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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, The Verge, HotHardware, Android Headlines, Laptop Mag, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, TechRadar, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and Engadget. Tweets: @2ksupport
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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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SiliconANGLE, The Register, Insider, Silicon Valley Business …, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, CNBC, and Reuters
| 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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Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Kraken, CoinDesk, Protocol, Kraken Blog, PYMNTS.com, New York Times, Reuters, Slashdot, Bitcoinist.com, Crypto Adventure, and Blockworks
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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.
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Gizmodo and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden …
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| 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 … | 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, WeRSM, Gearrice, PetaPixel, and Digital Information World
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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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Xbox Wire, Logitech International, Windows Central, Logitech G on YouTube, Low Prices, SlashGear, Thurrott, Gamereactor UK, GameRevolution, The GameDiscoverCo newsletter, Digital Trends, iMore, XDA Developers, Pocket-lint, Techaeris, IGN, Video Games Chronicle, Ars Technica, TechSpot, MobileSyrup, and Destructoid
| 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, CNBC, TechRadar, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Men's Journal, Men's Health, Women's Health, The Mac Observer, Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, DesFit on YouTube, AppleInsider, fpt., Daring Fireball, iMore, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, The Gear Loop, and Cult of Mac
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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @tomgara, @epro, @caseynewton, @gamoid, and @carnage4life
| 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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TechCrunch, CNN, Axios, Slashdot, Engadget, Politico, and The Hill
Tweets: @cat_zakrzewski, @lawrencehurley, @carlszabo, @jameeljaffer, @censelio, @b_fung, and @kateo
| 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
| 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 … | 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, Tom's Hardware, CNET, Slashdot, Liliputing, Android Authority, Thurrott, About Chromebooks, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @frameworkputer, @backlon, @kimberstreams, @backlon, @frameworkputer, and @dcseifert
| 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 … | 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 …
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Digital Journal and Western District of Texas
Tweets: @protestedgame, @ceejbot, and @kelceegriffis
| 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, Social Media Today, The Register, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @jjvincent, @sababausa, @grady_booch, @film_girl, @mgsiegler, @simonowens, @jgarzik, @eladgil, and @kortizart
| 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, New York Times, Social Media Today, NBC News, and Digital Trends
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
New York City-based Knoetic, which offers analytics tools to HR departments, has raised a $36M Series B led by EQT Ventures, bringing its total funding to $54M — In the last decade, so-called chief people officers (CPO) have seen a dramatic expansion of their day-to-day responsibilities.| 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.| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
A Python directory traversal vulnerability disclosed in August 2007, but never patched, likely affects 350K+ open-source projects and can lead to code execution — A vulnerability in the Python programming language that has been overlooked for 15 years is now back in the spotlight … | Esteban L. Hernandez / Axios: |
Governor Jared Polis announces Colorado residents can pay state taxes with cryptocurrencies; Polis is selling NFTs for $52.80 to fund his reelection campaign — Gov. Jared Polis made good on a promise earlier this year by announcing Monday that Colorado residents can now pay state taxes with cryptocurrencies.| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Switzerland-based GRNGrid, a Layer 1 DeFi blockchain that allows users to use nodes running on renewable energy for transactions, raised $50M from GEM Digital — GRNGrid is a more environmentally friendly layer 1 tailored to decentralized finance. — The GRNGrid blockchain received …
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Cointelegraph and Tech.eu
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's central bank announces UPI Lite to make transactions below $2.50 faster and simpler on the country's most popular digital payments network — In just six years, UPI has become the most popular way Indians transact online. The mobile electronics payments system was used … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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