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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Snap plans to start laying off ~20% of its 6,400+ employees on August 31, 2022, including cuts to its hardware group; Snap stock is down ~80% in 2022 — Snap's stock price has declined nearly 80 percent this year — Snap is planning to lay off approximately 20 percent …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Memo: on top of cutting 20% of its staff, Snap is canceling its original shows, in-app games, and several other projects; layoffs could save $500M annually — Snapchat's original shows, in-app games, and camera drone are no more — Snap is laying off around 20 percent of its more than 6,400 employees …
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| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com sues an Australian woman after erroneously sending her AU$10.5M in May 2021 when she requested a AU$100 refund; the woman allegedly bought a house — A woman asked for a $100 refund from the crypto platform but instead received $10.5 million—and then went on a spending spree, according to reports.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus Zenbook 17 Fold review: foldable OLED display with a comfortable keyboard and professional look, but $3,500 is expensive and there are software glitches — It's a 17-inch foldable that actually works — Ever since Samsung Display showed off a 17-inch foldable OLED screen last May …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple's VP of Corporate Development Adrian Perica has quietly left Didi's board; Perica joined the board in 2016 after Apple's $1B investment in Didi — An Apple Inc. executive has left the board of Didi Global Inc., as the Chinese ride-hailing company struggles to regain ground …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Jon Peddie Research: discrete and integrated GPU sales fell 14.9% QoQ in Q2 2022; Nvidia's sales fell 25.7% QoQ, AMD's fell 7.6% QoQ, and Intel's fell 9.8% QoQ — Shipments of discrete desktop graphics cards down to two-year low. — Sales of graphics processing units — discrete and integrated …
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| Josephine Wolff / Wired: |
Cyber insurers are failing to reduce companies' cyber risk exposure and to cover breached firms' costs after state-sponsored cyberattacks that fall short of war — Cyberinsurance doesn't cover acts of war. But even as cyberattacks mount, the definition of “warlike” actions remains blurry.
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
a16z releases a set of free “Can't Be Evil” licenses for NFTs, inspired by Creative Commons, available on GitHub — Andreessen Horowitz's crypto arm is releasing a free licensing system, aiming to help the NFT sector fulfil its “economic potential.”| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Live Nation's Ticketmaster partners with Dapper Labs to release ticket NFTs on the Flow blockchain and expands its NFL partnership for NFTs to 100 games — Ticketmaster will now let event organizers issue NFTs (non-fungible tokens) tied to tickets on Flow, a blockchain operated by a16z-backed Dapper Labs.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple debuts Xcode Cloud subscriptions for developers for up to $400/month; 25 compute hours per month is free until the end of 2023 and $15/month afterward — Apple today announced that developers can purchase subscriptions to Xcode Cloud, a continuous integration and delivery service that's built into the Xcode app.
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Twitter's Elon Musk takeover saga has only amplified its problems, which stem from a broken business model at odds with the platform's freewheeling nature — Its ill-fated foray into adult content is emblematic of an unpoliceable platform — and a broken business model| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Researchers: self-harm posts are on the rise on Twitter, including graphic photos and high engagement; one hashtag grew to 30,000 tweets by July 2022 — Self-harm related hashtags have increased roughly 500 percent since October, a new report says — A Twitter user in apparent distress turned …
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| Bloomberg: |
China's punishing tech crackdown has undercut the industry's position as the largest and most sought-after employer, leading to high graduate unemployment rates — When Xi Jinping tightened the screws on China's technology industry last year, he escalated a jobs crisis for the youngest …
Tweets: @tommackenzietv, @angelazhanghk, and @nerysinchina
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof announces a $50M Series A led by a16z, the NFT project Moonbirds Mythics launching in 2023, and a DAO to license Moonbirds' name — - Additional participants in the round include Collab+Currency, Flamingo DAO, SV Angel, VaynerFund and Seven Seven Six.
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| ProPublica: |
An investigation details a huge Instagram verification scheme using fake profiles on Spotify, Apple Music, and more; Meta removes badges from 300+ accounts — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.| Jack Stebbins / CNBC: |
Royal Caribbean Cruises partners with SpaceX's Starlink to offer internet onboard all its ships; installations are scheduled to be completed in early 2023 — - Royal Caribbean Cruises will begin offering onboard internet via SpaceX's Starlink satellite network.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
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