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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: new documents detail an Xbox Series X refresh in 2024, codenamed Brooklin, including a new controller and cylindrical, disc-less design — Microsoft is planning to refresh its Xbox Series X console in 2024 with an all-new design and features.
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| Push Square: |
FTC v. Microsoft: in mid-2020, Phil Spencer discussed acquiring Warner Bros Interactive alongside Bethesda and said buying Nintendo would be a “career moment” — “It'd be a good move for both companies” — A genuinely dystopian email sent by Xbox chief Phil Spencer …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
After over 100 internal Microsoft documents leaked, the FTC says that “Microsoft was responsible for the error in uploading these documents to the court” — The files include emails from corporate executives like Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer and timetables for gaming releases.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: docs show Microsoft's gaming plans for 2028, aiming for “full convergence” of its cloud platform and hardware to deliver “cloud hybrid games” — The documents may also reveal Microsoft's far future plans for 2028 — by which the company believed it could achieve … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max review: USB-C, lighter, nicer to hold, useful Action Button, and camera improvements, but no 5x telephoto on the smaller Pro — Apple didn't choose the USB-C life, but boy are we glad it got here anyway. … There are very few surprises from new smartphones these days.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple iPhone 15 and 15 Plus review: comfortable to hold, Dynamic Island, great performance, and helpful camera features, but no always-on display or ProMotion — Apple's standard iPhone gets a lot of nice upgrades this year, but it's not anything we haven't seen before.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates Bard to use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive, not just the web, to help find and summarize emails, highlight points in a document, and more — Google's Bard AI chatbot is no longer limited to pulling answers from just the web — it can now scan your Gmail, Docs …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
On a livestream, Elon Musk says X is “moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system”, as it's “the only way to combat vast armies of bots” — - Tesla, SpaceX and X Corp. leader Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in a livestream …
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| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Filing: FTX sues SBF's parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, to “recover millions of dollars in fraudulently transferred and misappropriated funds” — The filing, redacted in parts, asks the court to award the FTX estate damages, the return of any property given or payment made to the parents.
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| Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
Okta CSO David Bradbury says five client companies, including MGM and Caesars, were hacked via help desk calls by the ALPHV and Scattered Spider groups — Hackers who breached casino giants MGM Resorts International (MGM.N) and Caesars Entertainment (CZR.O) in recent weeks also broke … | Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Crowdstrike confirms acquiring Bionic, which analyzes a company's tech and IT to find vulnerabilities, sources say for $350M; Bionic has raised $82M in total — Update: Crowdstrike has now officially confirmed the deal. As we previously reported, Crowdstrike will merge Bionic's tech with its Falcon product.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
What to expect from Microsoft's Surface and AI event: Surface Laptop Studio 2, Surface Go 4 and Laptop Go 3, and AI updates for Windows, Surface, and Office — Microsoft is holding a “special event” in New York City later this week where it's expected to debut three new Surface devices …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro: Chinese cyberespionage group Earth Lusca used a new Linux malware dubbed SprySOCKS to target government agencies in multiple countries in H1 2023 — A Chinese espionage-focused hacker tracked as ‘Earth Lusca’ was observed targeting government agencies in multiple countries, using a new Linux backdoor dubbed ‘SprySOCKS.’
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Mastodon: @arstechnica@mastodon.social. X: @780thc. Forums: r/technews, r/hacking, and Ars OpenForum
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A look at ShadowDragon, which offers social media surveillance tools that gather data from games and more, used by ICE, the State Department, the DEA, and more — Daniel Clemens sits in a darkened room and speaks about why he thinks people should not protest.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon announces a new version of Just Walk Out for clothing retailers, using RFID tags to track apparel; the previous system relied on ceiling-mounted cameras — - Latest iteration uses RFID tags and readers to track apparel — Some retailers have balked at using Just Walk Out system
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Interviews with 15 current and former employees at Amazon's Lab126 hardware unit describe low morale after layoffs and fears over a weak development pipeline — Some workers within Amazon's (AMZN.O) once-storied hardware division - responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader … | Derek Strickland / TweakTown: |
FTC v. Microsoft: in April 2022, Xbox Game Pass may have generated around $231.5M in revenue, or $9.26 per subscription, and most subscribers pay full price — Microsoft reveals more details about how much money Xbox Game Pass actually makes. — VIEW GALLERY - 4 IMAGES| Leo Lewis / Financial Times: |
Location and mapping platform Mapbox raised $280M led by SoftBank, sources say at a ~$1.3B pre-money valuation; PitchBook: Mapbox had previously raised $360M — Son's decision to back US mapping company in $280mn investment round comes in wake of Arm listing| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
After Hong Kong's police arrested six following allegations of fraud at unlicensed crypto exchange JPEX, the government plans to tighten its crypto regulations — SCMP reported that Hong Kong police had received 83 complaints about the platform, which was operating without a license.
More: Associated Press, Tech Xplore, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, and Cryptonews. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Plan A, which offers a SaaS sustainability tool to help track net zero efforts, raised a $27M Series A extension, taking its total funding to $42M — Plan A, a carbon accounting and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting platform for corporations …
More: Tech.eu, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silicon Canals, and FinTech Global
| Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge rejects the SEC's request to inspect Binance.US' tech infrastructure and to force the company to share other requested information — - Regulator says it is not getting enough access in lawsuit — Magistrate judge didn't grant expedited discovery request| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
At an all-hands, Unity discussed potential changes to its controversial new fees, like capping fees to 4% of a game's revenue for customers with $1M+ in revenue — Maker of video-game development tools backtracks after customers threaten boycott — Video-game tool maker Unity Software Inc …
More: GamesIndustry.biz, GamesIndustry.biz, Ars Technica, and Wccftech
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Forums: Hacker News, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/gamedev, r/Unity3D, r/Games, r/gamingnews, r/Games, r/unity, and r/pcgaming
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches a tool that lets creators label their AI-generated content and plans to test other ways of labeling such content automatically — As more creators turn to AI for their artistic expression, there's also a broader push for transparency around when AI was involved in content creation.| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 review: a bigger bet on widgets and the modularization of apps, and needed Stage Manager fixes, but visionOS stole the spotlight this year — Well, last year was weird. — For the first time since I started writing annual reviews of Apple's two mobile operating systems …
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| Bloomberg: |
Raleigh-based Pryon, which offers chatbots for searching through data, raised a $100M Series B, ~80% from Thomas Tull's fund, sources say at a $500M+ valuation — - North Carolina startup valued at more than $500 million — Pryon's CEO founded Yap, Amazon's first AI-related acquisition
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