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Arm opens up 10% to ~$56 in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at $59.9B, after Arm priced shares at the upper end of its expected $47 to $51 range — - Arm Holdings has started trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker “ARM.” — The chip design company is valued at a steep premium relative …
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Bluesky: @caseynewton.bsky.social. X: @hpc_guru, @tiernanraytech, @davidbelle_, @danprimack, @ejzim, @arm, @danprimack, @bobpisani, and @tradertvshawn
| SemiAnalysis: |
How Arm, following its success in architecture, licensing, and ecosystem, is looking to maintain a sustainable model by raising prices, not chasing market share — Cheap If They Can Charge Qualcomm-like Royalties? — ∙ Paid — Arm's success can be attributed to its innovative architecture … | Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines — Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
More: Cybernews.com, CNBC, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Hackread, Dark Reading, Ars Technica, Infosecurity, IT Brew, SiliconANGLE, USA Today, WANE-TV, ComputerWeekly.com, SecurityWeek, Engadget, Livemint, DataBreaches.net, and Forbes
Mastodon: @racheltobac@infosec.exchange, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @da_667@infosec.exchange, @hn50@social.lansky.name, and @brett@infosec.exchange
LinkedIn: Christina Lekati, Noah Stanford, and Michael DaGrossa
Forums: Beehaw and Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Caesars confirms the casino operator was hacked via a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor; sources: Caesars paid a ~$15M ransom — Caesars is second major casino operator hit by hackers in recent weeks — paid roughly half of a $30 million ransom …
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Bluesky: @waxmonkey.bsky.social and @mranthropology.bsky.social
X: @carlypage_, @vitalvegas, @rotopat, @williamturton, @mikko, and @williamturton. LinkedIn: Frank Sargent
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/vegas, and r/technology
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Unity cancels a town hall and closes two offices after receiving what the company says was a credible death threat, following its controversial install fee news — Management announced a controversial pricing decision two days ago — Unity Technologies Inc. canceled a planned town hall …
More: The Verge, Engadget, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Developer, Neowin, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TheGamer, Polygon, Eurogamer.net, Kotaku, and GameSpot
Forums: Hacker News, r/gaming, and r/gamedev
| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Unity acknowledges “the confusion and frustration” around 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 …
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Computer, Enhance!, mjtsai.com, HotHardware, BBC, Tom's Guide, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Ghacks, TechPowerUp, Game Developer, Push Square, and Decrypt
X: @unity, @megacrit, @geoffkeighley, @tha_rami, @cabel, @duskdev, @tianipixel, @ordinarygamers, @paultassi, @georgebsocial, @chrisdeleon, @merrykish, @mode7games, @cremagames, @smashynick, @dark1x, @kurtruslfanclub, @kommanderkarl, @teamjunkfish, @tafferking451, @stephentotilo, @kriswolfheart, @polymarsyt, @falconeerdev, @gamemakerengine, @oysterfake, @campster, @dotemu, @completionist, @zenofdesign, @ricardojuchem, @izumi_niche, @razzadoop, @theactman_yt, @smashynick, @tafferking451, @daveoshry, @emiliana_vt, @tighesammy, @konjak, @repiteo, @tomwarren, @cmuratori, @papapishu, @wickedinsignia, @ckunzelman, @nintendrew_, @indiegamerchick, @dark1x, @jakob_wahlberg, @mikerugnetta, @dominictarason, @dylancuthbert, @paultassi, @grummz, @smashynick, @kerissakti, @humblegrove, @docsquiddy, @tha_rami, @agrumpyfox, @aggrocrabgames, @andytouch, @georgebsocial, @nitrome, @gamemakerengine, @theswweet, @mikedrucker, @quinnypig, @honestduane, @jmrivera02, and @nukefist
Forums: Hacker News, r/gamedev, and r/PS5
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
HP unveils the $5,000+ Spectre Fold, an OLED foldable PC that can be used as a 17-inch tablet, a 17-inch laptop, or a 12.3-inch laptop and weighs less than 3lbs — Over the past few years, companies across the PC space have been engaged in a slow, but steady race to build a foldable laptop that people might actually want to buy.
