In court, Satya Nadella says he would love to end “exclusives on consoles”; Bobby Kotick says CoD being exclusive would cause “revolt” and “reputational damage”
In federal court, Satya Nadella and Bobby Kotick opposed an attempt by the F.T.C …
Sony accidentally revealed confidential PlayStation information and its Call of Duty revenue by redacting a court document with a Sharpie, revealed after a scan
Sony highly confidential information about its PlayStation business has just been revealed by mistake.
Reddit user sliced_lime, most likely Mojang's Mikael Hedberg, says Mojang no longer plans to post changelogs to r/Minecraft due to Reddit's API pricing changes
The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward. — If you want official updates …
Sources: Linda Yaccarino plans to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads on Twitter's short-video feed and is wooing celebrities in the hope of selling more ads
New CEO hits the ground running with plans for new ads offering and tells staff to get ready for ‘hand-to-hand combat’
ADL survey of 2,139 US people: 33% of adults and 51% of teens aged 13 to 17 reported being harassed online in 2023, up from 23% and 36%, respectively, in 2022
More than half of Americans say they have experienced hate or harassment online, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League …
Binance says its euro banking partner Paysafe plans to stop supporting the exchange on September 26, after a retreat from the UK, the Netherlands, and Cyprus
The exchange recently announced retreats from the U.K., Netherlands and Cyprus. — Binance's euros banking partner …
Internal messages: Reddit tells protesting mods that their communities won't remain private beyond the timeframe set for this week to confirm reopening plans
I'd buy it if we got one or two or any in the past, but five randomly on the same day Reddit is trying to force open subreddits is fishy to me https://www.theverge.com/... … @waxy@xoxo.zone : Reddit i...
Advertisers demand significant refunds from YouTube after a report suggested millions of ads served via YouTube's TrueView system are hidden from users
Study shows millions of ads are hidden away in violation of Google-owned group's policies — Advertising industry figures …
Meta's Oversight Board calls for Meta to suspend Cambodian PM Hun Sen on Facebook and Instagram, the first time the Board has asked Meta to ban a head of state
MANILA — The social media giant Meta's Oversight Board called Thursday for the immediate suspension of Cambodian Prime Minister …
Inflection AI, a startup led by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman that released its Pi chatbot in May 2023, raised $1.3B, a source says at a $4B valuation
Backed by Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman …
Activists and researchers file a GDPR complaint against Pornhub in Italy, claiming the company is “illegally” handling users' data; the process could take years
Complaints filed in the European Union claim the porn site fails to follow basic data-collection policies under GDPR.
Vienna-based One Trading, formerly called Bitpanda Pro, raised a €30M Series A led by Valar Ventures, as the digital asset exchange separates from Bitpanda
The crypto exchange has split from Bitpanda and now operates as One Trading. — Austria-based One Trading …
Microsoft adds AI-powered shopping tools, including AI-generated buying guides in the US, to its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in Edge
Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar.
Documents and sources: the FTC plans to file a far-reaching case focused on Amazon's core marketplace in the coming weeks after months of honing the complaint
Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission has already filed three cases against Amazon.com Inc. Now she's gearing up for the Big One.
A test of five AI-image detection tools finds they tend to struggle with altered and low-quality images and sometimes fail even when an image is obviously fake
The pope did not wear Balenciaga. And filmmakers did not fake the moon landing. In recent months, however …
Snap announces that Snapchat+, which lets users access experimental and pre-released features for $3.99 per month, reached 4M paid subscribers in its first year
Snapchat on Thursday will announce that its subscription service, Snapchat+, has reached 4 million paid subscribers in its first year, executives told Axios.
A look at The NABU Network, a retro computer community started in December 2022 to preserve historical examples of NABU PC hardware, software, and documentation
The NABU Network was an obscure, forgotten part of Canadian tech history—until the day the internet noticed that thousands …
Sources: Tiger Global refused hundreds of bids for its private assets in recent months for being too low; on January 1, Tiger managed $51B, including $37B in VC
Tiger Global Management turned down hundreds of bids for its private assets in recent months because it felt the offers were too low …
Sources: TSMC and its suppliers plan to send several hundred more workers from Taiwan to Arizona to speed up building its US plant, which is behind schedule
World's largest contract chipmaker faces delays in Arizona project as market slows — Construction of TSMC's chip plant in Arizona …
A California law firm launches a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company violated millions of internet users' rights by scraping their data
A California law firm says the company's use of scraped data from the web violates the rights of millions of internet users
Meta publishes a deep dive into how AI recommends Facebook and Instagram content, including 22 “system cards” covering AI use in Feed, Stories, Reels, and more
Meta has published a deep dive into the company's social media algorithms in a bid to demystify how content is recommended for Instagram and Facebook users.
