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Sony says its PlayStation layoffs will also impact game makers Insomniac, Naughty Dog, and Guerrilla, three of its most successful subsidiaries — The company is also canceling a game based on the Twisted Metal racing franchise — Sony Group Corp. will lay off 900 people across … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to lay off around 900 employees, or 8% of workforce, at its PlayStation division, and close its London Studio in the UK — Sony says it's laying off around 900 employees of its PlayStation division, a reduction of its global headcount of around 8 percent.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia plans to start showing free-tier GeForce Now users “up to two minutes” of video ads on February 28 while they are queuing to start a cloud gaming session — Nvidia's completely free, no-strings attached trial of its cloud gaming service GeForce Now is about to be very slightly less …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says its investment in Mistral AI amounts to €15M; EU regulators plan to analyze the investment, which could eventually lead to a formal investigation — - Partnership amounts to €15 million investment, Microsoft says — EU analysis could lead to future formal investigation
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Seacom says a subsea cable was damaged in the area where Houthi fighters are targeting ships, highlighting how vulnerable critical subsea infrastructure can be — A subsea cable off the coast of Yemen that connects Europe to India has been damaged, and the telecommunications carrier that owns …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Netflix confirms that it has started removing Apple iTunes billing for longtime subscribers, and now requires them to pay directly on its website — Netflix confirms to The Verge that it has begun booting longtime subscribers off their Apple iTunes billing plans, and will require … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub announces the general availability of Copilot Enterprise, which is able to reference an org's code and knowledge base, for $39 per user per month — GitHub today announced the general availability of Copilot Enterprise, the $39/month version of its code completion tool and developer-centric chatbot for large businesses.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Filing: OpenAI asks a US federal judge to dismiss parts of NYT's copyright suit, alleging it “paid someone to hack OpenAI's products” and violated OpenAI's TOS — OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times (NYT.N) copyright lawsuit against it … | Sifted: |
Hopin, the struggling virtual events startup valued at $7.75B in 2021, enters liquidation for its UK parent company as it moves its HQ to Delaware in the US — The company was once valued at $7.75bn … London-based event tech startup Hopin — which shot to a $5.65bn valuation in 2021 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Lapse, a photo app that makes users wait to share unedited pictures as they are “developed” like film, raised a $30M Series A, sources say at a $150M valuation — It can cost a fortune in 2024 to find an analogue camera, buy film (and maybe special batteries) for it, and take pictures that then need to be developed.
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Sources: TikTok has replaced several senior executives, including the one running its trust and safety unit, giving the CEO more oversight of content moderation — TikTok has shaken up its senior ranks, replacing several senior executives including the person running its trust & safety unit … | Reuters: |
Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth's technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days — Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber Attack” in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024.| Alexis Ong / The Verge: |
A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500+ floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined — The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AI-based photo editing app PhotoRoom raised $43M led by Balderton Capital at a $500M valuation, says it has 150M+ downloads and processes ~5B images annually — Photoroom, the AI-based photo editing app out of Paris that has been growing like a weed targeting people doing business online … | Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
In amended filings, Alibaba discloses previously unknown stakes by the Chinese government in more than 12 of its business entities, following a US SEC inquiry — The Hangzhou-based e-commerce pioneer said in filings in the US and Hong Kong over the weekend that more than a dozen of its entities … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search across apps used at a company, raised a $200M+ Series D at a $2.2B valuation and says annualized revenue hit $39M — - Glean is valued at $2.2 billion in its latest funding round. — The company is taking on the Copilot chat tool for Microsoft 365 …
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| Kali Hays / Business Insider: |
Sources: Meta aims to reveal and demo, but not launch, the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, during its Connect developer conference in the fall — - Under an internal project named Orion, Meta has been working on high-tech AR glasses for years.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: Threads sees triple the daily downloads of X on iOS globally and over double the number of installs on Google Play, widening the gap late last year — Although an app's downloads aren't an exact proxy for usage, they can hint at where the market is headed.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Inkitt, the self-publishing site that wants to use AI to pick and tweak the most compelling stories to distribute on its Galatea app, raised a $37M Series C — Everyone has a story in them, as someone famous once said. A startup called Inkitt believes that it can use AI to turn the strongest … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Intenseye, which uses computer vision to spot risks and enhance workplace safety, raised a $64M Series B led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $90M — Intenseye has raised $64 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to develop AI that can detect …
More: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Business Wire, Pulse 2.0, and Lightspeed Venture Partners
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a spam campaign using 21K hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from brands like eBay, MSN, and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily — A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send …
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