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Sony plans to lay off around 900 employees, or 8% of workforce, at its PlayStation division, and close its London Studio in the UK — Sony says it's laying off around 900 employees of its PlayStation division, a reduction of its global headcount of around 8 percent.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia plans to start showing free-tier GeForce Now users “up to two minutes” of video ads on February 28 while they are queuing to start a cloud gaming session — Nvidia's completely free, no-strings attached trial of its cloud gaming service GeForce Now is about to be very slightly less …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says its investment in Mistral AI amounts to €15M; EU regulators plan to analyze the investment, which could eventually lead to a formal investigation — - Partnership amounts to €15 million investment, Microsoft says — EU analysis could lead to future formal investigation| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
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Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth's technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days — Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber Attack” in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024.| Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
In amended filings, Alibaba discloses previously unknown stakes by the Chinese government in more than 12 of its business entities, following a US SEC inquiry — The Hangzhou-based e-commerce pioneer said in filings in the US and Hong Kong over the weekend that more than a dozen of its entities … | Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Netflix confirms that it has started removing Apple iTunes billing for longtime subscribers, and now requires them to pay directly on its website — Netflix confirms to The Verge that it has begun booting longtime subscribers off their Apple iTunes billing plans, and will require … | Sifted: |
Hopin, the struggling virtual events startup valued at $7.75B in 2021, enters liquidation for its UK parent company as it moves its HQ to Delaware in the US — The company was once valued at $7.75bn … London-based event tech startup Hopin — which shot to a $5.65bn valuation in 2021 …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a spam campaign using 21K hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from brands like eBay, MSN, and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily — A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send …
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| Alexis Ong / The Verge: |
A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500+ floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined — The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought … | Bloomberg: |
During oral arguments, SCOTUS justices seemed reluctant to strike down Texas' and Florida's social media laws, but raised concerns about companies' 1A rights — - Justices wary of entirely striking down Texas, Florida laws — But court voices concern about impact on company speech rights
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| Kali Hays / Business Insider: |
Sources: Meta aims to reveal and demo, but not launch, the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, during its Connect developer conference in the fall — - Under an internal project named Orion, Meta has been working on high-tech AR glasses for years.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Tel Aviv-based Exodigo, which uses AI and sensors to make underground maps for energy, utility, transport, and construction companies, raised a $105M Series A — - Greenfield Partners, Zeev Ventures lead Series A round — Startup makes maps for utility, transport, construction firms| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Intenseye, which uses computer vision to spot risks and enhance workplace safety, raised a $64M Series B led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $90M — Intenseye has raised $64 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to develop AI that can detect …
More: SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, and Pulse 2.0
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search across apps used at a company, raised a $200M+ Series D at a $2.2B valuation and says annualized revenue hit $39M — - Glean is valued at $2.2 billion in its latest funding round. — The company is taking on the Copilot chat tool for Microsoft 365 …
More: TechCrunch and Business Wire
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Inkitt, the self-publishing site that wants to use AI to pick and tweak the most compelling stories to distribute on its Galatea app, raised a $37M Series C — Everyone has a story in them, as someone famous once said. A startup called Inkitt believes that it can use AI to turn the strongest … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Expedia plans to cut ~1,500 roles in 2024, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023, about half in tech — Expedia Group expects about 1,500 roles to be impacted, primarily in its Product & Technology division … | Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
The CTO for US Central Command says ML algorithms developed under Project Maven helped narrow down targets for 85+ air strikes in the Middle East on February 2 — - Algorithms were developed under the Pentagon's Project Maven — AI isn't ready to recommend the order of attack, official saysSponsor Posts
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