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Some ex-staff say Patreon laid off its entire security team this week, raising concerns among users, but Patreon says the layoffs will not impact its security — Patreon laid off its security team this week, according to several former employees, sparking cybersecurity concerns among users …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel reveals its Arc Alchemist desktop GPU specifications for demanding, budget, and casual gamers; the top model will have 32 Xe cores and 16GB of GDDR6 RAM — Specifications of Intel's A770, A750, and A580. — the specifications of all of its Arc Alchemist A-series discrete graphics cards for desktop PCs.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ says Google spends “enormous numbers” to be the default search engine on browsers and phones, in the first substantive hearing in its antitrust case — Alphabet Inc.'s Google pays billions of dollars each year to Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and other telecom giants …
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| Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post: |
Streaming television is going through an existential crisis as users cancel services and creators fear having their show or movie deleted on an executive's whim — Missing archives, less ambitious programming, higher prices: Creators and subscribers say they're seeing the fallout from television's big revolution| Financial Times: |
Citing national security risks, GOP lawmakers warn Apple against procuring memory chips for iPhones from China's YMTC; Apple says it's evaluating usage in China — Tech company accused of ‘playing with fire’ if it buys data storage components from YMTC — Republican lawmakers have warned Apple …
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| Ben Brody / Protocol: |
The White House unveils six proposals for tech policy reform aimed at competition, algorithms, and safety on social platforms, and suggests Section 230 changes — The White House on Thursday praised “bipartisan interest in Congress in passing legislation to protect privacy” …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon acquires Cloostermans, a Belgian company specializing in tech to move and stack heavy palettes and robotics used to package products for customer orders — Amazon has made a string of startup acquisitions over the years to build out its robotics business; now, the e-commerce leviathan …
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| Ornella Hernandez / Blockworks: |
Web3 game publisher Revolving Games raised over $13.2M from Pantera Capital, Animoca Brands, and others, bringing its seed funding to $25M+ — - $2.4 billion has been invested in GameFi in 2022 — Web3 devs “should look to build on what has worked for over a decade in Web2,” said CEOs
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Cisco Talos: the Lazarus group exploited the Log4j flaw in VMware Horizon servers of energy providers in the US, Canada, and Japan from February to July 2022 — Security researchers have linked a new cyber espionage campaign targeting U.S., Canadian and Japanese energy providers …
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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Revolut to launch a one-click payment feature, starting with Shopify, Prestashop, WH Smith, and others — Revolut Ltd. is launching a one-click payment feature in a bid to rival PayPal Inc. and other tech giants at online checkouts. — Revolut Pay has signed up retailers including Shopify Inc. … | Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
FTX Ventures buys 30% of Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge Capital for an undisclosed amount; SkyBridge will use some of the funds to buy $40M in cryptocurrencies — SkyBridge will invest some of the funds into crypto assets for its balance sheet. — FTX Ventures, the investment arm …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood launches Investor Index, updated monthly, to track the performance of the 100 most popular stocks in its app, weighting users' “conviction” in them — Robinhood Markets is launching an index to track the favorite stocks of its millions of predominantly young, social-media-savvy customers.
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