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At an all-hands, Unity discusses potential changes to its new controversial fees, like capping fees to 4% of a game’s revenue for customers with $1M+ revenue (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: At an all-hands, Unity discusses potential changes to its new controversial fees, like capping fees to 4% of a game’s revenue for customers with $1M+ revenue  —  Maker of video-game development tools backtracks after customers threaten boycott  —  Video-game tool maker Unity Software Inc …

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How to install iOS 17 on your iPhone

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Okay, it’s time — Apple is rolling out iOS 17 to everyone today. While it’s been possible to download the developer and public betas of iOS 17 for a while, you can now download and install this latest version of Apple’s new mobile operating system, which is stable

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Lyft agrees to pay $10M over the US SEC’s claims the company didn’t disclose a board director got millions to arrange a pre-IPO sale of $424M in private shares (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)

Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: Lyft agrees to pay $10M over the US SEC’s claims the company didn’t disclose a board director got millions to arrange a pre-IPO sale of $424M in private shares  —  – SEC says company didn’t properly disclose details of sale  — Lyft investor sold private stake for $424 million, SEC says

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Satellite Hunting Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday, September 20 at noon Pacific for the Satellite Hunting Hack Chat with Scott Tilley! From the very first beeps of Sputnik, space has primarily been the domain of nations. It makes sense — for the most part, it takes the resources of a nation to get anything of appreciable size up

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T2, a rival to X launched after Elon Musk’s takeover, rebrands as Pebble with a new logo and says T2 was never meant to be its permanent name (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: T2, a rival to X launched after Elon Musk’s takeover, rebrands as Pebble with a new logo and says T2 was never meant to be its permanent name  —  An X challenger didn’t hide its ambitions to take on the social network formerly known as Twitter when it dubbed itself T2

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Microsoft CPO Panos Panay steps down after 19 years, ahead of the Sept. 21 Surface event; consumer marketing chief Yusuf Mehdi to lead Windows and Surface units (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft CPO Panos Panay steps down after 19 years, ahead of the Sept. 21 Surface event; consumer marketing chief Yusuf Mehdi to lead Windows and Surface units  —  Panos Panay, the chief product officer at Microsoft, leading Windows development and the company’s Surface line, is leaving Microsoft.

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Twitter’s ex-head of trust and safety reflects on Donald Trump publicly attacking him, the resulting abuse, fact-checking, Elon Musk, Twitter Files, and more (Yoel Roth/New York Times)

Yoel Roth / New York Times: Twitter’s ex-head of trust and safety reflects on Donald Trump publicly attacking him, the resulting abuse, fact-checking, Elon Musk, Twitter Files, and more  —  When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump’s tweets for the first time.

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Researchers find a GitHub repository belonging to Microsoft’s AI research unit that exposed 38TB of sensitive data, including secret keys and Teams chat logs (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Researchers find a GitHub repository belonging to Microsoft’s AI research unit that exposed 38TB of sensitive data, including secret keys and Teams chat logs  —  Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords …

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Crypto custody startup Bastion, co-founded by two ex-a16z executives, raised a $25M seed led by a16z crypto to expand its tools for traditional companies (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: Crypto custody startup Bastion, co-founded by two ex-a16z executives, raised a $25M seed led by a16z crypto to expand its tools for traditional companies  —  – Bastion raises $25 million in funding round led by a16z crypto  — Startup to provide custody and other services on one platform

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