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Sony reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $20.7B, PS5 sales up 38% YoY to 3.3M, operating income down 31% YoY to ~$782M, and expects to sell 25M PS5s by March 2024 — Sony on Wednesday reported a 31% fall in profit in the first fiscal quarter as its life insurance unit dragged on its bottom line …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
In its Q1 report, Sony, the world's largest camera sensor supplier, pushes back expectations for a smartphone market recovery to 2024 at the earliest — - The camera sensor leader had anticipated second-half recovery — Sony warns that conditions are tough in China and the US| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reports Q1 net revenue up 17% YoY to $1.28B, net bookings up 20% YoY to $1.2B, and forecasts $8B in bookings for the next fiscal year, hinting at GTA 6 — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the company behind video games like Grand Theft Auto, rose in extended trading …
More: IGN, Take-Two Interactive Software, Engadget, Video Games Chronicle, Game Developer, Thurrott, VentureBeat, GamingBolt, Gameranx, TechRadar, TrueAchievements, Game Rant, and Push Square
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Forums: r/gamingnews and r/PS5
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Gizmodo EIC Dan Ackerman sues Apple, the Tetris Company, and others, claiming they adapted his book about Tetris into a feature film without his permission — Dan Ackerman, editor in chief of the tech-news website Gizmodo, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Monday accusing Apple … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Intel fixes a flaw found by a Google researcher that could let attackers steal passwords and other secrets, affecting Skylake, Tiger Lake, and Ice Lake chips — The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.
More: Downfall Attacks, Intel, PCWorld, BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek, Daniel Moghimi, Phoronix, CNX Software, Cyber Kendra, TechSpot, Security Affairs, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, and ServeTheHome
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Forums: r/technews, r/linux, r/Amd, and r/intel
| Aaron Pressman / The Boston Globe: |
Boston-based cybersecurity company Rapid7 lays off 18% of its workforce, or around 470 people, and reports Q2 revenue rose 14% YoY to $190M and a $67M net loss — The Boston-based cybersecurity firm said the cuts will enable it to continue to grow while also freeing up cash
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft to build a ChatGPT-powered Aptos Assistant and plans to host validator notes on Azure; GitHub will add Aptos' Move to Copilot — Since the A.I.-hype train reached full speed earlier this year, there's been no shortage of crypto entrepreneurs trying to get a piece of the action.
More: Aptos Labs, The Block, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, CryptoGlobe, Ethereum World News, CoinJournal, and Bitcoinist.com
| Elizabeth de Luna / Mashable: |
X begins making ad revenue payouts to smaller creators, after releasing payments to thousands of select accounts; how payouts are calculated remains unclear — ‘$8 to make $370 is a fantastic ROI for something I do anyway,’ one creator tweeted. … X is finally paying smaller creators …
More: Social Media Today, gHacks Technology News, CNBC, Search Engine Journal, Livemint, Engadget, Forbes, The Information, Fortune, Dexerto, and Search Engine Land
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack announces its biggest-ever redesign, catering to power users, adding a new Home section, a new sidebar on the left, a new DMs section, and Activity window — Slack is many things. Which is kind of the problem. … Eventually, that even affects the “talk to your team” part of Slack …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google finally adds native translate capability to its Gmail app on Android, available now, and on iOS, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google is finally adding a native translate capability to Gmail for Android and iOS after long supporting it on the web client.| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
China plans to require app developers to file business details with the government or face sanctions from March 2024, likely creating headaches for developers — China will require all mobile app providers in the country to file business details with the government, its information ministry said …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, The Information, and Tech in Asia
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve launches a program for overseeing banks' crypto activity and clarifies its pre-approval process for engaging with stablecoins — Fresh crypto guidance from the U.S. central bank doesn't represent a departure from previous policy, but it provides more details on what the Fed expects from banks.| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Sources: ex-FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame is in talks with prosecutors to plead guilty to criminal charges and may enter a plea as soon as September — - Ryan Salame was the co-chief executive of FTX Digital Markets — Salame would be fourth former FTX executive to plead guilty| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
CCDH: ChatGPT, Bard, My AI, DreamStudio, Dall-E, and Midjourney generated “pro-anorexia” content 41% of the time when asked about common eating disorder topics — Disturbing fake images and dangerous chatbot advice: New research shows how ChatGPT, Bard, Stable Diffusion …
More: Center for Countering …, The Week, and Decrypt
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol shutters Indonesia-based “phishing-as-a-service” platform 16shop, used to create 150K phishing pages, compromising at least 70K people in 43 countries — A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform.
More: INTERPOL, The Record, Group-IB, The Register, and Silicon Republic
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$681M, bookings up 22% YoY to $780.7M, vs. $785M est., and a $282.8M net loss; DAUs up 25% YoY to 65.5M; RBLX drops 9%+ — - Shares of Roblox fell Wednesday after the company reported second-quarter results that missed analysts' expectations on top and bottom lines.
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Bloomberg, Reuters, Roblox, MarketWatch, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Catherine Perloff / Adweek: |
Google changes the name of one of its advertising video formats from “in-stream ads” to “skippable ads”, after a report accused YouTube of misleading buyers — What was once in-stream ads are now skippable ads — Google removed “in-stream” classification from the name of one of its video formats.
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Sex workers who relied on crypto for storing wealth and accepting payment, bypassing the banking system entirely, are finding the limits of crypto's utility — Banks and payments companies have long penalized sex workers. Many thought crypto would be a solution, but now exchanges are dumping them too.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix launches a game controller app on the App Store to let users play Netflix games on their TV; the app description says the feature is “coming soon” — After last fall signaling its intentions to expand into cloud gaming, Netflix today launched a new app that will soon allow subscribers to play games on their TV.
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Verizon is sunsetting BlueJeans, a business-focused video conferencing app acquired in 2020, starting on August 31, due to “the changing market landscape” — Did you know Verizon acquired a video conferencing app back in 2020? It's fine if you haven't because Verizon has announced that its …
More: The Verge, TechRadar, Neowin, The Register, and TechCrunch
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Lyft CEO David Risher says the company is trying to end surge pricing as “riders hate it”; higher driver supply cut the share of surge pricing rides by 35% QoQ — Lyft has been cutting fares in order to secure more riders, and it's working. Bu that success has come with a (literal) cost.
More: Gizmodo, Reuters, MobileSyrup, Mashable, Lyft, Wall Street Journal, and MarketWatch
| Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
A look at the Indian Institutes of Technology, established in the 1950s and 1960s to emulate MIT and now comprising 23 schools offering a path to tech success — Indian tech entrepreneur Kesavan Kandadai has many accomplishments under his belt: launching Amazon Prime Video in India and founding …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's upper parliament passes the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, including up to $30M fines and child wellbeing rules; the president must now approve — The upper house of India's parliament greenlit the long-delayed data protection bill on Wednesday, facing no resistance as opposition leaders opted out of participation.
More: Entrackr, Reuters, The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, Moneycontrol, and The Indian Express
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The US Commerce Department says over 460 companies have expressed an interest in winning some of the $52.7B CHIPS Act funding, which includes $39B for chips — The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday that more than 460 companies have expressed interested in winning government …
More: CNBC, TechPowerUp, and Bloomberg
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