To appease the UK, Microsoft restructures its Activision deal by agreeing to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft; the UK CMA will now investigate
Microsoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft.
Elon Musk says that X plans to remove preview headlines from posts linking to articles, so that the previews show only the article's lead image and the URL
X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
SoftBank's Arm files to list on the Nasdaq and reports $524M net income on $2.68B in FY 2023 revenue, down 1% YoY from $2.7B; the company wants the ticker ARM
- Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq. — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during …
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more
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X says the company fixed a bug that prevented the service from displaying many images from before 2014 over the weekend, and that “no images or data were lost”
Richard Lawler / The Verge :
Nick Clegg says Meta now lets Instagram and Facebook users opt out of its recommendation algorithms for Reels, Stories, Search, and more, to comply with EU DSA
Instagram and Facebook users in Europe are getting more options to opt out of Meta's recommendation algorithms, the company has explained in a blog post today.
Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 with AI-powered ray reconstruction, designed to recognize patterns within a noisy image for better clarity, available on RTX GPUs
Bringing AI to bear on those noisy traced rays. — Nvidia has announced a gorgeous new update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology.
Microsoft releases a public preview of Python in Excel, which will run Python calculations in Azure, first on Windows and then other platforms “at a later date”
Microsoft is bringing popular programming language Python to Excel. A public preview of the feature is available today …
Ivanti warns of a critical Sentry API authentication bypass flaw that is being exploited in the wild, after another zero-day compromised Norway's government
US-based IT software company Ivanti warned customers today that a critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.
Meta plans to roll out a more capable web app for Threads in the next few days, offering the ability to post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed
Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday.
Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience and Bard list “pros” beside cons when asked “was slavery beneficial” or “what's better democracy or fascism”
Large Language Models shouldn't offer opinions or advice. — If you asked a spokesperson …
Riding in three Waymo taxis in San Francisco finds two avoided traffic while another didn't, the app works like Uber, and the first experience can be confusing
On Monday, Waymo began letting the public pay for rides in its driverless cars in San Francisco.
Asus ROG Strix Scar X3D review: the $3,700, 17" gaming laptop outperforms a pricier Intel Core i9-13980HX-based rival by up to 20% due to AMD's Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
AMD proclaimed that its Ryzen 9 7945HX3D would be the world's fastest mobile gaming chip. It was right.
Arm spent 3,500+ words in its 330-page IPO prospectus explaining the risks in China, a critical market that accounted for ~24% of its sales in the year to March
- Geopolitical tensions, China economic woes hurting sales — Power struggle with fired China unit CEO still casts shadow
IBM agrees to sell its weather business, including Weather.com and business-oriented services, to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum
IBM's consumer-facing weather services such as Weather.com and business-oriented offerings will be acquired …
Meta releases SeamlessM4T, an AI model that can translate and transcribe nearly 100 languages across text and speech, and SeamlessAlign, a translation dataset
In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T …
Coinbase takes a “small” equity stake in Circle for the first time, as the companies close the Centre Consortium, which previously governed the USDC stablecoin
Rivals Unite to Keep Crypto Going in US? Charles Thuo / CoinJournal : Coinbase buys a stake in USDC stablecoin issuer Circle Mark Brennan / The Crypto Basic : SEC Costs Ripple and XRP 3 Years of Adopt...
Google CFO Ruth Porat and other executives have shifted roles or departed for other opportunities in recent months, as the company searches for a new identity
- A string of decade-long Google executives have changed jobs in the last several months. — Some have wanted to seek …
Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US rules, have seen huge demand as they are more powerful than anything else before 2023
Nvidia's processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives
AlphaSense: almost 40% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI or related terms in their latest earnings call, but only 16% had AI in the related regulatory filing
S&P 500 groups from a burrito maker to a cruise-ship operator tout promise of emerging technology X: @eliotwb . Forums: Slashdot X: Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : LOL “Almost 40 per cent of companies in the...
A look at Worldcoin from a privacy-skeptical point of view, including likely risks and how the project doesn't link users' transaction data with its ID database
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering :
Friend.tech, which lets people use crypto to buy “shares” of X accounts, hits 100K users, per a database of wallet addresses that has raised privacy concerns
but it feels like I'm selling my body. And I like it. [image] Jeremy Allaire / @jerallaire : Funny, I was saying the exact same thing to a group of users on https://friend.tech/. That seems like a pre...
Baidu reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$4.7B, vs. ~$4.6B est., and net income up 43% YoY to ~$714M, and awaits Beijing's approval to roll out its ChatGPT rival
- The company reported a larger than projected 15% jump in sales — It's riding a bounce-back in advertising from Covid depths
YouTube and Universal Music Group partner to explore new products, using music in AI tools, and paying artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content
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Report: before tweeting a pro-Russia Ukraine peace plan, Elon Musk said he had Kremlin consultations; he also told the US of a Putin call but publicly denied it
“One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk's permission.” —...
Zoom Q2: revenue up 3.6% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.12B est., net income up 298% YoY to $182M, enterprise customers up 1% QoQ to ~218.1K, and raises FY 2024 guidance
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Ramp, which offers credit cards and expense management tools, raised $300M at a $5.8B valuation from Founders Fund and others, down from $8.1B in March 2022
- Firm raises $300 million from Founders Fund, Thrive, others — Startup valued at $8.1 billion in financing last year
China's metaverse proposals at the UN's ITU include a Digital Identity System, akin to the country's social credit system, that experts say may violate privacy
Gian Volpicelli / Politico :
Cerby, which manages access to “nonstandard” enterprise apps, like those without modern identity protocols, raised a $17M Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A look at CivitAI, a site for sharing AI models that generate images mostly trained on material taken without consent, as non-consensual AI porn proliferates
Generative AI tools have empowered amateurs and entrepreneurs to build mind-boggling amounts of non-consensual porn. X: @dlberes , @emanuelmaiberg , and @josephfcox X: Damon Beres / @dlberes : “Every ...
Genesis Therapeutics, which uses AI to discover and develop small-molecule drugs, raised a $200M Series B co-led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $280M
Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News :
Bill Simmons, Ben Shapiro, Kara Swisher, and other podcast hosts, executives, and agents on how the industry has changed, not reaching “peak podcast”, and more
Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter : X: @thr . Forums: r/billsimmons X: @thr : Bill Simmons, Alex Cooper, Emma Chamberlain and 36 More on The Future of Podcasting https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
A draft US and ByteDance summer 2022 agreement to avoid a TikTok ban would give US agencies power to block app policy changes, veto executive hirings, and more
Emily Baker-White / Forbes :
Maine's attorney general says Tesla's May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of “insider wrongdoing”
Dana Hull / Bloomberg :
Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform
Thrilled to announce our latest partnership with Apple Podcasts after months in the making. … See also Mediagazer
Triller's S-1 filing claims the short-form video app has had 550M lifetime signups, but Apptopia estimates the app has had 73.2M downloads since its 2015 launch
This prospectus relates to the registration of the resale of up to shares … See also Mediagazer
Los Angeles-based Ghost, a B2B surplus inventory marketplace with 1,000+ members, raised a $30M Series B led by Cathay Innovation and aims for Europe and Asia
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose stock is down ~80% over the past two years, has been exploring options, including a sale; S jumps 15%+
Pinterest unveils new safety features; users ages 16 and older can now opt into either a private or a public profile; private is the default for users under 16
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