Didi reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to ~$7B, a ~$14.7M net income, up from a ~$274M loss in Q3 2022, and plans to buy back $1B in shares over the next 24 months (Reuters)

Reuters:
Didi reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to ~$7B, a ~$14.7M net income, up from a ~$274M loss in Q3 2022, and plans to buy back $1B in shares over the next 24 months  —  Didi Global, China's largest ride-hailing company, on Monday reported its first quarterly profit since 2021 …

Q&A with Microsoft EVP of Business Development Chris Young on the AI hype, Microsoft making a business out of AI, the non-tech early adopters of AI, and more (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)

Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal:
Q&A with Microsoft EVP of Business Development Chris Young on the AI hype, Microsoft making a business out of AI, the non-tech early adopters of AI, and more  —  Top strategy executive views nontech customers as artificial intelligence's big untapped market

Investigation: Biobank, the UK's biomedical research database, shared sensitive health data of ~500K volunteers with insurance companies despite pledging not to (Shanti Das/The Guardian)

Shanti Das / The Guardian:
Investigation: Biobank, the UK's biomedical research database, shared sensitive health data of ~500K volunteers with insurance companies despite pledging not to  —  Observer investigation reveals UK Biobank opened its biomedical database to insurance firms despite pledge it would not do so

Esports leaders discuss ongoing industry challenges, including VC bubbles, layoffs, and ageism, and call for wealthy game studios to take on more responsibility (Kate Irwin/Decrypt)

Kate Irwin / Decrypt:
Esports leaders discuss ongoing industry challenges, including VC bubbles, layoffs, and ageism, and call for wealthy game studios to take on more responsibility  —  Decrypt's investigation reveals ongoing challenges in the young esports industry—including VC bubbles, layoffs, and ageism—and where it's going.

Netflix is adding these games for mobile devices

Netflix has announced that it will be offering games to its subscribers on multiple platforms, including mobile devices and TVs. Some of the titles that will be accessible on mobile devices include Hades, a rogue-lite dungeon crawler game, and Braid, a classic time-manipulation title. Death's Door, a Zelda-like adventure game, will be a mobile exclusive. Other games based on Netflix shows and movies, such as Katana Zero and Money Heist, are also on the way. https://ift.tt/Ongl54H

Foxconn launches two prototype low-Earth orbit communication satellites on a SpaceX rocket, as the company diversifies into new sectors with greater urgency (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Foxconn launches two prototype low-Earth orbit communication satellites on a SpaceX rocket, as the company diversifies into new sectors with greater urgency  —  - Taiwan's Foxconn wants to replicate outsourcing model in orbit  — Company launches first two LEO satellites on a SpaceX rocket