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Saturday, December 31, 2022
Google has agreed to pay $29.5M to settle lawsuits with Washington DC and Indiana over location tracking practices, after agreeing to pay ~$392M to 40 US states (Jared Gans/The Hill)
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December 31, 2022
https://ift.tt/6Uv05PK Jared Gans / The Hill : Google has agreed to pay $29.5M to settle lawsuits with Washington DC and Indiana over loc...
First pretrial hearing in the FTC's case against Microsoft's $69B bid to take over Activision Blizzard set for January 3, 2023 (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
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December 31, 2022
https://ift.tt/A7ykfEJ Alexandra Alper / Reuters : First pretrial hearing in the FTC's case against Microsoft's $69B bid to take ...
Employment in tech occupations grew 12% YoY to a record 6.39M in November 2022, as workers eye banking, retail, health care, and manufacturing amid tech layoffs (New York Times)
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December 31, 2022
https://ift.tt/uLRaerv New York Times : Employment in tech occupations grew 12% YoY to a record 6.39M in November 2022, as workers eye ba...
A look at ABBA Voyage, the hit London concert performed by 3D digital avatars of the band created from motion capture, as its producers plan a global expansion (Jenni Reid/CNBC)
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December 31, 2022
https://ift.tt/ocp1EO8 Jenni Reid / CNBC : A look at ABBA Voyage, the hit London concert performed by 3D digital avatars of the band crea...
Leaked screener copies of big movies tend to surface at year's end, but didn't in 2022, probably due to more security, streaming, and shorter release windows (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
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December 31, 2022
https://ift.tt/fcRrUiB Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak : Leaked screener copies of big movies tend to surface at year's end, but d...
A look at 2022's worst breaches, leaks, ransomware attacks, state-sponsored hacking campaigns, and digital takeovers, including at least two Twilio breaches (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
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December 31, 2022
https://ift.tt/QZ7yrvk Lily Hay Newman / Wired : A look at 2022's worst breaches, leaks, ransomware attacks, state-sponsored hacking ...
Friday, December 30, 2022
Meta's dramatic implosion, Elon Musk's Twitter train wreck, and Amazon's labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech (Brian Merchant/The Atlantic)
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December 30, 2022
https://ift.tt/EKpANCS Brian Merchant / The Atlantic : Meta's dramatic implosion, Elon Musk's Twitter train wreck, and Amazon...
Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance and remains the undisputed decision maker despite having quit many frontline roles (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
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December 30, 2022
https://ift.tt/ouyXChb Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post : Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance...
A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled (Ryan Broderick/Polygon)
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December 30, 2022
https://ift.tt/TlcyvQ0 Ryan Broderick / Polygon : A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zyn...
Crypto has built a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run it has to prove its real usefulness outside of finance (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
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December 30, 2022
https://ift.tt/4BZwH2S Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Crypto has built a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work...
Huawei has exited "crisis mode" following US restrictions and expects ~$91.5B in 2022 revenue, unchanged from 2021, due to growing telco infrastructure sales (Dan Strumpf/Wall Street Journal)
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December 30, 2022
https://ift.tt/a29U4WT Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal : Huawei has exited “crisis mode” following US restrictions and expects ~$91.5B ...
Bahamas' Securities Commission says it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5B on a temporary basis and plans to deliver them to customers and creditors who own them (Reuters)
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December 30, 2022
https://ift.tt/NDe0lJP Reuters : Bahamas' Securities Commission says it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5B on a temporary basis and pl...
Canada's competition tribunal approves Rogers' $14.77B bid to acquire Shaw, saying the deal is "not likely to prevent or lessen competition substantially" (Reuters)
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December 30, 2022
https://ift.tt/tkpsiER Reuters : Canada's competition tribunal approves Rogers' $14.77B bid to acquire Shaw, saying the deal is “...
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft plan to connect data centers to heating systems in Europe; Meta began in 2020 in Denmark, and Google is assessing its opportunities (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)
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December 29, 2022
https://ift.tt/znhkw7Q Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal : Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft plan to connect data centers to heating systems...
Report: Twitter is closing its Seattle office, the company's second-largest engineering hub outside of San Francisco, asking employees to work from home instead (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
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December 29, 2022
https://ift.tt/3S5ogK0 Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Report: Twitter is closing its Seattle office, the company's second-largest engineer...
Sources: the FBI is investigating the leak of ~100K API keys linked to users of crypto trading service 3Commas, as a victims group claims to have lost over $20M (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)
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December 29, 2022
https://ift.tt/p0al6VQ Sam Kessler / CoinDesk : Sources: the FBI is investigating the leak of ~100K API keys linked to users of crypto tr...
Sources detail Elon Musk's Twitter cost-cutting measures, including closing a data center, reducing training for new staff, and canceling janitorial services (New York Times)
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December 29, 2022
https://ift.tt/2H8Xxcd New York Times : Sources detail Elon Musk's Twitter cost-cutting measures, including closing a data center, re...
A look at India's plan to gain semiconductor manufacturing share, including via a ~$10B incentive program, the Foxconn-Vedanta joint venture's issues, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
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December 29, 2022
https://ift.tt/BTNz8nw Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis : A look at India's plan to gain semiconductor manufacturing share, including via a...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Jon Peddie Research: shipments of discrete GPUs fell 42% YoY to ~14M in Q3 2022, including ~6.9M units for desktop PCs, the lowest number since at least Q3 2005 (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
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December 28, 2022
https://ift.tt/2xGg9pK Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : Jon Peddie Research: shipments of discrete GPUs fell 42% YoY to ~14M in Q3 202...
The SEC says FTX made two $100M investments using customer funds in fintech company Dave in March 2022 and blockchain startup Mysten Labs in September 2022 (CNBC)
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December 28, 2022
https://ift.tt/19nYSls CNBC : The SEC says FTX made two $100M investments using customer funds in fintech company Dave in March 2022 and ...
A US appeals court revives a lawsuit accusing Google and others of violating children's privacy state laws by tracking their YouTube activity for ad targeting (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
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December 28, 2022
https://ift.tt/NE4nAoT Jonathan Stempel / Reuters : A US appeals court revives a lawsuit accusing Google and others of violating children...
Q&A with Christopher Phillips, the VP and GM of Google Geo, which oversees Maps and Waze, on the future of navigation, more visual and immersive maps, and more (Danny Lewis/Wall Street Journal)
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December 28, 2022
https://ift.tt/guotd9O Danny Lewis / Wall Street Journal : Q&A with Christopher Phillips, the VP and GM of Google Geo, which oversees...
An anonymous Twitter user leaks an alleged list of API keys belonging to crypto trading service 3Commas' users, after 3Commas said its users had been "phished" (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)
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December 28, 2022
https://ift.tt/D3fdRjV Sam Kessler / CoinDesk : An anonymous Twitter user leaks an alleged list of API keys belonging to crypto trading s...
CCS Insight: global shipments of VR and AR devices fell 12%+ YoY to 9.6M in 2022; NPD Group: US sales of VR headsets fell 2% YoY to $1.1B as of early December (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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December 28, 2022
https://ift.tt/fWtzIRE Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : CCS Insight: global shipments of VR and AR devices fell 12%+ YoY to 9.6M in 2022; NPD Gro...