Journals

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: A researcher finds a bug in fertility tracking app Glow’s online forum that exposed the personal data of ~25M users; fixing the bug took Glow about a week  —  A bug in the online forum for… Read More »A researcher finds a bug in fertility tracking app Glow’s online forum that exposed the personal data of ~25M users; fixing the bug took Glow about a week (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Kylie Robison / Fortune: Sierra, an enterprise-focused conversational AI startup from Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, launches with $110M in fundraising led by Sequoia Capital and Benchmark  —  Bret Taylor, right, launches Sierra, a conversational AI platform for businesses, with… Read More »Sierra, an enterprise-focused conversational AI startup from Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, launches with $110M in fundraising led by Sequoia Capital and Benchmark (Kylie Robison/Fortune)

Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: Flipper Devices, which makes the Flipper Zero multi-tool device, announces a new $49 Video Game Module, powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller  —  The creators behind the popular Flipper device have teamed up with Raspberry… Read More »Flipper Devices, which makes the Flipper Zero multi-tool device, announces a new $49 Video Game Module, powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller (Lucas Ropek/Gizmodo)

Zachary Small / New York Times: GLAAD releases its first gaming industry survey, with 1,500 participants: <2% of console video games include LGBTQ characters, 17% of gamers are queer, and more  —  In its first survey of the video game… Read More »GLAAD releases its first gaming industry survey, with 1,500 participants: <2% of console video games include LGBTQ characters, 17% of gamers are queer, and more (Zachary Small/New York Times)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia releases an early version of Chat with RTX, an app that lets users run a personal AI chatbot on a PC with an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU and 8GB+ of VRAM  —  Nvidia… Read More »Nvidia releases an early version of Chat with RTX, an app that lets users run a personal AI chatbot on a PC with an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU and 8GB+ of VRAM (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out its Companion Mode to the Meet app on Android and iOS, letting users check-in, share emoji reaction, raise their hand, and more  —  Originally introduced for the web and Nest Hub Max, Google… Read More »Google rolls out its Companion Mode to the Meet app on Android and iOS, letting users check-in, share emoji reaction, raise their hand, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Bloomberg: A look at Adobe’s very cautious gambit to add AI to Creative Cloud, pushed by Dall-E and Midjourney, and questions over whether creatives will embrace the tools  —  Dall-E and Midjourney pushed the Photoshop behemoth to develop Firefly, a… Read More »A look at Adobe’s very cautious gambit to add AI to Creative Cloud, pushed by Dall-E and Midjourney, and questions over whether creatives will embrace the tools (Bloomberg)

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $2.1B, above $2.08B est., and Gross Merchandise Volume up 23% YoY to $75.1B, above $71.6B est.; SHOP drops 10%+  —  Shopify Inc. reported sales and profit for the… Read More »Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $2.1B, above $2.08B est., and Gross Merchandise Volume up 23% YoY to $75.1B, above $71.6B est.; SHOP drops 10%+ (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Virginia-based software testing startup Antithesis raised a $47M seed, a source says led by Amplify, Tamarack Global, and First In at a $215M valuation  —  Software testing startup Antithesis has raised $47 million in seed funding,… Read More »Virginia-based software testing startup Antithesis raised a $47M seed, a source says led by Amplify, Tamarack Global, and First In at a $215M valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU closes its DMA investigation into iMessage and Microsoft Bing, Edge, and Advertising, deciding against regulating the services due to a lack of dominance  —  – Services not dominant enough to face Digital Markets Act… Read More »The EU closes its DMA investigation into iMessage and Microsoft Bing, Edge, and Advertising, deciding against regulating the services due to a lack of dominance (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)