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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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| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout on Tuesday after a WSJ report, the second in four months, demanding CEO Bobby Kotick step down — This story has been updated from a previous version. — IRVINE, Calif. — Employees at beleaguered video game company Activision Blizzard walked …
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| 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.
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
HaptX, a developer of haptic gloves for VR and robotics, says Meta's prototype is “substantively identical” to tech it claims to have demoed to Facebook execs — Meta made a big announcement Tuesday about how it hopes to bring touch to the virtual world through the use …
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Meta, Digital Trends, HaptX, and Social Media Today
| 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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Windows Experience Blog, Ars Technica, The Verge, The Register, Thurrott, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, Liliputing, Tom's Hardware, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @windowscentral
| 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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ZDNet, PCWorld, Windows Central, iThinkDifferent, iTnews, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, MSPoweruser, Gizchina, iDownloadBlog.com, Tom's Hardware, Protocol, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iMore, Daring Fireball, iClarified, and Notebookcheck.net. Tweets: @mishaalrahman
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix expands its Top 10 lists to display the most-viewed shows and movies, for English and non-English titles, ranked by aggregate viewing hours — Netflix says it's heard the complaints about how it “cherry picks” the self-reported data it releases about content viewed on its platform.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Code in the iOS 15.2 betas reveals the existence of a private “SportsKit” framework, currently integrated with the Apple TV app, Siri, and home screen widgets — It's no secret at this point that Apple is becoming more interested in the sports segment, as the company has been investing …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Israeli spyware vendor Candiru, recently blacklisted by the US, waged “watering hole” attacks on UK and Middle East websites critical of Saudi Arabia and others — Cybersecurity researchers tracked a hacking campaign spanning more than a year that hit around 20 websites.
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WeLiveSecurity, Forbes, The Guardian, Middle East Eye, The Times of Israel, and NBC News
Tweets: @iblametom, @rondeibert, @iblametom, and @esetresearch
| Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches a new datacenter region in Sweden that runs on only renewable energy, in partnership with state-owned utility Vattenfall AB — - Customers for the centers include Handelsbanken, PostNord — Facilities to use green energy supplied by utility Vattenfall
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Microsoft, Benzinga, Technology Record, OnMSFT.com, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @vattenfallgroup, @judsonalthoff, @mseurope, and @bradsmi
| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
The FDA authorizes AppliedVR's EaseVRx as a prescription VR treatment for chronic lower back pain in adults — It joins a handful of other digital therapeutics — The Food and Drug Administration authorized a virtual reality system as a prescription treatment for chronic back pain, the agency announced today.
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Tweets: @brennanspiegel and @us_fda
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Microsoft and Uber leave the Internet Association; Microsoft says its decision was part of a periodic review to “ensure alignment with our policy agenda” — Microsoft and Uber are leaving the Internet Association, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of companies in the internet and tech industry, Axios has confirmed.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant says it has “high confidence” that Belarus is partially responsible for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation in some EU states — Mandiant says the government is likely to blame for anti-NATO campaigns, and more. — The Belarusian government …
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mandiant.com, Associated Press, SecurityWeek, The Hill, CyberScoop, and Wired. Tweets: @mandiant
| 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: @johncendpts, @grady_booch, @forexlive, @bwilliliou, @markgongloff, @campuscodi, @jakebackpack, and @pkedrosky
| 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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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Brave now has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet, sidestepping the need for extension-based wallets like MetaMask — Why use an extension when it's a built-in tool? — Brave has announced that its web browser now includes a native cryptocurrency wallet, replacing the previous one that was based on the MetaMask wallet extension.
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Tweets: @brianbondy and @brave
| 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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Tweets: @jamestitcomb, @sam_l_shead, @sam_l_shead, @jamestitcomb, and @ryan_browne_
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
The US Senate confirms Google critic and competition lawyer Jonathan Kanter as Biden's DOJ antitrust chief — Kanter's confirmation is another win for progressives — On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Google critic and competition lawyer Jonathan Kanter to lead the Justice Department's antitrust division …
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| 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, @mattnavarra, and @gretchenspeters
| 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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SecurityWeek and The Register
Tweets: @npmjs, @dyn___, @ax_sharma, @lorenc_dan, @mebeim, and @msuiche
| Bloomberg: |
Some Grab users in Southeast Asia are still reporting problems with the app over a day after outages started; Grab says “core services” have been restored — - Ride-hailing, delivery services across Southeast Asia affected — App giant suffers massive glitch just weeks before SPAC debut| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
GrubMarket, an online marketplace connecting farmers and customers, raises a $200M Series E from Tiger Global, BlackRock, and others at a $1.2B+ valuation — GrubMarket, a software maker and operator of an e-commerce platform connecting farmers and other food suppliers with customers …
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PR Newswire, FreightWaves, and foodnavigator-usa.com
| Katherine Chiglinsky / Bloomberg: |
Online lender Oportun agrees to buy neobank Digit for $212.9M in equity and cash to expand its AI and digital capabilities — Oportun Financial Corp., a fintech lender, agreed to buy online banking platform Digit to boost its artificial-intelligence and digital capabilities.
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Dow Jones Newswires, American Banker, Oportun, Oportun, blog.digit.co, Crowdfund Insider, and Protocol
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
PlanetScale, a serverless database powered by Vitess and MySQL, raises a $50M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing its total raised to $105M — PlanetScale, the serverless database company founded by the co-creators of the Vitess open source project that powers YouTube …
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