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Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company's fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO — John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.
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X: @stephentotilo, @aakashg0, @migueldeicaza, @tomwarren, @trentkusters, @kriswolfheart, @ethangach, @paultassi, @dmc_ryan, @kellen_browning, @josephjacks_, @thegameawards, @economyapp, and @amgsheena. LinkedIn: Bryan Saftler
Forums: Hacker News, r/Unity3D, r/gamedev, r/gaming, and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, the $10/month AI assistant with 1.5M+ users, loses an average of $20+/month per user and as much as $80/month for some users — Microsoft, Google and others experiment with how to produce, market and charge for new tools
More: SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, BigTechWire, and The Verge
X: @cityofthetown and @raamana_
LinkedIn: Alex Onsager, Michael Running Wolf, and Sumit Gupta
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Washington Post: |
Investigation: earlier in 2023, Vietnam tried to plant Predator spyware on the phones of US Congress members, CNN journalists, and US policy experts via X posts — The attempts appear to have been unsuccessful, but came as the U.S. and Vietnam were negotiating an agreement that President Biden signed last month in Hanoi
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Mastodon: @DataDrivenMD@fedified.com and @sambowne@infosec.exchange
| Brian McGleenon / The Block: |
As the UK FCA widens its financial promotions rules for crypto, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies to try to keep serving UK customers — - Coinbase and OKX have partnered with crypto startup Archax to get financial promotions approved.
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X: @thefca, @emilyjnicolle, @wublockchain, @zachxbt, @functi0nzer0, @prestonjbyrne, @wublockchain, @moo9000, @functi0nzer0, @langcatmike, and @emilyjnicolle. LinkedIn: Oliver Scherenberg
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google Cloud expands Vertex AI Search with features to help health care workers pull info from clinical notes, scanned documents, and electronic health records — - Google Cloud on Monday announced new artificial intelligence-powered search capabilities that will help clinicians quickly access information from different data sources.| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: X shut down a tool used to identify coordinated disinformation campaigns in recent months, as it moved services away from Google Cloud to cut costs — Elon Musk's X, in the months before conflict erupted in Gaza, ceased utilizing a software tool used to identify organized misinformation … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US judge throws out a $32.5M jury verdict for Sonos in a smart speaker patent case against Google after finding that the Sonos patents were unenforceable — A California federal judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict for wireless-audio company Sonos (SONO.O) against rival Google … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon fixes a network connectivity error that undercounted its MAUs between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs and 10K servers — Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X …
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| Natalie Weiner / The Verge: |
A look at Discogs, a user-generated music database and marketplace for physical music media, as sellers complain about the website's old tech and increased fees — A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.
More: Silicon Florist. Mastodon: @zeruch@mastodon.social, @libationlegacy@mastodon …, and @swanksalot@toot.community
| Bloomberg: |
China outlines a plan to target 300+ exaflops of computing capacity, up from 220 in 2023, bigger optical networks, more advanced data storage, and more by 2025 — - Country aims to build more data centers, high-speed networks — Effort to benefit local suppliers due to security concerns| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
An investigation details FTX trying to stop a crypto heist the night right after declaring bankruptcy, ultimately losing $415M to $432M to unidentified hackers — The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers.
More: Blockworks, Bitcoinist.com, The Block, and crypto.news
Mastodon: @couts@mastodon.social and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
X: @a_greenberg, @emilyjnicolle, @a_greenberg, @silvermanjacob, @sethburn, and @lilyhnewman. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Queenie Wong / Los Angeles Times: |
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