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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple releases iOS 17.3, which adds a Stolen Device Protection feature, Apple Music collaborative playlists, support for streaming to more hotel TVs, and more — iOS 17.3 is out, and it comes with a new security feature that's supposed to prevent thieves from taking your iPhone and quickly taking …
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Sources: FTX sold 22M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, worth nearly $1B, explaining the outflows after the US SEC approved 11 ETFs and BTC's price tumbling since — BTC's price has fallen since bitcoin ETFs were approved. In theory, now that FTX is done selling its substantial holdings …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Tencent-owned Riot Games plans to lay off 530 employees globally, or about 11% of staff, saying Riot “more than doubled in headcount” over the past few years — The cuts, which amount to about 11% of staff, were announced Monday in a blog post and letter to employees.
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| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Source: Alphabet's moonshot X lab is restructuring to make it easier to spin out projects as startups; sources say the unit is laying off dozens of employees — - X is the brainchild of Google founders Brin and Page — Google's job cuts are part of a broader cost-efficiency push
More: Ars Technica, New York Post, 9to5Google, Engadget, Reuters, The Messenger, San Francisco Business Times, and The Verge
Threads: @arielbogle. Mastodon: @cakeisnotalie@infosec …. X: @aniccia, @tomgara, and @alex. LinkedIn: Julia Love. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
HP says updates bricking printers with third-party cartridges protect users from possible embedded viruses, but security experts deem such a threat theoretical — “Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription.” — Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as “free” unless they are actually free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads misleading — Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Intuit to stop promoting its software products and services as …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/InfoSecNews
| NBC News: |
Following complaints and a recording, New Hampshire's AG probes fake Joe Biden robocalls, apparently artificially generated, that tell Democrats not to vote — The call, an apparent imitation or digital manipulation of the president's voice, says, “Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans … | Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Apple sold an estimated 160K to 180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend; unchanged shipping times after 48 hours suggest demand has tapered off — Conclusion: The immediate sold-out when pre-orders opened confirms earlier predictions. However, the inability to sustain …
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Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith … and @asymco@mastodon.social
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: |
Social networks' reduction in moderation, like a hands off approach to 2020 election lies and shuttering election integrity teams, is risky as AI content booms — - Burned by Covid controversies, social media giants step back — Meanwhile AI offers new possibilities to spread misinformation
More: Wired, Washington Post, Google Workspace Updates, and Google Help Center. Mastodon: @panamared27401@mstdn.social
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Nvidia releases RTX Remix in open beta, letting modders remaster classic games with AI-powered texture tools, ray tracing, and Nvidia DLSS 3 — Nvidia's RTX Remix tool is now available for modders to try. The game remastering tool, currently out in open beta, allows modders to give older games …
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| Ariel Zilber / New York Post: |
Some current and former employees publicly blast Google, criticizing its lack of “visionary” leaders, choice not to deliver layoff news face-to-face, and more — Angry Googlers are finished being nice. — Current and former employees of the tech behemoth took to LinkedIn …
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Mastodon: @pbg@sfba.social, @Kierkegaanks@beige.party, and @kfury@mstdn.social
X: @techmorningstar, @davethechiller, @charles_seo, @lockzanger, @johnlashlee, @mosquitobatman, @joelgrus, @ranjan3118, @svpino, @danluu, @ricburton, @collieyimby, @partyarbeiter, @andrebriggs, @deliprao, @dangrover, @debarghya_das, @drbarnard, @hide0usk0jima, @kdeep, @ephemeralavatar, @hkarthik, @protosphinx, @wincent, @yacinemtb, @carnage4life, @tunguz, @wadhwa, @unk_data, @levelsio, @stbrunthaler, and @brian_a_burns. LinkedIn: Diane Hirsh Theriault
Forums: Hacker News and Hacker News
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