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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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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Ultra review: comfortable, good battery life, handy action button, and durable, but no offline maps, aspirational not 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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| 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| 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, @iximeow, @keegan_hamilton, and @lorenzofb
| 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
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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @frameworkputer, @backlon, @kimberstreams, @backlon, and @dcseifert
| 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, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Protos, Crypto Adventure, Coinspeaker, Ethereum World News, Blockworks, The Block, CoinGape, CryptoSlate, and Finbold
Tweets: @tether_to, @ben_mckenzie, @hsakatrades, @haileylennonbtc, and @frances_coppola
| 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.
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| 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.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was 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 … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell steps down and will remain on the board as chairman; Chief Operating Officer Dave Ripley will succeed him in the coming months — Jesse Powell, the CEO of Kraken, is stepping down from the top job at the cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2011.| 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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| 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 … | 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.| 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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XDA Developers, Windows Central, MobileSyrup, IGN, Gizmodo, Logitech International, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, Android Police, Engadget, GameRevolution, Techaeris, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, iMore, and Xbox Wire
Tweets: @lbabinz, @knoebelbroet, @futterish, @carygolomb, @carygolomb, @wario64, @xboxwire, @matpiscatella, and @tomwarren
| 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 Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a “Fall 2022 Event” for October 12, where it will “talk about devices”, amid rumors of a Surface Pro 9, 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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| 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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| 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: @epsilontheory, @jeffstone500, @chainalysis, @ianandrewsdc, @joshuabrustein, and @gladstein
| 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 … | 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.| 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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| Cat Zakrzewski / 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| 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| 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, iPhone in Canada Blog, PYMNTS.com, Salesforce News, The Economic Times, Livemint, BW Businessworld, and Glamsham
Tweets: @wcathcart, @metanewsroom, @rebeccamkern, @salesforce, @btaylor, @micflash, and @iiiitsandrea
| 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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TechCrunch, Salesforce News, and San Francisco Business Journal
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