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Roblox plans to add age guidelines to its games and announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and more — And it's bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it — Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ says Google spends “enormous numbers” to be the default search engine on browsers and all US phones in its antitrust case's first substantive hearing — Alphabet Inc.'s Google pays billions of dollars each year to Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and other telecom giants …
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise $100M; Coatue proposed a $500M valuation and Lightspeed offered a $1B valuation — With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyoncé as if painted by Vincent van Gogh …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon acquires Cloostermans, a Belgian mechatronics company that makes tech to move and stack heavy palettes as well as robotics for packaging product 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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| Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: |
Some ex-staff say Patreon laid off its entire cybersecurity team this week, raising user concerns; Patreon says the move will have “no impact” on its security — Patreon laid off its security team this week, according to several former employees, sparking cybersecurity concerns among users …
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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| 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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| Ornella Hernandez / Blockworks: |
Web3 game publisher Revolving Games raised $13.2M+ from Pantera Capital, Animoca Brands, Polygon, 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| 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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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet's Verily raised $1B led by Alphabet; founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become executive chairman as President Stephen Gillett becomes CEO in January — Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that's previously experimented with diabetes-detecting contact lenses …
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| 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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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Revolut plans to launch one-click payment feature Revolut Pay, and has signed up Shopify, Prestashop, WH Smith, and Funky Pigeon — Revolut Ltd. is launching a one-click payment feature in a bid to rival PayPal Inc. and other tech giants at online checkouts.
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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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