Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Twitter laid off dozens of sales and engineering staff last week, as Musk gave a one-week deadline to make its ad targeting work like Google search ads  —  He keeps laying people off anyway.  —  Dozens of Twitter employees across sales and engineering departments were laid off last week … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Chung / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia’s challenge to the NSA’s warrantless online surveillance program, leaving in place a lower court’s 2015 dismissal  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia to resurrect its lawsuit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Louis Rosenberg / VentureBeat: Researchers were able to uniquely identify VR users with 94% accuracy from only 100 seconds of motion data, using anonymized data from 50K+ Beat Saber players  —  Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous A.I.  —  A new paper from the University of California Berkeley reveals that privacy may be impossible … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta’s Quest v50 update adds an experimental setting called Direct Touch, which enables hand tracking for touching virtual buttons and keyboards  —  Hand tracking on Meta’s Quest VR headsets is about to get better.  With the new v50 update, you’ll be able to “touch” things like menu buttons … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: The FTC won’t challenge Amazon’s $3.49B acquisition of One Medical parent company 1Life Healthcare, which will allow the deal to close later this w  —  The Federal Trade Commission won’t challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s $3.49 billion acquisition of One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare Inc. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Theodore Schleifer / Puck: Sources: the US DOJ’s Public Integrity Section is looking into possible campaign-finance violations by Sam Bankman-Fried or his associates  —  An elite unit of the Department of Justice has taken an interest in the political side of the FTX case, raising the possibility of more indictments to come. Lees verder op Tech Meme

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 75% YoY to $629M, vs. $590M est., a $557M net loss, and 8.3M monthly transacting users, vs. 8.22M est. and down from 8.5M in Q3  —  – Coinbase reported fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday.  — The crypto exchange reported $629 million in net revenue … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: the FTC won’t challenge Amazon’s $3.49B acquisition of One Medical parent company 1Life Healthcare, which will allow the deal to close later this week  —  The Federal Trade Commission won’t challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s $3.49 billion acquisition of One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare Inc. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill: Medical device company AliveCor, which accused Apple of patent infringement, claims Biden upheld an ITC ruling that could result in an Apple Watch import ban  —  President Biden has upheld an International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling that could result in an import ban on the Apple Watch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Takeaways from the Gonzalez v. Google oral arguments: the justices did not engage much with Gonzalez’s weak core arguments after their initial dismantling  —  I’m going to crank this blog post out before I get swamped with press requests.  My takeaways:  — I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs’ position. Lees verder op Tech Meme