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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to launch select Xbox games on the PS5 and Switch, starting with Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, and Sea of Thieves, a seismic strategy shift — With rumors of some Xbox games coming to PS5 and Switch, Microsoft gets ready to lay out its vision for the future of Xbox.
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Forums: r/Games, r/technology, r/kindafunny, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Engadget, PC Gamer, TweakTown, BGR, HotHardware, Gameranx, MobileSyrup, TechRaptor, Neowin, Polygon, 9to5Toys, Windows Central, GameSpot, Pure Xbox, Kotaku, IGN, Cryptopolitan, GamingBolt, Video Games Chronicle, Benzinga, and TrueAchievements
Forums: r/xcloud, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, and r/gaming
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Websites with seemingly AI-generated obituaries litter Google search, sometimes listing living people as deceased and turning private individuals into clickbait — In the wake of death, AI-generated obituaries litter search results, turning even private individuals into clickbait. … part of /
More: Los Angeles Times. Threads: @knguyen and @miasato.2. Mastodon: @annaecook@mstdn.social. Bluesky: @djcentos7.bsky.social. Forums: Slashdot
| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
US court notice: the sentencing of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao for money laundering has been postponed until April 30, 2024; CZ is free on a $175M release bond — - The sentencing of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on a money laundering rule charge has been postponed until April 30, a notice in Seattle federal court shows.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta begins testing “today's topics” on Threads in the US, surfaced in the app on the Search page and in the For You feed, that can feature political content — After acknowledging last week that Meta's X competitor Threads would not actively recommend political content …
More: Finbold, The Verge, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, ReadWrite, SiliconANGLE, Livemint, JapanTrendMedia, Technical Terrence, and Engadget
Threads: @zuck, @mosseri, @mosseri, @fredericl, @timothybucksf, @hardin, @willoremus, @katienotopoulos, @renee.diresta, @kimberleyannjohnson, @harryjsisson, @daveleebbg, @chris, @bmotheprince, @greeblehaus, @carlas, @mattnavarra, @keithedwards, and @willoremus. X: @willoremus. Forums: Slashdot
| Rachel Phua / Bloomberg: |
Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions, to win back US shoppers; US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in December 2023 and 4.8% in January — - Observed sales and users fell month-on-month in Dec. and Jan. — Chinese e-commerce app offers users $10 million in giveaways
More: Temu on YouTube, KrASIA, Business Wire, The Atlantic, National Review, NBC Chicago, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, The Information, Ad Age, and CNBC
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| John Archer / Forbes: |
Amazon Prime Video's basic ad tier, which US subscribers who didn't pay extra were downgraded to on January 29, doesn't support Dolby Vision HDR or Dolby Atmos — Amazon AMZN caused a furor recently when it announced that it was introducing advertisements right across its Prime Video streaming service.
More: The Hollywood Reporter, Ars Technica, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Verge, Android Authority, Mashable, Cord Cutters News, IGN, BGR, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, UPROXX, TechHive, MediaNama, and Making Television Easy Again!
Forums: Hacker News, r/AmazonPrimeVideo, and Ars OpenForum
| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Interviews with 40+ developers detail reasons for layoffs in gaming, including an environment fraught with high costs and execs having little regard for staff — An estimated 10,000 game workers lost their jobs in 2023 alone. — In August of last year, Ascendant Studios developer Aaron …
More: Wccftech, GamingBolt, and Video Games Chronicle
X: @domsplaying, @duckvalentine, and @mooresaiyan
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, r/gaming, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Reuters: |
Sources: Founders Fund bought $100M in bitcoin and $100M in ether from late summer to early fall 2023; the VC sold its crypto portfolio in 2022, making ~$1.8B — Founders Fund, the venture capital firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, is investing once again in bitcoin and ether …
More: The Block, Crypto Daily, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinDesk, crypto.news, The Information, Milk Road, Cryptonews, and CoinGape
X: @readkrystalhu and @mdudas
| Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: |
Cloudflare defeats a second “patent troll”, invalidating parts of three Sable Networks' patents after crowdsourcing prior art findings through Project Jengo — The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss — When it comes to defeating patent trolls …
More: The Cloudflare Blog and WebProNews
Threads: @gergelyorosz_. X: @eastdakota and @cloudflare. LinkedIn: Steven Callahan. Forums: Hacker News
| Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: |
Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the platform, its future, collaborating on ActivityPub with Meta's Threads team, why Bluesky should ditch AT, and more — The news last week that Bluesky is open to the public left me wondering how Mastodon, the original federated social network, is faring these days.| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
How the US CHIPS Act is helping boost the economy of Arizona's Maricopa County, with TSMC and other manufacturers building factories and creating high-tech jobs — Computer-chip manufacturers are building giant factories in Phoenix, helping draw more blue voters to this vital swing county
X: @whcommsdir
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Music encyclopedia EveryNoise, which uses Spotify data, stopped updating after Spotify laid off the employee running the site in December, pissing off its fans — Now, Glenn McDonald's beloved Every Noise At Once project is in jeopardy — On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found …
Mastodon: @misc@mastodon.social. X: @devilontheshore, @everynoise, @glenn_mcdonald, @akinikolaidis, @everynoise, @gareth_simpson, @johnaustinperry, @fringemusicfix, @akinikolaidis, @carlzoilus, @everynoise, @everynoise, @everynoise, @akinikolaidis, @thediscovertab, @mavoyofficial, @conradev, @charliebaranski, @glenn_mcdonald, @martinmwiener, @akinikolaidis, @tedolsen, @glenn_mcdonald, and @mavoyofficial
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
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