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The FTC sues to block Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition, charging that the deal announced in January may suppress Microsoft's gaming competitors — Lawsuit marks Lina Khan's most significant effort to date to address tech industry consolidation, and it could upend Microsoft's gaming ambitions
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Elon Musk says Twitter is working on an update that will tell users if they've been “shadowbanned”, the reason why, and how to appeal — Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, continuing a shake-up of the platform he acquired in October for $44 billion, said the company will begin telling users …
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The SEC asks US public companies to disclose their exposure and risks related to crypto assets after “recent bankruptcies and financial distress” — - The SEC is advising companies to disclose their involvement with digital commodities firms, according to guidance released Thursday.
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Airtable, a developer of cloud-based collaboration software last valued at $11B in 2021, lays off 254 staffers or around 20% of its workforce — Just days ago, Airtable published a memo about how laid off workers can use Airtable to search for jobs. “It's been an unwelcome theme of 2022—layoffs,” the post said.
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Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.
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NordVPN: stolen data of 5 million people globally, including 600,000 Indians, have been sold on the Genesis, Russian, and 2easy bot markets for ~$6 on average — Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market till date, of which 600,000 are from India … | Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon rolls out Inspire, a TikTok-like photo and video feed in its app that lets customers “like” and buy products, initially to select customers in the US — The tech giant joins Facebook, Google in seeking to capitalize on popularity of short-form video format
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A look at the reaction to Apple's E2EE news: the FBI is “deeply concerned” and says the change “hinders” its work while the EFF and others applaud the feature — Apple yesterday announced that end-to-end encryption is coming to even more sensitive types of iCloud data …
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GitHub launches Copilot for Business, with corporate licensing and policy controls, for $19/user per month, and claims it won't store or share companies' code — GitHub Copilot, GitHub's service that intelligently suggests lines of code, is now available in a plan for enterprises months … | Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
A look at Prisma Labs' portrait generation app Lensa, which launched in 2018 and took off in 2022, after adding Stable Diffusion-based “magic avatars” — Social media is celebrating. Artists are protesting. What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?
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Tokyo-based Ubie, which offers an AI-powered patient symptom questionnaire for medical care guidance, closed a $45M Series C, bringing its total funding to $76M — What You Should Know: — Ubie, Inc., a Tokyo-based healthcare startup, announced it has closed its Series C round at $45M by raising $19M in an extension round.
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An interview with Tim Sweeney about his crusade to break Apple's power over the App Store, and how it is increasingly a problem for speech and not just business — Sweeney says he's willing to go to the Supreme Court to fight Apple's control of the App Store. But first, he's hoping Congress will act before it's too late.
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| Miles Klee / Rolling Stone: |
No emoji better suited 2022's ups and downs than the saluting face, used by laid-off Twitter employees and many others to express irony, reassurance, and more — The stern little face has become an unlikely beacon of solidarity and support — while making us laugh every time
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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
DocuSign reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $645.5M, vs. $627M est., and billings up 17% YoY to $659.4M, vs. $588.6M est.; stock is up ~10% after hours — Company easily tops expectations on billings and other key metrics — Shares of DocuSign were flying higher in aftermarket action Thursday …
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Some NFTs minted on FTX now show blank images instead of the original art as the metadata points to an FTX.US domain used for a bankruptcy restructuring website — NFTs hosted on FTX platform were affected by the firm's collapse, showing blank images instead of the original art. — 191 Total views
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Some Twitch streamers are migrating to other services, burned out by earnings coupled to hours streamed, parasocial pressure from subscribers, and more — In October 2022, popular streamer Sweet Anita posted a message in her Discord community and then to Twitter: she needed to take a break from Twitch.| Prashant Jha / Cointelegraph: |
Hong Kong will require virtual asset service providers to pass strict anti-money laundering guidelines and investor protection laws from June 1, 2023 — The new legislation will bring a licensing regime for the virtual asset service providers requiring them to pass strict AML and money laundering guidelines.
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