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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell plans to step down and Chief Operating Officer Dave Ripley will succeed him in the coming months; Powell will stay on as chairman — Jesse Powell, the CEO of Kraken, is stepping down from the top job at the cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2011.
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CoinDesk, Kraken, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Blockworks, Decrypt, New York Times, Reuters, Kraken Blog, The Block, Cointelegraph, and CryptoSlate. Tweets: @yoda. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Twitch Blog: |
Twitch announces subscription revenue above $100K will be split 50/50, not 70/30, starting on June 1, 2023, 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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The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Developer, TechCrunch, IGN, GameSpot, GameRevolution, PC Gamer, Forbes, The Shortcut, TheGamer, Dexerto, Eurogamer.net, and Gizmodo
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Ultra review: comfortable, good battery life, handy action button, and durable, but no offline maps or turn-by-turn navigation, 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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Tweets: @mcwm, @film_girl, @reckless, @dcseifert, @vicmsong, @cnet, @joemfbrown, @mkbhd, @dcseifert, @nicnguyen, @mkbhd, @cnet, @reckless, @lexysavvides, and @rsgnl
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
2K, owned by Take Two Interactive and publisher of Bioshock, Xcom, and popular sports games, says its help desk was hacked and sent customers links to malware — American video game publisher 2K has confirmed that its help desk platform was hacked and used to target customers …
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The Verge, TechRadar, Game Developer, KnowTechie, Digital Trends, TechSpot, and Laptop Mag. Tweets: @2ksupport
| 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: @motherboard, @shotgunner101, @josephfcox, @mjgault, @matthew_d_green, @iximeow, @keegan_hamilton, and @lorenzofb
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: to cut costs by 10%+ in a few months, Meta is nudging out a significant number of staff by reorganizing and giving a window to apply for other roles — 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
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Framework and Google launch the user-upgradeable Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition, shipping for $999+ to the US and Canada in early December; preorders open — Framework and Google have announced the new Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. As the name implies, this is an upgradable …
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Framework Blog, XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware, Android Authority, CNET, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Thurrott, PCWorld, About Chromebooks, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Slashdot, TechCrunch, Android Central, Liliputing, Gizmodo, Android Police, Engadget, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, and Phoronix
Tweets: @frameworkputer, @backlon, @kimberstreams, @backlon, @frameworkputer, and @dcseifert
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Getty Images bans uploading and selling images generated with AI tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, citing concerns users may face legal risks — Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.
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The Register, Gizmodo, Observer, Engadget, and PetaPixel
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
An analysis of October 2020 to August 2022 streams: Twitch's moderation tools often failed to stop kids from streaming and adults from finding and grooming them — The gaming platform's design enables people to find and exploit kids in real-time — Graphics and illustrations by Rachael Dottle
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Logitech unveils the $350 G Cloud Gaming Handheld with Android, a 7" display, a Snapdragon 720G, and Xbox and GeForce Now cloud gaming, arriving on October 17 — Logitech is officially announcing its G Cloud Gaming Handheld today after a teaser and a leak last month.
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Tweets: @lbabinz, @hoeglaw, @tomwarren, @knoebelbroet, @carygolomb, @wario64, @futterish, @matpiscatella, @carygolomb, and @xboxwire
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI open sources Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web” — Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
TikTok plans to turn off all advertising and monetization features, like gifting and tipping, for politicians and parties, and ban soliciting campaign donations — Starting Wednesday, TikTok is expanding its elections rules to make it harder for politicians and political groups to fundraise using …
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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 alleging Tether conspired to issue USDT to pump bitcoin's price — 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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tether.to, The Daily Hodl, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, Ethereum World News, The Block, Protos, CoinGape, Crypto Adventure, Blockworks, CryptoSlate, and Finbold
Tweets: @tether_to, @ben_mckenzie, @hsakatrades, @haileylennonbtc, and @frances_coppola
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google begins rolling out a “results about you” tool to its Android app, letting users see and remove results containing 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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Android Police, The Verge, Engadget, Laptop Mag, TechRadar, XDA Developers, Android Headlines, Beyond Search, PCMag, Phandroid, KnowTechie, and SamNews 24
| Washington Post: |
Florida's attorney general asks the US Supreme Court whether the First Amendment prohibits states from regulating how social media companies moderate content — The state attorney general filed a petition to the court on Wednesday, after two lower courts split on decisions about social media laws| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
NYC-based Messari, which offers Bloomberg Terminal-style reports and charts on crypto, raised a $35M Series B led by Brevan Howard Digital — Not bad for a Two Bit Idiot. The “idiot” in question is Ryan Selkis, who uses the tongue-in-cheek monicker for his popular Twitter account … | Ashley Gold / Axios: |
As Meta shapes its antitrust defense, the company has begun pointing to its market value's 60%+ decline since the spring to argue it does not have 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a Fall 2022 Event for October 12, where the company will “talk about devices”, amid rumors of a Surface Pro 9, a Surface Laptop 5, and more — Microsoft is holding a Surface event next month. The software giant is officially labeling the event …
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Thurrott, CNET, Engadget, ZDNet, MobileSyrup, Techdirt, and OnMSFT.com
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk says it will “wind down” and is “working on the details of what's next”; Kittyhawk was founded as Zee.Aero in 2010 — - Google co-founder Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk is winding down, the company announced.| NetBlocks: |
Amid police brutality protests, Iran restricts access to WhatsApp and 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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The Record, Engadget, Reuters, TechRadar, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, and Financial Times
Tweets: @netblocks, @iranintl_en, @muzyar, @ershadalijani, @deitaone, @idodaniel, @netblocks, @shayan86, @hdagres, @adammilstein, @netblocks, @khosrokalbasi, and @kiansharifi
| Tom Redmond / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Chainalysis and its work with governments and law enforcement to trace crypto transactions; the NYC-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, @gladstein, @epsilontheory, and @jeffstone500
| 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.| 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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
A leaked presentation shows that Google is working on royalty-free media formats for HDR video and 3D audio, in an effort internally known as Project Caviar — Google is gunning for Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision: The company is looking to introduce two new media formats to offer HDR video … | Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company can't “use what others might consider censorship as a tactic” regarding labelling content that seems to be false — Microsoft Corp. won't label social media posts that appear to be false in order to avoid the appearance that the company … | 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 … | 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.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Malwarebytes raised $100M from private equity firm Vector Capital for a minority stake, weeks after the company laid off 125 employees, or ~14% of its workforce — Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes has announced it has received a $100 million cash injection from Vector Capital … | 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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GeekWire, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Verge, TechCrunch, Thurrott, About Amazon, GSMArena.com, CNBC, Mashable, The Verge, and Tom's Guide
| 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, Pie Insurance, Crunchbase News, Technical.ly, PYMNTS.com, and FinSMEs
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