A US district judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Montana's first-of-its-kind state ban on TikTok from taking effect on January 1 (Reuters)

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A US district judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Montana's first-of-its-kind state ban on TikTok from taking effect on January 1  —  A U.S. judge late on Thursday blocked Montana's first-of-its kind state ban on the use of short-video sharing app TikTok from taking effect on Jan. 1.

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Gearbox and Blackbird announce Homeworld 3 launches on March 8 - 2023-11-30 22:35:00Z

Title:Gearbox and Blackbird announce Homeworld 3 launches on March 8 Summary: Blackbird Interactive and Gearbox Publishing said the release date for Homeworld 3 will be March 8, 2024, on the Epic Games Store and Steam. Link: Gearbox and Blackbird announce Homeworld 3 launches on March 8

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Phoenix Labs reveals Fae Farm’s first DLC, Coasts of Croakia - 2023-11-30 22:12:11Z

Title:Phoenix Labs reveals Fae Farm's first DLC, Coasts of Croakia Summary: Fae Farm is getting its first DLC, which is free on Switch: Coasts of Croakia, which adds a new realm, new characters and new quests. Link: Phoenix Labs reveals Fae Farm's first DLC, Coasts of Croakia

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Some marketing agencies say their brands don't plan to return to advertise on X, and others are advising brands to stop posting on X, after Elon Musk's comments (New York Times)

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Some marketing agencies say their brands don't plan to return to advertise on X, and others are advising brands to stop posting on X, after Elon Musk's comments  —  Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times's DealBook Summit.

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Indian IT giants Infosys and Wipro cut college recruitment in October as global demand cools, leaving hundreds of thousands of tech graduates in peril (Bloomberg)

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Indian IT giants Infosys and Wipro cut college recruitment in October as global demand cools, leaving hundreds of thousands of tech graduates in peril  —  India's giant tech firms are curbing hiring, adding to the youth unemployment problem in the country  —  For years, India's tech graduates …

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Goodbye, graphic designers? COLE combines multiple AIs to generate editable designs on demand - 2023-11-30 20:54:16Z

Title:Goodbye, graphic designers? COLE combines multiple AIs to generate editable designs on demand Summary: The researchers tested COLE on 200 different graphic design projects, from advertisements to event promotions and marketing materials. Link: Goodbye, graphic designers? COLE combines multiple AIs to generate editable designs on demand

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Riot Games partners and invests in esports data platform Grid - 2023-11-30 21:00:00Z

Title:Riot Games partners and invests in esports data platform Grid Summary: Riot Games and Grid have formed a long-term strategic partnership including acquiring an equity stake in the real-time esports data platform. Link: Riot Games partners and invests in esports data platform Grid

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My.Games launches Hawked into early access on Steam - 2023-11-30 20:00:00Z

Title:My.Games launches Hawked into early access on Steam Summary:

My.Games said its Hawked extraction shooter has debuted today on early access on Steam. After its successful PC and cross-play open beta, Hawked is now available on PC via the My.Games Launcher and Steam, with a console version expected in early 2024. My.Games showed off parts of the game in during the PC Gamer Show: Most Wanted live event. To […]

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A year ago, it was just ChatGPT — now LLMs are everywhere - 2023-11-30 19:54:45Z

Title:A year ago, it was just ChatGPT — now LLMs are everywhere Summary: Since ChatGPT's launch a year ago, several chatbots have cropped up in a bid to democratize access to conversational AI capabilities. Link: A year ago, it was just ChatGPT — now LLMs are everywhere

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Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI to help consumers find the perfect gift - 2023-11-30 18:44:58Z

Title:Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI to help consumers find the perfect gift Summary: Mastercard introduces Shopping Muse, an AI-powered service that offers personalized gift recommendations based on the recipient's profile and preferences. Link: Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI to help consumers find the perfect gift

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Activision drops Modern Warfare III/Warzone Season 1 details for December 6 - 2023-11-30 18:00:00Z

Title:Activision drops Modern Warfare III/Warzone Season 1 details for December 6 Summary: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone's Season 1 will begin on December 6 and Activision dropped new details today on it. Link: Activision drops Modern Warfare III/Warzone Season 1 details for December 6

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OpenAI says white men ‘Bret, Larry and Adam’ will work hard to build diverse board - 2023-11-30 16:30:32Z

