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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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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Forums: Hacker News, r/gaming, r/technology, r/Unity3D, and r/gamedev
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
As X struggles to moderate misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, Meta has an opportunity to make Threads a real-time news app many users are clamoring for — Three months into its existence, the app's purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
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LinkedIn: Mark Little and Tomer Poran
Forums: r/technology and r/TheMajorityReport
| 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 … | 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, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, BigTechWire, Neowin, and The Verge
X: @cityofthetown and @raamana_
LinkedIn: Michael Running Wolf, Sumit Gupta, and Alex Onsager
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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| 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.
More: Financial Conduct Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, Unchained Crypto, OKX, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Binance Blog, Decrypt, Inside Bitcoins, Bitcoin News, CryptoPotato, Cryptonews, Protos, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, Blockworks, CCN.com, Finextra, CryptoGlobe, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, Crypto Daily, Coinpedia Fintech News, Metaverse Post, CoinJournal, crypto.news, CoinGape, PYMNTS.com, and Bitcoin News
X: @thefca, @wublockchain, @zachxbt, @functi0nzer0, @prestonjbyrne, @wublockchain, @moo9000, @functi0nzer0, @langcatmike, @emilyjnicolle, and @emilyjnicolle. LinkedIn: Oliver Scherenberg
| 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 … | 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.| Collin Binkley / Associated Press: |
Many US school districts spent millions in US pandemic relief money on edtech, such as apps, games, and tutoring sites, but the results for students are unclear — As soon as the federal pandemic relief started arriving at America's schools, so did the relentless calls.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Meta Quest 3 review: more comfortable, much-improved displays, and snappy performance, but there isn't much MR content and passthrough isn't quite sharp enough — Meta's new headset is better than its predecessors in almost every way. But until there's more to do in mixed reality …
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| 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: Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, Blockworks, and The Block
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @couts@mastodon.social
X: @a_greenberg, @emilyjnicolle, @a_greenberg, @silvermanjacob, @sethburn, and @lilyhnewman. Forums: r/ethtrader
| 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
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