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| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up — The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch — One of Netflix's most intriguing video game studios is no more.
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| Robert Triggs / Android Authority: |
Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile SoC, with two prime and six performance CPU cores, claiming 45% faster CPU and NPU over the 8 Gen 3, and more — The new name marks a major departure from previous Snapdragons. — • — After much speculation …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts — Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store, avoiding Apple's cut — Disney is no longer allowing its customers to sign up for and purchase subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm” — Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities - including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk …
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Blade Runner 2049's producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film to promote Cybercab, despite a denied request — Alcon Entertainment, the Hollywood company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” said it had denied a request to use images from the movie but that Mr. Musk did so anyway.
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X data: Elon Musk-backed America PAC spent $166K between July 8 and October 1 to run 59 ads on X targeting swing voters in six states, yielding 32M+ impressions — America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform's ad disclosure data.| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
The Biden admin unveils proposed rules for restricting the transfer of US citizens' sensitive data, including biometric and genomic info, to adversarial nations — The Biden administration announced on Monday new proposed rules for regulating the transfer of certain data to adversarial countries …
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit CTOs and other senior tech professionals as uniformed, paid reservists to help in security, data analytics, and more — New Defense Department initiative would recruit Silicon Valley's top technical minds to join the reserves as officers
More: TechRadar and The Daily Caller
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic launches its Fab marketplace, a unified place to get digital assets like environments and animations, offering an 88% revenue share to creators — Epic Games' Fab marketplace, which is designed to serve as a unified place to get digital assets like environments and animations, is now live, the company announced today.
More: VentureBeat and Creative Bloq
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
EssilorLuxottica CFO says Ray-Ban Meta glasses are a “success” in the US and the bestseller “in 60%” of Ray-Ban stores in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa — Ray-Ban Meta glasses are the top selling product in 60% of Ray-Ban stores in EMEA.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked “impossible” — A civil liberties organization has filed a federal lawsuit in Virginia arguing that widespread surveillance enabled by Flock …
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