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PE firm Symphony Technology Group agrees to acquire media editing software maker Avid for ~$1.4B, with the transaction expected to close in Q4 2023 (Reuters)

Reuters: PE firm Symphony Technology Group agrees to acquire media editing software maker Avid for ~$1.4B, with the transaction expected to close in Q4 2023 — Private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG) on Wednesday agreed to buy media editing software maker Avid Technology Inc (AVID.O) for about $1.4 billion, including debt.

Best Mini Fridge Under $100 for 2023

Many companies featured on ReadWrite partner with us. Opinions are our own, but compensation and in-depth research determine how products may be selected and ranked. Learn more about how we make money. Welcome to our comprehensive guide on the best mini fridges under $100 for 2023. If you’re on a budget but still want a reliable and

Moove, which provides vehicle financing to ride-hailing drivers in Africa, the UK, India, and the UAE, raises $76M in equity and debt at a $550M valuation (Will Louch/Financial Times)

Will Louch / Financial Times: Moove, which provides vehicle financing to ride-hailing drivers in Africa, the UK, India, and the UAE, raises $76M in equity and debt at a $550M valuation — Vehicle financing start-up aims to raise $76mn in equity and debt from investor group that includes BlackRock

Berlin-based Deepset, which helps companies build “complex LLM applications” and add NLP to apps, raised $30M led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $46M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Deepset, which helps companies build “complex LLM applications” and add NLP to apps, raised $30M led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $46M — Deepset, a platform for building enterprise apps powered by large language models akin to ChatGPT …

Pedal Car vs Ministry of Transport

[Tim] from the “Way Out West” Youtube channels has started a fun project — building a wooden pedal-car heavily inspired by “Bugsy Malone”. The kids-sized gangsters in that movie got around in kid-sized pedal cars. Apparently kid-sized [Tim] just loved the idea, but just didn’t have the skills or tools to try to build one.

A Canadian woman says she has gotten over 50 Amazon packages she didn’t order

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A woman in British Columbia, Canada, has received over 50 Amazon packages that she’s never asked for, as reported by CBC. As a result of getting these shipments, which she hasn’t had the chance to refuse upon arrival, the United Parcel Service (UPS) has sent her customs bills

Meta rolls out the ability to let users verify their Threads profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon, using “rel=me” links (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out the ability to let users verify their Threads profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon, using “rel=me” links — To be clear, this isn’t a free way to get a blue checkmark next to your Threads name; you’ll probably need to pay Meta to get one

Why VR As Monitor Replacement Is Likely To Be Terrible For a While Yet

Putting on a headset and using virtual monitors in VR instead of physical ones is a use case that pops up, but is it really something feasible? [Karl Guttag], who has long experience and a deep understanding of the technical challenges that face such devices, doesn’t seem to think so. In his writeup [Karl] often

Pedal Car vs Ministry of Transport

Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating

The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house.

Bob Iger says Disney is “actively exploring ways” to crack down on password sharing and “will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024” (Adam Chitwood/The Wrap)

Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: Bob Iger says Disney is “actively exploring ways” to crack down on password sharing and “will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024” — “We will roll out tactics to drive monetization,” the Disney CEO says — Disney+ will begin cracking …

Disney Plus and Hulu are about to get even more expensive

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Disney is once again raising the ad-free prices of both Disney Plus and Hulu this fall. Beginning on October 12th, Disney Plus will cost $13.99 per month, while Hulu’s no-ads tier will run $17.99. The ad-sponsored tiers of both services will (for now) each remain $7.99. Perhaps to

Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating

Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table.

Filing: the US SEC plans to appeal a court ruling in July that Ripple’s programmatic sales of XRP to retail investors on exchanges didn’t violate securities law (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Filing: the US SEC plans to appeal a court ruling in July that Ripple’s programmatic sales of XRP to retail investors on exchanges didn’t violate securities law — A federal judge ruled that while Ripple’s direct sales of XRP to institutional investors violated securities law …

Quizlet’s AI study tools think I’m a bad student

Quizlet, a tool that helps personalize studying for students, recently released a set of new AI-powered features. Quizlet is one of the many educational platforms embracing generative AI to facilitate learning, despite consternation from teachers when ChatGPT first burst into the scene. I no longer have assignments to read, but to do my job, I

Golang 1.21 brings built-in functions, profile-guided optimization

Go 1.21, the latest update of Google’s Go programming language, is now available as a production release. The new version adds built-in functions—min, max, and clear—and makes profile-guided optimization (PGO) generally available. WebAssembly accommodations also are highlighted. The min and max functions compute the smallest or largest value, respectively, of a fixed number of arguments

Top Web Development Companies in Saudi Arabia in 2023

According to a survey, there are 5.07 billion internet users globally, accounting for 63.5% of the world’s population (8bn). Also, the annual growth rate of internet adoption is 3.5%. One can only imagine the number of web opportunities these numbers indicate in terms of web development for businesses. Digital visibility and reach on the internet

Disney plans to raise US prices of Disney+ Premium, Hulu without ads, and ESPN+, and to expand Disney+ ad-supported plans to Canada and nine European countries (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney plans to raise US prices of Disney+ Premium, Hulu without ads, and ESPN+, and to expand Disney+ ad-supported plans to Canada and nine European countries — Ad-supported Disney+ tier to expand to Canada, U.K. and eight other European countries this fall

Disney is ‘actively exploring’ ways to crack down on password sharing

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Move over, Netflix — Disney might be the next company to carry out a password-sharing crackdown. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company is “actively exploring ways to address account sharing.” Iger added that Disney “will begin to update our subscriber agreements

CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

Image: Garret Beard / The Verge Technology news outlet CNET has deleted thousands of older articles from its site, telling staff the deletions will improve its Google Search ranking, according to an internal memo. The news was first reported by Gizmodo. Gizmodo reports that, since July, thousands of articles have been removed from CNET. In

What is Hello Mobile? Hello Mobile plans, pricing, and more

Credit: Andrew Grush / Android Authority With dozens of prepaid carriers in the United States, keeping track of them is hard. This is especially true for smaller players like Hello Mobile. What is Hello Mobile, who is it for, and what kind of plans do they offer? Let’s jump right in. What is Hello Mobile

iPhone 15 Pro users will probably still be stuck with a paltry amount of RAM

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A new rumor gives details about the iPhone 15 Pro’s processor. The rumor suggests the A17 Bionic chip will be paired with 6GB of RAM. The SoC may, however, gain a GPU core and see improvements in clock speed. The iPhone 15 Pro line are expected to get the

3D Print Your Own Seiko-Style “Magic Lever” Energy Harvester

Back in 1956, Seiko created their “magic lever” as an integral part of self-winding mechanical watches, which were essentially mechanical energy harvesters. The magic lever is a type of ratcheting arrangement that ensures a main gear only ever advances in a single direction. [Robert Murray-Smith] goes into detail in this video (here’s a link cued

Biden signs an executive order banning US investments in some Chinese companies developing advanced semiconductors and quantum computers, starting in 2024 (Andrew Duehren/Wall Street Journal)

Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: Biden signs an executive order banning US investments in some Chinese companies developing advanced semiconductors and quantum computers, starting in 2024 — Biden’s order will also require U.S. private-equity and venture-capital firms to disclose certain investments

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