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Emails: X has begun work on an account handle marketplace for purchasing handles left unused, requesting a flat fee of $50K from potential buyers in some cases — Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: GM spent an average of $588M a quarter on Cruise in the past year, up 42% YoY, and staff intervened to assist Cruise's vehicles every 2.5 to five miles — Cruise has hired a law firm to investigate how it responded to regulators, as its cars sit idle and questions grow about its C.E.O.'s expansion plans.
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| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
An eulogy for the Touch Bar, which held incredible promise but never got out of the proof-of-concept phase due to a lack of interest from developers and Apple — The Touch Bar was too ahead of its time. This happens occasionally. We finally reach the point we can make a really cool idea …
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform, which will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties on NFT sales — Magic Eden's new Ethereum NFT marketplace will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties. What does that mean for traders?
More: PR Newswire, The Block, CoinGape, Bitcoin Insider, CoinStats, and Cryptopolitan
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained — A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How chip companies are experimenting with new materials, including synthetic diamonds and ultrapure glass, to improve performance and combat heat in microchips — To beat the heat that our devices throw off, engineers are experimenting with synthetic diamonds, ultrapure glass and other obscure materials| Gabor Cselle / Gabor Cselle on Medium: |
The CEO of Pebble, formerly T2, on why the social network failed: not prioritizing building an app, Threads' launch, not enough interesting content, and more — Tl;dr We tried to build a Twitter alternative from scratch, starting a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the company.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Discord plans to switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of 2023 to block attackers from using its CDN for hosting and pushing malware — Discord will switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of the year to block attackers from using its CDN (content delivery network) for hosting and pushing malware.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's files much-delayed financial results: $270.9M operating loss and revenue of $429.18M for FY ending March 2022, missing revenue projections of $1.25B — Indian edtech giant Byju's said on Saturday that revenue of its core business, its largest, in the financial year ending March 2022 stood …
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, and Moneycontrol
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A security researcher says that a Flipper Zero device can carry out DoS attacks on iPhones running iOS 17 by continuously sending Bluetooth pairing requests — No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth. — One morning two weeks ago, security researcher Jeroen van der Ham …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technews
| NBC News: |
On Instagram, journalists and creators inside Gaza see a surge in followers as they document the Israel-Hamas war, even as Meta has broadly moved away from news — One journalist has added more than 12 million followers. The work highlights some of the challenges and dangers of covering the conflict.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after Phil Spencer stepped in to reverse the company's plans to remove the benefit — Microsoft was planning to remove a free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees in January …
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