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Q&A with Bethesda Head of Publishing Pete Hines on releasing Starfield, working with Microsoft, Game Pass, triple-A games in 2023, debugging Starfield, and more — Head of publishing on why the developer prioritises player freedom over less buggy games, and facing expectations around its sci-fi epic| Bloomberg: |
TechInsights teardown: Huawei's Mate 60 Pro uses a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by SMIC using a 7nm process, marking a blow to US sanctions — The company's Mate 60 Pro is powered by SMIC's 7nm chips, according to analysis that TechInsights conducted for Bloomberg News
More: Tech Startups and TechInsights Inc.
X: @hsu_steve, @sroach_econ, @pelstrom, @pelstrom, @jeremywarneruk, @rodolfor, @pelstrom, and @martijnrasser
Forums: Hacker News, r/gadgets, r/Android, r/technology, r/China, and r/hardware
| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
The Huawei Mate 60 Pro's SMIC-made 7nm Kirin 9000s chip is an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, development and shows US curbs are porous, not useless — Chinese chipmakers have done well to bypass restrictions, but that won't be repeated often. — A new smartphone from Huawei Technologies Co … | Matt Binder / Mashable: |
After ADL's CEO noted talking to X's CEO on August 30, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts — Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours. — Over the past 24 hours …
More: Jerusalem Post, The Information, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Cosmopolitan Globalist, New York Post, The Daily Beast, and Media Matters for America
Threads: @tomgara, @eladnehorai, @eladnehorai, @eladnehorai, @eladnehorai, and @eladnehorai
Mastodon: @johnmcquaid@journa.host, @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange, @MattBinder@mastodon.social, @nickmartin@masto.ai, @w7voa@journa.host, @philipncohen@mastodon.social, @coreyrayburnyung …, @danwentzel@urbanists.social, @NIH_LLAMAS@mastodon.social, @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net, @rsynnott@mastodon.ie, and @ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org
X: @elonmusk, @lindayax, @elonmusk, @rmac18, @elonmusk, @jgreenblattadl, @mehdirhasan, @eladnehorai, @eladnehorai, @benjysarlin, @elonmusk, @carlzimmer, @elonmusk, @ericcolumbus, @elonmusk, @wajahatali, @mattbinder, @schwarz, @trhlofficial, @elonmusk, @mattyglesias, @ronfilipkowski, @rothschildmd, @elonmusk, @daithaigilbert, @keithwoodsyt, @jaredlholt, @adammaanit, @evavlaar, @elonmusk, @deanobeidallah, @elonmusk, @eladnehorai, @jakeshieldsajj, @mattyglesias, @krassenstein, and @marietjeschaake
| Alex Blake / Digital Trends: |
An interview with Apple executives Susan Prescott and Steve Sinclair on building Vision Pro apps and how Apple is trying to convince developers to create apps — Apple's Vision Pro headset hasn't launched yet, but already it's become one of the most hotly debated devices on the planet.| Financial Times: |
The London Stock Exchange plans to add a blockchain-based digital assets business after a year of assessment, but is “not building anything around cryptoassets” — Exchange operator in talks with UK government and regulators over new trading venue
More: SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, CoinJournal, Cryptonews, CCN.com, Blockworks, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Metaverse Post, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, Reuters, The Block, UKTN, and Finextra
X: @_rebeccahealey and @lauranoonanft
Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A look at the endless battle being waged by a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists to banish stalking forum Kiwi Farms from the internet — The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider
More: Electronic Frontier Foundation and MIT Technology Review
Mastodon: @nitashatiku@mastodon.social. X: @esqueer_, @hackingbutlegal, @jessesingal, @dropkiwifarms, and @stealthygeek
Forums: r/transgender, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Docs: Tencent, Xiaomi, and others begin enforcing China's app store rules set in August, which require regulatory disclosures; Apple has not begun checking apps — Mobile app stores in China run by Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), Xiaomi (1810.HK) and others have started to bar app publishers … | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Email: Spotify raises the listener threshold for creators in Ambassador Ads from 100 to 1,000 over 60 days, and plans to cut ad support for white noise podcasts — - Ambient sound shows will no longer be eligible for certain ads — Company raises listener threshold for ambassador ads program| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
How LLMs like GPT-4 can have an equalizing effect in some cases, boosting the less-skilled workers and potentially leveling the human-capital playing field — An optimistic take on technology and inequality. — On the app formerly known as Twitter, I'm known for occasionally going on rants …
X: @suchenzang, @jaykreps, @natolambert, @noahpinion, @noahpinion, and @noahpinion
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma becomes the company's biggest investor, with a 19.42% stake, after acquiring shares from China's Ant Group — Billionaire Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and chief executive officer of India's biggest digital payments company …
More: The Economic Times
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires — We can already detect fires from space, soon after they start. Here's why we don't yet have a nationwide system for alerting us when they do—but could someday.Sponsor Posts
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