Tue. 10/10 – The Veil Between Online And IRL Is Thin

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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That whole bungled pricing thing has cost the Unity CEO his job. The big 23andMe breach is a different kind of hack. And it turns out if you fall victim to a scam, it’s probably because you were online. Can you charge enough to cover the costs of AI products? And is the Pixel brand finally having a moment. Sponsors: ipn.ibotta.com/ride TryFum.com code ride Links: John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing battle (GamesBeat) 23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped (ArsTechnica) Social media scams are costing Americans more than ever (TechRadar) Big Tech Struggles to Turn AI Hype Into Profits (WSJ) Google has shipped almost 40 million Pixel phones since 2016, 10 million last year (9to5Google) Elon Musk’s X Cut Disinformation-Fighting Tool Ahead of Israel-Hamas Conflict (The Information) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, October 10th, 2023.
0:07.6	I'm Brian McCullough. Today, that whole bungled pricing thing has cost the Unity
0:12.0	CEO his job. The big 23 and me breach is a different
0:16.1	kind of hack and it turns out if you fall victim to a scam it's probably because you
0:20.5	were online. Can you charge enough to cover the cost of AI products?
0:24.0	And is the Pixel brand finally having a moment? Here's what you miss today in the world of
0:28.6	Tech.
0:30.8	Unity CEO John Risset Tielo has resigned in the wake of the company's fee controversy.
0:39.7	Unity went ahead and named former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO, quoting Venture Beat.
0:48.0	Meanwhile, hoping to avoid a stock panic, Unity said that it is reaffirming its previous guidance for its fiscal third quarter financial results, which will be reported on November 9th.
0:59.0	Rolloff, both the lead independent director of the Unity Board has been appointed Chairman.
1:03.8	Riticello will continue to advise Unity to ensure a smooth transition, the company said.
1:08.8	The news isn't a surprise as Unity angered a lot of its loyal game developers a few weeks ago after pushing
1:14.3	through a price increase based on the number of downloads and then retracted it after an uproar.
1:20.5	Unity said the board will initiate a comprehensive search process with the assistance of a leading executive search firm to identify a permanent CEO.
1:28.0	Whitehurst is a seasoned technology and public company executive.
1:32.0	He previously served as senior advisor and president Company Executive. He previously served as Senior
1:33.6	Advisor and President at IBM. After joining through IBM's
1:37.2	acquisition of Red Hat, a leading provider of open source enterprise IT
1:41.0	products and services where he served as President and CEO was forced to confirm that
1:59.7	user data from its platform was circulating on hacker forums.
2:04.3	Hackers, possibly the same ones, then posted an initial 23 and me data sample on
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