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Israel-based game developer Playtika lays off about 15% of its staff, or 600+ workers, and removes three titles from the pipeline; its stock is down ~53% YTD (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israel-based game developer Playtika lays off about 15% of its staff, or 600+ workers, and removes…
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Some Uber employee records, corporate reports, and IT information is leaked online; Uber says it thinks the data is related to a breach of a third-party vendor (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Some Uber employee records, corporate reports, and IT information is leaked online; Uber says it thinks…
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Similarweb: desktop visits to Twitter's ad manager fell ~74% YoY in Oct. and 85% in Nov., the largest drop since Musk's takeover; the trend continues in Dec. (Laura Forman/Wall Street Journal)

Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal: Similarweb: desktop visits to Twitter’s ad manager fell ~74% YoY in Oct. and 85%…
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Milo JasperDecember 12, 2022
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Switzerland-based Nillion, which aims to offer a decentralized network for securing storage and data computation, raised a $20M+ seed led by Distributed Global (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)

Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: Switzerland-based Nillion, which aims to offer a decentralized network for securing storage and data computation, raised…
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Milo JasperDecember 12, 2022
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FTX CEO's testimony to the US House: FTX and Alameda customer assets were commingled, insiders were paid $1B+, FTX US was not run independently of FTX, and more (U.S. House Committee on Financial Services)

U.S. House Committee on Financial Services: FTX CEO’s testimony to the US House: FTX and Alameda customer assets were commingled,…
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MessageGears, a customer engagement service rivaling MoEngage and others, raised $62M led by Long Ridge Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $80M+ (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

MessageGears, a cloud customer engagement platform, raises $62M Dan Roy, a former software engineer at Delta, says he witnessed…
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Sources: the Netherlands and Japan agree in principle to join the US in tightening chipmaking export controls, aiming to limit Beijing's semiconductor progress (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: the Netherlands and Japan agree in principle to join the US in tightening chipmaking export controls, aiming to…
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Milo JasperDecember 12, 2022
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How conservatives redefined free speech in the social media era, using the First Amendment to cement a "Right to Post" on platforms run by private companies (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)

Adam Serwer / The Atlantic: How conservatives redefined free speech in the social media era, using the First Amendment to…
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Enterprise spending management software maker Coupa agrees to be acquired by PE firm Thoma Bravo for $6.15B in cash, a 30.5% premium on its Friday closing price (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)

Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: Enterprise spending management software maker Coupa agrees to be acquired by PE firm Thoma Bravo for…
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Xiaomi announces the ~$575 Xiaomi 13 and ~$720 Xiaomi 13 Pro, adding a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, available in China, and the Watch S2, Buds 4, and more (Jules Wang/Android Police)

Jules Wang / Android Police: Xiaomi announces the ~$575 Xiaomi 13 and ~$720 Xiaomi 13 Pro, adding a Snapdragon 8…
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