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Access Now: Gaza’s internet and telecoms have been fully shut down for seven straight days, the longest time since October 2023; 12 of its ISPs are down since October 2023  —  For seven consecutive days, internet and telecommunications services have… Read More »Gaza’s internet and telecoms have been fully shut down for seven straight days, the longest time since October 2023; 12 of its ISPs are down since October 2023 (Access Now)

Reuters: Sources: Reddit has drawn up detailed IPO plans to launch in March 2024, with a public filing in late February, the first major social media IPO since Pinterest  —  Social media platform Reddit has drawn up detailed plans to… Read More »Sources: Reddit has drawn up detailed IPO plans to launch in March 2024, with a public filing in late February, the first major social media IPO since Pinterest (Reuters)

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Apple’s seeming sense of entitlement to commissions from third-party iOS apps shows a confrontational stance at odds with seeking to reduce regulatory pressure  —  That take didn’t last long. … Sweeney’s description makes it sound… Read More »Apple’s seeming sense of entitlement to commissions from third-party iOS apps shows a confrontational stance at odds with seeking to reduce regulatory pressure (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: StatCounter: Bing ended 2023 with 3.4% global search market share, up less than one percentage point after ChatGPT; Google had 91.6%, Yandex 1.6%, and Yahoo 1%  —  – Search engine has steadily increased usage but remains… Read More »StatCounter: Bing ended 2023 with 3.4% global search market share, up less than one percentage point after ChatGPT; Google had 91.6%, Yandex 1.6%, and Yahoo 1% (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: TSMC announces another delay to its $40B site in Arizona, saying the second plant will start operations in 2027 or 2028, later than its prior 2026 guidance  —  – The firm’s first fab in Arizona has been pushed back… Read More »TSMC announces another delay to its $40B site in Arizona, saying the second plant will start operations in 2027 or 2028, later than its prior 2026 guidance (Bloomberg)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Vicarius, an autonomous vulnerability remediation service for supply-chain attacks, raised a $30M Series B led by Bright Pixel, taking its total funding to $57M  —  If the pitches reaching my inbox are any indication, one of… Read More »Vicarius, an autonomous vulnerability remediation service for supply-chain attacks, raised a $30M Series B led by Bright Pixel, taking its total funding to $57M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: The EU Council and Parliament reach a provisional deal on Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, which will force all crypto companies to conduct user due diligence  —  Crypto firms have to do checks on transactions of 1,000 euro… Read More »The EU Council and Parliament reach a provisional deal on Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, which will force all crypto companies to conduct user due diligence (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune: Research: monthly active open-source crypto developers fell 25% YoY to 22,266 by the end of 2023; 34% of the developers are in Europe, and 26% are in the US  —  Although the army of open-source developers… Read More »Research: monthly active open-source crypto developers fell 25% YoY to 22,266 by the end of 2023; 34% of the developers are in Europe, and 26% are in the US (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: Fairly Trained, a nonprofit founded by ex-Stability AI VP Ed Newton-Rex, will give certification labels to AI companies that get consent for their training data  —  New system seeks to create a sort of ‘organic’ or… Read More »Fairly Trained, a nonprofit founded by ex-Stability AI VP Ed Newton-Rex, will give certification labels to AI companies that get consent for their training data (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Have I Been Pwned adds ~71M email addresses of stolen accounts to its service from the Naz.API dataset, which allegedly contains 1B+ lines of stolen credentials  —  Have I Been Pwned has added almost 71 million… Read More »Have I Been Pwned adds ~71M email addresses of stolen accounts to its service from the Naz.API dataset, which allegedly contains 1B+ lines of stolen credentials (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)