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Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Tiger, Coatue, Vision Fund, a16z, Insight, Accel, Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Index together invested in 44 unicorns in 2023, down from 213 in 2022 and 471 in 2021  —  Funding to the unicorn class of companies — those private startups valued at $1 billion or more — has fallen dramatically in 2023 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Tiger, Coatue, Vision Fund, a16z, Insight, Accel, Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Index together invested in 44 unicorns in 2023, down from 213 in 2022 and 471 in 2021  —  Funding to the unicorn class of companies — those private startups valued at $1 billion or more — has fallen dramatically in 2023 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail a zero-click iMessage attack that used four zero-days and hacked iPhones for over four years, including dozens belonging to Kaspersky staff  —  “Triangulation” infected dozens of iPhones belonging to employees of Moscow-based Kaspersky.  —  Researchers on Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: How Apple hiring Stanford PhD Marcelo Lamego, who was the CTO of Masimo spinoff Cercacor, in 2013 to add Watch features sparked a fight that led to the US ban  —  Apple’s hiring of a key engineer 10 years ago helped spark a fight that led its watch to be banned from the US. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Amazon plans to start showing ads in movies and shows on Prime Video from January 29, with an option for customers to pay an extra $2.99 per month to avoid them  —  Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court pauses the ITC’s Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 import ban over Masimo’s patents, after the Biden administration declined to veto the ban  —  Apple (AAPL.O) scored a victory on Wednesday as a U.S. appeals court paused a government commission’s import ban … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researchers develop a protocol to secure AirTags against stalking while maintaining privacy, aiming to improve on Apple’s system of rotating public identifiers  —  Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court pauses the ITC’s Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 import ban over Masimo’s patent, after the Biden administration declined to veto the ban  —  Apple (AAPL.O) scored a victory on Wednesday as a U.S. appeals court paused a government commission’s import ban … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue  —  Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tobias Mann / The Register: As more high-performance computing chips pushed past 1 kW in 2023, like Nvidia’s GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, many manufacturers adopted direct liquid cooling  —  Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid  —  ANALYSIS As Moore’s Law slowed to a crawl, chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme