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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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| 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
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Forums: Hacker News, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 its data — - Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.| 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 … | 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 … | 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
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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| 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
| Washington Post: |
Day two of Google's trial: Apple complained the DOJ may have violated confidentiality rules, after the DOJ said Google paid Apple $4B to $7B for search in 2020 — Protection of trade secrets versus transparency has been a major debate between Google and activists in the case| 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
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
The Biden administration asks SCOTUS to pause a lower court's order limiting the White House, FBI, and public health agencies from making social media requests — The move comes after a lower court found the White House, FBI and key public health officials probably violated the First AmendmentSponsor Posts
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