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Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company's fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO — John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, the $10/month AI assistant with 1.5M+ users, loses an average of $20+/month per user and as much as $80/month for some users — Microsoft, Google and others experiment with how to produce, market and charge for new tools
More: Neowin, BigTechWire, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, and The Verge
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| Washington Post: |
Investigation: earlier in 2023, Vietnam tried to plant Predator spyware on the phones of US Congress members, CNN journalists, and US policy experts via X posts — The attempts appear to have been unsuccessful, but came as the U.S. and Vietnam were negotiating an agreement that President Biden signed last month in Hanoi
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| Brian McGleenon / The Block: |
As the UK FCA widens its financial promotions rules for crypto, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies to try to keep serving UK customers — - Coinbase and OKX have partnered with crypto startup Archax to get financial promotions approved.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google Cloud expands Vertex AI Search with features to help health care workers pull info from clinical notes, scanned documents, and electronic health records — - Google Cloud on Monday announced new artificial intelligence-powered search capabilities that will help clinicians quickly access information from different data sources.| Bloomberg: |
China outlines a plan to target 300+ exaflops of computing capacity, up from 220 in 2023, bigger optical networks, more advanced data storage, and more by 2025 — - Country aims to build more data centers, high-speed networks — Effort to benefit local suppliers due to security concerns| Natalie Weiner / The Verge: |
A look at Discogs, a user-generated music database and marketplace for physical music media, as sellers complain about the website's old tech and increased fees — A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon fixes a network connectivity error that undercounted its MAUs between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs and 10K servers — Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
An investigation details FTX trying to stop a crypto heist the night right after declaring bankruptcy, ultimately losing $415M to $432M to unidentified hackers — The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers.
More: Blockworks, Bitcoinist.com, The Block, and crypto.news
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Meta Quest 3 review: more comfortable, much-improved displays, and snappy performance, but there isn't much MR content and passthrough isn't quite sharp enough — Meta's new headset is better than its predecessors in almost every way. But until there's more to do in mixed reality …
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| Queenie Wong / Los Angeles Times: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs AB 1394, a bill to hold social media platforms and other web services liable for “knowingly facilitating” commercial CSAM — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill into law that would hold Facebook-owned Instagram … | Reuters: |
Investors and analysts: Intel, Nvidia, and other companies in Israel are set to fortify security after Hamas' attacks; Nvidia cancels its AI summit in Tel Aviv — Tech companies operating in Israel are expected to fortify security as they could face disruptions, said investors and analysts …
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