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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony raises the PS5's price in the UK, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, and Canada by ~6% to 21%, citing rising inflation; the US price is unchanged — It blames global economic challenges for the change — Sony is increasing its PS5 prices in the UK, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.
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| Twitter: |
Twitter rolls out a redesigned Spaces Tab with podcasts integrated, to a group of English-speaking users globally on iOS and Android — Twitter helps people connect with unique and compelling voices around the world. With podcasts, we're taking that connection to a whole new level.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's next VR headset will debut in October with improved eye- and facial-tracking features to bolster users' feeling of “social presence” — - Zuckerberg discussed the new headset during an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
FTX Ventures absorbed the VC operations of Alameda Research; no money changed hands and the transition began in January 2022 when FTX Ventures raised $2B — Crypto exchange FTX absorbed the venture capital operations of Alameda Research, an effort to consolidate parts of billionaire Sam …
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Heroku plans to stop offering free plans and shut down free services on November 28 and begin deleting inactive accounts on October 26, due to “fraud and abuse” — After offering them for over a decade, Heroku today announced that it will eliminate all of its free services — pushing users to paid plans.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Following Oversight Board feedback, Meta is building a customer service division to help users of its apps who have had posts or accounts removed unexpectedly — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is building a customer-service division to help users of its social networks who have had posts or accounts removed unexpectedly.
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| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
Coinbase launches a voter registration tool; Chief Policy Officer: lawmakers elected in the 2022 US midterms “will be making key decisions” on crypto regulation — Faryar Shirzad said staying engaged and informed was critical, given candidates who win in the 2022 U.S. midterms … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram defaults new users under 16 to its most restrictive content setting, will prompt existing teen users to pick the setting, and adds a settings check-up — In December, just ahead of Instagram head Adam Mosseri's testimony before the U.S. Senate over the impacts of its app on teen users …
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| Steven Zeitchik / Washington Post: |
Despite splashy ad campaigns by crypto companies, Pew surveys of US adults show those trading crypto has stayed flat at 16% from September 2021 to July 2022 — The majority of Americans remain immune to the industry's sales pitches, Pew survey finds — Over the past year …
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Tweets: @jeremybmerrill, @rjcc, @cultexpert, @bartnaylor, @jameswester, @pkwsj, @johngramlich, @pewresearch, and @pewresearch
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to add clear labels to Search and Maps listings for facilities providing abortions, after a group of US lawmakers urged it to fix abortion searches — Google will start adding clear labels to Search and Map listings for healthcare facilities that provide abortions.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google's Waze plans to shut down its carpooling service, available in the US, Brazil, and Israel, in September 2022, citing COVID-19 shifting commuting patterns — The company is citing shifting commuting patterns as a result of the COVID pandemic — Google-owned navigation service Waze … | Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Atlanta-based Bitcoin Depot, which operates over 7,000 bitcoin ATMs across the US and Canada, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at an ~$885M valuation — Investor appetite for bitcoin ATMs to be tested as the cryptocurrency and SPAC markets slump — Here's Why Crypto Might Not Be Dead| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Group-IB details hacking group 0ktapus, responsible for the recent breaches of Twilio and 130+ organizations that netted close to 10K employees' credentials — The hackers that breached Twilio earlier this month also compromised over 130 organizations during their hacking spree that netted the credentials of close to 10,000 employees.
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Tweets: @groupib_gib, @neurovagrant, @campuscodi, @jcybersec_, and @ajvicens
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
HP announces two PCs, the 13.5-inch Dragonfly Folio G3, starting at $2,379, and the 34-inch All in One, starting at $2,119, alongside a webcam and a 4K display — HP's work PCs typically focus more on performance than clever features, but you can't accuse it of playing it safe this time around.| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US and China are nearing a deal to let US accounting regulators travel to Hong Kong and audit US-listed Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Baidu — Agreement could prevent many Chinese companies from being delisted from American stock exchanges| Washington Post: |
At a hearing seeking more bot data from Twitter, Elon Musk's lawyers cite whistleblower Peiter Zatko's claims; Twitter says spam counts are merely an estimate — The hearing concerned the ability of Musk's team to demand information about Twitter's internal practices and data
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| Tom Hals / Reuters: |
A judge orders Twitter to give Elon Musk data from 9,000 accounts sampled in Q4 to estimate spam and bot users but rejects his other demands as “absurdly broad” — A Delaware judge on Thursday ordered Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) to turn over some data sought by Elon Musk in his legal battle …
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| Reuters: |
Baidu reveals its first quantum computer, Qianshi, which has a 10-qubit processor and is ready for public use, and says it has developed a 36-qubit quantum chip — Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc revealed its first quantum computer on Thursday and is ready to make it available to external users …
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Baidu, Inc., The Register, SiliconANGLE, TechCircle, Cybernews.com, Global Times, PCMag, and Finbold. Tweets: @baidu_inc
| Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol: |
Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $364.1M, vs. $354.8M est., but a Q1 2023 revenue outlook of $345M to $365M, vs. $386M est.; stock falls 13%+ after hours — Shares of Affirm tumbled Thursday after the “buy now, pay later” company reported a weaker-than-expected outlook that underlined an “uncertain macroeconomic backdrop.”
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