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Sources: the FTC plans to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard deal, as FTC staff are skeptical of the companies' arguments — The Federal Trade Commission is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's $69 billion takeover …
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Microsoft says hackers used vulnerabilities in the Boa web server, discontinued in 2005 but widely used across IoT devices, to target the Indian power sector — Microsoft said today that security vulnerabilities found to impact a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to target … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91 — He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM's dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic.
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Sources: Amazon plans to spend $1B+ per year to produce and release movies for theaters, starting with a few releases in 2023, and eventually 12 to 15 annually — Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend more than $1 billion a year to produce movies that it will release in theaters … | Stephen Gandel / New York Times: |
FTX sister firm Alameda paid $11.5M for control of a small WA-based US-licensed bank, raising questions about why federal regulators approved the deal — Through a subsidiary, FTX invested $11.5 million in the parent company of Farmington State Bank, which has a single branch and, until this year, just three employees.
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| Bill Cusick / Stability.Ai: |
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0, which can generate images with 512x512 and 768x768 default resolutions and upscale images to 2048x2048 — It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2. — The original Stable Diffusion V1 led by CompVis changed …
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| Bloomberg: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the exchange aims for a ~$1B fund to buy distressed assets and plans to make another bid for bankrupt lender Voyager Digital — Binance Holdings Ltd. is aiming for a roughly $1 billion fund for the potential purchase of distressed assets in the digital-asset sector …
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| David Dayen / American Prospect: |
A look at a letter from March by four GOP and four Democratic House members discouraging the SEC from probing crypto firms; five had donations from FTX staff — The Securities and Exchange Commission was seeking information from collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX earlier this year …
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| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Bob Iger returns to a more competitive and challenging streaming landscape and should steer Disney+ to profitability without cannibalizing Disney's other units — Incoming CEO championed Disney+, but needs to steer streaming business toward profitability without cannibalizing other Disney units
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Laptop Mag, Android Central, TechSpot, Game Rant, The Streamable, and Tom's Guide. Tweets: @trengriffin
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon plans to phase out Academy, an Indian edtech service launched in 2021 to help prepare for admission to engineering colleges, starting in August 2023 — Amazon will be shutting down Amazon Academy, an online learning platform it launched in India for high-school students last year, the company said Thursday.| Moneycontrol: |
Prosus valued its 9.67% stake in Byju's at $578M at the end of Q3 2022, implying Byju's total value to be $5.9B; Byju's was valued at $22B in October 2022 — Although Prosus' accounting entry implies that it values Byju's at $5.9 billion, experts say that different shareholders may value a private company differently in their books.
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Sources: US senators raise concerns as hundreds of China-made DJI recreational drones have violated restricted airspace over Washington, DC in recent months — Hundreds of Chinese-manufactured drones have been detected in restricted airspace over Washington, D.C., in recent months … | AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
In its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report, Meta attributes a pro-US campaign to US military-run phony Facebook accounts, Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts — People associated with the U.S. military were behind dozens of phony Facebook accounts, more than a dozen pages, a pair of groups …
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