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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney announces Disney+ with ads for $7.99 per month in the US, starting December 8, and raises the price of the ad-free tier from $7.99 to $10.99 per month — Disney has set pricing and date for the U.S. launch of the version of Disney+ with ads, while also hiking the monthly price of the Disney+ tier with no ads.
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Tweets: @sherman4949 and @xpangler
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Disney hits 221.1M global streaming subscribers in Q3, surpassing Netflix's 220.7M; Disney+ had 152.1M subscribers, Hulu had 46.2M, and ESPN+ had 22.8M — The Walt Disney Company reported on Wednesday that total Disney+ subscriptions rose to 152.1 million during the company's third-quarter, posting better-than-expected results.| Pew Research Center: |
An in-depth look at US teenagers and social media in 2022: 95% say they use YouTube, 67% use TikTok, 62% use Instagram, 59% use Snapchat, and 32% use Facebook — TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft open sources its library of 1,500+ 3D emoji, available now on GitHub and Figma, letting creators remix and customize them for free — Get ready for lots of custom 3D emoji — Microsoft is open sourcing more than 1,500 of its 3D emoji, making them free for creators to remix and build upon.
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GitHub, Microsoft Design, XDA Developers, PCMag, Thurrott, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, BigTechWire, OnMSFT.com, and Digital Trends
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| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: Elon Musk sold ~7.9M Tesla shares, worth ~$7B, between August 5 and 9, Musk says to avoid “an emergency sale” if a judge forces his Twitter acquisition — The billionaire suggested stock sales were aimed at avoiding a fire sale if forced to buy the social-media company
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to ~$50B and ~$1.1B net income, as cloud product sales helped weather supply chain issues and sluggish smartphone demand — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the maker of most of the world's iPhones, posted a profit that beat estimates as demand …
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| Meta: |
Meta says the warrants in the Nebraska case didn't mention abortion, only the burning and burial of a stillborn, came before Roe's reversal, and had a gag order — Much of the reporting about Meta's role in a criminal case against a mother and daughter in Nebraska is plain wrong.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts the $1,800 Galaxy Z Fold 4 with 6.2" and 7.6" displays, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, 12GB of RAM, 256GB+ storage, and a 50MP camera; preorders now open — Minor camera and software improvements, big $1,799 price tag — Samsung, purveyor of the only serious foldables available on a global scale …
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| Reuters: |
Iran's Tasnim agency says the country made its first official import order paying with cryptocurrency this week, worth $10M, helping circumvent US sanctions — Iran made its first official import order using cryptocurrency this week, the semi-official Tasnim agency reported on Tuesday …
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Crypto Briefing, Blockworks, CoinDesk, CoinGape, and crypto.news
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify quietly tests Spotify Tickets, directly selling live music tickets to users in the US, instead of redirecting buyers to Ticketmaster or Eventbrite — Spotify has launched a new site to sell fans tickets to live gigs directly from its platform instead of redirecting users to partners like Ticketmaster and Eventbrite.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The FCC rejects SpaceX's application for a $885M subsidy to provide Starlink broadband to rural America over 10 years, after tentatively approving it in 2020 — The FCC has rejected the application of Starlink to provide broadband to rural America at a cost of $885 million over ten years, nullifying a tentative approval back in 2020.
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Federal Communications …, Engadget, Ars Technica, The Verge, PCMag, Reuters, and Telecompetitor. Tweets: @mikeddano
| Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
Ireland's data regulator says it received objections from other EU regulators to its draft order to block Meta's EU-US data sharing, a reprieve for the company — Europeans have been saved from a summer shutdown of social media sites Facebook and Instagram by ... European Union bureaucracy.
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Wired. Tweets: @vmanancourt, @adam_k_levin, @vmanancourt, @vmanancourt, @vmanancourt, @robertjbateman, and @politicoeurope
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In documents filed with Brazil's competition regulator, Microsoft claims Sony pays for “blocking rights” to prevent developers from adding content to Game Pass — An explosive claim from Microsoft — Microsoft has claimed Sony pays for “blocking rights” to stop developers from adding their content to Xbox Game Pass.
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Video Games Chronicle, Protocol, Video Games Chronicle, GamesIndustry.biz, Digital Trends, ResetEra, Eurogamer.net, TheGamer, and GameSpot. Tweets: @m00chtv
| Kim S. Nash / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS, Splunk, IBM, CrowdStrike, Rapid7, Cloudflare, Salesforce, Okta, and 10 others launch the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework to monitor hacking attempts — Amazon's AWS, Splunk, IBM and others cooperate on format for cyber alerts — This feature is powered by text-to-speech technology.
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Splunk, SiliconANGLE, CRN, CIO Dive, Silicon Republic, and CNN
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Many small businesses that use personalized online ads are cutting back on marketing, in part due to Apple's ATT, as they face rising customer acquisition costs — Online brands reliant on personalised ads ramp back marketing spending — Small businesses are cutting back marketing spending due … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple signs a deal with Futuro Studios to fund podcast development and production in exchange for priority to turn podcasts into films or TV shows — Apple Inc., stepping up its spending on original podcasts, signed an agreement with a Pulitzer Prize-winning studio and is holding talks … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts the $280 Galaxy Watch 5 and $450 Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, with a touch bezel and better BioActive sensor, mapping features for Pro; preorders now open — It's also aiming for the Garmin crowd with the Watch 5 Pro — After weeks of leaks and rumors, Samsung finally announced …
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Tweets: @jetscott, @jetscott, @lanceulanoff, and @lanceulanoff
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nightfall AI, which provides cloud data loss prevention services, announces a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, bringing its total funding to $60M — Nightfall AI, a startup providing cloud data loss prevention services, today announced that it raised $40 million in Series B financing … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cloudflare says three employees fell for an SMS phishing scam, but the company's hardware MFA keys stopped the hackers from accessing its internal network — Unusually resourced threat actor has targeted multiple companies in recent days. — At least two security-sensitive companies …
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Tweets: @eastdakota, @racheltobac, @arstechnica, @adspedia, @notbind, and @martijn_grooten. Thanks:@alex_modiano
| Florence Ion / Gizmodo: |
Samsung announces the $230 Galaxy Buds 2 Pro with a smaller form factor, improved ambient noise cancellation, 24-bit Hi-Fi audio, and more; preorders now open — New buds alert! Samsung has announced the second-generation Galaxy Buds 2 Pro in tandem with its latest batch of foldables.
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ZDNet, 9to5Google, The Verge, Android Central, The Verge, ZDNet, Input, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, BigTechWire, TechSpot, Tech Advisor, and Fossbytes
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z Flip 4, featuring the same 1.9" and 6.7" displays, battery and camera upgrades, and the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, starting at $999 — As expected, Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Z Flip 4 — but the phone's greatest improvements might come through upgrades to software, not specs.
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SamMobile, Dan's Stack, The Verge, TechRadar, TechRadar, 9to5Google, SamMobile, Sammy Fans, CNBC, The Verge, The Guardian, CNET, Gizmodo, and ZDNet
Tweets: @nirave, @lisaeadicicco, and @marypcbuk
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
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XDA Developers, Digital Trends, SamMobile, PhoneArena, Input, Android Central, SamMobile, Android Headlines, PCMag, XDA Developers, Tom's Guide, Phandroid, MobileSyrup, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @cherlynnlow and @arawagco
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