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Internal memo: Arm to cut up to 1,000 jobs, or 15% of its workforce in the UK and US, before its IPO; source says most of the cuts won't affect engineers — Arm Ltd., the SoftBank Group Corp. unit preparing for an initial public offering, will cut as much as 15% of its workforce …
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Microsoft brings its DirectStorage API from Xbox to Windows to improve game load times and graphics details, after promising it in September 2020 — “Starting today, Windows games can ship with DirectStorage,” Microsoft says. “This public SDK release begins a new era of fast load times …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
After complaints, Twitter reverts its latest iOS update, removing the Latest Tweets tab and restoring the Home tab and the default chronological tweets option — Twitter was heavily criticized when it switched from the chronological timeline to the new feed that shows suggested tweets instead.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple rolls out iOS 15.4 with the ability to use Face ID while wearing a mask, and iPadOS 15.4 with Universal Control, which requires macOS Monterey 12.3 — iPadOS 15.4 has also launched with Universal Control support — iOS 15.4, the latest version of Apple's iPhone operating system … | Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Israel's National Cyber Directorate says the country has recovered from a large-scale DDoS attack on Monday, which took down several government websites — Israel appears to be recovering from a large-scale cyberattack. According to Haaretz and Kan's Amichai Stein, attackers took … | Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
An EU Parliament committee rejects a provision for its Markets in Crypto Assets framework that would have effectively banned proof-of-work cryptocurrencies — A provision that could have forced proof-of-work cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to shift to more environmentally friendly mechanisms failed to get the votes required.
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| Dylan Martin / The Register: |
SiFive sells its chip connectivity unit OpenFive, including 75+ designs and a team of more than 300 people based mostly in India, to Alphawave for $210M in cash — We want to concentrate on legging it after Arm, says biz — Up-and-coming SiFive is selling its OpenFive business …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Perlego, a digital subscription-based library of academic textbooks with about 850K titles, raises a $50M Series B led by Mediahuis Ventures — Spotify helped pave the way for a new model for consumers to listen to music: pay a monthly fee to stream whatever you want …
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South Africa's Competition Commission accuses Meta of anticompetitive practices for plans to exclude the government's communication tools from WhatsApp's API — South Africa's Competition Commission on Monday said it had referred Facebook owner Meta Platforms (FB.O) to a tribunal … | Bloomberg: |
Analysis: TV shows make up 75% of Netflix viewing, the average hit disappears after two weeks or less, and Asian hits have the least overlap with other markets — Nobody in Hollywood knows for sure what works on Netflix. — The company releases statistics like “26 million people watched this show in the first 28 days.”
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
France-based Doctolib, a booking service for doctors and medical workers, raises €500M in equity and debt led by Eurazeo at a €5.8B valuation — French startup Doctolib has announced that is has raised a new funding round. With this round, the company has reached a valuation …
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Gauntlet, which offers financial-risk modeling service for crypto lending, raises a $23.8M Series B at a $1B valuation led by Ribbit Capital — Gauntlet, a financial-risk modeling platform for crypto lending, raised a new round of funding that pushed its valuation to $1 billion.
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| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
The FTC, which has long struggled to combat deceptive data practices, is increasingly forcing companies to delete algorithmic systems built with ill-gotten data — The Federal Trade Commission has struggled over the years to find ways to combat deceptive digital data practices using its limited set of enforcement options.
Tweets: @katekayereports, @kavyapearlman, @cbridge_chief, @techwontsaveus, and @jason_kint
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Germany-based Staffbase, a communications service for internal teams to send messages and measure their impact, raises a $115M Series E at a $1.1B valuation — The Covid-19 pandemic, with its by-product of social distancing to help reduce the spread of infection, led to many organizations working … Sponsor Posts
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