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Arm opens up 10% to ~$56 in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at $59.9B, after pricing shares at the upper end of its expected $47 to $51 range — - Arm Holdings has started trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker “ARM.” — SoftBank CFO Yoshimitsu Goto and Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas pose …
More: Silicon Valley Business …, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Financial Times, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, Fast Company, Tech Xplore, and Business Today
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Caesars Entertainment paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who breached the company's systems in recent weeks and threatened to release its data — - Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack
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Forums: r/technology, r/technews, and r/vegas
| Suzanne Rowan Kelleher / Forbes: |
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| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Unity acknowledges “the confusion and frustration” around its planned install fees but argues that “more than 90% of our customers will not be affected” — Platform holder claims “90 percent of users” won't be affected by change. — Game developers are still furious …
More: HotHardware, BBC, Computer, Enhance!, Tom's Guide, TechPowerUp, Thrice Hinged, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Ghacks, Game Developer, Push Square, Decrypt, and TweakTown
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
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| Bloomberg: |
How Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son, Sam, and provided a halo effect for FTX before its implosion — Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son and provided a halo effect for his company.
More: The Verge and Bitcoinist.com
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| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
HP unveils the $5,000+ Spectre Fold, an OLED foldable PC that can be used as a 17-inch tablet, a 17-inch laptop, or a 12.3-inch laptop and weighs less than 3lbs — Over the past few years, companies across the PC space have been engaged in a slow, but steady race to build a foldable laptop that people might actually want to buy.
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| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Hands-on with the HP Spectre Fold: a striking design, slim bezels, a 17-inch 2560 x 1920 OLED display, an 8.5mm body, an Intel i7-1250U, 16GB of RAM, and more — HP's first “3-in-1” is incredibly sleek but can it live up to that price? — Senior Writer, Reviews
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands its search and discovery mobile features, like multimodal search and Find-on-Amazon, which lets users find similar products to those in a photo — Amazon is introducing new features that make it easier to search for products on mobile and is challenging other product search engines …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Senate's AI Insight Forum: Elon Musk warned of AI risks, Mark Zuckerberg defended open source, all guests agreed the US needs to regulate AI, and more — Tech leaders debate perils and possibilities of artificial intelligence at closed-door Senate session
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/technology
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Databricks raised a $500M+ Series I at a $43B valuation, after raising $1.6B at a $38B valuation in August 2021, before a possible IPO, and reports 10K+ clients — Data analytics and AI software maker Databricks has raised a Series I round worth more than $500 million, earning a valuation of $43 billion.
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| Bloomberg: |
Lenders allege that Indian edtech giant Byju's hid $533M in an obscure three-year-old hedge fund that once said its main place of business was an IHOP in Miami — - New lender suit seeks to recover cash from Camshaft Capital — Hedge fund was founded just three years ago, lenders say| Washington Post: |
Sources: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu plans to fly to the US to meet Elon Musk, the latest attempt by Musk allies to stave off X's growing antisemitism crisis — The meeting with the Israeli prime minister is the latest effort by Musk friends and colleagues to head off a growing battle with the Anti-Defamation League
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Social Media Today, Fast Company, and The Daily Beast. Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social
| Taylor Lorenz / Rolling Stone: |
Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her — In her book ‘Extremely Online,’ journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia Allison invented the concept of being a content creator a decade before it caught on
More: The Information. X: @chrismohney, @joshkrugerphl, @choire, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @kattenbarge, and @lingerie_addict. LinkedIn: Rick Turoczy
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft's proposal to unbundle Teams did not satisfy the concerns of EU antitrust regulators, who are readying a formal complaint against the company — Microsoft's recent proposal to split its Teams from a broader business software package and sell it to customers separately …
More: Thurrott, Neowin, and OnMSFT.com
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Linear, which sells project management tools to startups like Cohere, Runway, and Ramp, raised a $35M Series B led by Accel, sources say at a ~$400M valuation — The four-year-old startup founded by three Finns is already used by fellow startups like Cohere, Ramp and Runway.
X: @linear, @cjc, and @alexrkonrad
| Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary: |
Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge get updates to address an actively exploited flaw in the WebP Codec's library libwebp; many non-browser apps are also affected — A significant vulnerability in the WebP Codec has been unearthed, prompting major browser vendors, including Google and Mozilla …
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Mastodon: @tommorris@mastodon.social, @shlee@aus.social, @pootriarch@eldritch.cafe, and @PaulCzege@dice.camp
X: @blackorbird, @reversetor, @stackdiary, @mkupperman, @reversetor, @kwilsonmg, @codepo8, and @stackdiary
LinkedIn: Brian Krebs and Drex DeFord
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Washington Post: |
Day two of Google's trial: Apple complained the DOJ may have violated confidentiality rules, after the DOJ said Google paid Apple $4B to $7B for search in 2020 — Protection of trade secrets versus transparency has been a major debate between Google and activists in the case| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to offer Chromebook software updates for up to 10 years, starting in 2024, so no current device expires within the next two years, to help schools — With the change, no existing Chromebook will have to expire within the next two years — Google is working to push …
More: Android Authority, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, PCWorld, Android Police, TechCrunch, The Verge, VICE, and The Keyword
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