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Meta Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce (meta.slashdot.org)
22 days ago

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their “return of Xbox” strategy, including daily active players as its “new north star” (www.theverge.com)
22 days ago Xbox

Instagram launched Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy this week, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions (www.businessinsider.com)
22 days ago Italy Instagram

Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit (news.bloomberglaw.com)
22 days ago Sony

Bitwarden CLI npm package compromised to steal developer credentials (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago

France Confirms Data Breach At Government Agency That Manages Citizens' IDs (it.slashdot.org)
22 days ago France

OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving, while performing at a much higher level of intelligence” (openai.com)
22 days ago Intelligence

Trigona ransomware attacks use custom exfiltration tool to steal data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago

GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $30/1M output tokens, double GPT-5.4's pricing; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1M input tokens and $180/1M output tokens (venturebeat.com)
22 days ago

Anthropic says it has fixed three causes of recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt to reduce verbosity (www.anthropic.com)
22 days ago

Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Really Big Mistake' as CEO (apple.slashdot.org)
22 days ago Apple Tim Cook

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, designed to handle complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the company's upcoming “super app” (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago

OpenAI says GPT-5.5's improvements are strongest in agentic coding, computer use, and early scientific research, which require reasoning across longer contexts (www.axios.com)
22 days ago

GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, and GPT-5.5 Pro to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT (www.theverge.com)
22 days ago

Sign up for a $65 Costco Membership, get a $20 Digital Shop Card (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago

At a town hall, Asha Sharma said Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming, as “Xbox needs to be our identity” (www.theverge.com)
22 days ago Microsoft Xbox

Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago AI

Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible (www.cnbc.com)
22 days ago Microsoft

Microsoft Plans First-Ever Voluntary Employee Buyout (slashdot.org)
22 days ago Microsoft

A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response (www.theverge.com)
22 days ago Microsoft

New Checkmarx supply-chain breach affects KICS analysis tool (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago

New York Sues Coinbase and Gemini, Seeking To Halt Unlicensed Prediction Market Businesses (yro.slashdot.org)
22 days ago New York Coinbase

Internal memo: Amazon is replacing white-collar job titles at its Ring and Blink units with the designation “builder”, and “builder leaders” for managers (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago Amazon

Microsoft announces the first voluntary retirement program in its 50-year history, for US staffers whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70+ (www.theverge.com)
22 days ago Microsoft

Manila-based Salmon, a consumer finance app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised $60M in equity and $40M in debt; it raised $310M to date, $160M in equity (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Equity

Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago

Joint statement: Apple, Amazon, and others push back on stricter emissions reporting rules proposed by climate body Greenhouse Gas Protocol to cut greenwashing (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago Amazon Apple Climate

Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago

Intel Lands Tesla As First Major Customer For 14A Chip Technology (hardware.slashdot.org)
22 days ago Intel Tesla

WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago India Mobile WhatsApp

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