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Google plans to merge Waze’s 500+ employees with the group overseeing Maps, starting on Dec. 9; Waze to remain a stand-alone service and its CEO to exit role (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Google plans to merge Waze’s 500+ employees with the group overseeing Maps, starting on Dec. 9; Waze to remain a stand-alone service and its CEO to exit role — Search giant to keep navigation apps separate — Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -2.22%decrease; red down pointing triangle Google plans …

Recreating the Sounds of the ’90s With a YM3812 Synthesizer

One reason the x86 PC became the dominant game platform in the early 1990s was the availability of affordable sound cards like the AdLib and Sound Blaster. These provided a quantum leap in sound quality compared to the PC speaker’s tinny beeps, thanks to Yamaha’s YM3812 chip, also known as OPL2. [Tyler] has made a

Source: Twitter plans to change the pricing of Twitter Blue to $7/month if users pay for it through the web and $11 if they pay for it through Apple’s App Store (Erin Woo/The Information)

Erin Woo / The Information: Source: Twitter plans to change the pricing of Twitter Blue to $7/month if users pay for it through the web and $11 if they pay for it through Apple’s App Store — Twitter has informed some employees that it plans to change the pricing of its Twitter Blue subscription product

Pwn2Own Toronto 2022: participants earned a total of $400K for new exploits targeting Samsung Galaxy S22, printers, routers, and NAS devices on the first day (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)

Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Pwn2Own Toronto 2022: participants earned a total of $400K for new exploits targeting Samsung Galaxy S22, printers, routers, and NAS devices on the first day — On the first day of the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $400,000 for new exploits targeting phones, printers, routers and

Austin-based Setpoint, whose software helps companies close loan transactions faster, raised a $43M Series A led by a16z and aims to be the “Stripe for credit” (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Austin-based Setpoint, whose software helps companies close loan transactions faster, raised a $43M Series A led by a16z and aims to be the “Stripe for credit” — Setpoint, a startup that has built software to help other companies close loan transactions faster …

Drata, which uses automation to help companies adhere to compliance frameworks, raised a $200M Series C led by Iconiq Growth and GGV Capital at a $2B valuation (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Drata, which uses automation to help companies adhere to compliance frameworks, raised a $200M Series C led by Iconiq Growth and GGV Capital at a $2B valuation — Drata, a security compliance and automation platform that helps companies adhere to frameworks such as SOC 2 and GDPR …

Sources: US prosecutors are probing whether Sam Bankman-Fried manipulated the market for TerraUSD and LUNA, triggering the cryptocurrencies’ collapse in May (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: US prosecutors are probing whether Sam Bankman-Fried manipulated the market for TerraUSD and LUNA, triggering the cryptocurrencies’ collapse in May — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Sam Bankman-Fried and his hedge fund orchestrated trades in a way that led to the collapse of two cryptocurrencies in May.

A Tiny RISC-V Emulator Runs Linux With No MMU. And Yes, It Runs DOOM!

It’s something of an article of faith, that to run Linux your computer must include a hardware memory management unit, or MMU. To an extent it’s true, in that for a Linux-based system to shine it must have that hardware, but in fact there has been support for MMU-less Linux for many years now. Prolific

Plaid lays off approximately 260 employees, or 20% of its workforce, citing macroeconomic conditions; the company was valued at ~$13.4B in April 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Plaid lays off approximately 260 employees, or 20% of its workforce, citing macroeconomic conditions; the company was valued at ~$13.4B in April 2021 — CEO says the fintech company ‘hired and invested ahead of revenue growth’ — Fintech decacorn Plaid is laying off 260 employees …

How tensions grew between Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor for months; sources: Benioff was frustrated about how Taylor was spending his time (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: How tensions grew between Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor for months; sources: Benioff was frustrated about how Taylor was spending his time — Exit of Bret Taylor from role he has shared for about a year wasn’t long planned — The Tech Sector Is Taking a Beating. Here’s Why.

