Apple faces obstacles in move to boost India manufacturing: Report

At a casings factory in southern India run by conglomerate Tata Group, only about half of the components from the production line are in good enough shape to be sent to Apple's supplier Foxconn, FT reported. Apple has been shifting production away from China after the country's strict COVID-related restrictions dented supply chains across industries. https://ift.tt/CFrfVny

US financial regulators are rapidly closing crypto's key routes to the banking system, accelerating since FTX collapsed, pushing the industry to the fringes (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
US financial regulators are rapidly closing crypto's key routes to the banking system, accelerating since FTX collapsed, pushing the industry to the fringes  —  Crypto's free pass is getting yanked as the most powerful US financial regulators rapidly close key doors to the country's banking system.

Chinese chip designer Unisoc seeks to raise $1.5 billion in private funding

Unisoc has approached several state-backed investment funds for the round, tapping increased local investor interest in China's domestic chip industry, which is gearing up to be more self-sufficient in the face of U.S. pressure, the people said. https://ift.tt/STxHFdQ

Samsung to use 100% recycled plastics in all its mobile phones by 2050

Samsung Electronics said it aims to broaden the use of eco-conscious materials to all its smartphone products in the coming years. https://ift.tt/lP1VItQ

Epic Games alleges Google not complying with Indian antitrust order

US firm Epic Games is challenging Google in an Indian tribunal for not complying with some portions of an antitrust directive, alleging that the tech giant is not hosting the gaming company's app store on Google's Play Store app. https://ift.tt/xtFaP4C

NFT marketplace Magic Eden partners with payments service MoonPay to let users buy digital collectibles using credit or debit cards, Apple Pay, or Google Pay (Rosie Perper/CoinDesk)

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk:
NFT marketplace Magic Eden partners with payments service MoonPay to let users buy digital collectibles using credit or debit cards, Apple Pay, or Google Pay  —  MoonPay has a similar partnership in place with NFT marketplace LooksRare.  —  Join the most important conversation in crypto …

CryptoSlam: Ethereum NFT sales jumped from $546.9M in December 2022 to $780.2M in January 2023, well down from ~$5B in January 2022; average prices were ~$372 (Medha Singh/Reuters)

Medha Singh / Reuters:
CryptoSlam: Ethereum NFT sales jumped from $546.9M in December 2022 to $780.2M in January 2023, well down from ~$5B in January 2022; average prices were ~$372  —  It's alive!  The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, defying reports of its demise.  —  Total NFT sales on the ethereum blockchain …

Google Photos may soon get cloud backup support for Locked Folder

The new feature has been discovered in a hidden settings page in the application's latest version, reports Android Central. https://ift.tt/5mVWPwr

A look at Andy Jassy's challenges running Amazon, down by $1T in market cap since he took over: cutting costs, layoffs, boosting Prime subscribers, and more (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A look at Andy Jassy's challenges running Amazon, down by $1T in market cap since he took over: cutting costs, layoffs, boosting Prime subscribers, and more  —  Investors joining Amazon's earning call earlier this month were greeted with a surprise guest: the group's chief executive, Andy Jassy.

Tesla adjusts its EV pricing for 4th time in US

Musk hinted that more price increases may be on the way as Tesla adjusts to the demand created by the massive price cuts. https://ift.tt/Np39xGo

Hoax bomb call at Google office in Pune; caller held in Hyderabad

"The office, located on the 11th floor of a multi-storey commercial building in Pune's Mundhwa area, received a call late Sunday night that a bomb was kept in the office premises," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone V) Vikrant Deshmukh said. https://ift.tt/qVYiEMP

Sex educators, adult stars, and sex workers complain about Instagram, saying Meta's moderation has gotten more punitive and less predictable since SESTA-FOSTA (Kat Tenbarge/NBC News)

Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
Sex educators, adult stars, and sex workers complain about Instagram, saying Meta's moderation has gotten more punitive and less predictable since SESTA-FOSTA  —  Cherie DeVille lives in perpetual fear of losing her 3.7 million Instagram followers.  —  DeVille is a well-known porn star who also has an OnlyFans account.

South Korea aims to join AI race as startup Rebellions launches new chip

The company's ATOM chip is the latest Korean attempt to challenge global leader Nvidia Corp in the hardware that powers the potentially revolutionary AI technology. https://ift.tt/NEhM7q4

A Stanford student using a prompt injection attack revealed the initial prompts of Bing Chat that control the service's behavior and its interactions with users (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
A Stanford student using a prompt injection attack revealed the initial prompts of Bing Chat that control the service's behavior and its interactions with users  —  By asking “Sydney” to ignore previous instructions, it reveals its original directives.  —  On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed a …

IDC: Pico, owned by ByteDance, gained ~15% of the global VR market share by Q3 2022, a 3x gain YoY; Meta's market share fell from 90% to ~75% in the same period (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
IDC: Pico, owned by ByteDance, gained ~15% of the global VR market share by Q3 2022, a 3x gain YoY; Meta's market share fell from 90% to ~75% in the same period  —  Pico, owned by ByteDance, has increased shipments of VR headsets as it attempts to compete with Meta's Quest 2