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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.| 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 … | 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.
More: Engadget, Cybernews.com, Hackread, CNBC, Gizmodo, Infosecurity, USA Today, SiliconANGLE, WANE 15, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg
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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.
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| 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 satellite-internet business has jumped but fallen short of Elon Musk's financial projections
More: Ars Technica, CNBC, Gizmodo, The Verge, and BigTechWire
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| Reuters: |
After France ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 over its high radiation levels, Apple says multiple bodies certified the device as radiation compliant — Apple said on Wednesday its iPhone 12 model was certified by multiple international bodies as compliant with global radiation standards …
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| Tim Starks / Washington Post: |
Researchers: the iPhone of Meduza owner Galina Timchenko was infected with Pegasus in Germany, the first known case of the tool being used against a Russian — Unclear is who planted the spyware while the founder of the Meduza news outlet was in Germany — The iPhone of a prominent Russian …
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| Ryan Tracy / 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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| Reuters: |
The US SEC says the creator of Stoner Cats NFTs, which raised $8.2M, agreed to pay a $1M fine for an unregistered offering and plans to return investors' money — The creator of the popular Stoner Cats animated web series will pay a $1 million civil fine to settle U.S. Securities …
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| 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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| 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
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| Philip Glamann / Bloomberg: |
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| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI announces its text-to-music tool Stable Audio, which can generate 20 45-second tracks per month for free or 500 90-second tracks for $12/month — What comes after building generative AI technology for image and code generation? For Stability AI, it's text-to-audio generation.
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Apple's environmental announcements, including its first carbon-neutral products, show progress but may be a red herring that distracts from its overall impact — Apple announced its first-ever carbon-neutral products today, but don't get too excited about what that means for the planet.
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| Tom Ivan / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony releases a PS5 software update that adds support for Dolby Atmos HDMI devices, assigning a second controller as an “assist controller”, and up to 8TB SSDs — Sony has rolled out a major PlayStation 5 system software update globally. — It introduces a number of new features … | 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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| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Chicago-based Kin Insurance, which uses thousands of data points to provide personalized home insurance, raised a $33M Series D extension at a $1B+ valuation — - Lucinda Shen, author of Axios Pro: Fintech Deals — Exit Content Preview — Nearly two years after walking away from a SPAC deal … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Former FaZe Clan staff describe a mismanaged creator organization, as its market cap falls from $725M at its 2022 SPAC merger to below $15M; FaZe fired its CEO — The board fired CEO Lee Trink following a steep decline in the shares — Three months after its July 2022 debut on the Nasdaq …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
T-Mobile plans to acquire more 5G airwaves from Comcast, which is selling 600MHz spectrum licenses that the conglomerate is “unlikely” to need, for up to $3.3B — T-Mobile is buying airwaves from Comcast in a deal valued at up to $3.3 billion.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Apple hikes the prices of the iPhone 15 lineup in China, Japan, India, and other markets, keeps prices flat in the US, and cuts prices in the UK by £50 to £100 — - Apple hiked the prices of its latest iPhones in some of its key markets including China, Japan and India, even as it kept them the same in the U.S.
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| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
The US Army says Microsoft's improved HoloLens-based goggles passed their first round of intensive testing by soldiers, ahead of a make-or-break 2025 evaluation — - Army places a new order for goggles based on HoloLens device — The new contract paves the way for rigorous testing in 2025Sponsor Posts
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