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Stephen Totilo / Game File: Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up  —  The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch  —  One of Netflix’s most intriguing video game studios is no more. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Accel: Klarna alumni have founded 62 new startups, more than any $1B+ European fintech startup; Revolut alumni founded 49, and Wise and N26 alumni had 33 each  —  LONDON — More startups are being spun out of Swedish digital payments firm Klarna than any other financial technology unicorn in Europe … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Stripe announces a finalized deal to buy stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal was worth $1.1B; Bridge has raised $54M  —  Bridge, which has raised $54 million in funding, previously said it aspired to become the blockchain version of Stripe … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked “impossible”  —  A civil liberties organization has filed a federal lawsuit in Virginia arguing that widespread surveillance enabled by Flock … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts  —  Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brooks Barnes / New York Times: Blade Runner 2049’s producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film to promote Cybercab, despite a denied request  —  Alcon Entertainment, the Hollywood company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” said it had denied a request to use images from the movie but that Mr. Musk did so anyway. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dimpal Gulwani / Reuters: Paytm reports Q2 net profit of ~$111M, its first-ever profit, helped by the sale of its ticketing business in August 2024, and revenue down 34% YoY to ~$197.4M  —  India’s Paytm (PAYT.NS) reported a narrower sequential quarterly loss before exceptional items on Tuesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit CTOs and other senior tech professionals as uniformed, paid reservists to help in security, data analytics, and more  —  New Defense Department initiative would recruit Silicon Valley’s top technical minds to join the reserves as officers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dimpal Gulwani / Reuters: Paytm reports Q2 net profit of ~$111M, its first-ever profit, helped by the sale of its ticketing business in August; sales were down 34% YoY to $197.4M  —  India’s Paytm (PAYT.NS) reported a narrower sequential quarterly loss before exceptional items on Tuesday, as its digital payments business recovers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: A look at some use cases of Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts, which lets users create interactive single-page apps via prompts  —  I’m a huge fan of Claude’s Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) … Lees verder op Tech Meme