Tue. 02/27 – Gaming Continues To Be A Bloodbath

If you can believe it, MOAR layoffs in gaming. Big layoffs at Sony. We might see Meta’s first AR glasses later this year. The big hack affecting US pharmacies. Hopin enters the Deadpool. And yet another startup takes at swing at the delayed gratification gimmick for social media.

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Links:

• Sony is laying off 900 PlayStation employees (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Mistral AI Investment to Be Examined by EU Watchdog (Bloomberg)
• Meta aims to reveal and demo Orion, its first true AR glasses, during its fall developer conference (Business Insider)
• US pharmacy outage triggered by 'Blackcat' ransomware at UnitedHealth unit, sources say (Reuters)
• Netflix confirms it’s cutting off Apple billing for legacy subscribers (The Verge)
• Hopin's UK business enters liquidation as it transfers HQ to the US (Sifted)
• The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of online speech (The Verge)
• Supreme Court Fears ‘Land Mines’ in Social Media Debate Over Free Speech (Bloomberg)
• Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M (TechCrunch)