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- Jem Aswad / Variety: IFPI report: subscription audio streaming revenue grew 10.3% to $12.7B in 2022, which ended with 589M paid subscribers; total streaming grew 11.5% YoY to $17.5B — Global recorded-music revenue growth slowed down dramatically in 2022 but still was up 9% according to the year-end report …
- IFPI report: subscription audio streaming revenue grew 10.3% to $12.7B in 2022, which ended with 589M paid subscribers; total streaming grew 11.5% YoY to $17.5B (Jem Aswad/Variety)
- Windows 11's Snipping Tool appears to have a bug similar to Pixel's Markup tool "aCropalypse" bug, which lets anyone reveal info edited out in some screenshots (João Carrasqueira/XDA Developers)
- A US federal judge approves a settlement in the Celsius bankruptcy case that lets the company's custody account holders opt in to receive 72.5% of their crypto (Stephanie Murray/The Block)
- The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the PC, the Internet, and the mobile phone, and can reduce global inequities if risks are mitigated (Bill Gates/GatesNotes)
- Feroot Security finds TikTok tracking pixels on 30 US government websites across 27 states; such trackers are ubiquitous and offered by Meta, Google, and others (Wall Street Journal)
- Intel says Raja Koduri, who joined as Chief Architect in 2017, is leaving to found a startup focused on generative AI for gaming, media, and entertainment (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)
- An internal TikTok tool can access some personal data of Indian users who used the app before India's 2020 ban; an employee jokingly called the tool "NSA-To-Go" (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes)
- Reykjavik-based Pearl Abyss' CCP Games raised $40M in financing led by a16z to develop a triple-A blockchain game set in the Eve Online universe (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
- Ahead of a March 23 US House hearing, TikTok posts a video of CEO Shou Chew rallying users to defend the app from a US ban, saying US 5M businesses use TikTok (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- An internal Microsoft document instructs Azure salespeople to say that OpenAI's licenses have "limited enterprise-grade capabilities" and fewer privacy features (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
- Grammarly appoints Global Head of Product Rahul Roy-Chowdhury as its CEO, starting on May 1, replacing Brad Hoover, who will stay on as a board member (Blake Schmidt/Bloomberg)
- NVIDIA unveils cuLitho, a software library for computational lithography that TSMC and Synopsys have integrated into their tools and manufacturing processes (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)
- Nvidia announces DGX Cloud, offering its AI supercomputers to companies looking to scale up their AI needs, starting at $36,999 per month for a single node (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
- Roblox rolls out AI tools, including Code Assist that lets creators use text prompts to create usable game code and Material Generator for in-game 2D surfaces (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
- Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers who sell info on US citizens to anyone, including China (Karl Bode/Techdirt)
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