Bloomberg: Binance admits flaws in maintaining its Paxos-managed BUSD stablecoin, which should be backed 1:1; ChainArgos: BUSD was undercollateralized by $1B+ in 2020-21 — Binance Holdings Ltd., the biggest cryptocurrency exchange, acknowledged past flaws in the management of its stablecoin’s reserves …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix restricts some staff’s ability to see other employees’ salaries, a major shift for a company that has long offered rare pay transparency — Employees at the director level lost ability to view colleagues’ pay data late last year — Employers List Wide Salary Ranges in Ways That Sidestep Pay Transparency
Read MoreHappy Wednesday! I got my biannual haircut this week, and once again the hairdresser scolded me for not cutting it more often. I would have tried to explain my social anxiety, but, you know… Samsung may skip the Galaxy S24 Plus
Read MoreAbhijith Ganapavaram / Reuters: The FAA is “working to restore” its Notice to Air Missions system, which has failed, causing mass disruption; FlightAware shows 400+ flights have been delayed — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) system that alerts pilots and other flight personnel about hazards …
Read MoreFinancial Times: Court documents: Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20M in Paradigm’s $2.5B Paradigm One fund in late 2021, before the fund then invested in FTX and FTX US — Court documents shed light on Sam Bankman-Fried’s circular transactions — Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20mn in a large venture capital fund …
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Cory Doctorow and law professor Rebecca Giblin on their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, and how tech platforms monetize creators via distribution bottlenecks — It’s a book about artists and technology and platforms and how different kinds of distribution and creation tools create chokepoints …
Read MoreUnofficial renders of the Galaxy S23 Ultra. | Image: Onleaks / Smartprix Samsung’s upgrades for this year’s Galaxy S23 lineup include higher-resolution camera sensors and improved low light photography, according to a pair of teaser trailers posted by Samsung China. The new phones are expected to be officially announced in three weeks on February 1st
Read MoreJeremy Hill / Bloomberg: Court documents: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, NFL star Tom Brady, a Peter Thiel-linked trust, and more own FTX Group stock, now considered worthless — Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and star NFL quarterback Tom Brady are among those sharing in the pain of FTX Group’s sudden implosion.
Read MoreReports indicate Apple could launch new versions of its flagship MacBook Pro very soon, what can we expect?
Read MoreAn unofficial render of Samsung’s Galaxy S23. | Image: OnLeaks / Digit Plus, problems at Parler, and rumors of Apple-designed MicroLED displays. Continue reading…
Read MoreEnterprise data management firm Informatica has announced plans to lay off 7% of its total workforce through the first quarter of 2023, the company said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company said it expected the cuts to better align its workforce to its cloud-focused strategic priorities and cut costs
Read MoreJavier Espinoza / Financial Times: How Section 19a of Germany’s Competition Act gives antitrust authorities the power to divest and sanction Big Tech, as the EU slowly rolls out its enforcement — While EU regulators slowly roll out their own enforcement mechanism, Berlin is already holding gatekeepers to account
Read MoreTypical nutcrackers rely on simple pin hinges to join two handles for the cracking task. However, [adam the machinist] has demonstrated that a single-piece nutcracker is possible by using the flexural properties of the right grade of steel. The nutcracker is manufactured out of 17-4 PH stainless steel, heat treated to the H900 condition. A
Read MoreApple’s iPhone 15 Pro is expected to bring a couple of major design changes and updates, here’s what you need to know.
Read MoreJennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: An overview of the adoption of Matter, the new open-source smart home interoperability standard, across the devices and controllers on display at CES 2023 — We round up all the new product announcements and look at what’s next for Matter as companies start to monetize this newfound interoperability.
Read MoreRISC-V is a rival computing architecture to Arm, and it’s been gaining steam over the last few years. However, it recently got a major boost when Google announced that Android will support this new architecture. An Android-powered RISC-V smartphone is still a long way off, but we wanted to know whether you’d buy one. We
Read MoreCade Metz / New York Times: A profile of Character.AI, founded by two former Google researchers to offer “plausible conversation” with famous people, like William Shakespeare and Elon Musk — At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined.
Read MoreThe Toniebox is a toy that plays stories and songs for kids to listen to. Audio content can be changed by placing different NFC enabled characters that magnetically attach to the top of the toy. It can play audio via its built-in speaker or through a wired headphone connected to the 3.5 mm stereo jack.
Read MoreMike Butcher / TechCrunch: London-based Peppy, which offers digital health services for menopause, fertility, pregnancy, and more via a B2B2C model, raised a $45M Series B led by AlbionVC — There are some mega-trends playing out across developed-world workforces that startups are picking up on.
Read MoreCredit: Smartprix Samsung has posted two teaser videos for the Galaxy S23 series. The clips point to more megapixels and better low-light photography. Samsung has finally confirmed a February 1 Unpacked event for its upcoming Galaxy S23 series phones, and the company has now posted its first teaser videos as well.
Read MoreAnto Antony / Bloomberg: Sources: Tata Group’s WeChat-like super app Neu is expected to generate sales of ~$4B in the year to March 31, missing the $8B goal set at the start of 2022 — Tata Group’s ambitious super app is expected to meet just half of the sales target in its debut year, forcing
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Samsung could reportedly skip the Galaxy S24 Plus model in 2024. It’s believed that the Galaxy S22 Plus only accounted for 17% of shipments in 2022. Samsung has offered three Galaxy S flagships for a few years now, dating back to 2020’s Galaxy S20 series. We’ve had the standard
Read MoreChris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Analysis: cybersecurity startups raised $15.3B in 2022, down by a third from a record $22.8B raised in 2021 but still 68% higher than the $9.1B raised in 2020 — Venture capital in cybersecurity hit a record high in 2021 — like it did in many industries — but last year
Read MoreAmanda Pedersen / Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry: A US ITC judge rules that some Apple Watches infringe on one of five Masimo pulse oximeter patents related to using light sensors to measure blood oxygen levels — An International Trade Commission judge ruled that Apple infringed on one of five Masimo patents related to using
Read MoreJai Vijayan / Dark Reading: Microsoft releases 98 security fixes, including 11 critical vulnerabilities and one for an actively exploited privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Windows ALPC — Microsoft’s January 2023 Patch Tuesday security update contains fixes for bugs in multiple products. Here’s what you need to patch now.
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