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September 14, 2023, 2:40 PM
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CNBC:
Arm opens up 10% to ~$56 in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at $59.9B, after Arm priced shares at the upper end of its expected $47 to $51 range  —  - Arm Holdings has started trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker “ARM.”  — The chip design company is valued at a steep premium relative …
Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times:
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines  —  Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
William Turton / Bloomberg:
Sources: Caesars Entertainment paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who breached the company's systems in recent weeks and threatened to release its data  —  - Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said  — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Unity cancels a town hall and closes two offices after receiving what the company says was a credible death threat, following its controversial install fee news  —  Management announced a controversial pricing decision two days ago  —  Unity Technologies Inc. canceled a planned town hall …
Kat Bailey / IGN:
Unity acknowledges “the confusion and frustration” around its planned install fees but argues that “more than 90% of our customers will not be affected”  —  Platform holder claims “90 percent of users” won't be affected by change.  —  Game developers are still furious …
Monica Chin / The Verge:
HP unveils the $5,000+ Spectre Fold, an OLED foldable PC that can be used as a 17-inch tablet, a 17-inch laptop, or a 12.3-inch laptop and weighs less than 3lbs  —  Over the past few years, companies across the PC space have been engaged in a slow, but steady race to build a foldable laptop that people might actually want to buy.
Sam Rutherford / Engadget:
Hands-on with the HP Spectre Fold: a striking design, slim bezels, a 17-inch 2560 x 1920 OLED display, an 8.5mm body, an Intel i7-1250U, 16GB of RAM, and more  —  HP's first “3-in-1” is incredibly sleek but can it live up to that price?  —  Senior Writer, Reviews
Bloomberg:
How Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son, Sam, and provided a halo effect for FTX before its implosion  —  Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son and provided a halo effect for his company.
Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
A US judge says FTX can now sell, stake, and hedge its crypto holdings, which the company says are worth $3.4B+, including $1.16B in solana, to repay creditors
Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal:
Google plans to offer Chromebook software updates for up to 10 years, starting in 2024, so no current device expires within the next two years, to help schools  —  With the change, no existing Chromebook will have to expire within the next two years  —  Google is working to push …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta expands Horizon Worlds, previously exclusive to its VR headsets, to the web and mobile, starting with some users on Android, with iOS rollout coming soon  —  Meta is finally bringing Horizon Worlds out of virtual reality.  The 3D social platform has previously been exclusive to its VR headsets …
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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Databricks raised a $500M+ Series I at a $43B valuation, after raising $1.6B at a $38B valuation in August 2021, before a possible IPO, and reports 10K+ clients  —  Data analytics and AI software maker Databricks has raised a Series I round worth more than $500 million, earning a valuation of $43 billion.
Taylor Lorenz / Rolling Stone:
Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her  —  In her book ‘Extremely Online,’ journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia Allison invented the concept of being a content creator a decade before it caught on
Washington Post:
Day two of Google's trial: Apple complained the DOJ may have violated confidentiality rules, after the DOJ said Google paid Apple $4B to $7B for search in 2020  —  Protection of trade secrets versus transparency has been a major debate between Google and activists in the case
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
The Biden administration asks SCOTUS to pause a lower court's order that limits social media requests from the White House, FBI, and key public health agencies  —  The move comes after a lower court found the White House, FBI and key public health officials probably violated the First Amendment

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
WBD shareholders vote to approve Paramount Skydance's deal to acquire the company; in a non-binding vote, they reject compensation packages for David Zaslav

Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Source: the FBI investigated NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about Kash Patel's use of FBI staff for his girlfriend's security

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: the NFL met with the FCC on Friday to defend the league's media rights strategy and said 87% of games are primarily aired for free on broadcast TV

More News

Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg:
Child content creators, or “kidfluencers”, some of whom make $20M+/year, show that protecting kids from labor exploitation is difficult in the social media age
Mariana Lenharo / Nature:
Researchers develop RETFound, an AI tool capable of predicting the risk of ocular diseases, heart failure, Parkinson's disease, and more based on retinal images

Earlier Picks

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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon announces generative AI tools to help sellers write “captivating product descriptions, titles, and listing details” and add to existing descriptions
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
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
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