Source: at a June 30 hearing, Apple plans to argue that the EU wrongly accused the company of illegal App Store curbs, after complaints from Spotify and others
Apple Inc. is set for a showdown with European Union antitrust regulators, insisting it doesn't need to make any more changes …
NYC-based Runway AI, which lets customers generate videos from text prompts, raised $141M from Google, Nvidia, and others, taking its total funding to ~$237M
Runway AI Inc., whose artificial intelligence software can create a short video from just a few typed words …
Proton launches its E2E encrypted open-source password manager Proton Pass, available for free on iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave
Free and fully encrypted password manager to keep your login credentials safe. Arol Wright / How-To Geek : Proton's Password Manager Is Now Available for Everyone Yadullah Abidi / Candid.Technology : ...
Larry Ellison says Oracle will spend “billions” on Nvidia GPUs and “three times” that on Ampere and AMD CPUs in 2023, as the company expands its cloud services
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Report: FTX's exchange reboot may include a joint venture, a rebrand, and stakes for certain customers; indications of interest in the restart are due this week
Phone monitoring app LetMeSpy, used to spy on thousands of Android users, says a hacker stole the messages, call logs, and locations the spyware had intercepted
was it on your phone? Heinrich Long / RestorePrivacy : LetMeSpy App Hacked, Sensitive Victim and User Data Leaked Richi Jennings / Security Boulevard : Ironic: LetMeSpy Spyware Hackers Were Hacked (by...
Mastercard is testing tokenized bank deposits through its Multi-Token Network in beta in the UK, and plans to explore CBDCs and regulated stablecoins
Our goal is to provide a set of foundational capabilities to help develop safe … Forums: r/CryptoCurrency : Putting trust at the center of the next digital assets innovation cycle. Mastercard
Typeface, which helps companies train generative AI for creating content, raised $100M led by Salesforce at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $165M
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Sources: after struggling to raise at a $4B valuation, Stability AI secured a convertible note worth less than $25M; Stability denies having fundraising issues
Stability AI, the artificial intelligence startup that has been struggling to raise funding at a $4 billion valuation … Twitter: @katie_roof and @lynnmdoan Twitter: Katie Roof / @katie_roof : Stabilit...
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on “Public Intellectual Marc”, software and the physical world, his essay on AI, COVID-19, China, a16z, crypto investments, and more
Today's Stratechery Interview — and the last Interview of the summer — is with Marc Andreessen. Twitter: @bmorrissey , @sarthakgh , @jrichlive , and @packym Twitter: Brian Morrissey / @bmorrissey : I ...
Micron reports Q3 revenue down 57% YoY to $3.75B, vs. $3.69B est., and forecasts a Q4 above est., saying “the memory industry has passed its trough in revenue”
Ian King / Bloomberg :
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan plans to acquire AI startup Light Year from Meituan co-founder Wang Huiwen for ~$262M and ~$50.7M in debt
John Biju / Reuters :
Databricks announces LakehouseIQ, an LLM interface that lets companies use natural language to search and query their data, new Lakehouse AI tools, and more
Visa plans to acquire São Paulo-based payments infrastructure startup Pismo for $1B in cash by the end of 2023; Pismo had raised $118M through October 2021
Worldcoin integrates with Okta and launches its World ID identity protocol in Germany, starting in Berlin, using its Orbs biometrics hardware to verify users
Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk :
SolarWinds confirms the US SEC sent Wells notices to its CISO and CFO, a rare move, signaling they may face legal action over Russia's 2020 hack of the company
With the security industry focused on the fallout from MOVEit … Mastodon: Ravi Nayyar / @ravirockks@infosec.exchange : As usual, a great write-up by Kim. — Two pertinent paragraphs: — 'This is bec...
An analysis of WeChat's tracking ecosystem using reverse engineering: the app records and tracks user behavior when executing Mini Programs, a privacy risk
The Citizen Lab : Twitter: @citizenlab Twitter: @citizenlab : 🚨NEW REPORT Should We Chat? Privacy in the WeChat Ecosystem. Report by @m0namon @2Pellaeon and Jeffrey Knockel finds #WeChat records user...
NYC-based Slang.ai, which sells an AI-powered phone answering service for restaurants, retailers, and hospitality groups, raised a $20M Series A led by Homebrew
I've always wanted to build a category-defining product from the ground up, alongside a team I believe in. …
Celestial AI, which offers optical interconnect tech for compute, memory, and data transmission, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $165M+
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Autonomous trucking company TuSimple aims to sell its US business; CEO Cheng Lu says the plan is not the result of pressure due to CFIUS' review of the company
Alan Ohnsman / Forbes :
Chinese livestream shopping shifts from big discounts, as Apple and other brands seek control over a process made costly by a fragmenting market and superhosts
Casey Hall / Reuters :
As US landlords increasingly turn to AI tools to screen tenants, housing and privacy advocates warn that opaque algorithms heighten errors and discrimination
Rebecca Burns / The Lever : Bluesky: @ethanz.bsky.social . Twitter: @acrecampaigns Bluesky: Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz.bsky.social : The imagined risk of AI killing off humanity gets way more attentio...
A look at Substack in the wake of the pandemic's “rocket ship growth”, given fresh competition from WordPress, Beehiiv, and Ghost, the Twitter feud, and more
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair : Twitter: @vanityfair and @joepompeo See also Mediagazer Twitter: @vanityfair : Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie says the Substack network is “coming out of defensive mode...
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