customer accounts, though it didn’t include payment card information or personal identifying numbers.
Read MoreImage: James Bareham / The Verge Fake bylines. Content farming. Affiliate fees. What happens when private equity takes over a storied news site and milks it for clicks? Continue reading…
Read MoreMaria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Vannevar Labs, which makes software for government agencies to process security data, raised a $75M Series B led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $90M+ — Defense technology startup Vannevar Labs Inc. has raised a $75 million funding round led by Felicis Ventures.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s putting your Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger account settings in one place. The company’s rolling out a new Accounts Center that lets you manage your preferences across all your Meta accounts from a centralized hub. The revamped Accounts Center will live in the settings menu on Facebook, Instagram,
Read MoreWhile you might have bought the best pair of skis in the 90s or 00s, as parts on boots and bindings start to fail and safety standards for ski equipment improve, even the highest-quality skis more than 15 or 20 years old will eventually become unsafe or otherwise obsolete. There are plenty of things that
Read MoreAnna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down as co-CEO but plans to stay on as executive chair; the company promotes COO Greg Peters to co-CEO with Ted Sarandos — Streaming company names new leadership as it looks to reset after ‘tough year’ in 2022 — Reed Hastings is stepping …
Read MoreJavaScript and Java both rank among developers’ most favorite and least favorite programming languages in JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem 2022 report. The just-released report is based on a survey of more than 29,000 developers. The most favorite languages cited in the report, relative to the number of programmers using them, were Kotlin, C#, Python,
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: PayPal says hackers accessed sensitive data of ~35K users, including addresses and social security numbers, in a credential stuffing attack in December 2022 — PayPal is sending out data breach notifications to thousands of users who had their accounts accessed through credential stuffing attacks that exposed some personal data.
Read MoreCould this defeat the Pentagon’s latest human-identifying robot? Apparently so. (Image: Kelli McClintock/Unsplash)The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested some of its resources into a robot that’s been trained—likely among other things—to identify humans. There’s just one little problem: The robot is cartoonishly easy to confuse. Army veteran, former Pentagon policy analyst,
Read MoreApple is raising the price of the HomePod mini, but only for some buyers. Here’s why.
Read MoreDid you hear? We could be getting a new MacBook this year.
Read MoreIf you’ve been reading Hackaday for any length of time, you’ll know we don’t often cover woodworking projects here. It’s not because we aren’t impressed with the skill and effort that folks put into them, and truth be told, we occasionally we even feel a tang of envy when looking at the final result. It’s
Read MoreWe sure didn’t have to wait very long to get a glimpse of what the new M2 Pro silicon can dish out. A Geekbench benchmark result has surfaced, and it shows a surprisingly large gain in multi-core performance over both its M1 and M2 predecessors. It’s a somewhat shocking delta given all of the M-class
Read MoreMary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: CB Insights: global fintech funding amounted to $75.2B in 2022, down 46% YoY, but up 52% compared to 2020; US fintech funding was down 50% YoY to $32.8B in 2022 — If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A post on the PlayStation blog lists “over 30” titles for the PlayStation VR2’s monthlong launch window (you can scroll down to see the full list here) that starts when the hardware ships starting February 22nd. While the new additions consist mostly of ports from the first PS
Read MoreSean Hollister / The Verge: Google made many mistakes with Stadia but did right by users when shutting down the service, including via full refunds, and other companies should take note — Google made a few mistakes with its Stadia cloud gaming service. … Pay attention, rival companies: this is how you shut down a
Read MoreAndy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sony announces the PlayStation VR2’s full launch game lineup, including Tetris Effect and 12 other new titles; the PSVR 2 will not be backwards compatible — 13 NEW TITLES HAVE BEEN REVEALED FOR THE HEADSET — Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed the final PlayStation VR 2 launch line-up …
Read MoreUnless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start your operating system. If you use Windows, you get Windows. If you use Linux, there’s a good chance you’ll use Grub
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