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Stadia was doomed from the start because Google knows next to nothing about gaming and no one wants to invest in services they don't trust Google to keep around — There's a lot of chatter right now about the “surprise” shutdown of Stadia, Google's game-streaming service.
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| Ryan Gajewski / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Bruce Willis refutes a report that he sold his digital likeness rights to Deepcake, which confirms and says the company created his “digital twin” for 2021 ads — Recent reports claimed that the star had become the first Hollywood figure to sell his rights to a company …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Symantec details an ongoing campaign by the Witchetty hacking group, potentially tied to a China-backed threat actor, that hides malware in a Windows logo image — Security researchers have discovered a malicious campaign by the ‘Witchetty’ hacking group, which uses steganography to hide a backdoor malware in a Windows logo.
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Local media: South Korea's Fair Trade Commission raided Apple's Seoul offices over allegations the App Store is charging 33% IAP fees rather than the stated 30% — Officials from Korea's Fair Trade Commission conducted a dawn raid on Apple's offices in Gangnam-gu, Seoul …
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Sources: Tencent is resetting its M&A strategy, seeking to own majority, or even controlling, stakes in overseas targets, mainly in European gaming companies — Tencent is resetting its M&A strategy to put more focus on buying majority stakes mainly in overseas gaming companies … | Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
Tech companies working with AI are shielding themselves from accountability by outsourcing data collection and model training to academic and nonprofit groups — Yesterday, Meta's AI Research Team announced Make-A-Video, a “state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text.”| Jennifer A. Kingson / Axios: |
Surveys of ~16,000 US adults per brand: 86% of Gen Z aged 18 to 25 have a “somewhat” or “very” favorable opinion of YouTube, 73% of Instagram, and 69% of TikTok — The youngest generation of adults is so crazy for tech companies that YouTube, Google …
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SEC filing: Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye files for a US IPO and reports $854M revenue in H1 2022, up 21% YoY; Mobileye posted $1.4B revenue in 2021 — Mobileye, Intel Corp's (INTC.O) self-driving unit, on Friday filed for an initial public offering in the United States …
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| Ellen Barry / New York Times: |
A research project is trying to stop suicides by using AI to analyze at-risk people's smartphone and Fitbit wearable data and identify periods of high danger — A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors …
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| The Verge: |
At Tesla AI Day, Musk shows an Optimus humanoid robot prototype that he claims shares AI software and sensors with Autopilot and will “probably” cost under $20K — Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of a humanoid “Optimus” robot that shares some AI software and sensors …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok plans to launch live shopping in the US with LA-based partner TalkShopLive; TikTok's in-house e-commerce experiments in the UK didn't take off — Partnership with TalkShopLive comes after in-house experiments with ecommerce in UK struggled to take off| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft confirms two zero-days in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild; security firm GTSC suspects a Chinese threat actor — Microsoft has confirmed that two recently reported zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild.
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