Sources: Microsoft plans to launch select Xbox games on the PS5 and Switch, starting with Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, and Sea of Thieves, a seismic strategy shift
With rumors of some Xbox games coming to PS5 and Switch, Microsoft gets ready to lay out its vision for the future of Xbox.
Microsoft plans an Xbox business update event on February 15 at 12PM PT, delivered via a podcast hosted by Xbox's Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, and Matt Booty
After weeks of rumors of Xbox exclusives coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch, Microsoft is now planning to discuss its vision for the future of Xbox at an event later this week.
The EU ends its DMA investigation into iMessage and Microsoft Bing, Edge, and Advertising, deciding not to regulate the services due to their lack of dominance
- Services not dominant enough to face Digital Markets Act … A probe concluded that the services don't hold a dominant enough position …
US court notice: the sentencing of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao for money laundering has been postponed until April 30, 2024; CZ is free on a $175M release bond
- The sentencing of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on a money laundering rule charge has been postponed until April 30, a notice in Seattle federal court shows.
Amazon Prime Video's basic ad tier, which US subscribers who didn't pay extra were downgraded to on January 29, doesn't support Dolby Vision HDR or Dolby Atmos
Amazon AMZN caused a furor recently when it announced that it was introducing advertisements right across its Prime Video streaming service.
Interviews with 40+ developers detail the reasoning behind layoffs in gaming, including high costs, growing risks, and executives with little regard for staff
An estimated 10,000 game workers lost their jobs in 2023 alone. — In August of last year, Ascendant Studios developer Aaron …
Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions, to win back US shoppers; US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in December 2023 and 4.8% in January
the results of running the same commercial 5 times Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC : Temu returns to Super Bowl ad slate as lawmaker ire swells X: @tayredacted : Temu used y'all's credit card info to buy tw...
Nvidia releases an early version of Chat with RTX, an app that lets users run an AI chatbot on a PC powered by an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU with 8GB+ of VRAM
Nvidia is releasing an early version of Chat with RTX today, a demo app that lets you run a personal AI chatbot on your PC.
Flipper Devices, which makes the Flipper Zero multi-tool device, announces a new $49 Video Game Module, powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller
The creators behind the popular Flipper device have teamed up with Raspberry Pi to expand its capabilities.
Google rolls out its Companion Mode to Meet for Android and iOS, letting users check in, share an emoji reaction, raise their hand, turn on captions, and more
Originally introduced for the web and Nest Hub Max, Google is now bringing its second screen “Companion Mode” to the Meet app on Android and iOS.
Proofpoint: unknown hackers are targeting hundreds of Azure accounts, some belonging to senior executives, to steal sensitive data and financial assets
The wide range of employee roles targeted indicates attacker's multifaceted approach. — Hundreds of Microsoft Azure accounts …
Websites with seemingly AI-generated obituaries litter Google search, sometimes listing living people as deceased and turning private individuals into clickbait
In the wake of death, AI-generated obituaries litter search results, turning even private individuals into clickbait. … part of /
Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $2.1B, above $2.08B est., and Gross Merchandise Volume up 23% YoY to $75.1B, above $71.6B est.; SHOP drops 10%+
- Fourth-quarter sales and profit beat analysts' estimates — Company earlier this month raised prices it charges merchants
Elliptic: an exploit of NFT gaming platform PlayDapp let hackers mint 1.8B PLA tokens, “worth” ~$290M; before the hack, only 577M PLA tokens were in circulation
- Crypto gaming and NFT platform PlayDapp was exploited on Feb. 9 and again on Feb. 12.
Sierra, an enterprise-focused conversational AI startup from Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, launches with $110M in fundraising led by Sequoia Capital and Benchmark
Bret Taylor, right, launches Sierra, a conversational AI platform for businesses, with former Google executive Clay Bavor, left.
GLAAD releases its first gaming industry survey, with 1,500 participants: <2% of console video games include LGBTQ characters, 17% of gamers are queer, and more
Zachary Small / New York Times :
Music encyclopedia EveryNoise, which uses Spotify data, stopped updating after Spotify laid off the employee running the site in December, angering its fans
admiring your artistry and habitually listening to your output. (Pity there aren't 99 more of you to make the threshold.) Glenn Mcdonald / @glenn_mcdonald : Getting laid off sucks, there's no avoiding...
