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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: docs accidentally reveal an Xbox Series X refresh in 2024, codenamed Brooklin, including a cylindrical, diskless design and a new controller — Microsoft is planning to refresh its Xbox Series X console in 2024 with an all-new design and features.
More: ResetEra, The Verge, Engadget, Bloomberg, Video Games Chronicle, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, TechSpot, OnMSFT.com, Game Developer, Eurogamer.net, Video Games Chronicle, Push Square, PC Gamer, The Verge, Axios, Windows Central, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Polygon, Digital Trends, WinBuzzer, Dexerto, Techaeris, Kotaku, SlashGear, Laptop Mag, Forbes, Pocket-lint, Gameranx, OC3D, TechPowerUp, BGR, MobileSyrup, For The Win, IGN, and Press Start
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| The Verge: |
Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations — / ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’| Push Square: |
FTC v. Microsoft: in mid-2020, Phil Spencer said Microsoft was in M&A talks with Warner Bros Interactive and said acquiring 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 …
More: The Verge, The Verge, ResetEra, Forbes, Windows Central, Eurogamer.net, PC Gamer, Dexerto, Destructoid, Engadget, T3, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Dot Esports, and GamingBolt
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Forums: r/Games, r/gaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, and r/ElderScrolls
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
After over 100 internal Microsoft Xbox 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 include a “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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Forums: r/hardware and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Ed Nightingale / Eurogamer.net: |
More: Axios, Game Developer, Gameranx, and GameSpot
| 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.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Instacart closed up 12.33% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the grocery delivery company at just over $11B; Instacart was valued at $39B in March 2021 — - Instacart is the first notable venture-backed tech company to hit the U.S. public market since December 2021.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon plans to hire 250K US staff to help manage the holiday rush, up from 150K in 2022, and bumps warehouse and delivery workers' average pay to $20.50/hour — - Amazon said Tuesday it's hiring 250,000 employees in the U.S. to help manage the holiday rush.
More: About Amazon, PYMNTS.com, The Hill, GeekWire, Fortune, and Reuters
| 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.
More: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, MIT Technology Review, Engadget, and Wccftech
| 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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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, 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 …
More: BBC, The Messenger, The Verge, The Record, Reuters, GOV.UK, and Ofcom
| 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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| 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.
More: CTech, The Information, CrowdStrike, SiliconANGLE, Bionic, BankInfoSecurity.com, and CRN
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| 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, The Verge, The Messenger, TechCrunch, CNBC, and GeekWire
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Mandiant details UNC53, a China-backed group that hacked 29+ global orgs since 2022 by tricking staff into using malware-infected USB drives, mostly in Africa — Security researchers found USB-based Sogu espionage malware spreading within African operations of European and US firms.| 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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Mastodon: @arstechnica@mastodon.social. X: @780thc. Forums: r/technews, r/hacking, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
More: Dark Reading, San Francisco Business Journal, ComputerWeekly.com, CPO Magazine, and 404 Media. Mastodon: @DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
| 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 …
More: PCMag, Laptop Mag, Gizmodo, and Pocket-lint
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