Title:OpenAI says white men 'Bret, Larry and Adam' will work hard to build diverse board Summary: OpenAI said yesterday that Bret Taylor, Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo will build a diverse board after two female members were removed. Link: OpenAI says white men 'Bret, Larry and Adam' will work hard to build diverse board

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AI21 leader: Leading LLMs remain ‘differentiated’, they are not commodities - 2023-11-30 15:56:00Z

Title:AI21 leader: Leading LLMs remain 'differentiated', they are not commodities Summary: Shoham reacted to comments by Amazon and others that imply LLMs are losing their differentiation. He disagreed, saying: "Models do differentiate." Link: AI21 leader: Leading LLMs remain 'differentiated', they are not commodities

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Blumhouse crosses from film to horror games with addition of new studio leaders - 2023-11-30 17:00:00Z

Title:Blumhouse crosses from film to horror games with addition of new studio leaders Summary: Blumhouse, the horror film studio started by Jason Blum, has expanded into games and it has hired two more leaders to help run its game studio. Link: Blumhouse crosses from film to horror games with addition of new studio leaders

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Facebook, Instagram, Google, Amazon, TikTok, YouTube, Microsoft, and others sign the UK's Online Fraud Charter to fight scams, fake ads, and romance fraud (Ben Mitchell/The Independent)

Ben Mitchell / The Independent:
Facebook, Instagram, Google, Amazon, TikTok, YouTube, Microsoft, and others sign the UK's Online Fraud Charter to fight scams, fake ads, and romance fraud  —  Home Secretary James Cleverly hosted representatives from several leading tech companies to sign the Charter.

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Kognitos, which helps businesses automate transcription, data visualizations, and back-office processes, raised $20M led by Khosla, taking its funding to $30M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Kognitos, which helps businesses automate transcription, data visualizations, and back-office processes, raised $20M led by Khosla, taking its funding to $30M  —  Businesses will never not (forgive the double negative) push to improve efficiency.  It's their commercial imperative.

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GamesBeat at The Game Awards agenda: Pixels to pop culture - 2023-11-30 14:30:00Z

Title:GamesBeat at The Game Awards agenda: Pixels to pop culture Summary: I'm excited to unveil the agenda for GamesBeat at The Game Awards on December 7 at LA Live's Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles. Link: GamesBeat at The Game Awards agenda: Pixels to pop culture

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Thirdverse raises $8M for VR gaming expansion - 2023-11-30 14:30:00Z

Title:Thirdverse raises $8M for VR gaming expansion Summary: Thirdverse has raised $8 million in its latest funding round to continue its investment free-to-play and premium virtual reality games. Link: Thirdverse raises $8M for VR gaming expansion

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On December 1, Google will start deleting personal Google accounts that have been inactive for at least two years; once deleted, no data can be recovered (Dalvin Brown/Wall Street Journal)

Dalvin Brown / Wall Street Journal:
On December 1, Google will start deleting personal Google accounts that have been inactive for at least two years; once deleted, no data can be recovered  —  How to revive your Google account before it's too late  —  Google will start to sweep away cobweb-collecting Gmail accounts this week.

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Apple says Amkor will package some Apple silicon chips in its new Arizona facility; Amkor plans to invest $2B, employ 2,000, and start production in 2-3 years (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple says Amkor will package some Apple silicon chips in its new Arizona facility; Amkor plans to invest $2B, employ 2,000, and start production in 2-3 years  —  As part of its efforts to expand its U.S. manufacturing, Apple today announced that Amkor will package some Apple silicon chips …

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WhatsApp begins letting users hide locked chats behind a secret code, after introducing locked chats in May 2023, rolling out globally in the coming months (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
WhatsApp begins letting users hide locked chats behind a secret code, after introducing locked chats in May 2023, rolling out globally in the coming months  —  WhatsApp is introducing a new way to keep your locked chats away from prying eyes.  Instead of having your locked chats folder visible …

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Nvidia adds three Call of Duty titles to GeForce Now, the first from Activision, available in a "Call of Duty HQ" hub, as part of a deal with Microsoft (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:
Nvidia adds three Call of Duty titles to GeForce Now, the first from Activision, available in a “Call of Duty HQ” hub, as part of a deal with Microsoft  —  Call of Duty is finally arriving for cloud gamers, with three of the latest titles, including Warzone, launching onto GeForce Now.