More: HP Press Center, Ars Technica, HotHardware, MSPoweruser, TechEBlog, ExtremeTech, KnowTechie, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, CNET, TechPowerUp, XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, and Liliputing
Forums: r/gadgets and Ars OpenForum
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
More: ZDNet, Android Authority, Notebookcheck, Tom's Guide, Windows Central, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Neowin, and SlashGear. X: @samrutherford
| Bloomberg: |
How Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son, Sam, and provided a halo effect for FTX before its implosion — Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son and provided a halo effect for his company.
More: Decrypt and The Verge
X: @0xnccb, @chafkin, @kaleekreider, @mike_eckel, and @notchasecoleman
LinkedIn: John P. Davidson and Beth Williams Liou
| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
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| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to offer Chromebook software updates for up to 10 years, starting in 2024, so no current device expires within the next two years, to help schools — With the change, no existing Chromebook will have to expire within the next two years — Google is working to push …
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LinkedIn: John Maletis and John Solomon
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic releases ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress, letting fediverse users follow WordPress blogs on apps like Mastodon and receive replies as blog comments — In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include …
Mastodon: @chrismessina@mastodon.xyz, @Jeremiah@alpaca.gold, and @pfefferle@mastodon.social. X: @mattwiebe
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta expands Horizon Worlds, previously exclusive to its VR headsets, to the web and Android in early access, and rolling out to iOS “in the coming weeks” — Meta is finally bringing Horizon Worlds out of virtual reality. The 3D social platform has previously been exclusive to its VR headsets … | Washington Post: |
Sources: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu plans to fly to the US to meet Elon Musk, the latest attempt by Musk allies to stave off X's growing antisemitism crisis — The meeting with the Israeli prime minister is the latest effort by Musk friends and colleagues to head off a growing battle with the Anti-Defamation League
More: The Hill, Reuters, Bloomberg, Fortune, Wccftech, Fast Company, and Social Media Today. Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Databricks raised a $500M+ Series I at a $43B valuation, after raising $1.6B at a $38B valuation in August 2021, before a possible IPO, and reports 10K+ clients — Data analytics and AI software maker Databricks has raised a Series I round worth more than $500 million, earning a valuation of $43 billion.
More: SiliconANGLE, PR Newswire, Crunchbase News, The Register, Baseline, CRN, Voicebot.ai, Bloomberg, Metaverse Post, Forbes, KNSD-TV, VentureBeat, and FinSMEs
| Bloomberg: |
Lenders allege that Indian edtech giant Byju's hid $533M in an obscure three-year-old hedge fund that once said its main place of business was an IHOP in Miami — - New lender suit seeks to recover cash from Camshaft Capital — Hedge fund was founded just three years ago, lenders say| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands its search and discovery mobile features, like multimodal search and Find-on-Amazon, which lets users find similar products to those in a photo — Amazon is introducing new features that make it easier to search for products on mobile and is challenging other product search engines …
More: Search Engine Land, About Amazon, and PetaPixel
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft's proposal to unbundle Teams did not satisfy the concerns of EU antitrust regulators, who are readying a formal complaint against the company — Microsoft's recent proposal to split its Teams from a broader business software package and sell it to customers separately …
More: Computerworld, Thurrott, Neowin, and OnMSFT.com
| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Amazon adds back IAP for Prime Video users on Android to buy VOD rentals and more, after removing IAP from its Android apps in 2022 to avoid Google's 30% fee — Next up: The Kindle app, maybe? — Some news from the someone-must-have-struck-a-deal department: Amazon is once again allowing users …
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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
X: @chrismohney, @joshkrugerphl, @choire, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @kattenbarge, and @lingerie_addict. LinkedIn: Rick Turoczy
| BBC: |
Greater Manchester Police confirms a ransomware attack on its ID supplier, potentially exposing officer identities, one month after a breach in Northern Ireland — Police officers' personal details have been hacked after a company was targeted in a cyber attack.
More: The Record, Hackread, Tech Monitor, Graham Cluley, DataBreachToday.com, CSO, Associated Press, Infosecurity, and Cybernews.com. X: @troyhunt
| Washington Post: |
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