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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Take-Two Interactive's 2K, the publisher of Bioshock, Xcom, and popular sports games, says a hacker accessed its help desk 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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BleepingComputer, HotHardware, The Verge, TechRadar, Laptop Mag, Android Headlines, TechSpot, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Tweets: @2ksupport
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: to cut costs by 10%+ in a few months, Meta is nudging out staff by reorganizing departments and giving them a limited 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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Insider, The Register, Silicon Valley Business …, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, TIME, Engadget, and CNBC
| 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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Marques Brownlee on YouTube, MacRumors, CNBC, iJustine on YouTube, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, TechRadar, Men's Health, iMore, Men's Journal, Daring Fireball, Women's Health, CNET, Tom's Guide, MacStories, The Mac Observer, iClarified, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Macworld, MacDailyNews, fpt., Wccftech, MacRumors, and iThinkDifferent
Tweets: @mcwm, @film_girl, @reckless, @dcseifert, @vicmsong, @cnet, @joemfbrown, @mkbhd, @dcseifert, @nicnguyen, @mkbhd, @cnet, @reckless, and @lexysavvides
| 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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New York Times, Tubefilter, Adweek, GameSpot, GamesIndustry.biz, IGN, GameRevolution, PC Gamer, Forbes, The Shortcut, TheGamer, Game Developer, Eurogamer.net, TechCrunch, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @twitch, @zhugeex, @connoreatspants, @valkyrae, @bbjessttv, @shelbygraces, @pointcrow, @the_poolshark, @firstadopter, @falloutplays, @ltzonda, @theblackhokage, @cohhcarnage, @austinkelmore, @hoeglaw, @cypheroftyr, @mightykeef, @datnofact, @diction, @piratesoftware, @devinnash, @adrive_tk, @piratesoftware, @censor, @skillupyt, @samfbiddle, @_laynaw, @nichboy, @liv_agar, @tomwarren, @vahn16, @firstadopter, and @jordannovet
| 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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Gizmodo and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden …
Tweets: @matthew_d_green, @rebelcinder, @aclu, @hackylawyer, @motherboard, @shotgunner101, @josephfcox, @mjgault, @iximeow, and @keegan_hamilton
| 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.| 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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Xbox Wire, Logitech International, Thurrott, Game Developer, Ars Technica, Android Authority, TechSpot, The GameDiscoverCo newsletter, Low Prices, Destructoid, XDA Developers, VentureBeat, GameRevolution, Digital Trends, iMore, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Techaeris, IGN, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, and Windows Central
Tweets: @lbabinz, @therealrtu, @tomwarren, @knoebelbroet, @carygolomb, @hoeglaw, @wario64, @futterish, @matpiscatella, @carygolomb, @xboxwire, and @aarongreenberg
| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Instagram is working on a feature to protect users from receiving unsolicited nude photos in their DMs; Meta says the tech won't let the company view the photos — Instagram is working on a way to protect users from receiving unsolicited nude photos in their DMs.
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CNET, Digital Information World, WeRSM, Gearrice, and PetaPixel
Tweets: @alex193a and @_andyburrows
| 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, Mashable, Neowin, MobileSyrup, ZDNet, Slashdot, TechCrunch, CNET, Android Central, Liliputing, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Android Police, and Android Authority
Tweets: @frameworkputer, @backlon, @kimberstreams, @backlon, @frameworkputer, and @dcseifert
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company can't “use what others might consider censorship as a tactic” regarding labeling 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 … | 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 …
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OpenAI. Tweets: @rgblong, @deliprao, @joannejang, @pytorch, @sama, @emostaque, @josourcing, @openai, @perpetualmaniac, and @iscienceluvr
| 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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TikTok, Search Engine Land, The Hill, Social Media Today, New York Times, 9to5Mac, CNN, Gizmodo, NBC News, MobileSyrup, The Guardian, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @jamiefavazza, @evelyndouek, @lmatsakis, @dsilverman, @lmatsakis, @kellymakena, @fraying, and @thedextriarchy
| 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.
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Bloomberg, Insider, San Francisco Business Journal, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Flight Global, Aviation Week Network, and CNET
Tweets: @tomgara, @epro, @caseynewton, @gamoid, and @carnage4life
| 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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Ars Technica, The Register, Social Media Today, Gizmodo, Observer, and Engadget
Tweets: @jjvincent, @sababausa, @grady_booch, @film_girl, @mgsiegler, @simonowens, @eladgil, and @kortizart
| 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 … | 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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ZDNet, CNET, Digital Trends, Thurrott, Techdirt, MobileSyrup, and Engadget
| 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, CryptoSlate, Coinspeaker, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, The Daily Hodl, and Protos
Tweets: @tether_to, @ben_mckenzie, and @hsakatrades
| 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| 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
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CNN, The Hill, Engadget, Courthouse News Service, and Slashdot
Tweets: @cat_zakrzewski, @jameeljaffer, @carlszabo, @kateo, @lawrencehurley, @censelio, and @b_fung
| Bloomberg Law: |
A Texas jury says Meta must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer a royalty and $174.5M+ in damages for violating two patents with Facebook Live and Instagram Live — Meta Platforms Inc. must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer Inc. more than $174.5 million in damages after a Texas jury found Wednesday … | 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 … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Sensor Tower: TikTok Now, the BeReal clone debuted on September 18, is in the top 10 social networking apps in 39 countries and the top 100 apps in 24 countries — The TikTok Now feature was first announced last week and is built into the TikTok app for US users.
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Social Media Today
| 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, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, TechRadar, and Financial Times
| 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 … | 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, @a_greenberg, @joshuabrustein, @gladstein, and @epsilontheory
| 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.
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Fortune. Tweets: @davekarpf, @jaredlholt, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @scottros, @nickjsheriff, @kantrowitz, @kyurieff, @profcarroll, @davekarpf, @ashleyrgold, @nickjsheriff, @jason_kint, @nickjsheriff, and @iwillleavenow
| 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, TechCrunch, About Amazon, Neowin, CNBC, The Verge, XDA Developers, and Tom's Guide
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