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| The Verge: |
Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned — Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
A roundup of Elon Musk's newly released text messages show the inner workings of Silicon Valley dealmaking and how Musk lost interest in his Twitter acquisition — Newly released text messages shine a light on how tech's most powerful do business — and perhaps why Musk lost interest in Twitter.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Court filing: in March 2022, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told Elon Musk that he tried to add Musk to the board but the other members were “super risk averse” — - Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wanted Elon Musk on the board of the social media company, but felt the rest …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Mark Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and cut budgets across most teams, citing the economy — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said it will freeze hiring and restructure some teams in an effort to cut costs and shift priorities.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple VP of Procurement Tony Blevins is leaving, sources say after joking in a viral, September 5 TikTok video that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living — One of Apple Inc.'s most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter plans to add a TikTok-like full-screen video scrolling UI for English-speaking users on iOS, and a video carousel to the Explore tab on iOS and Android — Twitter is joining the bandwagon of social media companies copying TikTok's everlasting scroll of videos.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta details its text-to-video AI generator, Make-A-Video, which can produce up to five-second videos without audio; Meta is not giving access to the AI model — AI text-to-image generators have been making headlines in recent months, but researchers are already moving on to the next frontier: AI text-to-video generators.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Intel plans to launch the $349 Arc A770 Limited Edition with 16GB of GDDR6 memory and the $289 A750 Limited Edition on October 12, beside the $329 A770 with 8GB — A770 comes in two tiers; Intel claims “perf-per-dollar” wins over Nvidia RTX 3060. — Intel's highest-end graphics card lineup …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks — For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says the Lazarus group is weaponizing open-source software like PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, and Sumatra PDF Reader to compromise “numerous” organizations — PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and muPDF/Subliminal Recording all targeted.| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
How angel investing became a pastime and a social currency in Silicon Valley, where the “post-economic” elite bet small amounts in their friends' startups — Maia Bittner is an angel investor, and she has a lot of friends who've founded startups. Sometimes they ask her if she wants to put money into their companies.
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| Reuters: |
An investigation shows the CIA failed to secure its messaging system used by Iranian spies, often hidden within websites, leading to capture, torture, and death — The spy was minutes from leaving Iran when he was nabbed. — Gholamreza Hosseini was at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran in late 2010, preparing for a flight to Bangkok.
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
An investigation shows how self-publishing platform Wattpad's lack of moderation, age verification, and safety features helps sexual predators exploit teens — For many teenagers, the reading and writing platform is a creative and educational outlet. But a Forbes investigation found …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Brave plans to hide and, where possible, completely block cookie consent notifications, a “more privacy-preserving” approach than other browsers' systems — The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Micron reports Q4 revenue down 25% YoY to $6.64B, from $8.27B, plans to cut total capital spending by 30% YoY and wafer-fab equipment spending by nearly 50% YoY — Reporting its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings today,Micron Technology Inc. warned investors that it's planning to take drastic measures … | Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Former eBay executives Jim Baugh and David Harville are sentenced to 57 and 24 months in prison for their roles in a 2019 cyberstalking campaign against critics — Two former eBay Inc (EBAY.O) security executives were sentenced to prison on Thursday for carrying out a campaign to harass … | CNN: |
Governor Newsom signs a law forbidding California-based businesses from giving users' personal info in response to out-of-state abortion-related search warrants — Washington CNN Business — California is attempting to stymie abortion prosecutions in other states by making it illegal …
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