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Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition is worth it because Figma's $400M ARR, independent of margin, was continuing to double, creating pricing pressure on Adobe — Hint: The Answer Doesn't Involve a Spreadsheet — I'm not an investor in Figma. I don't know Figma CEO Dylan Field. And I'm not a designer.
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A profile of Figma founder Dylan Field, who will become the wealthiest person from the Thiel Fellowship by far, as PitchBook estimates his stake is worth $2B+ — Dylan Field dropped out of an Ivy League school in 2012 to take a grant from the billionaire Peter Thiel and start a software company called Figma.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
EVGA exits graphics cards, citing issues with Nvidia, after exclusively using GeForce GPUs, reportedly making up 80% of its revenue, since its founding in 1999 — EVGA will continue selling current-gen GeForce cards until it runs out of stock. — Graphics card manufacturer eVGA has made a name …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works — from the batshit-crazy dept — As far as I can tell, in the area the 5th Circuit appeals court has jurisdiction … | Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: |
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court — A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social-media law that companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Unsealed court docs in a privacy user profiling suit against Meta show that apps from Zynga, Yahoo, and others had extensive access to users' friends' data — It's not the crime, it's the cover up... The scandal-hit company formerly known as Facebook has fought for over four years to keep … | Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: |
How neural network chess engines redefined the game's creativity, leading some top players to use deception, misdirection, and other psychological techniques — It was as if a bottom seed had knocked out the top team in March Madness: At the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in St. Louis earlier this month … | Financial Times: |
Sources: BeReal is exploring adding paid features to avoid advertising; the app has 15M+ DAUs, up from 10K in March 2021, and was valued at ~$600M in June 2022 — Photo-sharing app BeReal is exploring the addition of in-app payments for extra features to avoid Instagram-style advertising …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says there is “no evidence” the hacker accessed sensitive user info, like trip histories, during the breach and that all its products are now “operational” — Uber says there is “no evidence” that any of its users' private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems.
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| Stefanie Marotta / Bloomberg: |
Shopify changes its compensation practices to let employees choose a mix of cash, restricted stock units, and stock options; Shopify's stock is down 73% in 2022 — Shopify Inc. is changing its compensation practices to let staff decide how much of their pay will be cash versus equity … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta's stock has lost 60% of its value in the past 12 months, by far the biggest slide among Big Tech stocks and more than double the Nasdaq Composite's drop — - Meta shares dropped below the company's pandemic nadir during the day on Friday and are down more than 60% for the year.
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
After Ethereum's Merge, a look at four more upgrades to the crypto network under active development: The Surge, The Verge, The Purge, and The Splurge — After much celebration over the successful transition of Ethereum, the question remains what's next for the most commercially-significant crypto project.
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TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Crypto Onramp Newsletter, and Blockchain News
| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
An interview with AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Fei-Fei Li on deep learning's progress since 2012's groundbreaking ImageNet database research — Artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, one of the trailblazers of the deep learning “revolution” that began a decade ago …
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