Source: Microsoft's Bethesda considers bringing the new Indiana Jones game to PS5, months after Xbox and PC release, as part of a new multi-platform approach
Bethesda's upcoming Indiana Jones game is also tentatively set to launch on Sony's PlayStation 5 console.
A Hong Kong-based firm's employee was tricked into paying $25M to fraudsters who used deepfake tech to pose as the company's CFO and staff during a video call
A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose …
Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its popular search engine, to a group led by Yandex management in a deal valued at about $5.2B
- Dutch-registered firm reaches agreement to sell Russian unit — Fallout from the war in Ukraine forced tech giant to split up
Snap plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 529 employees
Social media company Snap said on Monday that it would lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 529 employees. — Snap shares were up around 1% in pre-market trading. — This is breaking news.
Oversight Board upholds Meta's decision to leave up a maliciously edited video of Biden but calls on Meta to update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy
However, the board said Meta should update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy.
Montenegro's government says it has extradited Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs, to South Korea
Han Chang-joon was charged with carrying falsified travel documents alongside Terra co-founder Do Kwon last year. — Register Now — Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs …
Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool
Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the New York Times — Microsoft is working …
A look at OnlyFake, an underground site that claims to use “neural networks” to make highly convincing fake IDs for just $15; one ID passed verification on OKX
This piece was produced with support from The Capitol Forum. — An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use …
Last week's earnings showed signs of an ad market turnaround, with Meta's ad sales up 24% YoY, Amazon's ad business growing 27%, and Google's ad business up 11%
- The digital advertising market appears to be on the upswing based on quarterly results last week from Alphabet, Meta and Amazon.
How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts
Graphika: the viral pornographic deepfakes of Taylor Swift originated from a 4chan challenge to bypass anti-porn filters on Microsoft Designer and DALL-E
- Users on 4chan forum competed to bypass anti-porn filters — Deepfakes also created of Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande
Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon added ~$10B to collective profits in the past two years by cutting depreciation costs due to extended server life estimates
Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have all shifted estimates of how long they will use technical equipment
A Seoul court acquits Samsung Executive Chairman Jay Y. Lee of stock manipulation charges, removing the threat of a jail time for the billionaire
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A look at the dispute between Bitcoin miners in Arkansas and residents, who say the noise is ruining lives, lowering property values, and driving away wildlife
UK's Reach strikes a deal with Amazon for “contextual” first-party data to target online ads, as the media industry responds to end of third party cookies
Media sector scrambles to deal with fallout from phase out of cross-website trackers — Tech giant Amazon has struck …
Oobit, which lets consumers pay using crypto while merchants receive fiat currency, raised a $25M Series A led by the investment arm of Tether and others
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Sources: some Tesla and SpaceX directors have consumed drugs with Elon Musk feeling there is an expectation to do so, raising concerns about their independence
Sources: the UK shelved plans to publish rules on the training of AI models using copyrighted material, after artists and tech groups failed to agree to terms
Government-led talks stall as artists and tech groups fail to agree terms over access to copyrighted work
StatusPro, which makes a first-person simulation NFL game for VR headsets, raised a $20M Series A led by GV
Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg :
US police departments are using AI software from Chicago-based Truleo and other companies to analyze millions of hours of unreviewed body-cam footage
Umar Farooq / ProPublica :
French IT group Atos has entered talks with its banks to refinance its debt, and says conditions for a planned €720M rights issue are “no longer applicable”
Following the update made on January 3, 2024, Atos SE ("Atos" or the … Financial Times : Atos shares plunge after IT group cancels rights issue and starts debt talks The Stack : As French bureaucrats ...
Sources: soaring appetite for its AI chips and manufacturing constraints have forced Huawei to prioritise AI and slow production for its premium Mate 60 phones
A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries
Thoma Bravo takes critical event management software company Everbridge private in a $1.5B all-cash deal; Everbridge had a market cap of $6.4B in 2021
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Q&A with Andrew Farnsworth, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology scientist, about BirdCast, a project that uses AI to process weather data and predict how birds migrate
Malena Carollo / The Markup :
Amid mass tech layoffs, some workers with years of experience or deep technical expertise are having trouble getting hired again while some seek non-tech jobs
TechCrunch+'s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch's ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters
A look at UMG's TikTok retreat, stemming from issues like low payouts and a lack of assurances on fighting deepfakes, and TikTok's role in the music industry
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
A look at China's interest in the “geopolitically neutral” RISC-V open-source chip architecture, as US sanctions put the top x86 and ARM chips out of reach
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters :
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