Unity acknowledges “the confusion and frustration” around its planned install fees but argues that “more than 90% of our customers will not be affected”
Platform holder claims “90 percent of users” won't be affected by change. — Game developers are still furious …
Sources: Caesars Entertainment paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who breached the company's systems in recent weeks and threatened to release the data
- Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack
Unity announces fees based on a game's installations and the developer's plan tier, starting on January 1, 2024, joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees
Yesterday Unity announced that starting next year … Scott Hayden / Road to VR : Epic Games is “exploring native Unreal Engine support” for Apple Vision Pro Stephen Totilo / Axios : Unity rushes to cla...
MGM Resorts' website is still down over 60 hours after being hit by a cyberattack; ransomware-as-a-service group ALPHV, aka BlackCat, reportedly took credit
1. Look up who works at a org on LinkedIn — 2. Call Help Desk (spoof phone number of person I'm impersonating) — 3. Tell Help Desk I lost access to work account & help me get back in … Kevin Beaum...
Hands-on with the HP Spectre Fold: a striking design, slim bezels, a 17-inch 2560 x 1920 OLED display, an 8.5mm body, an Intel i7-1250U, 16GB of RAM, and more
HP's first “3-in-1” is incredibly sleek but can it live up to that price? — Senior Writer, Reviews
The US Senate's AI Insight Forum: Elon Musk warned of AI risks, Mark Zuckerberg defended open source, all guests agreed the US needs to regulate AI, and more
Tech leaders debate perils and possibilities of artificial intelligence at closed-door Senate session
HP unveils the $5,000+ Spectre Fold, an OLED foldable PC that can be used as a 17-inch tablet, a 17-inch laptop, or a 12.3-inch laptop and weighs less than 3lbs
Over the past few years, companies across the PC space have been engaged in a slow, but steady race to build a foldable laptop that people might actually want to buy.
Arm prices its 95.5M shares at $51 a piece, raising $4.87B in 2023's largest IPO so far and giving the company a fully diluted valuation of ~$54.5B
Arm, the British chip design giant controlled by SoftBank, has raised nearly $5 billion in its initial public offering.
Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge get updates to address an actively exploited flaw in the WebP Codec's library libwebp; many non-browser apps are also affected
A significant vulnerability in the WebP Codec has been unearthed, prompting major browser vendors, including Google and Mozilla …
A US judge says FTX can now sell, stake, and hedge its crypto holdings, which the company says are worth $3.4B+, including $1.16B in solana, to repay creditors
Helene Braun / CoinDesk :
How Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son, Sam, and provided a halo effect for FTX before its implosion
Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both renowned Stanford scholars, opened doors for their son and provided a halo effect for his company.
Unity cancels a town hall and closes two offices after receiving what the company says was a credible death threat, following huge backlash to its install fees
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg :
Day two of Google's trial: Apple complained the DOJ may have violated confidentiality rules, after the DOJ said Google paid Apple $4B to $7B for search in 2020
Protection of trade secrets versus transparency has been a major debate between Google and activists in the case
Sources: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu plans to fly to the US to meet Elon Musk, the latest attempt by Musk allies to stave off X's growing antisemitism crisis
The meeting with the Israeli prime minister is the latest effort by Musk friends and colleagues to head off a growing battle with the Anti-Defamation League
Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her
In her book ‘Extremely Online,’ journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia Allison invented the concept of being a content creator a decade before it caught on
Google plans to offer Chromebook software updates for up to 10 years, starting in 2024, so no current device expires within the next two years, to help schools
With the change, no existing Chromebook will have to expire within the next two years — Google is working to push …
Databricks raised a $500M+ Series I at a $43B valuation, after raising $1.6B at a $38B valuation in August 2021, before a possible IPO, and reports 10K+ clients
Data analytics and AI software maker Databricks has raised a Series I round worth more than $500 million, earning a valuation of $43 billion.
Amazon expands its search and discovery mobile features, like multimodal search and Find-on-Amazon, which lets users find similar products to those in a photo
Amazon is introducing new features that make it easier to search for products on mobile and is challenging other product search engines …
How Arm, bolstered by success in architecture, licensing, and ecosystem, is looking to maintain a sustainable model by raising prices, not chasing market share
here's what you need to know X: Babbage / @thechipletter : Arm's Quest to Extract their true value Great analysis from Dylan and co as usual https://www.semianalysis.com/ ...
Lenders allege that Indian edtech giant Byju's hid $533M in an obscure three-year-old hedge fund that once said its main place of business was an IHOP in Miami
- New lender suit seeks to recover cash from Camshaft Capital — Hedge fund was founded just three years ago, lenders say
Apple's environmental announcements, including its first carbon-neutral products, show progress but may be a red herring that distracts from its overall impact
a real force of nature—stop by to check on our progress. [video] Andy / @andyakoto : I will take Apple seriously about their environmental efforts when they finally come to the realization that phones...
