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Memo: Microsoft lays off 650 staff from its gaming business, bringing the cuts in its gaming business to 2,550 jobs since acquiring Activision Blizzard in 2023 — No games canceled or studios closed this time. — Microsoft is laying off a further 650 staff from its gaming business …
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Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, r/kindafunny, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, and r/pcgaming
| Teresa Xie / Bloomberg: |
eToro USA agrees to pay $1.5M and limit US user trading to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether to settle SEC allegations that it operated as an unregistered broker — - Unregistered broker, clearing agency allegations settled — US users will be limited to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail gaining the ability to generate counterfeit HTTPS certificates and more after buying an expired WHOIS server domain for the .mobi TLD for $20 — .mobi top-level-domain managers changed the location of its WHOIS server. No one got the memo.
More: watchTowr Labs, Domain Incite, The Register, CSO, and Metacurity
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| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Mastercard agrees to acquire Recorded Future, which uses AI-based analytics to identify potential threats, from private equity firm Insight Partners for $2.65B — Mastercard (MA.N) has agreed to buy threat intelligence company Recorded Future from private equity firm Insight Partners for $2.65 billion … | Sarah Emerson / Forbes: |
Sources: Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon, which raised $70M in 2022 from a16z and others, is refunding investors after failing to launch its Goddess Nature Token — Flowcarbon secured millions of dollars in funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz to merge carbon credits with the blockchain …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK gives data centers Critical National Infrastructure designation, enabling the government to coordinate better against hackers and unexpected cyber events — LONDON — The U.K. on Thursday said it now classes data centers as critical infrastructure, in a move that is expected …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase launches its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, on the Ethereum and Base networks, supported by various DeFi services for trading, lending, and as collateral — The token will initially be offered on Ethereum and Coinbase's Base networks, with plans to expand to more blockchains in the coming months.| Richard Speed / The Register: |
Transport for London confirms ~5,000 customers' bank data may have been exposed in an ongoing cyber incident and pulls a lot of its IT infrastructure offline — NCA confirms arrest of 17-year-old ‘on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences’ - now bailed — BREAKING Transport … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's GDPR compliance over using the personal information of EU and EEA users for training foundation AI models — Google's lead privacy regulator in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether or not it has complied … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5B in equity financing at a $150B valuation, plus, a source says, $5B in debt from banks as a revolving credit facility — - Company set to raise $6.5 billion in equity financing — Banks also in talks to issue startup $5 billion in debt
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Threads: @alexheath. X: @morningbrew, @deedydas, @scottnover, @brianmcc, @jack_raines, @knowerofmarkets, @stefanfschubert, @mikeisaac, @garymarcus, @edzitron, @filippie509, and @edludlow. Forums: r/singularity
| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
Unity cancels its controversial Runtime Fee and reverts to its existing seat-based subscription model, but raises Unity Pro's and Unity Enterprise's prices — Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee and reverting back to its existing seat-based subscription model, albeit with a price increase for Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise users.
More: VentureBeat, TechRaptor, and Mobilegamer.biz
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Sources: Sam Altman and Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and power and utility company executives met at the White House to discuss US AI energy infrastructure — Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google and several American power and utility companies met Thursday morning at the White House … | Todd Feathers / Gizmodo: |
Nevada is working with Google to launch a generative AI tool that will issue recommendations to human referees on whether unemployed workers should get benefits — The state is working with Google on a first-of-its-kind generative AI system that will analyze transcripts from appeals hearings …
More: Fortune, TechSpot, Ars Technica, Pivot to AI, WinBuzzer, Android Headlines, Engadget, Entrepreneur, Futurism, Notebookcheck, and Windows Central
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X: @jasongorman, @giovannitorre, @evermoremichele, @roycerk2, @toddfeathers, @jessthebp, @toddfeathers, @rbosetti, and @jonshaffer. LinkedIn: Damien P. Williams, PhD. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at Apple's Private Cloud Compute for Apple Intelligence that Craig Federighi says allows user data to be “hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble” — Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple's Craig Federighi tells WIRED …
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, MacStories, and Brian Tong on YouTube
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Infineon says it has developed 300mm gallium nitride wafers, which can produce 2.3x more chips than 200mm wafers and speed their adoption for AI applications — - Chipmaker announces breakthrough in gallium nitride production — Compound semiconductors can be more efficient than siliconSponsor Posts
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