Adobe will need EU okay to acquire Figma, regulators say

The move by the European Commission underlines regulators' worries on Big Tech acquiring smaller innovative rivals and the impact on competition. https://ift.tt/wszFOcy

A year on from Meta hyping the metaverse in a dystopian Super Bowl ad, enthusiasm for a virtual future has evaporated and Meta is now more focused on efficiency (Jemima Kelly/Financial Times)

Jemima Kelly / Financial Times:
A year on from Meta hyping the metaverse in a dystopian Super Bowl ad, enthusiasm for a virtual future has evaporated and Meta is now more focused on efficiency  —  Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away — and so is investment  —  Remember when we were all going to ditch our humdrum lives …

Jaime Rogozinski, who created r/WallStreetBets, sues Reddit, arguing the company breached its contract by removing him as a moderator in 2020 (Akane Otani/Wall Street Journal)

Akane Otani / Wall Street Journal:
Jaime Rogozinski, who created r/WallStreetBets, sues Reddit, arguing the company breached its contract by removing him as a moderator in 2020  —  Jaime Rogozinski says site ousted him without claim; Reddit calls suit frivolous  —  WallStreetBets' founder is suing the site where it all began.

Sources: a China-based former ASML employee stole data from Teamcenter, a Siemens-made internal tool used to store technical info, in the past couple of months (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: a China-based former ASML employee stole data from Teamcenter, a Siemens-made internal tool used to store technical info, in the past couple of months  —  A China-based former employee of ASML Holding NV — a critical cog in the global semiconductor industry …

Microsoft reflects on the new Bing: 71% gave AI answers a thumbs up, Bing can become repetitive after 15+ questions, a few sessions over two hours, and more (Bing Blogs)

Bing Blogs:
Microsoft reflects on the new Bing: 71% gave AI answers a thumbs up, Bing can become repetitive after 15+ questions, a few sessions over two hours, and more  —  A little over a week ago, we shared an all new, AI-powered Bing search engine, Edge web browser, and integrated Chat, that we think of as Your Copilot for the Web.

A brief history of Rust, a programming language that emerged from a side project and has been instrumental in driving the shift toward memory safe programming (Clive Thompson/MIT Technology Review)

Clive Thompson / MIT Technology Review:
A brief history of Rust, a programming language that emerged from a side project and has been instrumental in driving the shift toward memory safe programming  —  For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++.  Now they turn to Rust.  —  Many software projects emerge because …