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Sony reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $20.7B, PS5 sales up 38% YoY to 3.3M, operating income down 31% YoY to ~$782M, and expects to sell 25M PS5s by March 2024 — Sony on Wednesday reported a 31% fall in profit in the first fiscal quarter as its life insurance unit dragged on its bottom line …
More: Sony Investor Relations, Reuters, Game Developer, OnMSFT.com, Bloomberg, Sony, Financial Times, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, Associated Press, IGN, TechSpot, Wccftech, Deadline, Variety, VentureBeat, Nikkei Asia, The Hollywood Reporter, and Reuters
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
In its Q1 report, Sony, the world's largest camera sensor supplier, pushes back expectations for a smartphone market recovery to 2024 at the earliest — - The camera sensor leader had anticipated second-half recovery — Sony warns that conditions are tough in China and the US| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reports Q1 net revenue up 17% YoY to $1.28B, net bookings up 20% YoY to $1.2B, and forecasts $8B in bookings for the next fiscal year, hinting at GTA 6 — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the company behind video games like Grand Theft Auto, rose in extended trading …
More: IGN, Engadget, Take-Two Interactive Software, Video Games Chronicle, Thurrott, Game Developer, Destructoid, GameSpot, Gameranx, TrueAchievements, TechRadar, GamingBolt, Game Rant, and Push Square
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Forums: r/gamingnews and r/PS5
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Gizmodo EIC Dan Ackerman sues Apple, the Tetris Company, and others, claiming they adapted his book about Tetris into a feature film without his permission — Dan Ackerman, editor in chief of the tech-news website Gizmodo, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Monday accusing Apple … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack announces its biggest-ever redesign, catering to power users, adding a new Home section, a new sidebar on the left, a new DMs section, and Activity window — Slack is many things. Which is kind of the problem. … Eventually, that even affects the “talk to your team” part of Slack …
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| Aaron Pressman / The Boston Globe: |
Boston-based cybersecurity company Rapid7 lays off 18% of its workforce, or around 470 people, and reports Q2 revenue rose 14% YoY to $190M and a $67M net loss — The Boston-based cybersecurity firm said the cuts will enable it to continue to grow while also freeing up cash
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google finally adds native translate capability to its Gmail app on Android, available now, and on iOS, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google is finally adding a native translate capability to Gmail for Android and iOS after long supporting it on the web client.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Intel fixes a flaw found by a Google researcher that could let attackers steal passwords and other secrets, affecting Skylake, Tiger Lake, and Ice Lake chips — The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft to build a ChatGPT-powered Aptos Assistant and plans to host validator notes on Azure; GitHub will add Aptos' Move to Copilot — Since the A.I.-hype train reached full speed earlier this year, there's been no shortage of crypto entrepreneurs trying to get a piece of the action.| Elizabeth de Luna / Mashable: |
X begins making ad revenue payouts to smaller creators, after releasing payments to thousands of select accounts; how payouts are calculated remains unclear — ‘$8 to make $370 is a fantastic ROI for something I do anyway,’ one creator tweeted. … X is finally paying smaller creators …
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| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
China plans to require that app developers file business details with the government or face sanctions from March 2024, likely creating headaches for developers — China will require all mobile app providers in the country to file business details with the government, its information ministry said …
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| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Sources: former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame is talking with prosecutors to plead guilty to criminal charges and may enter a plea as soon as September — - Ryan Salame was the co-chief executive of FTX Digital Markets — Salame would be fourth former FTX executive to plead guilty| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Sex workers who use crypto to store wealth and accept payment, bypassing the banking system, are finding the limits of its utility amid the regulatory scrutiny — Banks and payments companies have long penalized sex workers. Many thought crypto would be a solution, but now exchanges are dumping them too.
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
CCDH: ChatGPT, Bard, My AI, DreamStudio, DALL-E, and Midjourney generated “pro-anorexia” content 41% of the time when asked about common eating disorder topics — Disturbing fake images and dangerous chatbot advice: New research shows how ChatGPT, Bard, Stable Diffusion …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol shuts down Indonesia-based “phishing-as-a-service” platform 16shop, used to create 150K phishing pages and compromising 70K+ people across 43 countries — A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform.
More: INTERPOL, Group-IB, The Register, The Record, Security Boulevard, and Silicon Republic
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve launches a program to oversee banks' crypto activity and further explains how banks need pre-approvals for engaging with stablecoins — Fresh crypto guidance from the U.S. central bank doesn't represent a departure from previous policy, but it provides more details on what the Fed expects from banks.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $681M, bookings up 22% YoY to $780.7M, vs. $785M est., a $282.8M net loss, and DAUs up 25% YoY to 65.5M; RBLX drops 20%+ — - Shares of Roblox fell Wednesday after the company reported second-quarter results that missed analysts' expectations on top and bottom lines.
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Pocket Gamer.biz, Roblox, MarketWatch, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube plans to stop showing recommended videos in some places, including on the homepage, if a logged-in user's watch history feature is turned off entirely — Recommended videos keep users engaged on YouTube, but starting today, YouTube will stop showing recommended videos in some places … | Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
The SCOTUS lets Apple keep its App Store rules for now, rejecting an Epic request that would have let developers start directing users to other payment options — - Supreme Court justice won't let appeals court ruling kick in — Epic seeking to open App Store to lower-priced alternatives| The Citizen Lab: |
Analysis: Tencent's Sogou Input Method, the top Chinese character inputting tool in China with 450M+ MAUs, had since-fixed data-leaking flaws in its encryption — We urge Sogou Input Method users to immediately update to the most recent version of the app (at least Windows version 13.7, Android version 11.26, or iOS version 11.25).
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on cloud competitors, layoffs, AI, Nvidia, the Trainium and Inferentia chips, the Amazon Bedrock library of AI models, and more — Today, I'm talking with Adam Selipsky. He's the CEO of Amazon Web Services, or as it's usually called, AWS. AWS is quite a story.| Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
A look at the Indian Institutes of Technology, established in the 1950s and 1960s to emulate MIT and now comprising 23 schools offering a path to tech success — Indian tech entrepreneur Kesavan Kandadai has many accomplishments under his belt: launching Amazon Prime Video in India and founding …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Nikon reports Q1 revenue up 8.6% YoY to ~$1.1B, profit down 78.6% YoY to ~$23M, and shipping four lithography machines, vs. eight in 2022; NINOY drops 5%+ — - Nikon supplies mature chipmaking machines to Intel, TSMC — Chip industry sales have been hit by glut, economic headwinds
More: Nikon Investor Relations
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
A look at Def Con's White House-backed Generative Red Team Challenge, where contestants try to make AI chatbots go rogue; the results will be sealed for months — Chatbots can be biased, deceptive or even dangerous. Hackers are competing to figure out exactly how.
More: 9to5Mac. Mastodon: @timnitGebru@dair …, @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social, and @Julia@journa.host. X: @willoremus
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Lyft CEO David Risher says the company is trying to end surge pricing as “riders hate it”; higher driver supply cut the share of surge pricing rides by 35% QoQ — Lyft has been cutting fares in order to secure more riders, and it's working. Bu that success has come with a (literal) cost.
More: Gizmodo, Mashable, Lyft, MobileSyrup, and Reuters
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