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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Meta confirms it will divest itself of Giphy globally after UK's CMA gives a final order to sell the company, following a court-ordered reassessment in July  —  Bye-bye: Meta has again been ordered by the UK's competition watchdog to sell animated GIF platform, Giphy.  And this time it's final.
Ina Fried / Axios:
Microsoft announced layoffs across multiple divisions on October 17; source: less than 1,000 jobs were cut across various levels, teams, and parts of the world  —  Microsoft announced layoffs across multiple divisions on Monday, Axios has confirmed.  —  Why it matters: The move …
Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Netflix rolls out a feature globally to let users transfer all their personalized viewing data to a new account, ahead of a crackdown on account sharing in 2023  —  Netflix is making it easier for people to disentangle their personal viewing data: The streaming service is rolling …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces a new 11" and 12.9" iPad Pro with M2 chip, Wi-Fi 6E, and a new Apple Pencil hover feature, in stores October 26 and starting at $799 and $1,099  —  Apple today unveiled the new generation of 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro, powered by the latest M2 Apple Silicon chips.
Avery Menegus / Engadget:
Internal doc: Amazon has a high attrition rate across all levels, costing $8B annually, and workers choose to leave twice as often as layoffs and firings occur  —  Amazon churns through workers at an astonishing rate, well above industry averages.  According to a tranche of documents marked …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Jasper, a service that leverages AI to generate marketing art and copy, raised $125M led by Insight Partners at a $1.7B valuation  —  As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper, a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 billion valuation.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Apple will release macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 on October 24 with the new Stage Manager window management feature  —  Updates drop support for several generations of older hardware, too.  —  The next versions of macOS and iPadOS will be released to the general public on October 24, Apple announced today.
Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Intel is eyeing a significantly lower sub-$20B valuation for the IPO of its Mobileye self-driving car unit, down from the originally expected $50B+  —  A target valuation of under $20 billion is expected, down from $50 billion  —  Intel Corp. INTC 1.97%▲ …
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Apple freezes its plans to use YMTC memory chips in its products, including iPhones, following the latest US export controls on China's tech sector  —  Company previously planned to put Chinese-made memory in some iPhones
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Analysis: why the Biden administration's sweeping export controls on China's chip sector happened now and how they could usher in a new global economic paradigm

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From Mediagazer

Jesse Armstrong / The Guardian:
Succession's creator recalls the show's origin and says Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, and Robert Maxwell served as the “holy trinity of models” for Logan Roy

New York Times:
Sources detail Fox's 20 months of missteps and miscalculations in the Dominion lawsuit that led to one of the biggest debacles of Rupert Murdoch's media empire

Ben Smith / Semafor:
The Messenger Chief Growth Officer Neetzan Zimmerman, a star of online media's meme-happy early days, is trying to recapture the best of the old blogosphere

More News

Masha Borak / Wired:
New research, which details pro-Kremlin edits made to the English Wikipedia page for the Russo-Ukrainian war, could be used to create models to detect disinfo
Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
A recent Kakao outage has raised monopoly concerns in South Korea; the company had previously claimed it had ~47.5M active users in the country of 51M+ people
David Rand / Financial Times:
Research: crowdsourced fact-checking can improve social media moderation by channeling partisan motivations to be productive if opposing sides police each other

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Stability AI raised a $101M seed, a source says at a ~$1B valuation, and its CEO says Stable Diffusion has 10M DAUs and its web app DreamStudio has 1.5M+ users
Mia Sato / The Verge:
TikTok plans to raise the age requirement for hosting a livestream from 16 to 18 on November 23 and let hosts limit their livestreams to adult-only audiences
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Filing: Texas' securities regulator is investigating crypto exchange FTX US over allegations the company offers unregistered yield-bearing securities products
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Parler agrees to be acquired by Ye, formerly Kanye West, to create “an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome”; the deal is set to close in Q4 2022
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