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| Twitch Blog: |
Starting June 1, 2023, Twitch says subscription revenue above $100K will be split 50/50, not 70/30, for streamers on premium deals, citing hosting costs — Hello, Twitch community. I'm Dan Clancy, President of Twitch and responsible for the day-to-day operations of the service.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
After a streamer admits to scamming viewers, Twitch plans to prohibit streaming unlicensed gambling sites with slots, roulette, or dice starting on October 18 — As the conversation concerning Twitch and the platform's allowance of gambling streams continues to swirl, the platform has struck its first blow.
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| 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.
Tweets: @keegan_hamilton, @shotgunner101, @motherboard, @mjgault, @iximeow, @lorenzofb, and @josephfcox
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Ultra review: comfortable, good battery life, action button, and durable, but no offline maps, more aspirational than hardcore, and too big for some — A new player has entered the multisport watch game … The Apple Watch Ultra is big, a lil' chunky, and goes hard on features …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Framework and Google partner to launch the $999 Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition, a user-upgradeable model running Chrome OS, shipping in early December — Framework and Google have announced the new Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. As the name implies, this is an upgradable …
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
A New York judge orders Tether to produce documents related to the backing of USDT in a lawsuit claiming Tether conspired to issue USDT to pump bitcoin prices — The order relates to an ongoing lawsuit that alleges that unbacked USDT issuances have caused $1.4 trillion in damage to the market.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
TikTok expands its political content rules to limit fundraising by politicians and political groups, ahead of a full ban on fundraising — Starting Wednesday, TikTok is expanding its elections rules to make it harder for politicians and political groups to fundraise using the platform — and plans to ban all fundraising activity soon.
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
As Meta shapes its response to regulatory scrutiny, the company begins touting its declining market value, down 60%+ since the spring, to deny having a monopoly — As Meta shapes its antitrust defense, it has begun pointing out its plummeting stock price as a sign that competition is alive and well in its market.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Getty Images bans the upload and sale of AI-generated images using tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, citing concerns over legal challenges — Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
An analysis of Twitch streams from October 2020 to August 2022 shows Twitch's moderation tools often failed to stop children streaming and adults grooming them — The gaming platform's design enables people to find and exploit kids in real-time — Graphics and illustrations by Rachael Dottle| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Logitech unveils the $350 Android-powered G Cloud Gaming Handheld with a 7" display, Snapdragon 720G, and Xbox and GeForce Now cloud gaming, arriving October 17 — Logitech is officially announcing its G Cloud Gaming Handheld today after a teaser and a leak last month.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google begins rolling out a “results about you” tool on its Android app to let users see and remove results that contain their personal identifiable information — At I/O 2022 in May, Google announced a new tool to streamline the process of removing Search results that contain …
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| NetBlocks: |
Amid police brutality protests, Iran's government restricts access to Instagram, one of the last remaining social networks in the country, across all major ISPs — Network data from NetBlocks confirm a near-total disruption disruption to internet service in parts of Kurdistan province …
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| Tom Redmond / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Chainalysis and its work with governments and law enforcement to trace crypto transactions; the NY-based company has 700+ clients in 70+ countries — In May 2021 hackers initiated a cyberattack against Colonial Pipeline Co., the company behind the US's largest gasoline pipeline.
Tweets: @chainalysis, @ianandrewsdc, @joshuabrustein, and @gladstein
| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
A leaked draft of the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets bill urges a “substance over form” enforcement approach, meaning the rules may apply to fractionalized NFTs — A leaked draft of the text, reviewed by CoinDesk, shows the rules could apply to fractionalized NFTs.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce announces Net Zero Marketplace, which will aggregate offset providers and rating agencies for carbon credits, launching in October 2022 in the US — Salesforce Inc. is launching a marketplace for carbon credits that will aggregate offset providers and rating agencies …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Amazon refreshes its Fire HD 8 lineup for the first time in two years, starting at $100, and adds a Tap to Alexa feature to control the assistant using touch — Amazon is revamping its 8-inch tablets for the first time in two years, but their biggest improvement might rest in the software.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta aims to cut costs by 10%+ within a few months and has quietly nudged out a significant number of employees including by reorganizing departments — Facebook parent is looking to reduce costs by at least 10%, people familiar with the plans said, while Google has required some employees to apply for new jobs| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on building a supply chain software business, managing large customers, scaling the company, the shipping industry, and more — The Flexport CEO's tweetstorm changed how a major US port moves your stuff — Ryan Petersen is currently the CEO of Flexport.| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
India expands its incentives for chip and display panel manufacturers, including covering 50% of the capital expenditure for setting up a semiconductor plant — India's government on Wednesday raised fiscal support for new semiconductor facilities to cover 50% of project costs and said it will remove …
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| Anumeha Chaturvedi / The Economic Times: |
WhatsApp announces an “expanded partnership” with Salesforce to let businesses manage their WhatsApp conversations with customers from the Salesforce platform — WhatsApp on Tuesday announced an ‘expanded partnership’ with Salesforce to get their business customers up and running on the messaging app.
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WhatsApp Business, Salesforce News, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, Livemint, BW Businessworld, and Glamsham
Tweets: @wcathcart, @metanewsroom, @rebeccamkern, @salesforce, @btaylor, @micflash, and @iiiitsandrea
| Tory Newmyer / Washington Post: |
An interview with Alabama Securities Commission Director Joe Borg on why US state regulators protected investors from crypto fraud more quickly than the SEC — Joe Borg, Alabama's chief financial watchdog, has emerged as a captain of a state-led push to protect investors from crypto fraud| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia unveils the RTX 6000, its new flagship GPU for the professional visualization market, offering up to 2x-4x the performance of the previous gen RTX A6000 — Nvidia unveils new ProViz flagship: Old name, new board. — In a rather unexpected move, Nvidia introduced
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Windows Central, Nvidia Newsroom, NVIDIA, The Register, The Verge, and Wccftech. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Jorge Jimenez / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia unveils RTX Remix, a free AI modding tool built on Omniverse that lets modders quickly create RTX mods for supported DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 games — RTX Remix just made modding a whole lot easier. — Audio player loading... Hear that? That's the sound of modders applauding …
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Tweets: @webmixedreality, @0xstella, and @pixelfondue
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils its first SaaS and IaaS offering, Omniverse Cloud, a services suite for artists, developers, and enterprise teams to build and run metaverse apps — Nvidia today announced its first software- and infrastructure-as-a-service offering — Nvidia Omniverse Cloud … | Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Coinbase launches Node, a set of APIs to help developers build on multiple blockchains and query NFT data; the free plan offers 120K daily Ethereum requests — - Coinbase Cloud has launched Node, a developer-focused revamp of its enterprise Query & Transact (QT) platform.| Ana Lucía Murillo / Washington, D.C. Business Journal: |
DC-based Pie Insurance, which uses data and analytics to sell insurance to small businesses, raised a $315M Series D, bringing its total funding to $615M+ — Pie Insurance has raised yet another staggering round of funding to create new lines of business for the tech-enabled insurance firm.
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TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Pie Insurance, and FinSMEs
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
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