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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, The Hill, The Verge, Insider, Game Developer, The Register, Bloomberg, CNN, Activision Blizzard King, Associated Press, PCMag, Tech Monitor, Bloomberg, IGN, Fortune, CNBC, Forbes, Bloomberg, TrueAchievements, GOV.UK, Silicon Republic, GamesIndustry.biz, iPhone in Canada Blog, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TechCrunch, Game Rant, Politico, BetaNews, Pocket Gamer.biz, KitGuru, New York Times, Metro, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Watcher Guru, The Guardian, Neowin, Financial Times, Reuters, Press Start, RTÉ, Wccftech, Gameranx, Stevivor, CNBC, Windows Central, Eurogamer.net, Dot Esports, Video Games Chronicle, WinBuzzer, Variety, Engadget, Push Square, WhatIfGaming, VentureBeat, Appuals.com, Gamereactor UK, Thurrott, PC Games Insider, GamingBolt, Pure Xbox, International Business Times, 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, Reuters, The Verge, Insider, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, Livemint, Social Media Today, Neowin, The Economic Times, Mashable, Engadget, and The Wrap
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: |
More: Gizmodo, Techdirt, Digital Trends, The Economic Times, Business Today, and Engadget
Forums: r/AnythingGoesNews and r/inthenews
| 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.
More: Meta, Cybernews.com, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Engadget, and Mashable
X: @metanewsemea and @kpmacleod
| 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: @tanayj, @maxwinebach, @arjunkharpal, @maxwinebach, @ecommerceshares, @_hasanc, @tiernanraytech, @natebecker, and @_hasanc
| Bloomberg: |
Arm spent 3,500+ words in its 330-page IPO prospectus explaining the risks in China, a critical market that accounted for ~24% of its sales in the year to March — - Geopolitical tensions, China economic woes hurting sales — Power struggle with fired China unit CEO still casts shadow
More: Financial Times, Fortune, Livemint, and SiliconANGLE
| 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.| 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 … | Dave James / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 with AI-powered ray reconstruction, designed to recognize patterns within a noisy image for better clarity, available on RTX GPUs — Bringing AI to bear on those noisy traced rays. — Nvidia has announced a gorgeous new update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology.
More: The Verge, NVIDIA, VideoCardz.com, Engadget, Dexerto, Tom's Hardware, VentureBeat, PCWorld, TechPowerUp, TechRadar, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, ExtremeTech, TweakTown, KitGuru, Digital Trends, Wccftech, IGN, Neowin, and DSOGaming
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta plans to roll out a more capable web app for Threads in the next few days, offering the ability to post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed — Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday.
More: Reuters, CNN, Washington Post, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, CNBC, BGR, Mashable, Social Media Today, and Wall Street Journal. Threads: @zuck
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM agrees to sell its weather business, including Weather.com and business-oriented services, to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum — IBM's consumer-facing weather services such as Weather.com and business-oriented offerings will be acquired …
More: IBM, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
| Financial Times: |
Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US rules, have seen huge demand as they are more powerful than anything else before 2023 — Nvidia's processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives| 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
| 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, inews.co.uk, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, UPROXX, and On my Om
Threads: @moskov. Mastodon: @MoiraEve@mastodon.world, @JamesGleick@zirk.us, @TimKarr@mastodon.social, @markmetz@sfba.social, @robpegoraro@journa.host, and @DM_Ronin@mstdn.social
Bluesky: @hadleysheley.bsky.social and @vasabjit.bsky.social
X: @stevesi, @austen, @loloverruled, @caslernoel, @stevesi, @juliadavisnews, @kantrowitz, @muellershewrote, @jkbjournalist, @eladnehorai, @clarajeffery, @karlbode, @pkafka, @nichcarlson, @tomgara, @dannykons, @sirsteven, @ronanfarrow, @pkafka, @om, @gettingsome, @mbusse, @drewfitzgerald, @sifill_, @michaelluo, and @julie_bush
| Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
More: Livemint, Insider, and UPROXX
Mastodon: @TimKarr@mastodon.social, @GaryRLundberg@newsie.social, @jayreding@mastodon.world, and @KimPerales@toad.social
Bluesky: @andrewbaron.bsky.social and @andimann.bsky.social
X: @mehdirhasan, @tomcoates, @business, @robtornoe, and @nxthompson
Forums: r/UkrainianConflict and r/politics
| 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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta releases SeamlessM4T, an AI model that can translate and transcribe nearly 100 languages across text and speech, and SeamlessAlign, a translation data set — In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T …
More: Reuters, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Meta, Axios, Hugging Face, Meta, and Rest of World
| 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, Cryptonews, Analytics Insight, Cryptopolitan, Coinspeaker, Unchained Crypto, Bitcoinist.com, Mashable, Cointelegraph, Ethereum World News, The Week, 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
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$4.7B, beating ~$4.6B est., and net income up 43% YoY to ~$714M, as China boosts its private sector; BIDU rises 4%+ — - The company reported a larger than projected 15% jump in sales — It's riding a bounce-back in advertising from Covid depths
More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and Baidu Inc
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