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The FTC proposes a new rule to require ticket sellers and others to show the total price to users upfront; Ticketmaster and SeatGeek have pledged all-in pricing (Caitlin Huston/Hollywood Reporter)

Caitlin Huston / Hollywood Reporter: The FTC proposes a new rule to require ticket sellers and others to show the total price to users upfront; Ticketmaster and SeatGeek have pledged all-in pricing  —  Ticketmaster and SeatGeek have already pledged to offer all-in pricing, but the rule would broaden it to other companies and industries.

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Filing: Alphabet-owned DeepMind cut expenses related to employees by to £595M in 2022, down 39% from £969M in 2021, as revenue fell 21% YoY (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Filing: Alphabet-owned DeepMind cut expenses related to employees by to £595M in 2022, down 39% from £969M in 2021, as revenue fell 21% YoY  —  – Alphabet-owned AI research unit saw revenues fall in 2022  — London-based DeepMind slashed staff costs 39% in the period

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Dropbox announces an open beta for its AI-powered Dash universal search tool, a new web UI, collaboration tool Dropbox Studio for video creators, and more (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Dropbox announces an open beta for its AI-powered Dash universal search tool, a new web UI, collaboration tool Dropbox Studio for video creators, and more  —  Dropbox has announced several changes coming to its file hosting service including a new web interface, an open beta …

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Tiny Linux on a No-MMU RISC-V Microcontroller

In the vast majority of cases, running a Linux-based operating system involves a pretty powerful processor with a lot of memory on hand, and perhaps most importantly, a memory management unit, or MMU. This is a piece of hardware which manages virtual memory, seamlessly giving each process its own memory sandbox in which it shouldn’t

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Sources: at an Activision townhall hosted by James Corden, Bobby Kotick discussed Microsoft, Elon Musk’s Neuralink, hinted at a Guitar Hero revival, and more (Jez Corden/Windows Central)

Jez Corden / Windows Central: Sources: at an Activision townhall hosted by James Corden, Bobby Kotick discussed Microsoft, Elon Musk’s Neuralink, hinted at a Guitar Hero revival, and more  —  Kotick and Corden (not me) discuss the future of Activision.  —  What you need to know  — Sources familiar …

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As social networks become cluttered with ads, misinformation, and irrelevant posts, the web just feels less fun, suggesting the old era of social media is over (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)

Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: As social networks become cluttered with ads, misinformation, and irrelevant posts, the web just feels less fun, suggesting the old era of social media is over  —  The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to

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Investors and analysts expect the Israel-Hamas war to derail the fragile recovery of Israel’s tech sector, which accounts for 14% of the country’s workforce (Steven Scheer/Reuters)

Steven Scheer / Reuters: Investors and analysts expect the Israel-Hamas war to derail the fragile recovery of Israel’s tech sector, which accounts for 14% of the country’s workforce  —  The spiralling conflict with the Palestinians is set to derail a fragile recovery in Israel’s all-important tech sector …

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