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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
After a streamer admits to scamming viewers, Twitch plans to prohibit streaming unlicensed gambling sites with slots, roulette, or dice starting on October 18 — As the conversation concerning Twitch and the platform's allowance of gambling streams continues to swirl, the platform has struck its first blow.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases Windows 11's first major update, adding Start menu folders, more Snap Layouts, dark mode improvements, Live Captions, Voice Access, and more — The first major Windows 11 update makes the renovations feel more complete … When Microsoft launched Windows 11 last year, it was clear the PC was back.
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| Giorgio Sardo / Windows Experience Blog: |
Microsoft plans to expand Windows 11's support for 20K+ Android apps and games via the Amazon Appstore to 31 countries “within the next few weeks” — Content is at the heart of the Windows PC experience - from the apps that fuel productivity, to movies that transport and games that connect.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
YouTube plans to expand its Partner Program to give 45% of Shorts ad revenue to creators with 1,000+ subscribers and 10M views on Shorts within a 90-day period — YouTube just announced a major change to its Partner Program that will allow its short-form video creators to make a lot more money from its platform.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
A New York judge orders Tether to produce documents related to the backing of USDT in a lawsuit claiming Tether conspired to issue USDT to pump bitcoin prices — The order relates to an ongoing lawsuit that alleges that unbacked USDT issuances have caused $1.4 trillion in damage to the market.
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| Twitch Blog: |
Starting June 1, 2023, Twitch says subscription revenue above $100K will be split 50/50, not 70/30, for streamers on premium deals, citing hosting costs — Hello, Twitch community. I'm Dan Clancy, President of Twitch and responsible for the day-to-day operations of the service.
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Binance offered ~$50M for bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital's assets, the leading bid and slightly above FTX's, but neither has been accepted yet — The exchanges both made bids near $50 million. Voyager's market cap was $3.9 billion in 2021 — 1x
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| Jorge Jimenez / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia unveils RTX Remix, a free AI modding tool built on Omniverse that lets modders quickly create RTX mods for supported DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 games — RTX Remix just made modding a whole lot easier. — Audio player loading... Hear that? That's the sound of modders applauding …
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce announces Net Zero Marketplace, which will aggregate offset providers and rating agencies for carbon credits, launching in October 2022 in the US — Salesforce Inc. is launching a marketplace for carbon credits that will aggregate offset providers and rating agencies …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 GPUs; the $1,599 RTX 4090 is 2x-4x faster than the 3090 Ti, comes with 24GB of GDDR6X memory, and ships on October 12 — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 40-series GPUs today. After months of rumors and some recent teasing from Nvidia, the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are now both official.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
TikTok expands its political content rules to limit fundraising by politicians and political groups, ahead of a full ban on fundraising — Starting Wednesday, TikTok is expanding its elections rules to make it harder for politicians and political groups to fundraise using the platform — and plans to ban all fundraising activity soon.| Anumeha Chaturvedi / The Economic Times: |
WhatsApp announces an “expanded partnership” with Salesforce to let businesses manage their WhatsApp conversations with customers from the Salesforce platform — WhatsApp on Tuesday announced an ‘expanded partnership’ with Salesforce to get their business customers up and running on the messaging app.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Meta tests letting average users inform its content policies, including February-April 2022 panels asking about “problematic” climate information on Facebook — What if platform policies were written in part by their users? — In June, I wrote that to build trust, platforms should try a little more democracy.
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
An analysis of Twitch streams from October 2020 to August 2022 shows Twitch's moderation tools often failed to stop children streaming and adults grooming them — The gaming platform's design enables people to find and exploit kids in real-time — Graphics and illustrations by Rachael Dottle| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia unveils the RTX 6000, its new flagship GPU for the professional visualization market, offering up to 2x-4x the performance of the previous gen RTX A6000 — Nvidia unveils new ProViz flagship: Old name, new board. — In a rather unexpected move, Nvidia introduced
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google plans to integrate Google Tasks reminders across G Suite apps including Assistant, Calendar, Docs, and Sheets in the coming months, as opt-in at first — Google is working on a big update to Google Tasks, the company said today. It's bringing a couple of new features to the app …
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| Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch: |
Pano AI, which uses AI and computer vision to offer active wildfire detection, raised a $20M Series A led by Initialized Capital at a $90M post-money valuation — As the weather gets hot and dry, things get a little bit tense these days. While it's been possible for humans to be on the lookout for fires …
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Tweets: @pano_ai, @alitamaseb, and @edgeimpulse
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Research: Amazon Air ran 194 daily cargo flights on average in September 2022, up from 164 in August 2021 and 187 in March 2022, the slowest growth since 2020 — Amazon.com Inc.'s cargo airline is growing at the slowest pace since the start of the pandemic, the latest sign that the e-commerce giant is adjusting to slackening demand.| Kyle Wiens / iFixit News: |
A teardown of the iPhone 14 Pro Max shows the new X65 satellite modem and a similar internal design to the 13 Pro Max, making the device difficult to repair — The iPhone Pro Max 14 is out, and the general consensus among tech reviewers seems to be that it's better than the last one …
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| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Internal meetings: TikTok employed a two-tiered moderation system with “more lenient” treatment for influencers, celebrities, and other VIPs with 5M+ followers — Content from accounts with more than 5 million followers has been routed through a designated, “more lenient” …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
On-chain data: Wintermute, recently hacked for $160M, has $200M in outstanding DeFi debt, including a $92M Tether loan to TrueFi, due to mature on October 15 — The firm's CEO described the company as solvent following the $160 million hack. — Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute …
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
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| Bloomberg: |
French industrial giant Schneider Electric agrees to pay £3.87B to acquire the remaining ~41% stake in UK industry software company Aveva, valuing it at £9.5B — Schneider Electric SE agreed to buy out minority shareholders in Aveva Group Plc in a deal that values …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils its first SaaS and IaaS offering, Omniverse Cloud, a services suite for artists, developers, and enterprise teams to build and run metaverse apps — Nvidia today announced its first software- and infrastructure-as-a-service offering — Nvidia Omniverse Cloud … Sponsor Posts
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