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Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned — Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Mark Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and cut budgets across most teams, citing the economy — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said it will freeze hiring and restructure some teams in an effort to cut costs and shift priorities.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple VP of Procurement Tony Blevins is leaving, sources say after joking in a viral, September 5 TikTok video that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living — One of Apple Inc.'s most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter plans to add a TikTok-like full-screen video scrolling UI for English-speaking users on iOS, and a video carousel to the Explore tab on iOS and Android — Twitter is joining the bandwagon of social media companies copying TikTok's everlasting scroll of videos.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Court filing: in March, Jack Dorsey told Elon Musk he tried to add Musk to Twitter's board, but felt the rest of the board was too “risk averse” — - Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wanted Elon Musk on the board of the social media company, but felt the rest of its members were too …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta details its text-to-video AI generator, Make-A-Video, which can produce up to five-second videos without audio; Meta is not giving access to the AI model — AI text-to-image generators have been making headlines in recent months, but researchers are already moving on to the next frontier: AI text-to-video generators.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Intel to launch Arc A770 Limited Edition with 16GB of GDDR6 for $349 and A750 Limited Edition for $289 on October 12, alongside A770 with 8GB of GDDR6 for $329 — A770 comes in two tiers; Intel claims “perf-per-dollar” wins over Nvidia RTX 3060. — Intel's highest-end graphics card lineup …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks — For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says the Lazarus group is weaponizing open-source software such as PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, and Sumatra PDF Reader, compromising numerous organizations — PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and muPDF/Subliminal Recording all targeted. — Hackers backed by the North Korean government … | Reuters: |
An investigation shows the CIA failed to secure its messaging system used by Iranian spies, often hidden within websites, leading to capture, torture, and death — The spy was minutes from leaving Iran when he was nabbed. — Gholamreza Hosseini was at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran in late 2010, preparing for a flight to Bangkok.
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
How angel investing became a pastime and a way of socializing in Silicon Valley, with investors betting small amounts in friends' startups — Maia Bittner is an angel investor, and she has a lot of friends who've founded startups. Sometimes they ask her if she wants to put money into their companies.
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
An investigation shows how self-publishing platform Wattpad's lack of moderation, age verification, and safety features helps sexual predators exploit teens — For many teenagers, the reading and writing platform is a creative and educational outlet. But a Forbes investigation found …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Brave plans to hide and, where possible, completely block cookie consent notifications, a “more privacy-preserving” approach than other browsers' systems — The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit.
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Former eBay executives Jim Baugh and David Harville are sentenced to 57 and 24 months in prison for their roles in a 2019 cyberstalking campaign against critics — Two former eBay Inc (EBAY.O) security executives were sentenced to prison on Thursday for carrying out a campaign to harass … | Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
An Apple support document and a compliance page reference an “iPhone 14 Max”, suggesting Apple changed the name to iPhone 14 Plus at the last moment — Newly discovered references to the iPhone 14 Plus as “iPhone 14 Max” on Apple's website suggest this was the name originally intended …
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| CNN: |
Governor Newsom signs a law forbidding California-based businesses from giving users' personal info in response to out-of-state abortion-related search warrants — Washington CNN Business — California is attempting to stymie abortion prosecutions in other states by making it illegal …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta confirms taking “enforcement actions” against The OG App, which offers ad-free Instagram feeds, as developer UN1feed says Apple removed the App Store app — A third-party Instagram app, called “The OG App,” which promised an ad-free feed more like the original Instagram experience …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Meta opens NFT sharing to Facebook users in the US and to all Instagram users in 100 countries, including the US, where digital collectibles are available — Users in the U.S. can now connect their crypto wallets to Instagram as part of the app's new digital collectible feature, which the tech giant has been testing since May.
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