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| The Verge: |
Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned — Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta details its text-to-video AI generator, Make-A-Video, which can produce up to five-second videos without audio; Meta is not giving access to the AI model — AI text-to-image generators have been making headlines in recent months, but researchers are already moving on to the next frontier: AI text-to-video generators.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta confirms taking “enforcement actions” against The OG App, which offers ad-free Instagram feeds, as developer UN1feed says Apple removed the App Store app — A third-party Instagram app, called “The OG App,” which promised an ad-free feed more like the original Instagram experience …
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| Reuters: |
An investigation shows the CIA failed to secure its messaging system used by Iranian spies, often hidden within websites, leading to capture, torture, and death — The spy was minutes from leaving Iran when he was nabbed. — Gholamreza Hosseini was at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran in late 2010, preparing for a flight to Bangkok.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft plans to end support for SwiftKey on iOS and delist the app from the App Store on October 5; Microsoft will continue to support SwiftKey for Android — Questions about what's going on with Microsoft's support of the predictive SwifKey keyboard app for iOS have been bubbling up over the past few weeks.
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| Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press: |
Amnesty International: Meta's algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook that incited violent hatred against the Rohingya in Myanmar — With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that's been his home since 2017 …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and reduce budgets across teams, citing economic conditions — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said it will freeze hiring and restructure some teams in an effort to cut costs and shift priorities.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank begins laying off Vision Fund employees, with cuts expected to impact over 150 people, or 30%+ of its staff, following a record $23B loss — SoftBank Group Corp. has started laying off employees at its loss-making Vision Fund and is expected to cut at least 30% of its staff … | Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the US candidate for secretary general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union, beats Russia's candidate by 139 to 25 votes — BUCHAREST — A top U.S. official won a massive majority to lead the United Nations agency that sets global standards for telecoms and tech infrastructure.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks — For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new Maps features, including the ability to visually soar over some areas, 250 more landmark views, enriched neighborhood info, and AR search — Google is gearing up to launch several new updates for Maps in the coming months, the company announced today at its Search On event.
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Tweets: @geographiliac, @alphabetworkers, @kashthefuturist, and @mikehofman
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
An Apple support document and a compliance page reference an “iPhone 14 Max”, suggesting Apple changed the name to iPhone 14 Plus at the last moment — Newly discovered references to the iPhone 14 Plus as “iPhone 14 Max” on Apple's website suggest this was the name originally intended …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail Chaos, a new cross-platform malware that infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including routers, FreeBSD boxes, and servers — Small office routers? FreeBSD machines? Enterprise servers? Chaos infects them all. — Researchers have revealed a never …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Report: corporate expense management tool TripActions, valued at $7.25B in October 2021, confidentially filed for a US IPO in Q2 2023, seeking a $12B valuation — TripActions is said to have filed confidentially to go public in the third quarter of next year at a $12 billion valuation.
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| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
A look at Botometer, which claims to identify the likelihood that a Twitter account is a bot and has been cited by Elon Musk's lawyers in the Twitter lawsuit — In the battle over Twitter's future, the number of bots on the platform is a key issue. Problem is, nobody knows how to count them.
Tweets: @tashabernal, @floriangallwitz, @osome_iu, @pt, and @floriangallwitz
| Stephen Totilo / Axios: |
Saudi Arabia's Savvy Gaming Group says it plans to invest $37.8B in gaming to expand the kingdom's role in the sector, including $18B for minority investments — Saudi Arabia's government-funded gaming conglomerate The Savvy Gaming Group will invest $37.8 billion in gaming as part …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon increases its average starting pay for front-line US staff to $19+/hour, up from $18/hour; warehouse and delivery workers will earn $16/hour to $26/hour — - Amazon is bumping its average starting pay for warehouse and delivery workers to more than $19 an hour, up from $18 an hour, the company said Wednesday.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to show “Personal Stories”, videos of people diagnosed with certain disorders, in US search results for health-related queries starting this week — YouTube announced Wednesday that it will show a new section called “Personal Stories” in search results starting …
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| Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
Experts say the Optus hack could cost parent Singtel $420M to $560M for the 2.8M worst-affected customers; Singtel made $1.44B in profit in its fiscal year 2022 — The cost for Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to make good customers exposed to one of Australia's worst data breaches risks wiping … | Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Meta opens NFT sharing to Facebook users in the US and to all Instagram users in 100 countries, including the US, where digital collectibles are available — Users in the U.S. can now connect their crypto wallets to Instagram as part of the app's new digital collectible feature, which the tech giant has been testing since May.
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