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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Take-Two Interactive's 2K, the publisher of Bioshock, Xcom, and popular sports games, says a hacker accessed its help desk and sent customers links to malware — American video game publisher 2K has confirmed that its help desk platform was hacked and used to target customers …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell plans to step down and Chief Operating Officer Dave Ripley will succeed him in the coming months; Powell will stay on as chairman — Jesse Powell, the CEO of Kraken, is stepping down from the top job at the cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2011.
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Sources: to cut costs by 10%+ in a few months, Meta is nudging out staff by reorganizing departments and giving them a limited window to apply for other roles — Facebook parent is looking to reduce costs by at least 10%, people familiar with the plans said, while Google has required some employees to apply for new jobs
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Instagram is working on a feature to protect users from receiving unsolicited nude photos in their DMs; Meta says the tech won't let the company view the photos — Instagram is working on a way to protect users from receiving unsolicited nude photos in their DMs.
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| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company can't “use what others might consider censorship as a tactic” regarding labeling content that seems to be false — Microsoft Corp. won't label social media posts that appear to be false in order to avoid the appearance that the company …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Documents: multiple US military branches have bought access to Team Cymru's Augury internet monitoring tool, which claims to cover 90%+ of internet traffic — The “Augury” platform includes highly sensitive network data that Team Cymru, a private company, is selling to the military. “It's everything.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Logitech announces the $350 G Cloud Gaming Handheld with Android, a 7" display, Snapdragon 720G, and Xbox and GeForce Now cloud gaming, arriving on October 17 — Logitech is officially announcing its G Cloud Gaming Handheld today after a teaser and a leak last month.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk says it will “wind down” and is “working on the details of what's next”; Kittyhawk was founded as Zee.Aero in 2010 — - Google co-founder Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk is winding down, the company announced.
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| Washington Post: |
Florida's attorney general asks the Supreme Court whether the First Amendment prohibits states from regulating how social media companies moderate content — The state attorney general filed a petition to the court on Wednesday, after two lower courts split on decisions about social media laws
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| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
PolicyLink study: California rideshare drivers make a net median of $6.20/hour after costs and could make an additional ~$10.50/hour if classified as employees — Uber and Lyft spent millions promoting a controversial ballot measure. A new study suggests it has lowered driver wages.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI open sources Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data” from the web — Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it …
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| Reuters: |
Spain fines food delivery app Glovo €79M for allegedly denying 10,600+ riders a labor contract since the country's “riders' law” came into effect in August 2021 — Spain has fined Delivery Hero's (DHER.DE) local business Glovo 79 million euros ($78 million) …
Tweets: @project_gig, @braveneweurope1, and @reuters
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
A leaked presentation shows that Google is working on royalty-free media formats for HDR video and 3D audio, in an effort internally known as Project Caviar — Google is gunning for Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision: The company is looking to introduce two new media formats to offer HDR video … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
New York City-based Knoetic, which offers analytics tools to HR departments, has raised a $36M Series B led by EQT Ventures, bringing its total funding to $54M — In the last decade, so-called chief people officers (CPO) have seen a dramatic expansion of their day-to-day responsibilities.
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Knoetic, AlleyWatch, Knoetic, Inc., and FinSMEs
| Bloomberg Law: |
A Texas jury says Meta must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer a royalty and $174.5M+ in damages for violating two patents with Facebook Live and Instagram Live — Meta Platforms Inc. must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer Inc. more than $174.5 million in damages after a Texas jury found Wednesday … | Megha Paul / Tech.eu: |
Munich-based DataGuard, which offers data privacy, information security, and compliance tools, raised a €61M Series B led by Morgan Stanley and One Peak — The Munich-based startup offers compliance and security platform to help organisations operationalise data privacy, information security …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Sensor Tower: TikTok Now, the BeReal clone debuted on September 18, is in the top 10 social networking apps in 39 countries and the top 100 apps in 24 countries — The TikTok Now feature was first announced last week and is built into the TikTok app for US users.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's central bank launches UPI Lite with eight banks to make sub $2.50 transactions faster and simpler on the country's most popular digital payments network — In just six years, UPI has become the most popular way Indians transact online. The mobile electronics payments system was used …
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Livemint, Hindustan Times, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, The Hindu, The Economic Times, and Trak.in
| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Switzerland-based GRNGrid, a Layer 1 DeFi blockchain that lets users transact on nodes running exclusively on renewable energy, raised $50M from GEM Digital — GRNGrid is a more environmentally friendly layer 1 tailored to decentralized finance. — The GRNGrid blockchain received … | Esteban L. Hernandez / Axios: |
Governor Jared Polis announces Colorado residents can pay state taxes with cryptocurrencies; Polis is selling NFTs for $52.80 to fund his reelection campaign — Gov. Jared Polis made good on a promise earlier this year by announcing Monday that Colorado residents can now pay state taxes with cryptocurrencies.
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Denver Post, crypto.news, and Coinmonks
Tweets: @arutmain, @1crypticpoet, @licuende, @tomaxwell, and @johnhopebryant
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
A Python directory traversal vulnerability disclosed in August 2007, but never patched, likely affects 350K+ open-source projects and can lead to code execution — A vulnerability in the Python programming language that has been overlooked for 15 years is now back in the spotlight … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a Fall 2022 Event for October 12, where the company will “talk about devices”, amid rumors of a Surface Pro 9, a Surface Laptop 5, and more — Microsoft is holding a Surface event next month. The software giant is officially labeling the event …
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