A US federal judge blocks Ohio from implementing a law that would require social media companies to obtain parental consent for kids under 16 to use their apps
This matter is before this Court on Plaintiff NetChoice, LLC's ("NetChoice") … Krista Chavez / NetChoice : NetChoice Halts Ohio Law: 4th Ruling Stopping Laws That Fail Kids, Parents & Constitution Sar...
How the US plans to use open radio access networks, or Open RAN, to unseat Huawei's lead in telecom tech, including committing $1.5B+ to bolster global adoption
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Sources: Temu is scooping up suppliers of cheap goods that once worked with Shein, as Shein moves to clean up its supply chain ahead of a planned US listing
PDD Holdings-owned marketplace takes on Chinese sellers of cheap goods as fast-fashion competitor prepares for IPO
Apple releases visionOS 1.0.3, the first update since the Vision Pro launch, adding an option to reset the device if the passcode has been forgotten
Meta begins testing “today's topics” on Threads in the US, surfaced in the app on the Search page and in the For You feed, that can feature political content
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Sources: Founders Fund bought $100M in bitcoin and $100M in ether from late summer to early fall 2023; the VC sold its crypto portfolio in 2022, making ~$1.8B
Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the platform, its future, collaborating on ActivityPub with Meta's Threads team, why Bluesky should ditch AT, and more
because they get to control their entire IT infrastructure, and we get to see and subscribe to these important announcements.” … Bluesky: @t1u.bsky.social : Would Bluesky developers really just say “o...
Virginia-based software testing startup Antithesis raised a $47M seed, a source says led by Amplify, Tamarack Global, and First In at a $215M valuation
It's pretty weird for a startup to remain in stealth for over five years. Nickie Louise / TechStartups : AI testing startup Antithesis nabs $47M seed funding to use AI to catch software bugs; now valu...
Cloudflare defeats a second “patent troll”, invalidating parts of three Sable Networks' patents after crowdsourcing prior art findings through Project Jengo
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register :
Appfigures data: 52% of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, vs. 5% of apps in the wider App Store, with an average price of $5.67
ContextLogic agrees to sell the discount online retailer Wish for $173M to Singaporean company Qoo10; Wish had a $14B valuation after its 2020 IPO
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Nvidia announces a $625 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, with 1.5x to 3x more performance than the previous gen and 16GB of GDDR6 ECC memory, up from 12GB
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Netherlands-based Finom, a challenger bank aimed at SMEs and freelancers, raised a €50M Series B, after a €33M Series A in early 2022 and €16.8M seed in 2020
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Helsinki-based Bob W, an Airbnb-like marketplace for premium short-term apartment rentals, raised a €40M Series B led by Evli Growth
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A researcher finds a bug in fertility tracking app Glow's online forum that exposed the personal data of ~25M users; fixing the bug took Glow about a week
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch :
A look at Adobe's very cautious gambit to add AI to Creative Cloud, pushed by Dall-E and Midjourney, and questions over whether creatives will embrace the tools
Dall-E and Midjourney pushed the Photoshop behemoth to develop Firefly, a suite of AI tools. Will creatives get on board? X: @brodyford_ X: Brody Ford / @brodyford_ : Scoop: Adobe is paying around 6 ...
Cruise names its first chief safety officer, Steve Kenner, to rehabilitate its image; Kenner has held top safety roles at Uber, Aurora, Kodiak, and Locomation
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How the US CHIPS Act is helping boost the economy of Arizona's Maricopa County, with TSMC and other manufacturers building factories and creating high-tech jobs
Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post : X: @whcommsdir X: Ben LaBolt / @whcommsdir : Wash Post: Welcome to Silicon Desert: How Biden helped boost an Arizona boomtown. Computer-chip manufacturers are buildi...
Bitcoin pushes through $50K for the first time since December 2021, ahead of April's Bitcoin halving event, which will reduce mining rewards by half
Solana commits to build its second crypto-focused smartphone after reaching 100,000 preorders, or $45M in sales, in about a month, targeting a 2025 release
Analysts estimate that Microsoft Azure's revenue is now ~75% the size of AWS', up from ~50% five years ago, thanks in part to its close relationship with OpenAI
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