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Dan Primack / Axios:
Arm prices its 95.5M shares at $51 a piece, raising $4.87B in 2023's largest IPO so far and giving the company a fully diluted valuation of ~$54.5B  —  Arm, the British chip design giant controlled by SoftBank, has raised nearly $5 billion in its initial public offering.
Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary:
Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge get updates to address an actively exploited flaw in the WebP Codec's library libwebp; many non-browser apps are also affected  —  A significant vulnerability in the WebP Codec has been unearthed, prompting major browser vendors, including Google and Mozilla …
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher / Forbes:
MGM Resorts' website is still down over 60 hours after being hit by a cyberattack; ransomware-as-a-service group ALPHV, aka BlackCat, reportedly took credit  —  The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claimed responsibility for a breach that began, of all places, on LinkedIn.
Wall Street Journal:
Docs: Starlink reported $1.4B in 2022 revenue, up from $222M in 2021, falling short of projections in 2015, as some question satellite internet's growth options  —  Revenue at satellite-internet business has jumped but fallen short of Elon Musk's financial projections
Reuters:
After France ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 over its high radiation levels, Apple says multiple bodies certified the device as radiation compliant  —  Apple said on Wednesday its iPhone 12 model was certified by multiple international bodies as compliant with global radiation standards …
Tim Starks / Washington Post:
Researchers: the iPhone of Meduza owner Galina Timchenko was infected with Pegasus in Germany, the first known case of the tool being used against a Russian  —  Unclear is who planted the spyware while the founder of the Meduza news outlet was in Germany  —  The iPhone of a prominent Russian …
Louise Matsakis / Semafor:
Google cuts hundreds from its global recruiting team, saying “the volume of requests for our recruiters has gone down”, but plans to keep a significant majority  —  Google is laying off hundreds of people across its global recruiting team as hiring at the tech giant continues to slow.
Bloomberg:
The White House is watching China expand its government ban on iPhones “with concern” and says the move appears to be “aggressive and inappropriate retaliation”  —  - National Security Council is watching issue with concern  — Beijing cites problems with the security of Apple devices
Philip Glamann / Bloomberg:
China cites “many media reports about some security incidents concerning Apple phones”, after the government reportedly told its agencies to ban iPhones at work
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
The US Senate's AI Insight Forum: Elon Musk warned of AI risks, Mark Zuckerberg defended open source, all guests agreed the US needs to regulate AI, and more  —  Tech leaders debate perils and possibilities of artificial intelligence at closed-door Senate session
Justine Calma / The Verge:
Apple's environmental announcements, including its first carbon-neutral products, show progress but may be a red herring that distracts from its overall impact  —  Apple announced its first-ever carbon-neutral products today, but don't get too excited about what that means for the planet.
Reuters:
The US SEC says the creator of Stoner Cats NFTs, which raised $8.2M, agreed to pay a $1M fine for an unregistered offering and plans to return investors' money  —  The creator of the popular Stoner Cats animated web series will pay a $1 million civil fine to settle U.S. Securities …
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI announces its text-to-music tool Stable Audio, which can generate 20 45-second tracks per month for free or 500 90-second tracks for $12/month  —  What comes after building generative AI technology for image and code generation?  For Stability AI, it's text-to-audio generation.
Tom Ivan / Video Games Chronicle:
Sony releases a PS5 software update that adds support for Dolby Atmos HDMI devices, assigning a second controller as an “assist controller”, and up to 8TB SSDs  —  Sony has rolled out a major PlayStation 5 system software update globally.  —  It introduces a number of new features …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon announces generative AI tools to help sellers write “captivating product descriptions, titles, and listing details” and add to existing descriptions  —  Amazon today introduced a new set of generative AI tools aimed at sellers which the retailer says will simplify the process of creating product listings.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Apple hikes the prices of the iPhone 15 lineup in China, Japan, India, and other markets, keeps prices flat in the US, and cuts prices in the UK by £50 to £100  —  - Apple hiked the prices of its latest iPhones in some of its key markets including China, Japan and India, even as it kept them the same in the U.S.
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Unity announces fees based on a game's installations and the developer's plan tier, starting on January 1, 2024, joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees  —  By Jez Corden Contributions from Zachary Boddy last updated  —  Unity joins Unreal Engine with a per-install fee.  —  What you need to know
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
Bio: Elon Musk told Bari Weiss that Twitter needs to be careful when discussing China due to Tesla's business, and that China's Uyghur repression has two sides  —  A passage in Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk sheds new light on the billionaire's willingness to placate the genocidal Chinese regime.
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Xcode 15 RC files show that the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus have 6GB of RAM and the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max have 8GB of RAM, a 2GB increase for the Pro models  —  Apple never publicly advertises the amount of RAM included in iPhones, but MacRumors has confirmed that the iPhone 15 Pro …
Peter Cohen / AppleInsider:
The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max's A17 Pro offers hardware-accelerated ray tracing; Qualcomm and Samsung already sell ray tracing-capable mobile chips

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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries

Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:
The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits

Cade Metz / New York Times:
Two voice actors sue AI startup Lovo, saying it illegally used recordings of their voices to make audio clones without their permission; Lovo denies the claims

More News

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Former FaZe Clan staff describe a mismanaged creator organization, as its market cap falls from $725M at its 2022 SPAC merger to below $15M; FaZe fired its CEO
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Adobe makes Firefly generally and commercially available in Creative Cloud and other services, and announces “generative credits” to charge for Firefly access
Emma Roth / The Verge:
WhatsApp rolls out Channels to users in 150+ countries, after introducing the broadcasting feature in June 2023 in Colombia and Singapore, and adds improvements
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple does not plan to sell its new AirPods Pro USB-C charging case as a standalone product; users instead need to buy a new $249 pair that come with the case

Earlier Picks

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell / Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
A look at the “hectic evolution” of Steam, 20 years after Valve launched the beta, as rivals like the Epic Games Store and Itch.io fail to make much of a dent
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Solidus Labs: wash trading, used to boost a token's price and volume, on Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges amounted to $2B+ of crypto since September 2020
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Symantec: Chinese cyberespionage group Redfly used the ShadowPad trojan to hack a national electricity grid company in Asia from February 28 to August 3, 2023
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