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Arm closes up 24.69% to $63.59 in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at $65.24B, 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 …
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| 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
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Forums: r/technology, r/technology, r/vegas, and r/technews
| 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 …
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| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
Sources: Unity offered a 100% Runtime Fee waiver to studios using its LevelPlay mediation platform and 80% to 100% waivers to developers switching from AppLovin — Unity is quietly offering developers a Runtime Fee waiver if they switch to its LevelPlay mediation platform, we're told.
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| Bloomberg: |
At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle” — Hi all, it's Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington.
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| Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft and Oracle expand their cloud partnership with Oracle Database@Azure, letting customers run Oracle workloads natively in Azure data centers — The new level of collaboration reflects how technology and customer demand have fostered more cooperation among software companies| 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 …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users' location for commercial gain even after they opted out — Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices.
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| Victor Tangermann / Futurism: |
Microsoft's Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42” — “AI should not be writing obituaries.” — Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age …
More: The Overspill, Windows Central, New York Daily News, and Forbes
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023 — - New hires will be split among sales, engineering, data cloud — Many hires will be boomerang employees, CEO Benioff says
More: Reuters, Tech in Asia, and MarketWatch
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini AI model, as the company nears a launch of the GPT-4 rival — Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its highly anticipated conversational artificial intelligence software …
More: Metaverse Post, Livemint, BigTechWire, and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature — Discussions are at an early stage and include possible subscription fee, say people familiar with the matter
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters: |
Apple plans a software update for iPhone 12 in France to address radiation concerns, says “this is related to a specific testing protocol” used by the regulator — Apple said on Friday it would issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in France, in what seemed to offer … | 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: |
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