The biggest announcements from today’s Made by Google event for the release of the Pixel 8 phones, Pixel Watch 2, Android 14, and a slew of new generative AI features coming to Photos, Assistant, and more are all right here.
Eurogamer and VG247 report a Team17 spokesperson confirms CEO Michael Pattison, who joined the company two years ago after leaving PlayStation, is out. In 2022, Team17 was one of the companies that announced plans for an NFT project, before backtracking.
In response to rumors of plans for layoffs with “tens of redundancies,” the statement says:
We can also confirm that we have sadly entered into a period of consultation today within Team17 Digital, with Astragon and Storytoys remaining unaffected by the restructuring plans.
After a period of beta testing, NASA rolled out an updated eighth revision of its website last week. The modernized image layouts and text look fine, even if I’m a little nostalgic for the seemingly-ancient previous version that was last updated in the mid 2010s. (The Internet Archive shows even earlier revisions, like 2007’s v5.0 update.)
This new version of NASA.gov is also launching ahead of a full NASA App revamp and NASA Plus video on-demand streaming launch later this year, promising an “ad-free, no cost, and family-friendly streaming service,” with live coverage plus collections of original video series and a few new series.
While attacks like the massive MOVEit breach have spurred regulators to implement new rules around disclosure, Progress Software released a patch for another one of its products last week (via TechCrunch).
The September 2023 update addresses “multiple vulnerabilities” in its WS_FTP file-transfer software for enterprise users who need to move data around securely, and as TechCrunch points out, security company Rapid7 reports it’s “observed multiple instances of WS_FTP exploitation in the wild.”
[community.progress.com]
Closely following the theatrical release of Taylor Swift’s concert film for her Eras Tour that broke presale records, Beyoncé announced Renaissance, a film experience captured during her 2023 tour at the tour’s final stop in Kansas City. It’s appearing in theaters starting on December 1st.
The AMC website is already showing a queue to buy tickets.
Yesterday, Epic Games filed a request for the Supreme Court to review lower court rulings in their lawsuit over Apple’s App Store rules, hoping to get a new interpretation that’s more in their favor,
Now, on Thursday, Apple submitted its own request, linked below, seeking a review to throw out the judge’s requirement that it change App Store rules barring developers from telling users about other payment options.
[DocumentCloud]
