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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: new documents detail an Xbox Series X refresh in 2024, codenamed Brooklin, including a new controller and cylindrical, disc-less design — Microsoft is planning to refresh its Xbox Series X console in 2024 with an all-new design and features.
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| Push Square: |
FTC v. Microsoft: in mid-2020, Phil Spencer discussed acquiring Warner Bros Interactive alongside Bethesda and said buying Nintendo would be a “career moment” — “It'd be a good move for both companies” — A genuinely dystopian email sent by Xbox chief Phil Spencer …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
After over 100 internal Microsoft documents leaked, the FTC says that “Microsoft was responsible for the error in uploading these documents to the court” — The files include emails from corporate executives like Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer and timetables for gaming releases.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: docs show Microsoft's gaming plans for 2028, aiming for “full convergence” of its cloud platform and hardware to deliver “cloud hybrid games” — The documents may also reveal Microsoft's far future plans for 2028 — by which the company believed it could achieve …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates Bard to use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive, not just the web, to help users find and summarize emails, highlight points in a document, and more — Google's Bard AI chatbot is no longer limited to pulling answers from just the web — it can now scan your Gmail, Docs …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max review: USB-C, lighter, nicer to hold, a useful Action Button, and camera improvements, but no 5x telephoto on the smaller Pro — Apple didn't choose the USB-C life, but boy are we glad it got here anyway. … There are very few surprises from new smartphones these days.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
iPhone 15 and 15 Plus review: nice to hold, Dynamic Island, great performance, and smart camera features, but no always-on display or ProMotion and slow USB-C — Apple's standard iPhone gets a lot of nice upgrades this year, but it's not anything we haven't seen before.| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Court filing: FTX sues SBF's parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, to “recover millions of dollars in fraudulently transferred and misappropriated funds” — The filing, redacted in parts, asks the court to award the FTX estate damages, the return of any property given or payment made to the parents.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel announces Meteor Lake, its first chips to use its new chiplet architecture, offering CPUs using its 7nm Intel 4 process node, will “launch” on December 14 — For many months, Intel has spared no opportunity to remind us that its Meteor Lake chips would be the ones to watch …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
On a livestream, Elon Musk says X is “moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system”, as it's “the only way to combat vast armies of bots” — - Tesla, SpaceX and X Corp. leader Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in a livestream …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Crowdstrike confirms acquiring Bionic, which analyzes a company's tech and IT to find vulnerabilities, sources say for $350M; Bionic has raised ~$82M in total — Update: Crowdstrike has now officially confirmed the deal. As we previously reported, Crowdstrike will merge Bionic's tech with its Falcon product.
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| Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
Okta Chief Security Officer David Bradbury says five clients, including MGM and Caesars, were hacked via helpdesk calls by the ALPHV and Scattered Spider groups — Hackers who breached casino giants MGM Resorts International (MGM.N) and Caesars Entertainment (CZR.O) in recent weeks also broke …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro: Chinese cyberespionage group Earth Lusca used new Linux backdoor malware SprySOCKS to target government agencies in multiple countries in H1 2023 — A Chinese espionage-focused hacker tracked as ‘Earth Lusca’ was observed targeting government agencies in multiple countries, using a new Linux backdoor dubbed ‘SprySOCKS.’
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
What to expect from Microsoft's special NYC event: Surface Laptop Studio 2, Surface Go 4, and Laptop Go 3, and AI updates for Windows, Surface, Office, and Bing — Microsoft is holding a “special event” in New York City later this week where it's expected to debut three new Surface devices …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A look at ShadowDragon, which offers social media surveillance tools that gather data from games and more, used by ICE, the State Department, the DEA, and more — Daniel Clemens sits in a darkened room and speaks about why he thinks people should not protest.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches a tool that lets creators label their AI-generated content and plans to test other ways of labeling such content automatically — As more creators turn to AI for their artistic expression, there's also a broader push for transparency around when AI was involved in content creation.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative plans to build an AI GPU cluster of 1,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs to run “openly available” models of human cells for medical research — Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's foundation is funding the construction of a massive computing system for medical research.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon announces a new version of Just Walk Out for clothing retailers, using RFID tags to track apparel; the grocery version relies on ceiling-mounted cameras — - Latest iteration uses RFID tags and readers to track apparel — Some retailers have balked at using Just Walk Out system
More: About Amazon, TechCrunch, Engadget, GeekWire, and CNBC
| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Interviews with 15 current and former employees at Amazon's Lab126 hardware unit describe low morale due to layoffs and fears of a weak development pipeline — Some workers within Amazon's (AMZN.O) once-storied hardware division - responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader …
More: MacDailyNews. Mastodon: @jpsays@mastodon.social and @harrymccracken@mastodon …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Instacart shares open up 40% on Nasdaq at $42, valuing the grocery delivery company at about $14B — - Instacart is the first notable venture-backed tech company to hit the U.S. public market since December 2021. — The grocery delivery company, once valued at $39 billion …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days — Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services — establishing the comms watchdog Ofcom … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon plans to hire 250,000 US staff to help manage the holidays, up from 150,000 in 2022, and bumps the average hourly pay for warehouse and delivery workers — - Amazon said Tuesday it's hiring 250,000 employees in the U.S. to help manage the holiday rush.
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, and About Amazon
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Plan A, which offers a SaaS sustainability tool to help track net zero efforts, raised a $27M Series A extension, taking its total funding to $42M — Plan A, a carbon accounting and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting platform for corporations …
More: Tech.eu, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Silicon Canals
| Derek Strickland / TweakTown: |
FTC v. Microsoft: in April 2022, Xbox Game Pass may have generated ~$231.5M in revenue, or $9.26 per subscription, meaning most subscribers pay the full price — Microsoft reveals more details about how much money Xbox Game Pass actually makes. — VIEW GALLERY - 4 IMAGES
More: Game Developer, Axios, Gameranx, and GamesIndustry.biz
Forums: r/Games, r/pcgaming, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Leo Lewis / Financial Times: |
Location and mapping startup Mapbox raised $280M led by SoftBank, sources say at a ~$1.3B pre-money valuation; PitchBook says Mapbox had raised $360M to date — Son's decision to back US mapping company in $280mn investment round comes in wake of Arm listingSponsor Posts
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