Are you tired of Elon Musk’s Twitter leadership? Because Elon Musk isn’t. After conducting a poll last December about whether he should step down as CEO of the social media company, Musk now says he might be ready to leave by the end of 2023, a whole year after the conclusion of the poll. Get ready for around ten more months of the “Chief Twit” and his antics, assuming he can afford to keep the lights on.
Next up, ahead of the PSVR2’s release on February 22nd, Sony has published an official teardown of its upcoming VR headset. It’s an undeniably expensive piece of kit, but Sony doesn’t appear to have skimped on the specs. I can’t wait for full reviews to drop for the headset soon.
And finally, here’s a short Vergecast clip for you to check out featuring Bing’s new AI-powered chatbot feature. No spoilers, but Bing doesn’t come out of it looking great.
And now, here’s a silly tweet to start your day:
Stay tuned, as we continue to update this list with the most important news of today: Wednseday, February 15th, 2023.
Court reveals the two people who helped Sam Bankman-Fried post bail.
The former FTX crypto tycoon is living with his parents in California instead of sitting in jail, thanks to a $250 million bail secured by his parent’s home as well as two people who had been kept anonymous.
Today, after news organizations argued for the information to be released, the court revealed Stanford research scientist Andreas Paepcke put up $200,000 and former Stanford Law School dean Larry Kramer put up $500,000. SBF’s parents teach law at Stanford.
What’s wrong at Google?
Well, according to one ex-Googler:
(1) no mission, (2) no urgency, (3) delusions of exceptionalism, (4) mismanagement.
But all the ad money is covering its sins.
Touchy buttons and folding screens.
An Apple patent (PDF) awarded on Valentine’s Day hints at future iPhones with touch-sensitive volume sliders and folding screens.
There’s also a “virtual shutter button” that sounds a lot like the solid-state buttons predicted by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo last year.
Whether Apple actually makes a foldable iPhone (we’ve seen patent applications before) or is playing the wait-and-see game is still up in the air, but Kuo had also predicted a foldable iPad for 2024.
Install those OS updates ASAP.
Beyond unplugging Internet Explorer and improving crash detection, updates for both Microsoft and Apple operating systems are fixing security flaws that they report have already been exploited by attackers.
A WebKit exploit on iOS applies no matter which browser you’re using, so you’ll want to update right away.
BleepingComputer has a rundown of the security fixes, which includes one for the Microsoft Store on Windows, so make sure you have updates turned on for that app specifically — it won’t get patched via Windows Update alone.
Green light.
In Elon news: he’s apparently running Twitter the same way I would if I spent $44 billion on it and plans to keep running it directly for most of this year.
In non-Elon news: Are you ready for the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s rating? We gave it a 9. Also, expect earnings updates today from Roblox and Roku, but don’t miss Liz’s breakdown of what happens in tech when the money stops being cheap.
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