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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Snap plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce, or ~529 employees, in part to “promote in-person collaboration”; the company cut 20% of staff in August 2022 — Social media company Snap said on Monday that it would lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 529 employees.
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Threads: @kalihays1. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @AAKL@noc.social, and @mookie@troublemaker.social. X: @amir
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announces an event next week to share “our vision for the future of Xbox”, amid rumors that Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5 — Details of Microsoft's multi-platform plans have been gradually leaking, with The Verge revealing over the weekend …
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Forums: r/gaming and r/playstation
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Source: Bethesda considers bringing its new Indiana Jones game to the PS5 months after its Xbox and PC debut, as part of Microsoft's new multi-platform approach — Bethesda's upcoming Indiana Jones game is also tentatively set to launch on Sony's PlayStation 5 console.
More: Bloomberg, Forbes, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, PC Gamer, Laptop Mag, Pocket-lint, XboxEra, IGN, Video Games Chronicle, GeekWire, ExtremeTech, Destructoid, Engadget, TrueAchievements, Game World Observer, ComingSoon.net, Cryptopolitan, Game File, Club386, Variety, Kotaku, Game Rant, GameSpot, MobileSyrup, MSPoweruser, Mashable, SamMobile, Game Developer, GamesIndustry.biz, T3, TechRadar, Gameranx, Windows Central, Pure Xbox, Wccftech, TweakTown, PC Games Insider, Stevivor, GamingBolt, Press Start, Metro.co.uk, Gematsu, Aftermath, Dexerto, Neowin, Push Square, TheGamer, and Dot Esports
X: @tomwarren and @tomwarren
Forums: r/PS5, r/gaming, r/gamingnews, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, r/NoSodiumStarfield, r/BethesdaSoftworks, and r/XboxSeriesS
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
YouTube says a “Vision Pro app is on our roadmap” but doesn't offer a timeframe; YouTube videos in 360 and VR playback modes are not viewable in visionOS Safari — Here's a little bit of an about-face: YouTube now says it has a Vision Pro app on its roadmap.
More: 404 Media, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Engadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Google, New York Post, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Hypebeast, and Supercharged
LinkedIn: Matthew Hawn and Benedict Evans
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history — A few years ago, during one of California's steadily worsening wildfire seasons, Nat Friedman's family home burned down.
More: Vesuvius Challenge, New Scientist, Nature, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Telegraph, VICE, The Daily Caller, The Times, TIME, Sunshine Moon Vs Galaxy …, and Tanadrin
Mastodon: @avandeursen@mastodon.acm.org. X: @dwaldenwrites, @tedchris, @nachristakis, @jasonnethercut, @theo_nash, @mcgillmd921, @franceshaugen, @danielgross, @janpaul123, @dwarkesh_sp, @lukefarritor, @micsolana, @whitepill_pw, @mualphaxi, @douthatnyt, @pdhsu, @natfriedman, @elonmusk, @youssef_m_nader, @eldsjal, @julischillij, @catimperator, @ellenhuet, @johncoogan, @cjhandmer, @ellenhuet, @bgrueskin, @ashleevance, @janpaul123, @ashleevance, @kilianfleische1, @balajis, @natfriedman, @ashleevance, and @lulumeservey
LinkedIn: Rita J. King and Ashlee Vance
Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, and Lobsters
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A look at OnlyFake, an underground website that claims to use “neural networks” to generate highly convincing fake IDs for $15; one ID passed OKX's verification — This piece was produced with support from The Capitol Forum. — An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use …
More: Dark Reading, Bitcoin Insider, PetaPixel, Protos, and The Verge
Mastodon: @josephcox@infosec.exchange and @jtlg@mastodon.lawprofs.org
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
The Oversight Board upholds Meta's decision to not remove a maliciously edited video of Biden but urges Meta to update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy — However, the board said Meta should update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy.
More: Axios, Oversight Board, The Verge, Cybernews.com, Reuters, TechCrunch, Washington Post, CyberScoop, The Hill, CBS News, Ars Technica, Newser, Transparency Center, BBC, Associated Press, UPI, Reclaim The Net, PCMag, Forbes, SFist, Benzinga, BNN Bloomberg, Financial Times, Tech Xplore, and Political Wire
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool — Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the New York Times — Microsoft is working …
More: Semafor, Microsoft On the Issues, The Verge, Reuters, Windows Central, Online News Association, Aftermath, Newmark J-School, Thurrott, Engadget, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Windows Report, GeekWire, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, and Nieman Lab
X: @vahn16, @justin_b_smith, @kylebrussell, and @semaforben
LinkedIn: Justin B. Smith, Jenni Katzman, Kevin Grant, Ginny Badanes, Noreen Gillespie, Teresa Hutson, and Kellen Henry. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Graphika: the viral pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes originated from a 4chan challenge to bypass anti-porn filters in Microsoft Designer and OpenAI's DALL-E — - Users on 4chan forum competed to bypass anti-porn filters — Deepfakes also created of Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande
More: New York Times, The Register, Ars Technica, Rolling Stone, and The Verge
| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Oobit, which lets consumers pay using crypto while merchants receive fiat currency, raised a $25M Series A led by the investment arm of Tether and others — The round also included participation from Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder of Solana. — Register Now
More: Tether, The Block, SiliconANGLE, Cryptonews, Bitcoin News, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, NFTgators, Reuters, CryptoSlate, CoinJournal, Forkast, and CoinStats. LinkedIn: David Moylan
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
UK-based Reach strikes a deal with Amazon for “contextual” first-party data to target online ads, as the media industry adapts to the end of third-party cookies — Media sector scrambles to deal with fallout from phase out of cross-website trackers
More: Search Engine Land, PYMNTS.com, and MarTech
| Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg: |
Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including Russia's most popular search engine, to a group led by Yandex management in a deal valued at ~$5.2B — - Dutch-registered firm reaches agreement to sell Russian unit — Fallout from the war in Ukraine forced tech giant to split up| Amy Or / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit had over $800M in revenue in 2023, up 20%+ YoY, and was not profitable for the full year but, according to one source, was profitable in Q4 — - Social site posted over $800 million revenue last year — Reddit may reveal public IPO filing as soon as this monthSponsor Posts
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