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| Mike Seymour / fxguide: |
Unity plans to cut 265 jobs, or 3.8% of its workforce, and end its services deal with VFX company Wētā FX to focus on its core business in a “company reset” — UPDATE: Scroll down for a statement from WētāFX: — Reuters is reporting that Unity Software …
More: Reuters, Windows Central, Engadget, The Messenger, IGN, GameSpot, GameFromScratch.com, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TechRadar, PC Gamer, Game World Observer, Neowin, Polygon, Game Developer, and GamesIndustry.biz
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Forums: Hacker News and Beehaw
| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped 2023, adding a Me in 2023 feature that assigns users one of 12 themes to describe their listening habits, on mobile and desktop — The listening recap, available Wednesday, takes over social media every year — It's the time of year many people have been anxiously awaiting: Spotify Wrapped season.
More: Spotify, Spotify, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, The Verge, ZDNet, The Messenger, Tom's Guide, Android Central, 9to5Google, Neowin, PCMag, Ghacks, Forbes, Windows Central, iMore, Memeburn, Music Ally, Engadget, Digital Trends, Android Authority, The Verge, The Independent, PhoneArena, The Hollywood Reporter, Wired, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, AndroidGuys, Android Headlines, Fortune, MSPoweruser, Lifewire, Pocket-lint, WRIC-TV, USA Today, Spotify, CNET, USA Today, Daily Mail, TechCrunch, Forbes, TechRadar, and Android Police
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| Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: |
Spotify reveals 2023's most-streamed artists, albums, songs, and podcasts: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus' Flowers, The Joe Rogan Experience, and more — Spotify has revealed its annual Wrapped campaign for 2023, announcing the top-streamed artists, albums, songs and podcasts …
More: Spotify, Adweek, Global News, WSAV-TV, Axios, BBC, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, Android Headlines, T3, The Hollywood Reporter, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup, and UPROXX
X: @taylorswift13, @spotifynews, @spotifynews, @popcrave, @spotifynews, @popbase, @eldsjal, and @spotifynews
Forums: r/entertainment and r/TaylorSwift
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases an emergency security update to fix Chrome's sixth zero-day in 2023, related to the Skia open-source 2D graphics library and found by Google TAG — Google has fixed the sixth Chrome zero-day vulnerability this year in an emergency security update released today to counter ongoing exploitation in attacks.
More: Google Chrome Releases, The Hacker News, PCMag, Club386, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Stack Diary, SecurityWeek, Forbes, and MSPoweruser
| Variety: |
Robert De Niro criticizes Apple and the Gotham Awards, after sources say Apple cut part of his speech slamming Donald Trump, which he read anyway from his phone — The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor was gearing up to slam Donald Trump at Monday's Gotham Awards, but when he took the stage …
More: The Verge, YouTube, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, Supercharged, AppleInsider, CNN, Daily Mail, Associated Press, IGN, Daily Mail, Screen, USA Today, The Independent, Consequence, and Rolling Stone
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X: @kylebuchanan, @nextbestpicture, @wutangkids, @edkrassen, @pelicinema, @flmfrkcentral, @adamhlavac, @miafarrow, @mishajackles, @marionawfal, @jadabird, and @variety. Forums: Hacker News
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
The US sanctions Sinbad, a crypto mixer allegedly used by North Korean Lazarus hackers, and seizes its service in an international law enforcement operation — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Sinbad cryptocurrency mixing service for its use as a money-laundering tool by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group.| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple plans to exit its Goldman Sachs contract in 12 to 15 months, ending their consumer partnership, including for credit card and savings accounts — Tech giant proposed exiting contract in about 12-to-15 months — Apple is pulling the plug on its credit-card partnership with Goldman Sachs …
More: CNBC, New York Times, Appleosophy, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Payments Dive, HotHardware, MobileSyrup, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Financial Times, MacRumors, Fortune, AppleInsider, Fast Company, Finextra, FStech, wallstreetonparade.com, The Statesman, Silicon Republic, Cryptonews, Tom's Guide, The Messenger, Pocketnow, iMore, Android Authority, SamMobile, Supercharged, Proactiveinvestors NA, Thurrott, FinTech Futures, Apple Must, International Business Times, Coinspeaker, Engadget, TipRanks Financial, MacDailyNews, TechStartups, Daring Fireball, Reuters, and MarketWatch
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: TweakTown, The Olympian, Crowdfund Insider, Zacks Investment Research, Digital Trends, and Entrepreneur
X: @munshipremchnd, @blegh92, and @thejasontlewis
| Graham Starr / Bloomberg: |
Okta tells customers that hackers who breached its network stole information on all users of its customer support system, greater than the 1% claimed previously — - Okta had earlier said breach affected about 1% of customers — Company said some Okta employee information was also stolen
More: Axios, BleepingComputer, The Register, CNBC, The Record, Cybersecurity Dive, Wired, GovInfoSecurity.com, Reuters, San Francisco Business Times, The Hacker News, Gizmodo, Nextgov/FCW, Security Boulevard, Tech Monitor, MSPoweruser, CRN, Cybernews.com, Ghacks, SecurityWeek, Help Net Security, Tech.co, Business Insider, Mashable, and ComputerWeekly.com
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Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, and r/hacking
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple licenses Arm's IP at less than 30 cents per device, the lowest rate among Arm's smartphone chip clients; Apple makes up under 5% of Arm's sales — In 2017, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son gathered a group of executives from Arm Holdings, the British chip designer SoftBank had just bought …
More: MacRumors, Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MacDailyNews
Mastodon: @ernie@writing.exchange. X: @waynema, @sundeep, and @theinformation. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind uses GNoME to find 2.2M crystal structures, over 45x more than all such substances ever found, and plans to make 381K available to scientists — Work shows power of AI to improve real-world technology in fields from renewable energy to advanced computation
More: Google DeepMind, Nature, VentureBeat, MIT Technology Review, TIME, The Economist, Analytics India Magazine, Phys.org, New Scientist, and Stack Diary
X: @pushmeet, @fleming77, and @andrewcurran_
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Wormhole, a Jump Crypto messaging protocol that lets developers communicate across blockchains, raised $225M at a $2.5B valuation, 2023's largest crypto raise — In a parched fundraising landscape, the team behind Wormhole, the messaging protocol that lets developers communicate across different blockchains … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix plans to add Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy for its users at no extra charge on December 14 in its mobile app or on the App Store and Google Play — The three classic titles in “Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition" will be available Dec. 14 for Netflix customers at no additional charge on mobile platforms.
