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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, Video Games Chronicle, Engadget, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Video Games Chronicle, TechSpot, OnMSFT.com, 9to5Google, Neowin, Gamereactor UK, Press Start, Eurogamer.net, Stevivor, Axios, The Verge, Push Square, Dexerto, Pure Xbox, PC Gamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Windows Central, Digital Trends, Techaeris, Kotaku, SlashGear, Laptop Mag, Forbes, Dot Esports, Gameranx, TechPowerUp, IGN, and Press Start
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Forums: r/pcgaming, r/gamecollecting, r/MicrosoftRewards, r/gaming, r/gme_meltdown, r/Games, r/Stadia, r/GyroGaming, r/xboxone, r/Games, r/quake, r/gaming, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.’| 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.
More: Bloomberg, IGN, Seattle Business Journal, The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, GameSpot, The Daily Upside, TweakTown, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Fast Company, CNBC, Destructoid, Fortune, and Neowin
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| Sammy Barker / 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, Eurogamer.net, PC Gamer, Engadget, Destructoid, Neowin, T3, MobileSyrup, and GamingBolt
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Forums: r/Games, r/gaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, and r/ElderScrolls
| 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 …
More: ResetEra, Decrypt, Engadget, 9to5Google, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GeekWire, and ResetEra
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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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| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart's beginnings, his decision to exit the board, a reluctance to go public, and more — The grocery delivery giant's founder and former CEO speaks exclusively to Forbes about his decision to exit the board …
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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, and Reuters
| 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, GOV.UK, The Verge, Reuters, The Record, and Ofcom
| 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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X: @markhachman and @markhachman
| 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
| 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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| 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, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, The Messenger, TechCrunch, CNBC, and GeekWire
| 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, CrowdStrike, The Information, Bionic, BankInfoSecurity.com, SiliconANGLE, and CRN
LinkedIn: Lior Simon and Ariel Maislos
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches the Red Teaming Network, a contracted group of experts to help inform the company's AI model risk assessment and mitigation strategies — In its ongoing effort to make its AI systems more robust, OpenAI today launched the OpenAI Red Teaming Network, a contracted group … | 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.| Ehren Kret / Signal: |
Signal announces PQXDH, a new cryptographic specification meant as a first step to advance quantum resistance for the Signal Protocol — The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world.
More: Signal. Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange. X: @derekmorr, @jsrailton, @scobleizer, @durumcrustulum, @mer__edith, and @signalapp
Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, and r/signal
| 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, Pocket-lint, and GeekWire
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