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Just recently, the company had to lay off an enormous 11,000 employees. That’s about 13% of its entire workforce, and it’s more than several big companies even have. That’s nearly twice the entire Twitter workforce before its own massive job cut. This massive layoff came about because Meta’s stock plummeted more than 70% this year, and it’s hemorrhaging money. The company has been burning through money on the Metaverse, and Apple cut off its access to iPhone customer data, which was a massive revenue stream for the company....

This is good news for people who’ve been pining for one of these systems since they were announced. Getting an Xbox Series X/S, PS5, or even a Nintendo Switch has been a chore due to the pandemic, the chip shortage, and far-too-many scalpers on the market. This was only made worse by the fact that Sony announced a price hike on the PS5 systems. Some markets outside of the US saw a price increase of around $35....

At first, it may be surprising to see Mozilla and Meta working together to track ads. Mozilla has always been a serious critic of Meta (formerly Facebook) regarding privacy and security. This collaboration will definitely not make Mozilla users and fans happy. As the company reports in its blog, they want to collaborate with Meta over developing “a new proposal that aims to enable conversion measurement – or attribution – for advertising called Interoperable Private Attribution, or IPA....

Netflix estimates that there are roughly 100 million “additional households” using the platform in addition to the 222 million households that actually pay for the service. Around 30 million of the additional households are from the U.S. and Canada. This comes in the wake of the platform bumping up its subscription prices. “​​Account sharing as a percentage of our paying membership hasn’t changed much over the years, but, coupled with the first factor, means it’s harder to grow membership in many markets – an issue that was obscured by our COVID growth,” the letter read (via The Verge)....

So far it seems to be present in only a small number of the games available in its app. Including Into The Breach, Bowling Ballers, Mahjong Solitaire, and Heads Up!. With game handles being rolled out for Into The Breach as early as July 19 of this year. Netflix hasn’t confirmed when it plans to roll out game handles for its other mobile games but it appears the company is working on expanding the feature....