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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reorganizes its Xbox teams, promoting Matt Booty to game content president and Sarah Bond to Xbox president; CMO Chris Capossela leaves after 32 years — Microsoft is reorganizing its Xbox gaming and marketing leadership, less than two weeks after acquiring Activision Blizzard.| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Internal Google documents detail plans to contain Apple's search ambitions after Spotlight's 2021 update; sources say Google paid Apple $18B for search in 2021 — Google has worried for years that Apple would one day expand its internet search technology, and has been working on ways to prevent that from happening.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, MacDailyNews, Business Times, and AppleInsider
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
X's tumultuous first year under Elon Musk: mobile DAUs down 16% from October 2022 to September 2023, app downloads drop after rebrand, and investor markdowns — The platform struggles to attract users and advertisers, third-party data suggest, while Musk has voiced optimism
More: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, BroBible, Insider, Gizmodo, Tech Xplore, and TechStartups
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out new Google Maps features, including updating search to more easily find things nearby and expanding Immersive View for Routes to 15 new cities — Google is adding a slew of new updates for Maps, including a few AI-powered features that are designed to make it easier for users to search … | CNBC: |
Uber starts offering rides in fully autonomous Waymo cars in Phoenix, Arizona; users can accept or reject the autonomous option, which includes a 24/7 helpline — - Uber users in Phoenix, Arizona, will be able to ride in a fully autonomous car, Uber announced Thursday.
More: uber.com, Waypoint, 9to5Google, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, SlashGear, and USA Today
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The UK's controversial Online Safety Bill becomes law, allowing fines of up to £18M or 10% of global turnover; Ofcom now plans to publish its codes of practice — The UK's Online Safety Bill, a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to make the country “the safest place in the world to be online” …
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Forums: r/privacy and r/unitedkingdom
| Matthieu Faou / WeLiveSecurity: |
Pro-Russia hacking group Winter Vivern is targeting European governmental entities' Roundcube Webmail servers; viewing an email triggers a Roundcube zero-day — ESET Research recommends updating Roundcube Webmail to the latest available version as soon as possible
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| The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads hit “just under” 100M monthly users and is aiming for 1B+ in a few years; Meta released the Instagram-based app in early July 2023 — The rumors of Threads' early demise have been exaggerated. — Meta's competitor to Elon Musk's X has hit …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Kids are attending virtual pro-Palestine protests on Roblox in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war; one virtual protest area has been visited 275K+ times — - Kids are attending virtual pro-Palestine protests on Roblox in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, and so far, one virtual protest area has been visited more than 275,000 times.
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Samsung offers Galaxy smartphone and tablets running One UI 6 a Temporary Cloud Backup feature with unlimited storage for up to 30 days for free, matching Apple — Samsung is starting to roll out a “Temporary Cloud Backup” feature to Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets running on One UI 6, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Sarah Fielding / Engadget: |
Google expands its bug bounty program to add generative AI, which has unique security issues, like model manipulation and unfair bias, requiring new guidance — New guidance outlines what discoveries garner financial rewards. — With concerns around generative AI ever-present … | Politico: |
UK PM Rishi Sunak announces plans to set up a UK-based AI Safety Institute and an AI research network modeled on the IPCC, ahead of the UK AI Summit in November — British PM defended seeking Chinese buy-in for a bevvy of new AI governance initiatives he is set to launch next week.| Bloomberg: |
Meta declines its Oversight Board's advice from August 2023 to tighten oversight of drug-related posts; the Oversight Board calls the decision “unfortunate” — - Board found ‘inconsistent enforcement’ of drug-related posts — Instagram, Facebook owner may consider a review in 2024| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Xiaomi unveils the 6.3" Xiaomi 14 and 6.7" Xiaomi 14 Pro, offering the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 50MP main sensors, a Lecia lens on the Pro, and LTPO 120Hz panels — Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 just this week as Android's next flagship chipset, and now Xiaomi is already announcing …
More: Android Authority, nextpit, Android Central, Wccftech, and Android Headlines
| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Leica releases the $9,480 M11-P camera, which watermarks photos with Content Credentials metadata, created by advocacy groups to fight misinformation — It automatically watermarks photos with Content Credentials metadata. — It's getting to the point these days that we can't even trust … | Stephanie Barnes / Engadget: |
X rolls out opt-out audio and video calling to some users, who can allow incoming calls from users in their address book, users they follow, and Premium users — Just call them or not. — It's finally happening: X (formerly known as Twitter) has begun rolling out yet another feature nobody asked for.
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan's Global Head of Payments says the blockchain-based JPM Coin now handles $1B in transactions per day and the bank plans to continue widening its usage — - JPM Coin allows blockchain-based payments by wholesale clients — Token is a rare instance of live blockchain use by a big bank
More: PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, Metaverse Post, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, and CryptoSlate. LinkedIn: Jon Woodard
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Oxide Computer, which aims to provide on-premise cloud computers, raised a $44M Series A led by Eclipse — Oxide Computer Co., a San Francisco-based developer of on-premise cloud computers, has raised $44 million in Series A funding led by Eclipse. … - Oxide wants to provide the same …
More: TechPowerUp and The New Stack
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve releases SteamVR 2.0, including “most of the current features of Steam and Steam Deck”, Steam Chat, and Voice Chat, after a surprise beta September launch — Valve announced Wednesday that it has released SteamVR 2., launching the major update exactly a month …
More: SiliconANGLE, Tom's Hardware, Gizmodo, Steam Store, PC Gamer, Neowin, and Phoronix
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Kioxia investor SK Hynix isn't agreeing to the Kioxia-Western Digital merger “at this time” due to “the overall impact on the value of the company's investment” — - Its opposition introduces more uncertainty to a landmark deal — Western Digital and Kioxia have talked for years about a combo
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