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Meta plans to shut down Facebook's decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of 1B+ users following legal and regulatory woes — Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Zillow says it is shutting down its home buying business, laying off ~2,000 employees, and taking a write down of $500M+; stock drops 10%+ — Zillow Group's ambitious tech-fueled bid to shake up how people buy and sell homes is coming to a surprising end. — The Seattle online real estate giant …
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| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Activision Blizzard says Blizzard co-leader Jen Oneal is stepping down, leaving Mike Ybarra as sole leader; Oneal says she'll focus on diversity in the industry — Activision Blizzard announced today that Jen Oneal is stepping down from her role as Blizzard co-leader, which she started in August along with Mike Ybarra.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Activision Blizzard reports Q3 revenue of $2.07B, up 6% YoY, net bookings of $1.88B, up 6% YoY, as user growth remains flat at 390M MAUs — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will bring its mixed reality platform Mesh with 3D avatars and VR support to Teams in the first half of 2022 — Microsoft and Meta are on a collision course for metaverse competition — Microsoft is entering the race to build a metaverse inside Teams, just days after Facebook rebranded …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix rolls out its exclusive mobile games globally to the Play Store and plans to feature them in its Android app starting this week — After early tests in select markets, Netflix announced today its debut lineup of exclusive mobile games will begin rolling out to all members globally on Android devices, starting this week.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Loop, an app that combines a “flexible canvas” with collaborative components that sync across Microsoft 365 services — At its Ignite 2021 conference today, Microsoft announced Loop, a new app that combines a “flexible canvas” with components …
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| Paulina Duran / Reuters: |
Australia's largest bank Commonwealth Bank to become the country's first bank to offer customers crypto services, including cryptocurrency trading via its app — Commonwealth Bank of Australia will become the country's first to offer retail clients crypto services, Australia's largest bank …
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Oculus rolls out v34, adding a Space Sense safety feature notifying users when objects, people, or animals intrude on a safe VR space, alongside other features — Version 34 is starting to roll out today — Fresh off of Meta's Connect 2021 keynote, where Grand Theft Auto …
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| Reuters: |
Chinese central bank official says around 140M people opened wallets for digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totaling around $9.7B — Some 140 million people had opened “wallets” for China's new digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totalling around 62 billion yuan …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Faze Technologies, which wants to launch a Cricket NFT marketplace and build “the metaverse for cricket”, raises a $17.4M seed led by Tiger Global — Tiger Global and Dapper Labs are backing Faze Technologies' bid to “build the metaverse for cricket.”| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
A joint probe by Australia and UK's Information Commissioners finds Clearview AI collected data on 3B+ people by indiscriminately scraping info from the web — Despite uncovering Clearview AI's intrusive practices, Australia's Information Commissioner conceded that the number of Australians …
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Laika, which helps companies implement compliance guidelines by automating infosec workflows, raises a $35M Series B led by JP Morgan Growth Equity Partners — Compliance-as-a-service platform Laika has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round led by J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners …
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| David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the hurdles the FTC faces in strengthening online privacy, including budgetary constraints, personnel changes, and potential legal pushback — Agency wants to tackle data privacy after years of legislative inaction, but Congress is likely to control whether FTC has budget to do so| Reuters: |
Sources: Myanmar's junta has tasked thousands of soldiers to create fake accounts to allege election fraud and denounce anti-coup protestors on social media — As Myanmar's military seeks to put down protest on the streets, a parallel battle is playing out on social media …
Tweets: @campuscodi, @cvdom2021, and @andreasharsono
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
The criminal group behind BlackMatter ransomware announces plans to shut down the operation, citing “pressure from the authorities” — The criminal group behind the BlackMatter ransomware have announced plans today to shut down their operation, citing pressure from local authorities.
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Tencent announces a cloud operating system called Orca and three chips, one for AI, another for video processing, and a chip for high-performance networks — Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) touted progress in semiconductor chip development and investment on Wednesday … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Source: ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming, who stepped down as CEO in May, has left the board after stepping down as chairman; CEO Liang Rubo to become chairman — - Zhang announced in May he was giving up his CEO title — Chinese tech giant this week announced a restructuring| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Company salaries of data protection officers are soaring across China after laws were introduced that hold the officers personally responsible for any failures — Sweeping legislation has created huge demand but job risks have risen alongside salaries — Chinese data protection officers …
Tweets: @ellieolcott, @martinsfp, @empo11on, @noraniloideain, @lukolejnik, and @benjaminqiu
| Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: |
As Microsoft shuts down LinkedIn in China, developers worry GitHub could be next, even though nearly 10% of GitHub's contributors in 2020 were from China — As Microsoft scales back the Chinese version of LinkedIn, developers worry the code repository could be next.
Tweets: @anupkaphle
| Anuchit Nguyen / Bloomberg: |
Siam Commercial, Thailand's largest bank in which its king is the largest shareholder, acquires 51% of crypto exchange Bitkub for $535M, at a $1B+ valuation — - Siam Commercial Bank buys majority stake in Bitkub Online — Bitkub coin surges 200% to record $2.85 following Siam deal
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