GitHub bolsters NPM access control

Looking to improve the safety and security of NPM JavaScript packages, GitHub is adding granular access tokens to enable fine-grained permissions for NPM accounts, and making its NPM code explorer capability free to users. GitHub on December 6 explained that stolen credentials are a main cause of data breaches. To help NPM maintainers better manage

How to enable end-to-end encryption for your iCloud backups

Your iCloud data is about to get a lot more secure. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge With iOS 16.2, Apple is bringing advanced security features to more of your data. Among other things, it is adding highly secure end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups under the name Advanced Data Protection. This means that

Former Theranos executive Sunny Balwani is sentenced to almost 13 years in prison

Photo: Getty Images Ramesh Balwani has been sentenced to 155 months, or just under 13 years, in prison, according to The New York Times. Like his former business partner, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, he’s due another three years of supervised release after he gets out. Balwani will have to surrender to custody on March 15th.

Now Telegram users don’t need a phone number — they can buy a fake one with crypto

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram released a new version of its encrypted messaging app today that allows for account signups using purchasable blockchain-based identities instead of real phone numbers. In addition, version 9.2 includes the ability to auto-delete messages on a timer for new chats, and there’s an upgrade to the forum-like

Instagram debuts transparency tools to let users with professional accounts, like businesses and creators, know if their content is ineligible to be recommended (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram debuts transparency tools to let users with professional accounts, like businesses and creators, know if their content is ineligible to be recommended — Instagram announced today that it’s introducing new transparency tools so you can see whether your photos and videos are recommended in the app.

Elden Ring adds new hairstyles, still forgets the Black ones

Image: From Software It’s a dangerous endeavor to boot up Elden Ring right now. There’s a short lull in the holiday release season, so it would be very, very easy for me to be lured back to the Lands Between, where I spent over 100 hours mastering katanas and the art of glintstone pebbling things

Sources: the SEC is investigating whether messaging app IRL misled investors; IRL raised $170M from SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 at a $1.17B valuation in June 2021 (Mark Matousek/The Information)

Mark Matousek / The Information: Sources: the SEC is investigating whether messaging app IRL misled investors; IRL raised $170M from SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 at a $1.17B valuation in June 2021 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating whether SoftBank-backed messaging app IRL violated securities laws …

Texas bans the use of TikTok on government-issued devices, becoming the fourth GOP-led state to do so, following South Dakota, South Carolina, and Maryland (Shawna Chen/Axios)

Shawna Chen / Axios: Texas bans the use of TikTok on government-issued devices, becoming the fourth GOP-led state to do so, following South Dakota, South Carolina, and Maryland — A growing number of GOP-led states are barring state employees and contractors from using TikTok on government-issued devices …

Dish’s $25-a-month Boost Infinite plan is now out in beta

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Dish has launched the beta for its Boost Infinite postpaid cell plan, which promises “Unlimited data, talk, and text” for $25 a month. When Boost Infinite was announced in May, Boost Mobile CEO Stephen Stokols pitched the plan as a way to embrace “web 3.0 trends” that would

The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle a cloud-computing contract of up to $9B each through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle a cloud-computing contract of up to $9B each through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability — – Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.

Indiana sues TikTok for misleading users on child safety and data security

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Indiana’s attorney general filed a pair of lawsuits against TikTok on Wednesday, accusing the company of misleading users about its ties to the Chinese government and showing mature content to minors, as first reported by The New York Times. In his first complaint, Attorney General Todd Rokita claimed

Apple Pay launches 12 new savings promotions for the holidays

Apple has launched its latest Apple Pay Perks promotion which offers savings at Fender, Columbia, and more.

AirDrop will be limited to just 10 minutes in some cases with iOS 16.2 installed

Apple’s iOS 16.2 will limit the ‘Everyone’ setting to just 10 minutes when it arrives later this month.

Apple announces an iMessage feature for users to verify they are messaging only with the people they intend, plus Apple ID support for hardware security keys (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple announces an iMessage feature for users to verify they are messaging only with the people they intend, plus Apple ID support for hardware security keys — Alongside a dramatic expansion of end-to-end encryption for iCloud data, Apple has two other major security announcements today.

iCloud’s new end-to-end encryption feature is coming to China, says Apple’s Craig Federighi

Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering made the remark during an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern.

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