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Starting June 1, 2023, Twitch says subscription revenue above $100K will be split 50/50, not 70/30, for streamers on premium deals, citing hosting costs — Hello, Twitch community. I'm Dan Clancy, President of Twitch and responsible for the day-to-day operations of the service.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
After a streamer admits to scamming viewers, Twitch plans to prohibit streaming unlicensed gambling sites with slots, roulette, or dice starting on October 18 — As the conversation concerning Twitch and the platform's allowance of gambling streams continues to swirl, the platform has struck its first blow.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Ultra review: comfortable, good battery life, action button, and durable, but no offline maps, more aspirational than hardcore, and too big for some — A new player has entered the multisport watch game … The Apple Watch Ultra is big, a lil' chunky, and goes hard on features …
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Marques Brownlee on YouTube, iJustine on YouTube, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Macworld, CNBC, CNET, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, TechRadar, Men's Journal, Women's Health, Wccftech, iClarified, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @rsgnl, @reckless, @cnet, @nicnguyen, @mkbhd, @lexysavvides, @vicmsong, @dcseifert, @dcseifert, and @cnet
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
A New York judge orders Tether to produce documents related to the backing of USDT in a lawsuit claiming Tether conspired to issue USDT to pump bitcoin prices — The order relates to an ongoing lawsuit that alleges that unbacked USDT issuances have caused $1.4 trillion in damage to the market.
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tether.to, Decrypt, Ethereum World News, Coinspeaker, The Block, Blockworks, CoinGape, CryptoSlate, and Finbold
Tweets: @tether_to, @ben_mckenzie, @hsakatrades, @haileylennonbtc, and @frances_coppola
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Getty Images bans the upload and sale of AI-generated images using tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, citing concerns over legal challenges — Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
TikTok expands its political content rules to limit fundraising by politicians and political groups, ahead of a full ban on fundraising — Starting Wednesday, TikTok is expanding its elections rules to make it harder for politicians and political groups to fundraise using the platform — and plans to ban all fundraising activity soon.
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TikTok, CNN, The Guardian, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, and Fortune
Tweets: @dsilverman, @thedextriarchy, @jamiefavazza, @kellymakena, and @stokel
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Framework and Google partner to launch the $999 Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition, a user-upgradeable model running Chrome OS, shipping in early December — Framework and Google have announced the new Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. As the name implies, this is an upgradable …
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XDA Developers, Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware, Android Police, Engadget, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Framework Blog, and Android Central
Tweets: @frameworkputer, @backlon, @backlon, @kimberstreams, and @dcseifert
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
An analysis of Twitch streams from October 2020 to August 2022 shows Twitch's moderation tools often failed to stop children streaming and adults grooming them — The gaming platform's design enables people to find and exploit kids in real-time — Graphics and illustrations by Rachael Dottle
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
As Meta shapes its response to regulatory scrutiny, the company begins touting its declining market value, down 60%+ since the spring, to deny having a monopoly — As Meta shapes its antitrust defense, it has begun pointing out its plummeting stock price as a sign that competition is alive and well in its market.
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| Jorge Jimenez / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia unveils RTX Remix, a free AI modding tool built on Omniverse that lets modders quickly create RTX mods for supported DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 games — RTX Remix just made modding a whole lot easier. — Audio player loading... Hear that? That's the sound of modders applauding …
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Tweets: @pixelfondue, @webmixedreality, and @0xstella
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils its first SaaS and IaaS offering, Omniverse Cloud, a services suite for artists, developers, and enterprise teams to build and run metaverse apps — Nvidia today announced its first software- and infrastructure-as-a-service offering — Nvidia Omniverse Cloud … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Amazon refreshes its Fire HD 8 lineup for the first time in two years and adds a Tap to Alexa feature to control the assistant using touch — Amazon is revamping its 8-inch tablets for the first time in two years, but their biggest improvement might rest in the software.
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GeekWire, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Verge, PCWorld, XDA Developers, PCMag, The Verge, CNBC, Tom's Guide, 9to5Toys, SlashGear, and Mashable
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google begins rolling out a “results about you” tool on its Android app to let users see and remove results that contain their personal identifiable information — At I/O 2022 in May, Google announced a new tool to streamline the process of removing Search results that contain …
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PCMag, Engadget, Beyond Search, XDA Developers, KnowTechie, SamNews 24, and Phandroid
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce announces Net Zero Marketplace, which will aggregate offset providers and rating agencies for carbon credits, launching in October 2022 in the US — Salesforce Inc. is launching a marketplace for carbon credits that will aggregate offset providers and rating agencies …
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TechCrunch, Salesforce News, San Francisco Business Journal, and Protocol
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Documents: multiple US military branches have bought access to Team Cymru's Augury internet monitoring tool, which claims to cover 90%+ of internet traffic — The “Augury” platform includes highly sensitive network data that Team Cymru, a private company, is selling to the military. “It's everything.