More: About Netflix, Engadget, Decrypt, AppAdvice, Bloomberg, Game Developer, TechCrunch, Android Authority, 9to5Google, CNET, App Store, The Verge, Dexerto, IGN, The Streamable, Comic Book, Game Rant, TouchArcade, Cord Cutters News, Digital Trends, Mobilegamer.biz, Video Games Chronicle, GameSpot, Polygon, and Dot Esports. X: @kylebrussell
| CBC News: |
Google and Canada reach an agreement in their dispute over the Online News Act; Google will pay news companies around CA$100M per year, or about $74M — Agreement comes 3 weeks before Online News Act rules come into force — Google and the federal government have reached an agreement …
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Forums: r/onguardforthee, r/canada, and r/CanadaPolitics
| Bloomberg: |
How deepfake porn victims in NYC suburb Levittown helped convict the perpetrator, a former classmate, an ordeal further complicated by the lack of clear US laws — A group of young women in a New York City suburb, horrified to learn their photographs had been manipulated and posted online, took matters into their own hands.
Bluesky: @leahnylen.bsky.social. X: @ajmartinny, @zekefaux, @dannygroner, @livcarville, @ttp_updates, @livcarville, @sankalp_sp, @bradstone, @livcarville, and @livcarville
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at Ayaneo's $199+ Retro Mini PC AM01, designed to look like a 1980s-era Macintosh, with Ryzen chip options, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of storage — Ayaneo, which is mostly known for making handheld gaming consoles, just fully revealed the new Retro Mini PC AM01 after teasing it a few weeks ago.
More: VideoCardz.com, XDA Developers, T3, TweakTown, and PC Gamer
X: @kotecinho, @kotecinho, @cromwelp, @danielolimac, and @ayaneo__
| Wall Street Journal: |
After the mass layoffs in late 2022 and early 2023, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta continue to make small employee cuts to keep tight control on costs — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are making strategic trims even as they rebound from the tech downturn
Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: London-based AI startup Stability AI held early-stage talks with several companies about a sale, as executives face investor pressure over its finances — - Move follows letter from investor Coatue calling for changes — Coatue concerned about Stability AI's financial position
More: PYMNTS.com and The Information
X: @katie_roof, @kylebrussell, @lynnmdoan, @lynnmdoan, @mhbergen, @greglinden, and @mhbergen. Forums: r/StableDiffusion
| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Samsung launches its Samsung Internet browser on Windows via the Microsoft Store, offering a similar design to Chrome and bringing the mobile browser to desktop — Samsung Internet has moved out of the mobile space and onto the desktop with a new version available through the Microsoft Store for Windows PCs.
More: Microsoft Store, SamMobile, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, Sam Lover, WinBuzzer, and Android Police
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts Titan Image Generator, an AI model that can create images from text and add invisible watermarks to them, in preview for AWS customers on Bedrock — Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so.| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Perplexity announces two online LLMs that can access the internet to deliver up-to-date responses, available via Perplexity's API and Labs web interface — Perplexity's new PPLX models leverage the internet for real-time data. Find out how these new online LLMs compare to GPT-3.5 and Llama 2.| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Elliptic and Corvus Insurance: the “Black Basta” ransomware group, suspected of being a Conti offshoot, has extorted at least $107M in bitcoin since early 2022 — A cyber extortion gang suspected of being an offshoot of the notorious Russian Conti group of hackers has raked … | Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Together AI, which helps pre-train and fine-tune open source foundation models more efficiently, raised a $102.5M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins — I spoke with Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash — Together AI, a startup that's helping companies pre-train and fine-tune open source foundation models …
More: Together.ai, TechCrunch, TechStartups, and Kleiner Perkins
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google Registry launches a .meme top level domain, adding to .dad, .boo, .ing, and its other unconventional domain names — If you ever wanted to make your website sound a little more silly, now's your chance. Google Registry just released a new top-level domain that lets you slap a big ol' .meme at the end of your website.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Mailchimp plans to shut down TinyLetter on February 29, 2024, to focus on its core Mailchimp product, according to messages from Mailchimp to TinyLetter users — Mailchimp is shutting TinyLetter, a service that I loved that let individuals easily write and publish simple but nice-looking email newsletters.| Scott Hayden / Road to VR: |
Meta pauses shipments of the Quest 3's Elite Strap with Battery after users report a charging fault renders the battery useless, and starts making new straps — Meta paused shipments of its Elite Strap with Battery for Quest 3 amid widespread user reports of a charging fault that renders the battery useless.
More: Gizmodo, PCMag, Android Central, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, KitGuru, Dexerto, and The Verge
| Bloomberg: |
Rover, an online marketplace for pet care services, agrees to be acquired by Blackstone in a $2.3B all-cash deal, or $11 per share; ROVR jumps 28%+ — - Shares surge as much as 31%, most since company's IPO — Pet economy exploded in pandemic with wave of adoptions
More: The Information, Reuters, GeekWire, Tech Xplore, Wall Street Journal, and Blackstone. X: @bgurley
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