US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret
Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and cuts ~180 jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023
Video game workers just can't catch a break — Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically at this point become …
Meta rolls out the ability for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account
Meta is rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile without having to delete your Instagram account, too. You'll be able to access the new feature …
Top500: the AMD-based Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer at 1.194 EFlop/s, above the Argonne National Laboratory's Intel-based Aurora at 585.34 PFlop/s
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware :
A eulogy for coding, which has always felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after ChatGPT swallowed knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master
Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
Epic v. Google: Google agreed to pay Samsung $8B over four years in 2020 to make Google Search, Play Store, and Assistant the default on Samsung mobile devices
- Google paid Samsung $8 billion over four years, jurors told — Epic Games is trying to show Alphabet unit undercut rivalry
Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA's filing shows that Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales from its early 2022 launch through H1 2023
The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they upload realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including videos made using its tools, in 2024
Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties — YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
A look at Aurora, the Intel- and HPE-made, Argonne National Laboratory-based supercomputer, set to be the first to hit two quintillion operations per second
That's two billion billion operations a second, enough to explore the brain and discover drugs — LEMONT, Ill.—Inside …
Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices, targeting up to 620K URLs
Two men who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to bombard Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs …
Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups urge Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to not reauthorize FISA's Section 702, set to expire on December 31, 2023
More than 30 civil liberties and privacy groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday urging …
Google sues unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam for tricking US-based SMB owners with Facebook accounts into clicking fake Bard ads that install malware
Lawsuit attributes the alleged scheme to hackers in India and Vietnam — Scammers are capitalizing on the rush of consumer interest …
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$47.7B and net income up 11% YoY to ~$1.3B, and lowers its outlook for its components business to flat YoY
- It also revised down forecast for components business segment — Company beat average profit estimate in the September quarter
Investigation: for over six months, the FBI has known the identities of 12+ hackers tied to the MGM and Caesars breaches, baffling experts at the lack of action
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that's … X: @ericgeller . Forums: r/cybersecurity X: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Reuters reports...
A profile of Geoffrey Hinton, who argues that by analyzing human writing, LLMs like GPT can comprehend the meanings of words and learn how the world works
Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours.
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers collect and sell browsing data in greater detail than previously known, including on those in sensitive jobs
Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail
Amazon updates Buy With Prime to let customers return items outside of Amazon.com without its shipping labels and see their order history in merchants' apps
Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is adding package tracking and return services for subscription members who use Buy With Prime …
Microsoft and Google do not plan to challenge their EU DMA “gatekeeper” status, before a November 16 deadline; sources say TikTok and Meta may file challenges
Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will not challenge an EU law that would require them to make it easier …
Civitai, where users share AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, announces a $5M seed led by a16z, after launching a “bounties” feature
A16z has invested in Civitai, which a 404 Media investigation has shown profits from the creation of nonconsensual AI-generated porn of real people.
Sources: instead of a 51% stake, Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its search engine, after pressures tied to Russia's war in Ukraine
- Deal to sell Russian unit may be announced in December — Dutch-registered Yandex previously planned to sell a 51% stake
A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on how he changed tech gadget reviews, business strategy, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more
Marques Brownlee has rewired the way people shop for gadgets—and how companies sell them. Inside the humble workshop …
Foxconn says the company has contingency plans in case of repercussions in China over founder Terry Gou's Taiwan presidential campaign; Gou holds 12% of Foxconn
Foxconn makes preparations as Terry Gou secures enough signatures to contest the January election
After Apple voiced support for California's Right to Repair Act, a look at what's next for the movement, like tackling unsustainable designs and software locks
most notably getting longtime repair foe Apple to concede and support a bill in its home state of California—is that the new legal guarantees around repair ONLY address market competition. … X: @benlo...
