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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: docs accidentally reveal an Xbox Series X refresh in 2024, codenamed Brooklin, including a cylindrical, diskless design and a new controller — Microsoft is planning to refresh its Xbox Series X console in 2024 with an all-new design and features.
More: ResetEra, ResetEra, The Verge, Engadget, Bloomberg, Video Games Chronicle, Ars Technica, Game Developer, Windows Central, TechSpot, Dexerto, OnMSFT.com, The Verge, Eurogamer.net, iPhone in Canada Blog, Video Games Chronicle, Axios, 9to5Google, The Guardian, TechPowerUp, For The Win, Digit, Forbes, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, MobileSyrup, GamesIndustry.biz, TechRadar, BigTechWire, Polygon, Digital Trends, PCMag, T3, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, Techaeris, Kotaku, OC3D, SlashGear, Laptop Mag, Neowin, Game Rant, Pocket-lint, Club386, Gameranx, BGR, Metro.co.uk, IGN, and Press Start
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Forums: r/gamecollecting, r/MicrosoftRewards, r/gaming, r/gme_meltdown, r/pcgaming, r/Games, r/Stadia, r/GyroGaming, r/xboxone, r/Games, r/quake, r/gaming, and Ars OpenForum
| Push Square: |
FTC v. Microsoft: in mid-2020, Phil Spencer said Microsoft was in M&A talks with Warner Bros Interactive and said acquiring 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 …
More: The Verge, The Verge, ResetEra, Game Developer, Forbes, Eurogamer.net, T3, PC Gamer, Engadget, Windows Central, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Metro.co.uk, Dot Esports, and GamingBolt
Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …. X: @tomwarren, @stephentotilo, @iamalitayyeb, @ultimashadowx, @multicallum, @stealth40k, @genepark, @spawnwavemedia, @gazondaily, @zuby_tech, @pure_ps, @medster101, @laurakbuzz, @nadiaoxford, @laurakbuzz, @headfallsoff, @postup_sog, @wario64, @tha_rami, @jiikae, and @nib95_
Forums: r/ElderScrolls, r/gaming, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
After over 100 internal Microsoft Xbox 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.
More: Bloomberg, Windows Central, The Record, GeekWire, Fortune, Video Games Chronicle, The Messenger, Engadget, The Verge, Neowin, Futurism, IGN, Eurogamer.net, Destructoid, Pure Xbox, and Wccftech
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: docs show Microsoft's gaming plans for 2028 include a “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 …
More: Tom's Hardware, Dexerto, ExtremeTech, TechPowerUp, Engadget, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, MobileSyrup, Metro.co.uk, and Tom's Guide
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Forums: r/hardware and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max review: USB-C, lighter, nicer to hold, a 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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Threads: @timcarmody. X: @panzer, @majinbuofficial, @joannastern, @mattihaapoja, @saranbyte, and @nikiasmolina
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
iPhone 15 and 15 Plus review: nice to hold, Dynamic Island, great performance, and smart camera features, but no always-on display or ProMotion and slow USB-C — 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 users 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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| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Court 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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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ethtrader
| 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.
More: CTech, SiliconANGLE, The Information, CrowdStrike, Security Boulevard, BankInfoSecurity.com, CRN, and Bionic
| Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
Okta Chief Security Officer David Bradbury says five clients, including MGM and Caesars, were hacked via helpdesk 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 …
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| 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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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative plans to build an AI GPU cluster of 1,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs to run “openly available” models of human cells for medical research — Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's foundation is funding the construction of a massive computing system for medical research.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon announces a new version of Just Walk Out for clothing retailers, using RFID tags to track apparel; the grocery version relies on ceiling-mounted cameras — - Latest iteration uses RFID tags and readers to track apparel — Some retailers have balked at using Just Walk Out system
More: About Amazon, The Messenger, TechCrunch, CNBC, Engadget, and GeekWire
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days — Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro: Chinese cyberespionage group Earth Lusca used new Linux backdoor malware 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.’
More: Ars Technica, Trend Micro, Infosecurity, ITPro, and The Hacker News
Mastodon: @arstechnica@mastodon.social. X: @780thc. Forums: r/technews, r/hacking, and Ars OpenForum
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
What to expect from Microsoft's special NYC event: Surface Laptop Studio 2, Surface Go 4, and Laptop Go 3, and AI updates for Windows, Surface, Office, and Bing — Microsoft is holding a “special event” in New York City later this week where it's expected to debut three new Surface devices …
More: Laptop Mag, GeekWire, Gizmodo, and Pocket-lint
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel announces Meteor Lake, its first chips to use its new chiplet architecture, offering CPUs using its 7nm Intel 4 process node, will “launch” on December 14 — For many months, Intel has spared no opportunity to remind us that its Meteor Lake chips would be the ones to watch …
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X: @markhachman and @markhachman
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says there is no evidence that SMIC can make the 7nm Kirin 9000s chips found in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro “at scale” — - Raimondo says she was ‘upset’ at phone release during visit — US probing new chip, which raised questions on export limits
More: TechInsights Inc., Coinspeaker, and GSMArena.com
| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Interviews with 15 current and former employees at Amazon's Lab126 hardware unit describe low morale due to layoffs and fears of a weak development pipeline — Some workers within Amazon's (AMZN.O) once-storied hardware division - responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader …
More: MacDailyNews. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon … and @jpsays@mastodon.social
X: @austincarr, @gregbensinger, @gregbensinger, and @kenli729
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Instacart's shares jump 40% in their Nasdaq debut, opening at $42 and valuing the grocery delivery company at ~$14B; Instacart was valued at $39B in March 2021 — - Instacart is the first notable venture-backed tech company to hit the U.S. public market since December 2021.| 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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X: @netanyahu, @daveleebbg, @jayrosen_nyu, @yascha_mounk, @dril, @pinboard, @jason_kint, @oneunderscore__, @jeremysmiles, @prozd, @ericzhu105, @joelongballs, @darkviperau, @junlper, @loloverruled, @alecrobbins, @matthew_d_green, @gadyepstein, @radiofreetom, @emptywheel, @edzitron, @elon_alerts, and @elonmusk. LinkedIn: Christopher S.
Forums: r/worldnews, r/SSBM, r/economy, r/internettoday, r/business, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/elonmusk, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| 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, and Silicon Canals
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon plans to hire 250,000 US staff to help manage the holidays, up from 150,000 in 2022, and bumps the average hourly pay for warehouse and delivery workers — - Amazon said Tuesday it's hiring 250,000 employees in the U.S. to help manage the holiday rush.
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, and About Amazon
| Ed Nightingale / Eurogamer.net: |
Emails from 2022: worried about Starfield's delay, Microsoft discussed how much it would take to get various games on Xbox Game Pass, ranging up to $300M — Given very high wow factor. — Follow Star Wars Jedi: Survivor — The recent leak of internal Microsoft documents gives an indication …
More: Gameranx, Push Square, and TechRadar
| Derek Strickland / TweakTown: |
FTC v. Microsoft: in April 2022, Xbox Game Pass may have generated ~$231.5M in revenue, or $9.26 per subscription, meaning most subscribers pay the full price — Microsoft reveals more details about how much money Xbox Game Pass actually makes. — VIEW GALLERY - 4 IMAGES
More: Game Developer, Axios, Gameranx, and GamesIndustry.biz
Forums: r/Games, r/pcgaming, and r/XboxSeriesX
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