New York Times:
Internal note: Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness” — John Carmack, who was chief technology officer of Oculus, which Meta bought, is departing the company.
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack expresses heavy skepticism at pushing for avatar fidelity, focusing on the Quest Pro to drive VR adoption, and more — Lonely lecture as a VR avatar is a far cry from last year’s “thousands of people” goal — Last year, former Oculus CTO …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with LinkedIn’s Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen on the number of people hired via LinkedIn being a core metric, generative AI, regulation, and more — We dive into managing the relationships between designers, engineers, and PMs. … Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn …
Koh Gui Qing / Reuters:
Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF’s parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel” — Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought …
Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post:
After a 24+ hour Alibaba Cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO and says CEO Daniel Zhang Yong will oversee Cloud, effective immediately — Alibaba Group Holding has named a new chief technology officer (CTO) and removed the president of its cloud computing services unit …
Paige Tortorelli / CNBC:
S. Daniel Leon, Celsius co-founder and chief strategy officer, has resigned; Lior Koren, the company’s global tax director, will assume the role — – S. Daniel Leon, co-founder and strategy chief of bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius, has stepped down, according to an internal email.
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Documents: multiple US military branches have bought access to Team Cymru’s Augury internet monitoring tool, which claims to cover 90%+ of internet traffic — The “Augury” platform includes highly sensitive network data that Team Cymru, a private company, is selling to the military. “It’s everything.
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