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Luminate's 2023 report: the global music industry passed 4T streams in 2023, a new record and up 34% from 2022; Taylor Swift had one in every 78 US streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/article/music-streams-2023-luminate-54aa3735ed707c1d5e9649724cc78c1f
http://www.techmeme.com/240110/p26#a240110p26

SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with AI voiceover company Replica Studios, requiring consent to create voice replicas for use in video games and safe storage of assets (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/sag-aftra-ai-voiceover-studio-video-games-1235866313/
http://www.techmeme.com/240109/p43#a240109p43

How the internet reshaped itself around Google's algorithms, including by using SEO tricks, and the company's role in many websites now using similar designs (Mia Sato/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization
http://www.techmeme.com/240109/p3#a240109p3

Substack says it'll remove some Nazi publications, but its new policy interpretation won't include proactively removing neo-Nazi and far-right extremism content (Casey Newton/Platformer)

https://www.platformer.news/p/substack-says-it-will-remove-nazi
http://www.techmeme.com/240108/p29#a240108p29

Starting this month Waymo plans to run its SUVs on Phoenix freeways, initially with just its staff, making it the first robotaxi company to prep faster rides (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2024/01/08/waymos-robotaxis-are-hitting-the-highway-a-first-for-self-driving-cars/
http://www.techmeme.com/240108/p18#a240108p18

Getty Images and Nvidia launch Generative AI by iStock, a text-to-image service that generates stock photos and is aimed at SMBs (Emilia David/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24027259/getty-images-nvidia-generative-ai-stock-photos
http://www.techmeme.com/240108/p19#a240108p19

The Wi-Fi Alliance begins certifying Wi-Fi 7 devices, which could offer big speed and efficiency gains over Wi-Fi 6 in new phones, laptops, and routers in 2024 (Wes Davis/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24024838/wi-fi-certified-7-announced-ar-vr-streaming-4k-8k
http://www.techmeme.com/240108/p10#a240108p10

Apple plans to start shipping the $3,499 Vision Pro on February 2 in the US after opening pre-orders on January 19 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24001858/apple-vision-pro-release-date-availability-price
http://www.techmeme.com/240108/p12#a240108p12

The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible (Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/4be5d468-0cc3-4881-a5fb-b5d0163de93e
http://www.techmeme.com/240106/p8#a240106p8

A UK study of 7,000 people born between 2000 and 2002: 48% agreed with "I think I am addicted to social media"; 57% of girls agreed, compared to 37% of boys (Hannah Devlin/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/02/social-media-addiction-teenagers-study-phones
http://www.techmeme.com/240103/p12#a240103p12

LastPass now requires users to set a complex master password with a minimum of 12 characters; users have been able to set a weaker master password since 2018 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-now-requires-12-character-master-passwords-for-better-security/
http://www.techmeme.com/240104/p9#a240104p9

PitchBook: VC investment in the US fell 30% YoY to $170.6B in 2023, lowest since 2019, and declined 35% YoY to $345.7B globally, lowest since 2017 (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-04/silicon-valley-vc-startup-funding-last-year-worst-since-2019
http://www.techmeme.com/240104/p3#a240104p3

Researchers developed three AI models to analyze 2,000TB of maritime data and create the first global map of vessel traffic and offshore infrastructure (Justine Calma/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/3/24018797/ocean-maps-ai-satellite-imagery-radar-fishing-vessels-offshore-energy-wind-oil
http://www.techmeme.com/240103/p18#a240103p18

X launches a Basic tier for Verified Organizations at $200/month or $2,000/year, in addition to Full Access at $1,000/month and $50/month for each US affiliate (Jay Peters/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/2/24022953/maybe-1000-per-month-was-too-expensive
http://www.techmeme.com/240102/p22#a240102p22

Fidelity and other spot bitcoin ETF issuers jockey for an early advantage to attract investors, as they reportedly may get approval to launch by January 10 (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/01/02/bitcoin-etf-fee-authorized-participant-fidelity-blackrock-galaxy-grayscale/
http://www.techmeme.com/240102/p17#a240102p17

X posts that have link previews now display titles or headlines in the corner of the image preview, but the text size is small and long headlines get cut off (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/02/twitter-x-headlines-link-preview/
http://www.techmeme.com/240102/p14#a240102p14

Hollywood unions resisting AI being used to recreate actors' performances sets a precedent for future labor movements on how to push back against automation (Angela Watercutter/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-saved-your-job-from-ai-2023-will-it-last/
http://www.techmeme.com/231227/p6#a231227p6

Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/29/24019288/microsoft-copilot-app-available-iphone-ipad-ai
http://www.techmeme.com/231229/p20#a231229p20

Sources: OpenAI held talks with major news publishers including Gannett, News Corp, and IAC on the price and terms of licensing their content (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/business/media/media-openai-chatgpt.html
http://www.techmeme.com/231229/p7#a231229p7

A US judge rejects X's bid to block California's AB 587, which seeks to control toxic social media posts by requiring companies to disclose moderation policies (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-28/musk-s-x-loses-bid-to-block-california-content-moderation-law
http://www.techmeme.com/231228/p21#a231228p21