Tweets: @shotgunner101, @motherboard, @mjgault, @iximeow, @lorenzofb, and @josephfcox
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases Windows 11's first major update, adding Start menu folders, more Snap Layouts, dark mode improvements, Live Captions, Voice Access, and more — The first major Windows 11 update makes the renovations feel more complete … When Microsoft launched Windows 11 last year, it was clear the PC was back.
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Tweets: @viticci, @xenopanther, @satyanadella, @panos_panay, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
A leaked draft of the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets legislation urges a “substance over form” enforcement approach, meaning the rules could apply to some NFTs — A leaked draft of the text, reviewed by CoinDesk, shows the rules could apply to fractionalized NFTs.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils Creator Music, which lets creators browse a catalog and use songs by buying rights or sharing revenue, launching out of beta in the US this fall — In addition to the groundbreaking news that YouTube would begin to monetize Shorts videos and revamp its Partner Program …
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YouTube Official Blog, The Economic Times, Billboard, Silicon Republic, dot.LA, WebProNews, Engadget, Neowin, Tubefilter, Mashable, CNET, South China Morning Post, Variety, and The Verge
Tweets: @tunecore and @thisistechtoday
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Coinbase announces Node, a set of APIs to build on multiple blockchains, including support for NFTs; the free plan offers up to 120K daily Ethereum requests — - Coinbase Cloud has launched Node, a developer-focused revamp of its enterprise Query & Transact (QT) platform.| Anumeha Chaturvedi / The Economic Times: |
WhatsApp announces an “expanded partnership” with Salesforce to let businesses manage their WhatsApp conversations with customers from the Salesforce platform — WhatsApp on Tuesday announced an ‘expanded partnership’ with Salesforce to get their business customers up and running on the messaging app.
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WhatsApp Business, Salesforce News, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, Livemint, BW Businessworld, and Glamsham
Tweets: @wcathcart, @metanewsroom, @rebeccamkern, @salesforce, @btaylor, @micflash, and @iiiitsandrea
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Messari, which offers Bloomberg Terminal-style reports and data on crypto, raised a $35M Series B led by Brevan Howard Digital — Not bad for a Two Bit Idiot. The “idiot” in question is Ryan Selkis, who uses the tongue-in-cheek monicker for his popular Twitter account … | Tom Redmond / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Chainalysis and its work with governments and law enforcement to trace crypto transactions; the NY-based company has 700+ clients in 70+ countries — In May 2021 hackers initiated a cyberattack against Colonial Pipeline Co., the company behind the US's largest gasoline pipeline.
Tweets: @chainalysis, @ianandrewsdc, @joshuabrustein, and @gladstein
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on building a supply chain software business, managing large customers, scaling the company, the shipping industry, and more — The Flexport CEO's tweetstorm changed how a major US port moves your stuff — Ryan Petersen is currently the CEO of Flexport.| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
India expands its incentives for chip and display manufacturers, including covering 50% of capital expenditure when setting up a semiconductor plant — India's government on Wednesday raised fiscal support for new semiconductor facilities to cover 50% of project costs and said it will remove …
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Bloomberg and TechCircle
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia unveils the RTX 6000, its new flagship GPU for the professional visualization market, offering up to 2x-4x the performance of the previous gen RTX A6000 — Nvidia unveils new ProViz flagship: Old name, new board. — In a rather unexpected move, Nvidia introduced| NetBlocks: |
Amid protests over police brutality, the Iranian government restricts access nationally to Instagram, one of the last remaining social networks in the country — Network data from NetBlocks confirm a near-total disruption disruption to internet service in parts of Kurdistan province …
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Reuters, Financial Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Fortune, The Register, Washington Post, Insider, and France 24
Tweets: @netblocks, @iranintl_en, @khosrokalbasi, @muzyar, @adammilstein, @idodaniel, @deitaone, @netblocks, @kiansharifi, and @netblocks
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