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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company's fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO — John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/gaming, r/technology, r/Unity3D, r/gamedev, and Beehaw
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
As X fails to moderate Israel-Hamas misinformation, Meta has an opportunity to make real-time news a pillar of Threads and give the app an existential purpose — Three months into its existence, the app's purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
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LinkedIn: Mark Little and Tomer Poran
Forums: r/technology and r/TheMajorityReport
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: X shut down a tool for identifying coordinated disinformation campaigns in recent months, as the company moved services off Google Cloud to cut costs — Elon Musk's X, in the months before conflict erupted in Gaza, ceased utilizing a software tool used to identify organized misinformation … | Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, the $10/month AI assistant with 1.5M+ users, loses an average of $20+/month per user and as much as $80/month for some users — Microsoft, Google and others experiment with how to produce, market and charge for new tools
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X: @cityofthetown and @raamana_
LinkedIn: Michael Running Wolf, Sumit Gupta, and Alex Onsager
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Washington Post: |
Investigation: earlier in 2023, Vietnam tried to plant Predator spyware on the phones of US Congress members, CNN journalists, and US policy experts via X posts — The attempts appear to have been unsuccessful, but came as the U.S. and Vietnam were negotiating an agreement that President Biden signed last month in Hanoi
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| Brian McGleenon / The Block: |
As the UK FCA widens its financial promotions rules for crypto, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies to try to keep serving UK customers — - Coinbase and OKX have partnered with crypto startup Archax to get financial promotions approved.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US judge throws out a $32.5M jury verdict for Sonos in its smart speaker patent case against Google after finding that the Sonos patents were unenforceable — A California federal judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict for wireless-audio company Sonos (SONO.O) against rival Google … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google Cloud expands Vertex AI Search with features to help health care workers pull info from clinical notes, scanned documents, and electronic health records — - Google Cloud on Monday announced new artificial intelligence-powered search capabilities that will help clinicians quickly access information from different data sources.| Collin Binkley / Associated Press: |
Many US school districts spent millions in US pandemic relief money on edtech, such as apps, games, and tutoring sites, but the results for students are unclear — As soon as the federal pandemic relief started arriving at America's schools, so did the relentless calls.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Meta Quest 3 review: more comfortable, much-improved displays, and snappy performance, but there isn't much MR content and passthrough isn't quite sharp enough — Meta's new headset is better than its predecessors in almost every way. But until there's more to do in mixed reality …
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| Queenie Wong / Los Angeles Times: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 1394, holding social media platforms liable for “knowingly facilitating” commercial CSAM, starting from January 2025 — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill into law that would hold Facebook-owned Instagram … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
An investigation details FTX trying to stop a crypto heist the night right after declaring bankruptcy, ultimately losing $415M to $432M to unidentified hackers — The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers.
More: Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, Blockworks, and The Block
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