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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
To appease the UK, Microsoft restructures its Activision deal by agreeing to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft; the UK CMA will now investigate — Microsoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, GOV.UK, Ubisoft, Insider, Game Developer, The Register, CNN, Bloomberg, Associated Press, PCMag, Tech Monitor, Bloomberg, Forbes, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, GamesIndustry.biz, Politico, BetaNews, IGN, Activision Blizzard King, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TrueAchievements, iPhone in Canada Blog, Game Rant, Engadget, Pocket Gamer.biz, Thurrott, KitGuru, Gameranx, BBC, Windows Central, New York Times, PC Games Insider, Reuters, The Guardian, Watcher Guru, Metro, Neowin, GamingBolt, VentureBeat, Video Games Chronicle, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Press Start, Wccftech, Stevivor, CNBC, Eurogamer.net, Dot Esports, WinBuzzer, Variety, Push Square, WhatIfGaming, Appuals.com, Gamereactor UK, International Business Times, Pure Xbox, and UKTN
X: @ubisoft, @kellen_browning, @charlieintel, @steffanpowell, @aarmstrong_says, @martinsfp, @tomwarren, @cmagovuk, @fosspatents, @kprescott, @lulumeservey, @bradsmi, @swiftonsecurity, @lewis_crofts, and @jamesrbuk
Forums: r/xboxone, r/Games, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Elon Musk says X will remove headlines from link previews in posts with news articles, so that the previews display only the lead image and the news site's URL — X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Insider, Livemint, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, The Verge, The Economic Times, Neowin, Social Media Today, The Wrap, Mashable, and Engadget
Mastodon: @JBrodkinWebb@journa.host, @TodayInTwitter@mastodon …, and @cspam@mastodon.cloud
Bluesky: @timstevens.bsky.social, @caseynewton.bsky.social, @malwaretech.com, and @intelwire.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @kyliebytes, @lum_, @lexnfx, @lauraloomer, @kyliebytes, @yashar, @rmac18, @tomcoates, @beijingpalmer, @dandrezner, @pattymo, @mcwm, @jen_mcfadden, @daveleebbg, @kyliebytes, @annevedingell, @parismarx, @edzitron, @iwriteok, @kronykal, @whstancil, @kyliebytes, @jason_kint, @ivanthek, @karaswisher, @beijingpalmer, @cit_uprising, @killedbygoogle, @erinkwoo, @yashar, @kyliebytes, @jeffsharlet, @kwalkertweets, @kyliebytes, @michaelehayden, @xdaily, @lauraloomer, @mollyjongfast, @petersterne, and @phil_lewis_. Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X says the company fixed a bug that prevented the service from displaying many images from before 2014 over the weekend, and that “no images or data were lost” — Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted …
More: The Guardian, Techdirt, Digital Trends, The Economic Times, Business Today, Engadget, GovTech, and MobileSyrup
Forums: r/AnythingGoesNews and r/inthenews
| CNBC: |
SoftBank's Arm files to list on the Nasdaq and reports $524M net income on $2.68B in FY 2023 revenue, down 1% YoY from $2.7B; the company wants the ticker ARM — - Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq. — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during …
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Bluesky: @tristanr.bsky.social. X: @_hasanc, @_hasanc, @tanayj, @maxwinebach, @arjunkharpal, @maxwinebach, @ecommerceshares, @tiernanraytech, and @natebecker
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Ivanti warns of a critical Sentry API authentication bypass flaw that is being exploited in the wild, after another zero-day compromised Norway's government — US-based IT software company Ivanti warned customers today that a critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Nick Clegg says Meta now lets Instagram and Facebook users opt out of its recommendation algorithms for Reels, Stories, Search, and more, to comply with EU DSA — Instagram and Facebook users in Europe are getting more options to opt out of Meta's recommendation algorithms, the company has explained in a blog post today.| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more — How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
More: Insider, Benzinga, UPROXX, and On my Om
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| Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
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X: @mehdirhasan, @tomcoates, @business, @robtornoe, and @nxthompson
Forums: r/UkrainianConflict and r/politics
| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience and Bard listed favorable arguments when asked about “benefits” of slavery, genocide, fascism, and colonization — Large Language Models shouldn't offer opinions or advice. — If you asked a spokesperson from any Fortune 500 Company … | Financial Times: |
Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US rules, have seen huge demand as they more are powerful than anything else before 2023 — Nvidia's processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Friend.tech, which lets people use crypto to buy “shares” of X accounts, hits 100K users, per a database of wallet addresses that has raised privacy concerns — The growth correlates with the more than $25 million in revenue generated by the platform since its Aug. 10 launch.
More: Blockworks, The Block, Metaverse Post, Analytics Insight, Unchained Crypto, Coinspeaker, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoinist.com, Mashable, Cointelegraph, Ethereum World News, The Week, Cryptonews, Crypto Briefing, BeInCrypto, Ethereum World News, Watcher Guru, and Cointelegraph
X: @bantg, @friendtech, @nikitabier, @liron, @jerallaire, @bantg, @tomkysar, @dogetoshi, @poordart, @blknoiz06, @alexsmirnov__, @bantg, @0xfoobar, @shazow, and @dogetoshi
| New York Times: |
Riding in three Waymo taxis in San Francisco finds two avoided traffic while another didn't, the app works like Uber, and the first experience can be confusing — On Monday, Waymo began letting the public pay for rides in its driverless cars in San Francisco.
More: CNN. X: @benforado, @jcastaneda1212, and @evanhandler
Forums: Hacker News and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Coinbase takes a “small” equity stake in Circle for the first time, as the companies close the Centre Consortium, which previously governed the USDC stablecoin — On Monday, Coinbase and Circle, the two companies behind USD Coin, settled on new terms that would change the governance …
More: Circle Internet Financial, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, CCN.com, Finextra, Coinspeaker, Crypto Daily, CoinJournal, The Crypto Basic, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin News, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Forkast, The Information, Unchained Crypto, Bloomberg, The Block, Decrypt, Benzinga, Bitcoinist.com, Blockworks, and Watcher Guru
X: @jerallaire, @coinbase, @jerallaire, @jerallaire, @architect9000, @iampaulgrewal, and @brian_armstrong. LinkedIn: Victoria Wong
| Financial Times: |
AlphaSense: ~40% of companies in the S&P 500 mentioned AI or related terms in their latest earnings calls, but only 16% mentioned AI in their regulatory filings — S&P 500 groups from a burrito maker to a cruise-ship operator tout promise of emerging technology| Reuters: |
Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose stock is down ~80% over the past two years, has been exploring options, including a sale; S jumps 15%+ — SentinelOne Inc (S.N), a cybersecurity company with a market value of $4.2 billion, has been exploring options that could include a sale …
More: iTnews, SiliconANGLE, and CRN
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