Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up
The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch — One of Netflix's most intriguing video game studios is no more.
Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store, avoiding Apple's cut
Disney is no longer allowing its customers to sign up for and purchase subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store …
iPad mini (2024) review: fast A17 Pro chip, delightful size, and Pencil Pro support, but less powerful than other iPads, outdated Touch ID and camera placement
Apple's smallest tablet got an upgrade — but it won't feel like much of one unless Apple Intelligence is better than it seems.
Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile SoC, with two prime and six performance CPU cores, claiming 45% faster CPU and NPU over the 8 Gen 3, and more
The new name marks a major departure from previous Snapdragons. — • — After much speculation …
Anthropic releases a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can interact with desktop apps by imitating mouse and keyboard input via a “computer use” API, now in beta
In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research …
Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm”
Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities - including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk …
Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts
Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday.
Anthropic claims that its new Sonnet 3.5 model scores 49% on SWE-bench Verified, up from 33.4% and “higher than all” public models, and debuts Claude 3.5 Haiku
Today, we're announcing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku.
A look at some use cases of Anthropic's Claude Artifacts, which lets users create interactive single-page apps via prompts
I'm a huge fan of Claude's Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) … X: @random_walker , @emollick , @simonw , @techcz...
X data: Elon Musk-backed America PAC spent $166K between July 8 and October 1 to run 59 ads on X targeting swing voters in six states, yielding 32M+ impressions
America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform's ad disclosure data. X: @mediaevan and @silvermanjacob Forums: r/Enough...
Blade Runner 2049's producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film to promote Cybercab, despite a denied request
he takes the risk because it's too hard to stop him: Alcon Entertainment, the Hollywood company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” said it had denied a request to use images from the movie but that Mr. Musk ...
TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for Huawei, circumventing export controls; sources: the chips resembled 910Bs
Chipmaker reported having received order for processor resembling that of Chinese company Huawei
Paytm reports Q2 net profit of ~$111M, its first-ever profit, helped by the sale of its ticketing business in August 2024, and revenue down 34% YoY to ~$197.4M
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A UK court says prominent Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri can sue Saudi Arabia in London court over claims of targeting him with NSO Group's Pegasus
A prominent Saudi dissident who accuses Saudi Arabia of targeting him with spyware can sue the kingdom in London, his lawyers said on Monday.
Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked “impossible”
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WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon, after previously relying on the local contact book, and developed a new IPLS encrypted storage system
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Ireland adopts an Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms headquartered in the country, including TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, effective next month
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Stripe announces a finalized deal to buy stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal is worth $1.1B; Bridge has raised $54M
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The Biden admin unveils proposed rules for restricting the transfer of US citizens' sensitive data, including biometric and genomic info, to adversarial nations
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice proposed …
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, an 8B-parameter model that makes 1MP images, and 3.5 Large Turbo, and plans to launch 3.5 Medium on October 29
Following a string of controversies stemming from technical hiccups and licensing changes, AI startup Stability AI has announced …
EssilorLuxottica CFO says Ray-Ban Meta glasses are a “success” in the US and the bestseller “in 60%” of Ray-Ban stores in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
Revenue keeping a solid 4% growth — Group's revenue up 4.0% … Jack Purcher / Patently Apple : Meta has won an Orion related Smartglasses Patent covering Liquid Crystal-based Metasurfaces For Optical ...
Epic launches its Fab marketplace, a unified place to get digital assets like environments and animations, offering an 88% revenue share to creators
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Austin-based SchooLinks, whose SaaS offers college and career readiness resources for K-12 students, raised a $80M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity
We're on a mission to transform college & career readiness across the U.S., already in hundreds of school districts! … Susquehanna Growth Equity : We're very excited to announce our investment in Scho...
The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit CTOs and other senior tech professionals as uniformed, paid reservists to help in security, data analytics, and more
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal :
Accel: Klarna alumni have founded 62 new startups, more than any $1B+ European fintech startup; Revolut alumni founded 49, and Wise and N26 alumni had 33 each
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Document: Chinese startup Horizon Robotics, which makes autonomous driving software and hardware, raised $696M in a Hong Kong IPO, before its October 24 listing
Bloomberg :
Mumbai-based Neysa, a provider of AI infrastructure to enterprise customers, raised a $30M Series A co-led by NTTVC, Z47, and Nexus Venture Partners
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
IBM launches its open source Granite 3.0 models, including 2B and 8B general purpose versions and Mixture-of-Experts models, aimed at enterprise customers
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat :
UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks
Joe Warminsky / The Record :
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