Sources: Microsoft's proposal to unbundle Teams did not satisfy the concerns of EU antitrust regulators, who are readying a formal complaint against the company
Microsoft's recent proposal to split its Teams from a broader business software package and sell it to customers separately …
The US SEC says the creator of Stoner Cats NFTs, which raised $8.2M, agreed to pay a $1M fine for an unregistered offering and plans to return investors' money
a web series featuring Ashton Kutcher and Jane Fonda—are unregistered securities Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph : Stoner Cats NFTs ‘fan crowdfunding’ not securities: SEC's Peirce, Uyeda Sead-Fadilpasic...
Researchers develop RETFound, an AI tool capable of predicting the risk of ocular diseases, heart failure, Parkinson's disease, and more based on retinal images
I'm learning so much every day.🙏🏻 👁 RETFound is the 1st open-source foundation model for retinal imaging—diagnosing eye diseases... Eric Topol / @erictopol : Just published @Nature 1st major large lan...
Google cuts hundreds from its global recruiting team, saying “the volume of requests for our recruiters has gone down”, but plans to keep a significant majority
Louise Matsakis / Semafor :
Amazon announces generative AI tools to help sellers write “captivating product descriptions, titles, and listing details” and add to existing descriptions
September 7: eBay's new AI tool generates product listings, including a title, description, category, and price, from one photo — September 13: Amazon's AI tools generate “captivating product descri...
The White House is watching China expand its government ban on iPhones “with concern” and says the move appears to be “aggressive and inappropriate retaliation”
Bloomberg :
Child content creators, or “kidfluencers”, some of whom make $20M+/year, show that protecting kids from labor exploitation is difficult in the social media age
not necessarily by the master sweep, but by their parents. … X: Hollis Robbins / @anecdotal : An excellent & urgent column by @tylercowen. As children of parent influencers grow up, they may not appre...
Wayve unveils Lingo-1, a self-driving car system that the company claims can explain its actions with ~60% accuracy compared to human answers; availability TBD
Financial Times :
Bio: Elon Musk told Bari Weiss that Twitter needs to be careful when discussing China due to Tesla's business, and that China's Uyghur repression has two sides
Docs: Starlink reported $1.4B in 2022 revenue, up from $222M in 2021, falling short of projections in 2015, as some question satellite internet's growth options
Linear, which sells project management tools to startups like Cohere, Runway, and Ramp, raised a $35M Series B led by Accel, sources say at a ~$400M valuation
The four-year-old startup founded by three Finns is already used by fellow startups like Cohere, Ramp and Runway. X: @linear , @cjc , and @alexrkonrad X: @linear : We're excited to share that we raise...
Top10VPN: India's internet shutdowns between 2019 and 2022 cost over $4.8B in economic activity and affected more than 120M people in 2022
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal : X: @catcheronthesly , @sushantsin , @newley , and @newley X: Ved Nayak / @catcheronthesly : 'When Internet was shut down in Manipur, Amy Aribam's $9,000+ in mon...
Munich-based Helsing, which makes software for European armies, raised €209M led by General Catalyst; Saab paid €75M for a 5% stake, implying a €1.5B valuation
Financial Times :
Tallinn-based digital forensics and incident response tools provider Binalyze raised a $19M Series A led by Molten Ventures, taking its total funding to ~$30M
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu :
Former FaZe Clan staff describe a mismanaged creator organization, as its market cap falls from $725M at its 2022 SPAC merger to below $15M; FaZe fired its CEO
Pixis, which sells AI tools for marketing campaigns, raised an $85M Series C1 led by Touring Capital, taking its total funding to $209M, and reports $50M in ARR
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
News sharing app Artifact adds Links, a section where users can post any type of link and discover links through a Following page or an algorithmic For You page
The US Army says Microsoft's improved HoloLens-based goggles passed their first round of intensive testing by soldiers, ahead of a make-or-break 2025 evaluation
Chicago-based Kin Insurance, which uses thousands of data points to provide personalized home insurance, raised a $33M Series D extension at a $1B+ valuation
We're so proud of the company that Kin has become and the incredible product … Sean Harper : https://www.axios.com/... Fundamentals are back in style - I'm quite proud of what we have accomplished so...
TikTok expands its revamped creator fund Creativity Program Beta beyond the US to eligible creators in Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the UK
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
How Instacart CEO Fidji Simo helped find new revenue streams for the company, including via expanding its ads and software, which made $406M in H1 2023 revenue
New York Times :
A memo by a lawyer for the nearly 2,000 former Twitter employees laid off after Elon Musk took over says X agreed to enter settlement talks, on December 1 and 2
Bloomberg :
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