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Sources: Activision CEO failed to inform the board about allegations an employee had been raped by her supervisor in 2016 and 2017, even after a settlement — Top executive didn't inform board of some reports, including alleged rapes; company faces multiple regulatory investigations
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| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout on Tuesday after a WSJ report, the second in four months, demanding CEO Bobby Kotick step down — This story has been updated from a previous version. — IRVINE, Calif. — Employees at beleaguered video game company Activision Blizzard walked …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta details a haptic glove prototype that uses air pockets to simulate touching objects in VR and has been in development for seven years — A new sci-fi interface for the metaverse — You cannot pet a dog in Meta's new, high-tech virtual reality gloves. But researchers are getting closer.
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft shifts Windows 10 from two major updates per year to one, and announces that only Windows 11 will support emulating x64 apps on ARM devices — You'll have to upgrade your Windows on ARM PC to use x64 emulation. — What you need to know — Microsoft discussed the status of x64 emulation for Windows on ARM today.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix expands its Top 10 lists to display the most-viewed shows and movies, for English and non-English titles, ranked by aggregate viewing hours — Netflix says it's heard the complaints about how it “cherry picks” the self-reported data it releases about content viewed on its platform.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Code in the iOS 15.2 betas reveals the existence of a private “SportsKit” framework, currently integrated with the Apple TV app, Siri, and home screen widgets — It's no secret at this point that Apple is becoming more interested in the sports segment, as the company has been investing …
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| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
LA's iconic Staples Center to be renamed as Crypto.com Arena, sources say in a deal worth $700M+ for 20 years — Staples Center is getting a new name for Christmas: Crypto.com Arena. — The downtown Los Angeles venue — home of the Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Sparks … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Israeli spyware vendor Candiru, recently blacklisted by the US, waged “watering hole” attacks on UK and Middle East websites critical of Saudi Arabia and others — Cybersecurity researchers tracked a hacking campaign spanning more than a year that hit around 20 websites.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm says its next-gen PC CPUs will be designed by its recently acquired Nuvia team, hopes they will ship in devices in 2023 and be “M-series competitive” — Developed by the Nuvia team — Qualcomm is looking to seriously beef up its PC processors, with the company announcing plans … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
Miramax sues Quentin Tarantino over copyright infringement for selling NFTs based on Pulp Fiction screenplay excerpts; Miramax says it owns screenplay rights — Miramax filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Quentin Tarantino of copyright infringement by selling NFTs based on the screenplay for “Pulp Fiction.”
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Tweets: @hradzka, @emilybest, and @mmasnick
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant says it has “high confidence” that Belarus is partially responsible for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation in some EU states — Mandiant says the government is likely to blame for anti-NATO campaigns, and more. — The Belarusian government … | Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
The FDA authorizes AppliedVR's EaseVRx as a prescription VR treatment for chronic lower back pain in adults — It joins a handful of other digital therapeutics — The Food and Drug Administration authorized a virtual reality system as a prescription treatment for chronic back pain, the agency announced today.
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| Richard Speed / The Register: |
Mozilla launches Firefox Relay, which offers up to five email aliases, out of beta, and introduces a $0.99/month premium tier for unlimited aliases — You want more than five email aliases? Sure, but it'll cost you — Mozilla hopes to ramp up the monetisation machine with a paid premium version … | Celestine Bohlen / New York Times: |
As Moscow Metro introduces Face Pay, digital privacy activists express alarm at the implications of introducing city-wide facial recognition — The latest example is Face Pay, which replaces a Metro card with facial recognition. It may be advanced, but activists are sounding the alarm on privacy issues.| Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches a new datacenter region in Sweden that runs on only renewable energy, in partnership with state-owned utility Vattenfall AB — - Customers for the centers include Handelsbanken, PostNord — Facilities to use green energy supplied by utility Vattenfall
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Tweets: @vattenfallgroup, @judsonalthoff, @mseurope, and @bradsmi
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Microsoft and Uber leave the Internet Association; Microsoft says its decision was part of a periodic review to “ensure alignment with our policy agenda” — Microsoft and Uber are leaving the Internet Association, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of companies in the internet and tech industry, Axios has confirmed.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Brave now has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet, sidestepping the need for extension-based wallets like MetaMask — Why use an extension when it's a built-in tool? — Brave has announced that its web browser now includes a native cryptocurrency wallet, replacing the previous one that was based on the MetaMask wallet extension.
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Tweets: @brianbondy, @dwightkurt_, and @brave
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
The US Senate confirms Google critic and competition lawyer Jonathan Kanter as Biden's DOJ antitrust chief — Kanter's confirmation is another win for progressives — On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Google critic and competition lawyer Jonathan Kanter to lead the Justice Department's antitrust division …
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| Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg: |
Amazon tells UK customers it won't accept Visa credit cards issued in the UK from January 19, 2022, citing high transaction fees — - Customers told the change will come into effect in Jan. 2022 — Amazon cites high fees charged by Visa as reason for change| Axios: |
Analysis: the top five most-followed accounts on TikTok do not rank in the top 50 on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram — The creator economy has produced thousands of social media entrepreneurs who have built mega-audiences in the millions — larger than many media companies.
Tweets: @sarafischer, @liahaberman, @nrothschild3, @sarafischer, and @sarafischer
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is empowering a quasi-government body to certify local suppliers in areas like cloud and semiconductors to reduce reliance on foreign tech — - Committee of 1,800 firms will certify trusted technologies — U.S. blacklisting of Chinese giants adds urgency to effort
Tweets: @bradstone, @pelstrom, @blompfjunior, and @chinabeigebook
| Katherine Chiglinsky / Bloomberg: |
Online lender Oportun agrees to buy neobank Digit for $212.9M in equity and cash to expand its AI and digital capabilities — Oportun Financial Corp., a fintech lender, agreed to buy online banking platform Digit to boost its artificial-intelligence and digital capabilities.
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