Pink slips and "challenging environments" at Hasbro, Etsy, Cruise & Twit; San Fran tech CEO slave contract; Epic will case vs Google; Meta fact-checking plan for Threads; Starlink loses out on subsidies; Microsoft plays nice with unions; Tesla's Swedish Trash Metal, recalls over Autopilot software, Cybertruck; SpaceX & Blue Origin; communing with the whales; more Traitors; Slow Horses; Sliced Bread; streaming consolidation & confusion; Netflix metrics; Murderbot; Apple updates; GM drops CarPlay for... safety; Mistral; E3 is officially dead; Teresa Strasser; Longitude by Dave Sobel; Charlie Stross Accelerando; hello, Computer?
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Hasbro to cut 1,100 jobs despite Dungeons & Dragons thriving
Etsy stock falls after company lays off 11% of its staff, citing ‘very challenging’ environment
Massive Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise
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IN THE NEWS
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
Meta is going to fact-check content on the Threads app
Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies
Microsoft agrees to union contract terms involving the use of AI
Tesla's Fight With Swedish Unions Just Got Trashy
Tesla Recalls 2 Million Vehicles Over Autopilot Software Issue
Tesla could still sue Cybertruck owners if they flip their vehicles too soon
Watch a Cybertruck get towed by a Ford pickup after the Tesla appears to get stuck off-roading
Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment
Researchers fuse lab-grown human brain tissue with electronics
SpaceX shares cinematic footage of last month’s Starship mission
Bezos’ Blue Origin aiming to make long-awaited return to launch next week
MEDIA CANDY
Showtime's Cable Channel Is Changing Its Name to... Paramount+ With Showtime
Google begins shifting users from Play Movies & TV ahead of its January shutdown
Netflix’s first engagement report reveals its most popular shows and movies
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Explains Why It Has Been Hiding All That Streaming Data
Tucker Carlson Launches Subscription Streamer, Because X Reportedly Couldn’t Do the Job
Apple will reportedly reward artists for offering music in spatial audio
Apple is making a Murderbot series starring Alexander Skarsgård
APPS & DOODADS
iOS 17.2 and Apple's new Journal app are now available
Apple tvOS 17.2 has a redesigned TV experience and no iTunes Movies or TV Shows apps
Apple launches Stolen Device Protection for iPhone with iOS 17.3 beta, here’s how it works
GM’s latest excuse for dropping CarPlay is its dumbest yet
Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI
OpenAI inks deal with Axel Springer on licensing news for model training
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