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EVGA stops making video cards, citing conflicts with Nvidia and ending a partnership started in 1999; Nvidia's GeForce reportedly makes up 80% of EVGA's revenue — EVGA will continue selling current-gen GeForce cards until it runs out of stock. — Graphics card manufacturer eVGA …
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A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court — A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social-media law that companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works — from the batshit-crazy dept — As far as I can tell, in the area the 5th Circuit appeals court has jurisdiction … | Hunter Walk: |
Adobe's $20B Figma deal is worth it because Figma's $400M ARR, independent of margin, was continuing to double and creating pricing pressure on Adobe — Hint: The Answer Doesn't Involve a Spreadsheet — I'm not an investor in Figma. I don't know Figma CEO Dylan Field. And I'm not a designer.
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Sources: BeReal is exploring adding paid features to avoid advertising; the app now has 15M DAUs, up from 10K in March 2021, and is now valued at ~$600M — Photo-sharing app BeReal is exploring the addition of in-app payments for extra features to avoid Instagram-style advertising …
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| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
The European Central Bank selects Amazon, the European Payments Initiative, CaixaBank, Worldline, and Nexi to prototype digital euro user interfaces by Q1 2023 — The European Central Bank plans to test how well the technology underlying a digital euro integrates with user interfaces developed by companies.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says there is “no evidence” the hacker accessed sensitive user info, like trip histories, during the breach and that all its products are now “operational” — Uber says there is “no evidence” that any of its users' private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta's stock has lost 61% of its value in the past 12 months, by far the biggest slide among Big Tech stocks and more than 2x the drop in the Nasdaq Composite — - Meta shares dropped below the company's pandemic nadir during the day on Friday and are down more than 60% for the year.
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
After Ethereum's Merge, a look at four more upgrades to the network that are under active development, called The Surge, The Verge, The Purge, and The Splurge — After much celebration over the successful transition of Ethereum, the question remains what's next for the most commercially-significant crypto project.
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| Stefanie Marotta / Bloomberg: |
Shopify changes its compensation practices to let staff choose a mix of cash, restricted stock units, and stock options; Shopify stock is down 75% in 2022 — Shopify Inc. is changing its compensation practices to let staff decide how much of their pay will be cash versus equity … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Unsealed court docs in a privacy user profiling suit against Meta show that apps from Zynga, Yahoo, and others had extensive access to users' friends' data — It's not the crime, it's the cover up... The scandal-hit company formerly known as Facebook has fought for over four years to keep … | Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters: |
Filing: Starboard Value has built a 9% stake in Wix, which has been struggling with losses since Q4 2021 and has adopted a three-year cost-cutting program — Starboard Value LP has built a 9% stake in website development platform Wix.com Ltd (WIX.O), the activist hedge fund disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass says a hacker had access to its systems for four days in August 2022 but there is no evidence they accessed customer data or encrypted password vaults — LastPass says the attacker behind the August security breach had internal access to the company's systems for four days until they were detected and evicted.
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