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Take-Two Interactive's 2K, the publisher of Bioshock, Xcom, and popular sports games, says a hacker accessed its help desk and sent customers links to malware — American video game publisher 2K has confirmed that its help desk platform was hacked and used to target customers …
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Instagram is working on a feature to protect users from receiving unsolicited nude photos in their DMs; Meta says the tech won't let the company view the photos — Instagram is working on a way to protect users from receiving unsolicited nude photos in their DMs.
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XDA Developers, Engadget, BGR India, Digit, Digital Information World, CNET, WeRSM, Gearrice, PetaPixel, and Social Media Today
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| Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: |
Dubai's crypto regulator grants Binance a license to offer domestic bank accounts, an asset exchange, payments and custody services, and more — The exchange had previously secured a license to offer limited crypto exchange products and services to qualified investors in Dubai.| Livemint: |
India proposes a legal framework to regulate over-the-top communications services, such as WhatsApp and Signal, including seeking access to data — WhatsApp, Signal and other interception of over-the-top communication services will soon come under a legal framework, the Centre said citing a new draft telecommunications bill.
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| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company can't “use what others might consider censorship as a tactic” regarding labeling content that seems to be false — Microsoft Corp. won't label social media posts that appear to be false in order to avoid the appearance that the company …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell plans to step down and Chief Operating Officer Dave Ripley will succeed him in the coming months; Powell will stay on as chairman — Jesse Powell, the CEO of Kraken, is stepping down from the top job at the cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2011.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: to cut costs by 10%+ in a few months, Meta is nudging out staff by reorganizing departments and giving them a limited window to apply for other roles — Facebook parent is looking to reduce costs by at least 10%, people familiar with the plans said, while Google has required some employees to apply for new jobs
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
A leaked presentation shows that Google is working on royalty-free media formats for HDR video and 3D audio, in an effort internally known as Project Caviar — Google is gunning for Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision: The company is looking to introduce two new media formats to offer HDR video … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
UK media regulator Ofcom plans to investigate the cloud computing, personal messaging, and smart device markets over competition concerns — - Ofcom, the U.K. media watchdog, is set to launch a study examining the role of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the cloud services market.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk says it will “wind down” and is “working on the details of what's next”; Kittyhawk was founded as Zee.Aero in 2010 — - Google co-founder Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk is winding down, the company announced.
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| Moneycontrol: |
WhatsApp confirms Manesh Mahatme, who led its Indian payments business, has stepped down after 18 months; a source says Mahatme plans to rejoin Amazon — Mahatme's resignation comes at a time when WhatsApp's mobile payments business has failed to take off in a significant fashion in India| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
A Python directory traversal vulnerability disclosed in August 2007, but never patched, likely affects 350K+ open-source projects and can lead to code execution — A vulnerability in the Python programming language that has been overlooked for 15 years is now back in the spotlight …
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| Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: |
Disney, P&G, LVMH, and other large companies have hired chief metaverse officers, seeking to capitalize on Web3, but questions remain about their usefulness — Advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA introduced the newest member of its C-suite at a technology conference in Paris this year.
Tweets: @bizboyle, @jonathanex, and @bizboyle
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Logitech announces the $350 G Cloud Gaming Handheld with Android, a 7" display, Snapdragon 720G, and Xbox and GeForce Now cloud gaming, arriving on October 17 — Logitech is officially announcing its G Cloud Gaming Handheld today after a teaser and a leak last month.
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| Reuters: |
Spain fines food delivery app Glovo €79M for allegedly denying 10,600+ riders a labor contract since the country's “riders' law” came into effect in August 2021 — Spain has fined Delivery Hero's (DHER.DE) local business Glovo 79 million euros ($78 million) …
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| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
The FTC says Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy cannot avoid testifying in an ongoing investigation into Prime membership, after Amazon pushed back against the probe — Commissioners deny company's request to quash subpoenas and pare back investigation — Amazon vs. Walmart: How the Giants Look to Each Other to Best Each Other
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| Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: seeking to increase profits, Coinbase hired Wall Street traders and explored using its own cash to trade crypto in 2021, including a $100M transaction — The company completed a $100 million transaction before ending the effort. It says that it hasn't engaged in proprietary trading.| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Meta-commissioned report from BSR details censorship and allegations of “unintentional bias” against Palestinians during violence by Israeli forces in May 2021 — Facebook and Instagram's speech policies harmed fundamental human rights of Palestinian users during a conflagration …
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BSR and Meta
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| Bloomberg Law: |
A Texas jury says Meta must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer a royalty and $174.5M+ in damages for violating two patents with Facebook Live and Instagram Live — Meta Platforms Inc. must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer Inc. more than $174.5 million in damages after a Texas jury found Wednesday …
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| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
PolicyLink study: California rideshare drivers make a net median of $6.20/hour after costs and could make an additional ~$10.50/hour if classified as employees — Uber and Lyft spent millions promoting a controversial ballot measure. A new study suggests it has lowered driver wages.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Salt Lake City-based Zartico, which offers analytics and visualizations to government-affiliated tourism boards, raised a $20M Series A led by Arthur Ventures — Despite representing 10% of the world's GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics.
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Switzerland-based GRNGrid, a Layer 1 DeFi blockchain that lets users transact on nodes running exclusively on renewable energy, raised $50M from GEM Digital — GRNGrid is a more environmentally friendly layer 1 tailored to decentralized finance. — The GRNGrid blockchain received … Sponsor Posts
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