Jay Peters / The Verge: Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says the social network reached 2.5M MAUs in November, up from around 300,000 in October, as Twitter users flee the service — Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform that many are turning to as a Twitter alternative, saw its userbase skyrocket …
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Amazon quietly launches Prime Gaming in India, weeks after testing the service, offering Prime and Video subscribers access to mobile, PC, and Mac games — Amazon has quietly rolled out Prime Gaming, its subscription service that offers access to a number of titles, to its members in India weeks …
Read MoreA new report says Apple plans to move some MacBook production to Vietnam by mid-2023.
Read MoreNorman Harsono / Bloomberg: Changpeng Zhao confirms Binance acquired the remaining 49% stake in Indonesia’s crypto exchange Tokocrypto; the unit will cut 58% of jobs and replace its CEO — Binance Holdings Ltd.’s Indonesian unit is cutting jobs and replacing its top executive after the parent company took nearly full control over it.
Read MoreGet ready for vintage computing aplenty in [David Given]’s project to port EmuTOS to the AlphaSmart Dana. He’s got it all on video, too. All 38 hours of it over 13 episodes! The GEM desktop, as seen on the Atari ST line of computers. [David]’s fork of EmuTOS is an open source version of the
Read MoreNew York Times: An analysis shows how Chinese-language bots on Twitter drowned out tweets about protests over China’s zero-COVID-19 policy, as people sought to evade censors — Twitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, have recently vowed to crack down on bots. But the flood of spam for Chinese users …
Read MoreNikou Asgari / Financial Times: Sources: DCG is attempting to raise capital and avoid bankruptcy for its Genesis subsidiary in part to avert a $350M loan repayment to Todd Boehly’s Eldridge — Digital Currency Group would be on the hook for outstanding loan if crypto lender goes bankrupt, say insiders
Read MoreApple has been fined just over 1 million euros for forcing developers in France to sign up to abusive commercial clauses.
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Google’s Chrome OS has been available for roughly a decade now, carving out a niche in the enterprise and education space. But it still pales in comparison to Windows and Mac OS when it comes to global market share. Rita El-Khoury recently waxed lyrical about her experience with Chrome
Read MoreA lot of people are checking it out. | Image: Mastodon Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform that many are turning to as a Twitter alternative, saw its userbase skyrocket from about 300,000 monthly active users to 2.5 million between October and November, Mastodon’s CEO, founder, and lead developer Eugen Rochko said in a new
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A leaker has claimed that the Pixel 8 series could gain staggered HDR tech. This feature offers higher quality HDR than currently available on the Pixel 7’s main camera. This leak also suggests that the Pixel 8 could therefore gain a sensor upgrade. Google’s phones have long offered an
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter pilots Blue for Business with select businesses, helping companies identify employees via an additional badge, but doesn’t share other perks and pricing — Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue. At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses.
Read MoreBloomberg: Remote work and tech layoffs hollow out San Francisco, where only 43.1% of workers are back at offices, compared to LA’s 46.1%, NYC’s 47.6%, and Austin’s 62.7% — San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower opened almost five years ago as a monument to the region’s tech-driven economy …
Read MoreChe Pan / South China Morning Post: Chinese media reports: Xiaomi plans to lay off ~15% of its 35,314 employees amid weaker sales due to China’s COVID-19 lockdowns and slower consumer spending — Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi, which has an ambitious goal of unseating iPhone maker Apple from the No 1 spot globally by 2024
Read MoreWhen life hands you lemons, you make lemonade, right? What about when life hands you annoyingly intrusive work-from-home policies that require you to physically stay at your computer even though you really, REALLY need to go to the bathroom, but can’t be trusted to act like a responsible adult who won’t get diverted by TV
Read MoreCredit: Google A code hunter has found evidence of a Pro version of the Pixel Tablet. The variant has the same codename as the vanilla Pixel Tablet, only with a “Pro” attached to its name. Google has already given us plenty of information about the Pixel Tablet thanks to early reveals at I/O 2022 and
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: 100+ BTC claimed to be inaccessible was moved out of cold wallets tied to QuadrigaCX, the exchange that went bankrupt in 2019 after its CEO allegedly died — More than 100 BTC tied to QuadrigaCX moved out of cold storage wallets over the weekend. Quadriga’s bankruptcy trustee said three years ago
Read MoreTaryn Plumb / VentureBeat: CyberCube, a cyber risk analytics service for insurers, raised $50M from Morgan Stanley Tactical Value, bringing its total raised to over $100M — Undoubtedly, cybersecurity — and the management of risk — is top of mind for most business leaders today. — Consider that nearly 75% …
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Apple fixes a vulnerability, reported by Microsoft, that allowed attackers to bypass the macOS feature that checks if apps are notarized and developer-signed — Apple has fixed a vulnerability attackers could leverage to deploy malware on vulnerable macOS devices via untrusted applications capable …
Read MoreWashington Post: Source: Sam Bankman-Fried agrees voluntarily to be extradited to the US, where he is facing multiple criminal and civil charges, including conspiracy and fraud — Former crypto CEO’s decision could expedite the criminal and civil cases against him — NASSAU, Bahamas …
Read MoreThere are no weird, specialized components nor esoteric sleep mode tricks behind the long battery life of [Zak]’s WiFi mail slot watcher. Just some sensible design and clever focus on the device’s purpose: to send an HTTP request whenever it detects that the front door’s mail slot has been opened. The HTTP request is what
Read MorePaul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: Open-source database provider MariaDB closed down ~40% in its NYSE debut following its SPAC merger; MariaDB had a $368M market cap at $11.55/share opening price — Following through on an announcement it made in February, database management system provider MariaDB plc went public today …
Read MoreCallum Cyrus / Tech.eu: Germany-based VMRay, which offers advanced threat detection and analysis services, raised a $34M Series B led by Tikehau Capital — VMRay is spearheaded by the malware analysis and detection pioneers Dr. Carsten Willems and Dr Ralf Hund. — Germany-based cybersecurity startup VMRay …
Read MoreStacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT: Amazon rolls out Matter smart home standard over Wi-Fi to 17 Echo devices, including Echo Dot (5th Gen) and Echo (4th Gen), for users with Android phones — Amazon says it has started supporting the Matter smart home interoperability protocol over Wi-Fi on many of its Echo devices effective
Read MoreVlad Savov / Bloomberg: Elon Musk, in a reply to a tweet suggesting that voting on policy decisions should be restricted to Blue subscribers, says “Twitter will make that change” — Twitter Inc. will restrict voting on major policy decisions to paying Twitter Blue subscribers, company owner Elon Musk …
Read More