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Sources: Activision CEO failed to inform the board about allegations an employee had been raped by her supervisor in 2016 and 2017, even after a settlement — Top executive didn't inform board of some reports, including alleged rapes; company faces multiple regulatory investigations
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm says its next-gen PC CPUs will be designed by its recently acquired Nuvia team, hopes they will ship in devices in 2023 and be “M-series competitive” — Developed by the Nuvia team — Qualcomm is looking to seriously beef up its PC processors, with the company announcing plans …
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PCWorld, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, PCMag, Windows Central, iThinkDifferent, Protocol, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Gizchina, iMore, MSPoweruser, iDownloadBlog.com, and iClarified
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Twitter stops automatically refreshing timelines on the web with new tweets, after users complained about disappearing tweets — Twitter is updating its web platform to change the way users see new tweets. The social media giant will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web with new tweets …
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
The UK refers Nvidia's planned Arm acquisition to the CMA for a full 24-week investigation, citing antitrust and national security concerns — - Digital and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries ordered a “phase 2” probe into Nvidia's $40 billion bid for Arm on Tuesday.
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| Bloomberg: |
Celebrity NFTs from Grimes, A$AP Rocky, John Cena, and others have dropped significantly in value, leaving some buyers with large losses — Tokens from Grimes and A$AP Rocky fall, leaving buyers with losses — Celebrities like the musician Grimes have been quick to cash in on nonfungible tokens …
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Blockonomi. Tweets: @pkedrosky, @grady_booch, @johncendpts, @forexlive, @bwilliliou, @markgongloff, @campuscodi, and @jakebackpack
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta details a haptic glove prototype that uses air pockets to simulate touching objects in VR and has been in development for seven years — A new sci-fi interface for the metaverse — You cannot pet a dog in Meta's new, high-tech virtual reality gloves. But researchers are getting closer.| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub fixes major security flaws in Node.js package manager npm that could have let attackers bypass authentication and publish versions of any package — The largest software registry of Node.js packages, npm, has disclosed multiple security flaws that were identified and remedied recently.
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The GitHub Blog, The Register, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @npmjs, @lorenc_dan, @mebeim, @msuiche, and @ax_sharma
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
A look at Meta's attempts to decrease info sharing internally, especially for its research and Integrity divisions, some worry at the expense of product safety — Last month, a researcher for Meta prepared a talk for colleagues that they knew would hit close to home.
Tweets: @alexeheath, @hardin, @verge, and @mattnavarra
| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
As some Twitter users mock NFTs and Web3 believers retaliate, a16z, Meta, and others are investing in the crypto industry to remake the internet in their image — Read to the end for a really good supercut — Who Will Win The Web3 Culture War? — On Friday, I wrote about how furries …
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Platformer. Tweets: @nicodotgay, @katienotopoulos, @oneunderscore__, @coinerstakingls, @alibreland, @broderick, @andymci, @nash076, @karlbode, @technollama, @jamesliamcook, @ambient_soup, @timkiladze, @kait_tiffany, and @benyt
| Berber Jin / The Information: |
Source: Instacart has delayed its IPO plans from Q4 2021 to 2022 as it focuses on expanding its services for retailers beyond delivery — Instacart has pushed off plans for a public listing until next year or later as Fidji Simo, a former Facebook executive who took the reins three months ago …
Tweets: @amir and @sylviavarnham
| Bloomberg: |
UK supermarket Sainsbury's becomes the first known customer for Amazon's Just Walk Out tech outside the US, starting with a London store opening November 29 — - Sainsbury is first ‘Just Walk Out’ customer outside the U.S. — Grocery expected to open Nov. 29 with shop-and-go technology
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City A.M., The Verge, Telecoms.com, Pocket-lint, Retail Technology …, and Engadget
| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Seed rounds at $100M post-money valuations, now fairly common, are unlikely to perform well for investors, given dilution and early startups' high failure rate — We have been seeing quite a few seed rounds getting done in and around $100mm post-money and that concerns me for a few reasons:
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Upgrade, a digital bank focused on personal loans and credit cards, raises a $280M Series F at a $6B pre-money valuation, up from a $3.3B valuation in August — Fintech company Upgrade has raised a Series F round just four months after raising its previous round.
