A look at Palworld, a Pokémon-like game launched on January 19, which has sold 5M+ copies and is now the most played game on Steam, amid IP infringement claims
The Pokémon-like has sold over 5 million copies in the three days since its early access launch.
Netflix buys the exclusive rights to Raw and other WWE programs, sources say paying $5B for a 10-year deal, airing in 2025 in the US, Canada, and other markets
- Company to be exclusive home for show in US, other territories — Streaming service to air three hours of live wrestling weekly
Netflix buys the exclusive rights to WWE programs like Raw, airing in 2025 in the US, Canada, Latin America, and more; filing: the 10-year deal is worth $5B+
- Netflix and TKO Group Holdings said Tuesday that the streaming platform will air the WWE's flagship program Raw starting next year.
Tencent-owned Riot Games plans to lay off 530 employees globally, or ~11% of its staff, saying Riot had “more than doubled in headcount” over the past few years
The cuts, which amount to about 11% of staff, were announced Monday in a blog post and letter to employees.
Apple releases iOS 17.3, which adds a Stolen Device Protection feature, Apple Music collaborative playlists, support for streaming to more hotel TVs, and more
iOS 17.3 is out, and it comes with a new security feature that's supposed to prevent thieves from taking your iPhone and quickly taking …
The US FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as “free”, unless they are free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads were misleading
Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Intuit to stop promoting its software products and services as …
HP says updates that brick printers with third-party cartridges could protect users from embedded viruses, but security experts say such a threat is theoretical
“Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription.” — Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed …
MIT CSAIL study: only 23% of US wages for doing vision tasks would be economically attractive to automate with AI, due to large upfront and operating expenses
Will AI automate human jobs, and — if so — which jobs and when? — That's the trio of questions a new research study …
A bug in Ethereum's Nethermind client took down 8% of Ethereum's validators on January 21, raising concerns about Geth, which powers ~85% of the validators
The lion's share of Ethereum's validators rely on the same piece of software to power their operations. According to some experts, this could be a big risk.
Apple will pay up to 10% more per play in Apple Music royalties for tracks where a Spatial Audio version is available, starting with January's payouts
Apple Music is now encouraging artists with a financial incentive to make their music available in Spatial Audio, which offers …
Mortgage lender loanDepot says the “sensitive personal information” of ~16.6M people was stolen in a January 6 ransomware attack and offers them free services
Mortgage lender loanDepot says that approximately 16.6 million people had their personal information stolen in a ransomware attack disclosed earlier this month.
Attain: Boomers and Generation X consumers in the US shopped more frequently and spent more than Gen Z on Temu in 2023; Boomers shopped twice as much as Gen Z
- Boomers shopped twice as much on app as Gen Z consumers — Broad appeal lifts Temu's effort to take on Amazon in US
Samsung is exploring the development of noninvasive glucose monitoring and blood pressure checking, as part of a push to put health features in various devices
- Company's mobile health chief discusses plans in interview — Health push also includes new Galaxy Ring and future earbuds
An interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu about the R1's design, collaborating with Teenage Engineering, why he didn't want to make a phone or an app, and more
Few people knew who Jesse Lyu was when he posted a video of himself to X, standing in front of a black backdrop in a black T-shirt, holding a bright orange gadget. X: @ctrlzee , @vkhosla , @altcap , @...
Sources: the Biden admin preps an EO that aims to restrict the flow of sensitive data via intermediaries, like data brokers, to foreign adversaries like China
- Concern about countries accessing US data through legal means — White House worried about AI being used to mine information
French's CNIL fines Amazon France Logistique $35M for an “excessively intrusive” surveillance system set up to monitor the performance of its staff
French regulator CNIL said on Tuesday it had fined Amazon France Logistique (AMZN.O) 32 million euros ($35 million) …
Australia sanctions a Russian hacker over his role in the October 2022 hack of health insurer Medibank, marking the first use of its cyber sanctions laws
Absolutely thrilled to see this from the Australian government/DFAT — They probably know this guy better than he knows himself at this point … X: Clare O'Neil MP / @clareoneilmp : This is a very imp...
Sources: the EU plans to exempt Microsoft's Bing, Edge, and Advertising services from the DMA, as an EU probe tentatively concluded they're not dominant enough
- EU probe comes ahead of March roll-out of Digital Markets Act — Apple's iMessage service is already expected to be exempt
Nvidia releases RTX Remix in open beta, letting modders remaster classic games with AI-powered texture tools, ray tracing, and Nvidia DLSS 3
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Following complaints and a recording, New Hampshire's AG probes fake Joe Biden robocalls, apparently artificially generated, that tell Democrats not to vote
Some current and former employees publicly blast Google, criticizing its lack of “visionary” leaders, choice not to deliver layoff news face-to-face, and more
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The US SEC says the January 9 hack of its X account was via a SIM swap attack to reset its password; it had disabled 2FA in July 2023 over account access issues
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Sources: FTX sold 22M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, worth nearly $1B, explaining the outflows after the US SEC approved 11 ETFs and BTC's price tumbling since
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
Silverfort, which provides identity threat protection tools, raised a $116M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, sources say at an “around” $1B valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Clerk, which helps app developers authenticate and manage users, raised a $30M Series B led by CRV, says it has ~1,300 paying customers managing 16M users
Clerk, a startup creating a suite of embeddable UIs, APIs and admin dashboards that app developers can use to authenticate and manage users …
Meta plans to let EU users unlink their Instagram and Facebook accounts, as well as other Meta services, ahead of the EU's DMA taking effect in March 2024
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Sources: Figma is refreshing employee equity packages and offering buyouts as the company resets its valuation to $10B from $20B, after the scrapped Adobe deal
CEO Dylan Field promised to refresh employee equity packages and offered three months' pay to any who wished to depart as Figma reset …
Berlin-based Qdrant, which makes open source vector database of the same name, raised a $28M Series A led by Spark Capital, after raising $7.5M in April 2023
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Bluewhite, which offers “robots-as-a-service” including autonomous robots that can be retrofitted to tractors, raised a $39M Series C led by Insight Partners
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Filing: Vietnam-based internet company VNG withdraws its registration for a US IPO, after postponing it in September 2023, saying it will register in the future
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A look at the challenges Amazon Prime Video faces as it plans to show ads, including attracting large brands that don't already sell products on Amazon
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Sources: Byju's plans to raise more than $100M from existing investors at a less than $2B valuation, down more than 90% from $22B in October 2022
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Filing: Figure, a blockchain and lending startup founded by ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, seeks approval from US regulators to issue an interest-bearing stablecoin
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Source: Alphabet's moonshot X lab is restructuring to make it easier to spin out projects as startups; sources say the unit is laying off dozens of employees
Social networks' reduction in moderation, like a hands off approach to 2020 election lies and shuttering election integrity teams, is risky as AI content booms
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China's gaming regulator takes down draft rules, published in December to set spending limits and ban daily login rewards in online games; Tencent rose 6%+
Josh Ye / Reuters :
Nearly two months after pulling its Surviving Barstool series from YouTube over censorship claims, Barstool Sports announces a deal with Rumble; RUM jumps 30%+
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