WhatsApp launches a Discord-like voice chat feature for large groups that is designed to be less disruptive than a group call, which rings every group member
Salesforce names executive Denise Dresser as Slack's CEO, the unit's third leader in the past year; Dresser was Salesforce's president of accelerated industries
The Biden administration directs agencies to work toward giving up airwaves to make room for commercial 5G networks, as part of the National Spectrum Strategy
London-based Fnality, which is developing a blockchain-based wholesale payment system, raised a £77.7M Series B led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas
Anna Irrera / Bloomberg :
Uber plans to test Uber Tasks, a TaskRabbit-like service that lets users hire people to complete household tasks, in Fort Myers and Edmonton in the coming weeks
7 jobs the app can do X: Ana Milicevic / @aexm : Today in: every app is becoming every other app @jason : Predict Uber Tasks will be as big as transportation and food delivery. Nathan Resnick / @nater...
Hochatown, a tiny town in Oklahoma that gets ~50K visitors to its 2,400+ cabins on weekends, highlights the “Airbnb effect” of rentals exploding in rural areas
https://lnkd.in/gPT5ZJPY Julie Satow : I didn't believe it when I was told there was a tiny enclave in Oklahoma that went from zero to half a million dollars a month in sales tax. …
A look at OpenAI's structure where a six-member non-profit board can decide if the company has achieved AGI, which would exclude Microsoft from some IP licenses
https://lnkd.in/gW-uH3cM … Sharon Goldman : NEW: According to OpenAI, the six members of its nonprofit board of directors will determine when the company has “attained AGI” — which it defines as … Mat...
Internal conversations reveal how Etsy struggled to develop clear, consistent moderation policies and to manage employees' feelings around the Israel-Hamas war
Casey Newton / Platformer :
Sources: Airbnb acquires Gameplanner.AI, in a deal valued at ~$200M, to accelerate some of its AI projects, marking its first acquisition as a public company
- Airbnb has made its first acquisition as a public company, in a deal valued at just under $200 million, sources familiar with the deal told CNBC.
Counterpoint: Chinese smartphone sales grew 11% YoY in October, led by Huawei, up 83% due to the Mate 60, and Xiaomi, up 33%; iPhone sales were unusually muted
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg :
Uber rolls out new tools to identify US riders or Uber Eats users who consistently give bad ratings or feedback to get refunds, to reduce unfair deactivations
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Sources: EU regulators plan to file anti-competitive charges against Adobe's $20B Figma deal as early as this week; the duo announced the deal in September 2022
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times :
New York regulators draft cybersecurity rules that require hospitals to assess risks and use tech like MFA, develop and test incident response plans, and more
Too many organizations choose to obfuscate, mislead, or be tight-lipped in their data breach disclosures, and regulations are needed to force more transparency
Maybe you can do an OpEd on your site, too, and we can start to get more people publicly speaking up on this issue. …
Divergent Technologies, which sells a digital industrial production system that uses 3D printing and AI-driven tools, raised a $230M Series D led by Hexagon AB
Michael Molitch-Hou / 3DPrint :
Sources: ByteDance's revenue rose 40%+ YoY to $29B in Q2, with markets outside of China accounting for nearly 20% of its total, and H1 2023 revenue hit ~$54B
Cory Weinberg / The Information : X: @natebecker . LinkedIn: Jessica E. Lessin X: Nate Becker / @natebecker : A cool $29 billion scoop this morning from @coryweinberg @JuroOsawa and @jingyanghk: That...
Amazon reaches a deal with Snap that lets users buy Amazon products directly from Snapchat ads, closely resembling Amazon's Meta ad deal announced on November 9
Amazon partners with Pinterest, Meta, now Snap! 🔥 — Fantastic news for Amazon sellers looking … Theo Wayt : How seriously is Amazon taking the threat of TikTok Shop? Well... Amazon has reached a ...
South Korea's trade ministry: memory chip exports increased for the first time in 16 months, up 1% YoY in October after declining 18% YoY in September 2023
Sam Kim / Bloomberg :
RIL, a nonprofit coalition of tech VCs and executives, releases voluntary guidelines for startups to build AI responsibly, signed by Bain, IVP, and 33 other VCs
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg :
Internal Brex data: Q3 annualized net revenue hit $283M, up 1% QoQ, and the company is far from profitable, as the growth spurt after SVB's collapse trails away
Mark Matousek / The Information : Bluesky: @caseynewton.bsky.social . X: @coryweinberg Bluesky: Casey Newton / @caseynewton.bsky.social : I wonder if looking back Brex would still decide to stop serv...
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