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PR Newswire, PYMNTS.com, Finextra, and Crowdfund Insider
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AnyDesk, a maker of remote desktop software that averages 900M sessions per month, raises a $70M Series C led by General Atlantic at a $660M+ valuation — Remote and hybrid working are the order of the day, and now a startup called AnyDesk that helps enable that to be pulled off smoothly … | Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Notion revamps its built-in template gallery to let its 20M+ users submit their own templates and link to premium ones on stores like Gumroad and Etsy — Notion has a secret weapon against Microsoft and Google in its attempt to build the document editor of the future.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
TikTok users show that Disney's text-to-speech Rocket the Raccoon voice wouldn't say words like “gay”, “lesbian”, or “queer”; the decision has now been reversed — Whatever was causing LGBT-related words to be silenced appears to have been reversed
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Gizmodo. Tweets: @socialkimly, @tricksyliesmith, @harvjavivr, @gwynbr, @ruddlematthew, and @anxietypwincess
| Gian M. Volpicelli / Wired: |
How Twitter vigilantes like “Gabagool” are using open source tech to identify, track down, and expose foul play and questionable practices in DeFi — Open source investigators are struggling to maintain law and order in the wildest recesses of cryptocurrency's Wild West.
Tweets: @pardesoteric and @scottthurm
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
StarkWare, an Ethereum Layer 2 developer using zero-knowledge rollups to more quickly validate transactions, raises $50M led by Sequoia at a $2B valuation — Quick Take — StarkWare has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round and is now valued at $2 billion.| Kenny Chee / The Straits Times: |
Singapore-based hotel booking site RedDoorz suffers a data breach affecting 5.9M customers, mostly from Indonesia, and Singapore's PDPC levies a $74K fine — SINGAPORE - The personal data of nearly 5.9 million Singaporean and South-east Asian customers of hotel booking site RedDoorz was found … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Badges for Instagram Live, in testing for over a year, rolls out as a way for users to pay and support creators; Instagram won't take a cut until 2023 — Its ‘Badges’ are officially launching in the US — Today, Instagram is officially launching its Badges feature, which gives viewers … | Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft shifts Windows 10 from two major updates per year to one, and announces that only Windows 11 will support emulating x64 apps on ARM devices — You'll have to upgrade your Windows on ARM PC to use x64 emulation. — What you need to know — Microsoft discussed the status of x64 emulation for Windows on ARM today.
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The Verge, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, Liliputing, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @windowscentral
| Rob Pegoraro / PCMag: |
Pew: 42% of US users read Twitter primarily for entertainment, 20% for news; one-third of users visit Twitter less than once a week, 66% visit at least weekly — More tweeps read Twitter primarily for entertainment, but among the 69% who report getting news on Twitter …
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Fast Company, Social Media Today, and Mashable
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based EasySend, which offers no-code tools for building customer interactions, raises a $55.5M Series B led by Oak HC/FT — No-code continues to permeate the many layers of enterprise IT, where traditionally non-technical workers have had to rely on technical experts to get things done …
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Australian Financial Review, FinSMEs, CTech, and VentureBeat
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
People Data Labs, which offers data-as-a-service through APIs for 3B profiles of people globally, raises a $45M Series B led by Craft Ventures — People Data Labs (PDL), a company that's setting out to create a “single source of truth” for B2B data products based on 3 billion people profiles globally …
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FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| Bloomberg: |
China is warning state firms to exit cryptocurrency mining and is considering punitive measures for those that do not comply — China is warning its own state-owned enterprises to get out of cryptocurrency mining and is considering imposing punitive measures in the form of higher power prices …
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Bankless Times, CNBC, cryptodaily.co.uk, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, and Benzinga
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