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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Arm prices its 95.5M shares at $51 a piece, raising $4.87B in 2023's largest IPO so far and giving the company a fully diluted valuation of ~$54.5B — Arm, the British chip design giant controlled by SoftBank, has raised nearly $5 billion in its initial public offering.
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| Suzanne Rowan Kelleher / Forbes: |
MGM Resorts' website is still down over 60 hours after being hit by a cyberattack; ransomware-as-a-service group ALPHV, aka BlackCat, reportedly took credit — The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claimed responsibility for a breach that began, of all places, on LinkedIn.
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LinkedIn: Noah Stanford and Christina Lekati
| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Caesars Entertainment paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who breached the company's systems in recent weeks and threatened to release the data — - Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack
More: Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Benzinga, Fox 5 Las Vegas, iTnews, PYMNTS.com, Casino.org, Fortune, and Reuters
| Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary: |
Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge get updates to address an actively exploited flaw in the WebP Codec's library libwebp; many non-browser apps are also affected — A significant vulnerability in the WebP Codec has been unearthed, prompting major browser vendors, including Google and Mozilla …
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| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Unity acknowledges the “confusion and frustration” about its planned install fees but argues that “more than 90% of our customers will not be affected” — Platform holder claims “90 percent of users” won't be affected by change. — Game developers are still furious …
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Senate's AI Insight Forum: Elon Musk warned of AI risks, Mark Zuckerberg defended open source, all guests agreed the US needs to regulate AI, and more — Tech leaders debate perils and possibilities of artificial intelligence at closed-door Senate session
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| Louise Matsakis / Semafor: |
Google cuts hundreds from its global recruiting team, saying “the volume of requests for our recruiters has gone down”, but plans to keep a significant majority — Google is laying off hundreds of people across its global recruiting team as hiring at the tech giant continues to slow.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces generative AI tools to help sellers write “captivating product descriptions, titles, and listing details” and add to existing descriptions — Amazon today introduced a new set of generative AI tools aimed at sellers which the retailer says will simplify the process of creating product listings.
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| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
A US judge says FTX can now sell, stake, and hedge its crypto holding, estimated to be worth $3.4B+, including $1.16B in solana, to repay creditors — Lawyers of FTX had submitted a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, asking for permission to sell …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Rolling Stone: |
Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her — In her book ‘Extremely Online,’ journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia Allison invented the concept of being a content creator a decade before it caught on| Wall Street Journal: |
Docs: Starlink reported $1.4B in 2022 revenue, up from $222M in 2021, falling short of projections in 2015, as some question satellite internet's growth options — Revenue at Elon Musk's satellite-internet business has jumped but has fallen short of plans — SpaceX's satellite-internet division …
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| Bloomberg: |
The White House is watching China expand its government ban on iPhones “with concern” and says the move appears to be “aggressive and inappropriate retaliation” — - National Security Council is watching issue with concern — Beijing cites problems with the security of Apple devices| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands its revamped creator fund Creativity Program Beta beyond the US to eligible creators in Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the UK — TikTok is expanding its revamped creator fund, called the “Creativity Program Beta,” beyond the United States.| Bloomberg: |
A memo by a lawyer for the ~2,000 former Twitter employees laid off after Musk took over says X has agreed to enter settlement talks set for Dec. 1 and Dec. 2 — - X Corp. agreed to meet with employees' lawyers, per memo — About 2,000 ex-Twitter employees sued for backpay, bonuses
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| Washington Post: |
On day two of the Google trial, an Apple lawyer protested two numbers the DOJ used in its opening statement, including Google paying Apple $4B-$7B for search — Protection of trade secrets versus transparency has been a major debate between Google and activists in the case| New York Times: |
How Instacart CEO Fidji Simo helped find new ways for the company to make money, including via expanding its ads and software, which made $406M in 2023 revenue — As it prepares to go public next week, Instacart shows that one secret to making money as a gig economy company is to become an advertising company.| Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg: |
Child content creators, or “kidfluencers”, some of whom make $20M+/year, show that protecting kids from labor exploitation is difficult in the social media age — Protecting children from labor exploitation is difficult in the age of social media.
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