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Rishi Sunak says Microsoft plans to spend £2.5B in the UK over three years, its largest investment there to date, to underpin AI and bring 20K GPUs to the UK (Sarah Young/Reuters)

Sarah Young / Reuters:
Rishi Sunak says Microsoft plans to spend £2.5B in the UK over three years, its largest investment there to date, to underpin AI and bring 20K GPUs to the UK  —  Microsoft's (MSFT.O) plan to pump 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) into Britain over the next three years …

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Exclusive: Voltron Data brings new power to AI with Theseus distributed query engine - 2023-11-30 14:05:28Z

Title:Exclusive: Voltron Data brings new power to AI with Theseus distributed query engine Summary: Voltron Data introduces Theseus, a powerful distributed query engine designed to accelerate large-scale data pipelines and queries, optimize data processing for AI workloads, and promote open interoperability, all while pushing beyond traditional CPU approaches by leveraging GPU and other hardware accelerators. Link: Exclusive: Voltron Data brings new power to AI with Theseus distributed query engine

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Horizon unveils Sequence Builder no-code dashboard for game devs - 2023-11-30 14:00:00Z

Title:Horizon unveils Sequence Builder no-code dashboard for game devs Summary: Horizon has launched Sequence Builder, a full-stack, no-code dashboard that makes it easier for game developers to manage their Web3 games. Link: Horizon unveils Sequence Builder no-code dashboard for game devs

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HPE discovers new vision for an AI-native architecture - 2023-11-30 13:57:23Z

Title:HPE discovers new vision for an AI-native architecture Summary: HPE unveils AI-native architecture vision, offering enhanced AI solutions through an expanded Nvidia partnership and upgraded Machine Learning Development Environment (MLDE), accelerating enterprise AI adoption and performance. Link: HPE discovers new vision for an AI-native architecture

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The BEUC and 18 others target Meta's €9.99+ Europe subscription in a complaint, two days after a similar noyb complaint, saying the option charges for privacy (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The BEUC and 18 others target Meta's €9.99+ Europe subscription in a complaint, two days after a similar noyb complaint, saying the option charges for privacy  —  Meta Platforms' (META.O) advertising-free subscription service, a fee-based offering rolled out in Europe this month …

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A UK judge reverses a decision to block a full UK CMA investigation into Apple's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming, saying the CMA acted lawfully (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
A UK judge reverses a decision to block a full UK CMA investigation into Apple's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming, saying the CMA acted lawfully  —  - CMA wins appeal ruling on investigation of mobile dominance  — Watchdog acted lawfully when it proposed an investigation

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Meta officials say the US stopped proactively sharing information on foreign influence operations, as the company releases its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report (AJ Vicens/CyberScoop)

AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
Meta officials say the US stopped proactively sharing information on foreign influence operations, as the company releases its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report  —  Russia, Iran and China are likely to conduct influence operations via fake social media accounts ahead of the 2024 election, a new Meta report says.

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Analysis: crypto mining used ~1,600 gigaliters of water in 2021 when bitcoin peaked at $65K, or 16K liters per transaction, around 6.2M times a credit card (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Justine Calma / The Verge:
Analysis: crypto mining used ~1,600 gigaliters of water in 2021 when bitcoin peaked at $65K, or 16K liters per transaction, around 6.2M times a credit card  —  Bitcoin mines aren't just energy-hungry, it turns out they're thirsty, too.  The water consumption tied to a single Bitcoin transaction …

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Spotify Wrapped 2023's new Sound Town, for similar listeners in other cities, leaves users baffled and entertained after many were designated as Burlington, VT (New York Times)

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Spotify Wrapped 2023's new Sound Town, for similar listeners in other cities, leaves users baffled and entertained after many were designated as Burlington, VT  —  The music streaming service released a new feature — Sound Towns — with its yearly summary of listener preferences and linked many people to an unexpected city.

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At an event, Xbox CFO Tim Stuart says Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation, Nintendo, and "every screen that can play games" (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)

Eddie Makuch / GameSpot:
At an event, Xbox CFO Tim Stuart says Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation, Nintendo, and “every screen that can play games”  —  “It's a bit of a change of strategy,” Microsoft admits.  —  Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation and Nintendo.

