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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Meta opens up its VR OS called Horizon OS to third parties and says Asus and Lenovo are both planning Meta Horizon OS-compatible headsets — Meta's Horizon OS, as it's now called, will bring Quest-alikes: Asus, Lenovo, and even an Xbox variant are coming. Here's what to expect.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OculusQuest, r/XboxSeriesX, and r/VisionPro
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Newsletter service Ghost says it plans to add ActivityPub support in 2024; rival service Buttondown also plans ActivityPub support — Interoperable social media is having a real moment — Open platforms keep gaining support out there — newsletter platform Ghost just published what amounts …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, and We Distribute
Threads: @ghost, @timothyjchambers, @buttondownemail, and @crumbler. Mastodon: @Gargron@mastodon.social
| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare was compromised on February 12, nine days before the ransomware attack; the company paid a ransom to the hackers — UnitedHealth Group paid ransom to hackers, person familiar with the cyber investigation said — 's Change Healthcare unit …
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| Christopher Jungstedt / Bloomberg: |
Swedish game developer Embracer Group plans to split into three publicly traded companies, focused on tabletop, indie, and AAA games; EMBRAC-B closes up 8.61% — - Embracer shareholders to get stock in new firms as dividend — Includes €900 million refinancing and new ownership structure
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU opens another TikTok probe and will assess whether TikTok Lite's design, which financially rewards users for watching or liking videos, is “addictive” — The European Union has opened a second formal investigation into TikTok, announcing Monday that it suspects …
More: European Commission, Reuters, BBC, Reuters, CNN, Engadget, The Boston Globe, Bloomberg, The Hill, UPI, Euractiv, The Guardian, The Information, Courthouse News Service, Neowin, and CNBC
Mastodon: @AAKL@noc.social. X: @luizajarovsky, @lisaocarroll, @fbermingham, @lisaocarroll, @stevepeers, @brianroemmele, @eu_commission, @zsk, @rita_wezenbeek, and @carnage4life. Forums: Hacker News
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon ends drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, which began in 2022, and plans to expand them to Tolleson, Arizona, in 2024 and other US regions in 2025 — An Amazon delivery drone is on display at Amazon's BOS27 Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, on Nov. 10, 2022.
More: About Amazon, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, The Information, GeekWire, Chain Store Age, and TechCrunch
LinkedIn: Matt McCardle and Andy Jassy
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers: files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint local animators worked on upcoming Prime Video and HBO Max TV shows, possibly via a Chinese front — Thousands of exposed files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint at one way the reclusive country may evade international sanctions.
More: 38 North, OSnews, CNN, Neowin, Reuters, Engadget, and NK News
Threads: @georgescriban. Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
X: @skybound, @martyn_williams, @mgkarayan, @coneee, @aptwhatnow, @martyn_williams, @mrjeffu, @martyn_williams, and @38northnk
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/worldnews, r/news, and r/entertainment
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Cloud data management company Informatica says it is not currently in talks to be acquired, after Salesforce's reported interest in a ~$10B deal; INFA falls 8%+ — Amit Walia, CEO, Informatica at the New York Stock Exchange, October 27, 2021. — Enterprise data management company Informatica … | Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
UK-based users sue Grindr in the UK for allegedly sharing personal data, such as their HIV status, with ad companies like Localytics from May 2018 to April 2020 — - LGBTQ+ dating app accused of breaking data protection laws — Grindr was previously fined $6 million in Norway over breaches
More: Engadget, BBC, Business Insider, The Register, Reuters, PCMag, Boing Boing, The Times, The Guardian, and socalTECH. Forums: r/news
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
HR software company Rippling announces a $200M Series F led by Coatue at a $13.5B valuation, up from $11.25B in March 2023, and a separate $590M tender offer — Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that the workforce management software outfit Rippling was on the cusp of closing a new …
More: PYMNTS.com, FinSMEs, Rippling, SiliconANGLE, Rippling, and Reuters
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| Reuters: |
Russia sentences Meta spokesperson Andy Stone in absentia to six years for “publicly defending terrorism”; Russia designates Meta as an extremist organization — A military court in Moscow on Monday sentenced Meta Platforms (META.O) spokesperson Andy Stone to six years in prison for … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Memo to US staff: TikTok vows a legal battle if the US' divestment bill becomes law, saying the bill is “a clear violation” of its users' First Amendment rights — TikTok told employees it will fight in the courts if a US bill forcing a ban or divestiture of the Chinese-owned app …
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