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Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cisco reports Q2 revenue down 6% YoY to $12.79B, vs. $12.71B est., and plans to cut 5% of its global workforce; Cisco had ~85,000 employees as of July 2023  —  – Cisco said it would let… Read More »Cisco reports Q2 revenue down 6% YoY to $12.79B, vs. $12.71B est., and plans to cut 5% of its global workforce; Cisco had ~85,000 employees as of July 2023 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Rasa, which provides a framework and a low-code UI to help enterprises build AI chatbots, raised a $30M Series C co-led by StepStone Group and PayPal Ventures  —  It’s no fun as a customer to… Read More »Rasa, which provides a framework and a low-code UI to help enterprises build AI chatbots, raised a $30M Series C co-led by StepStone Group and PayPal Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Zuckerberg makes valid points on the Quest 3 being better overall than the Vision Pro today, but he risks having his own “Ballmer laughs off the iPhone” moment  —  After trying the Vision Pro, Mark Zuckerberg… Read More »Zuckerberg makes valid points on the Quest 3 being better overall than the Vision Pro today, but he risks having his own “Ballmer laughs off the iPhone” moment (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI details Stable Cascade, a new image generation model built on a different architecture to SDXL to improve performance and accuracy, now in preview  —  Stability AI, the company behind the popular Stable Diffusion… Read More »Stability AI details Stable Cascade, a new image generation model built on a different architecture to SDXL to improve performance and accuracy, now in preview (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: Samsung announces an upcoming Galaxy S24 series update, adding a Vividness display slider after users complained of a dull display under the default settings  —  – Samsung has announced that the upcoming February update for… Read More »Samsung announces an upcoming Galaxy S24 series update, adding a Vividness display slider after users complained of a dull display under the default settings (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: UK water utility Southern Water confirms hackers stole data on as many as 470K customers; Russia-linked ransomware gang Black Basta claimed credit in January  —  U.K.-based water utility Southern Water has confirmed that hackers stole the… Read More »UK water utility Southern Water confirms hackers stole data on as many as 470K customers; Russia-linked ransomware gang Black Basta claimed credit in January (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post: Uber and Lyft drivers in at least 17 US cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago, plan to strike today over pay; UK-based food app couriers also plan to strike  —  Thousands of drivers for… Read More »Uber and Lyft drivers in at least 17 US cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago, plan to strike today over pay; UK-based food app couriers also plan to strike (Lauren Kaori Gurley/Washington Post)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Slack rolls out AI features to summarize threads, offer channel recaps, let users ask questions, and more to Enterprise users, after testing Slack AI in 2023  —  Slack is launching a suite of built-in AI… Read More »Slack rolls out AI features to summarize threads, offer channel recaps, let users ask questions, and more to Enterprise users, after testing Slack AI in 2023 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: YC releases a new list of 20 types of startups the accelerator wants to join its program, the biggest overhaul of its Request for Startups since 2018  —  The prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator overhauled its… Read More »YC releases a new list of 20 types of startups the accelerator wants to join its program, the biggest overhaul of its Request for Startups since 2018 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Wes Davis / The Verge: DuckDuckGo adds a Sync & Backup tool to its browser to sync passwords, bookmarks, and favorites without needing an account and says the data is E2EE  —  DuckDuckGo has added a new “Sync & Backup”… Read More »DuckDuckGo adds a Sync & Backup tool to its browser to sync passwords, bookmarks, and favorites without needing an account and says the data is E2EE (Wes Davis/The Verge)