OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained
A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company.
A security researcher says that a Flipper Zero device can carry out DoS attacks on iPhones running iOS 17 by continuously sending Bluetooth pairing requests
No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth. — One morning two weeks ago, security researcher Jeroen van der Ham …
Emails: X has begun work on an account handle marketplace for purchasing handles left unused, requesting a flat fee of $50K from potential buyers in some cases
Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
Sources: GM spent an average of $588M a quarter on Cruise in the past year, up 42% YoY, and staff intervened to assist Cruise's vehicles every 2.5 to five miles
Cruise has hired a law firm to investigate how it responded to regulators, as its cars sit idle and questions grow about its C.E.O.'s expansion plans.
An interview with Mozilla Senior Director of Content Carolyn O'Hara about joining the fediverse, technical hurdles when onboarding users, moderation, and more
Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn't centralized …
Google Play rolls out an “Independent security review” badge for apps that have conducted a Mobile Application Security Assessment audit, starting with VPN apps
Google Play, Android's official app store, is now tagging VPN apps with an ‘independent security reviews’ badge …
A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and money laundering in the FTX trial; the judge sets SBF's sentencing for March 28, 2024
and what comes next Qadir AK / Coinpedia Fintech News : DOJ Cracks Down: Binance and Tether Face Terrorism Financing Charges PC Gamer : ‘The king of crypto’ found guilty of fraud, now faces decades in...
The CEO of Pebble, formerly T2, on why the social network failed: not prioritizing building an app, Threads' launch, not enough interesting content, and more
Tl;dr We tried to build a Twitter alternative from scratch, starting a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the company.
As the EU prepared to designate Apple as a gatekeeper under the DMA, Apple argued that it has three distinct browsers: Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn't buy it — Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim …
Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after Phil Spencer stepped in to reverse the company's plans to remove the benefit
Microsoft was planning to remove a free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees in January …
On Instagram, journalists and creators inside Gaza see a surge in followers as they document the Israel-Hamas war, even as Meta has broadly moved away from news
One journalist has added more than 12 million followers. The work highlights some of the challenges and dangers of covering the conflict.
Apple reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to $89.5B, vs. $89.3B est., net income up 11% to $23B, Americas sales up 1% to $40.1B, and Europe sales down 1% to $22.5B
and only the Mac — was the focus of an event two days ago... Forums: r/hardware : Apple reports fourth quarter results See also Mediagazer
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform, which will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties on NFT sales
Magic Eden's new Ethereum NFT marketplace will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties. What does that mean for traders?
Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ release the source code for OpenELA, their Red Hat Enterprise Linux challenger, offering all the packages to build an enterprise Linux OS
Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet :
Ad blockers saw record uninstalls in October after YouTube expanded its crackdown on ad blockers, while those unaffected by the clampdown saw record installs
https://www.wired.com/... X: Jake Williams / @malwarejake : YouTube notwithstanding, ad blockers that block ads on third-party sites actually help Google compete for ad dollars in its search results. ...
Elon Musk says xAI will release its AI model called Grok to a select group on November 4 and to all X Premium+ subscribers once it's out of early beta
Here's What To Know About xAI Nickie Louise / TechStartups : Elon Musk's AI startup xAI to launch first AI model to select group on November 4 Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Musk's xAI Squares Up Against Go...
Microsoft updates its support documentation to say Surface PCs shipped after January 1, 2021, will receive firmware updates for six years, up from four years
Zac Bowden / Windows Central :
Google ends its deal with Lendlease to build 15K homes in the Bay Area; in 2019, Google announced plans to build houses on $750M+ worth of land the company owns
Mariella Moon / Engadget :
Byju's files much-delayed financial results: $270.9M operating loss and revenue of $429.18M for FY ending March 2022, missing revenue projections of $1.25B
Indian edtech giant Byju's said on Saturday that revenue of its core business, its largest, in the financial year ending March 2022 stood …
DC's AG sues RealPage and 14 of Washington DC's largest landlord firms for using RealPage's rent-setting software to allegedly collude on rent price increases
https://arstechnica.com/... … X: Ami Moregore / @happypeep : DC renters, if your rent seems like it's way too high, there's a reason. Building I was living in was run by one of the named companies our...
The UK CMA says Meta pledged to let Facebook Marketplace users opt out of Meta using their data and limit how the company uses ad data for product development
instead it backtracked on its commitment & misled Congress. The lesson is Big Tech won't reform itself. Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal : Breaking: A new Meta whistleblower has come forward to sha...
Okta says hackers who breached its support system in October accessed the files of 134 customers, five of whom were later targeted in session hijacking attacks
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $674M, vs. $654.7M est., net loss down 99.6% YoY to $2.3M from $545M YoY, and $76B in trading volume, vs. $80.4B est.
China says it attended the UK AI Safety Summit's ministerial meeting on its second day, despite not being listed by the UK among the “like-minded” participants
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