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Google TAG executive Kate Morgan says Google observed a "massive increase" in Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan in the last six months from over 100 groups (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Google TAG executive Kate Morgan says Google observed a “massive increase” in Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan in the last six months from over 100 groups  —  - Company has observed a ‘massive increase’ in China's attacks  — Government-sponsored hackers targeting government and industry

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A US court says FTX Trading and affiliated debtors can start selling $744M worth of Grayscale and Bitwise shares; GBTC accounts for 22.3M units worth $597M (Anna Baydakova/The Block)

Anna Baydakova / The Block:
A US court says FTX Trading and affiliated debtors can start selling $744M worth of Grayscale and Bitwise shares; GBTC accounts for 22.3M units worth $597M  —  - A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Wednesday that FTX debtors can start selling $744 million worth of Grayscale and Bitwise shares.

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Local media: David Vincenzetti, who founded infamous spyware maker Hacking Team in 2003, was arrested for allegedly stabbing and attempting to murder a relative (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Local media: David Vincenzetti, who founded infamous spyware maker Hacking Team in 2003, was arrested for allegedly stabbing and attempting to murder a relative  —  The founder of the infamous and now-defunct spyware maker Hacking Team was arrested on Saturday after allegedly stabbing …

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Nonprofit Data & Trust Alliance, comprising Amex, IBM, Pfizer, UPS, and more, announces AI data provenance standards to help find the origin and rights to data (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Nonprofit Data & Trust Alliance, comprising Amex, IBM, Pfizer, UPS, and more, announces AI data provenance standards to help find the origin and rights to data  —  Mainstream companies have concerns about the lineage of the data that powers A.I. applications.  An industry group is addressing that challenge.

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Sources: Meta plans to launch Threads in Europe in December, the largest expansion since its July debut, offering a choice of using Threads without a profile (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Meta plans to launch Threads in Europe in December, the largest expansion since its July debut, offering a choice of using Threads without a profile  —  Expansion is expected in December, a signal of company's commitment to microblogging service  —  Facebook parent Meta Platforms plans …

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At the NYT's DealBook event, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US is 10 years to 20 years from chip independence and reaffirms Nvidia's commitment to China (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg:
At the NYT's DealBook event, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US is 10 years to 20 years from chip independence and reaffirms Nvidia's commitment to China  —  Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, who runs the semiconductor industry's most valuable company …

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Study: around 2,127 Web3 games became inactive in the past five years, representing 75.5% of the 2,817 that were launched in the same period (Lim Yu Qian/CoinGecko)

Lim Yu Qian / CoinGecko:
Study: around 2,127 Web3 games became inactive in the past five years, representing 75.5% of the 2,817 that were launched in the same period  —  How Many Web3 Games Have Failed?  —  Around 2,127 web3 games have failed in the last five years since the GameFi niche emerged, representing 75.5% of the 2,817 web3 games launched.

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ASML CEO Peter Wennink plans to step down in April 2024 after over 10 years at the chip equipment giant, replaced by industry veteran Christophe Fouquet (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
ASML CEO Peter Wennink plans to step down in April 2024 after over 10 years at the chip equipment giant, replaced by industry veteran Christophe Fouquet  —  Europe's largest tech company names Christophe Fouquet as successor  —  Peter Wennink, chief executive of chipmaking equipment manufacturer ASML …

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Splitgate teams up with ZBD for Bitcoin rewards in tournaments - 2023-11-30 08:00:00Z

Title:Splitgate teams up with ZBD for Bitcoin rewards in tournaments Summary: ZBD has teamed up with 1047 Games to enable players to play the Portal shooter Splitgate for Bitcoin prizes. Link: Splitgate teams up with ZBD for Bitcoin rewards in tournaments

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Games for Change unveils second summit in Abu Dhabi - 2023-11-30 08:05:00Z

Title:Games for Change unveils second summit in Abu Dhabi Summary: Games for Change and AD Gaming announced that the second Games for Change Middle East Summit will take place in Abu Dhabi. Link: Games for Change unveils second summit in Abu Dhabi

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Interview with Atari CEO Wade Rosen on the company's emphasis on retro endeavors, its recent acquisitions, its investment in console maker Polymega, and more (Brendan Sinclair/GamesIndustry.biz)

Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz:
Interview with Atari CEO Wade Rosen on the company's emphasis on retro endeavors, its recent acquisitions, its investment in console maker Polymega, and more  —  CEO Wade Rosen explains how the company's recent investments and acquisitions fit into the bigger picture

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