A look at Twitter's culture before Elon Musk's takeover, when employees focused on improving the health of online conversations rather than growth at all costs
the early '10s, Twitter was at the height of its power. The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role …
Google's Epic loss, where a jury found Google guilty on all 11 antitrust claims, may portend its legal fate in two, more significant US antitrust cases in 2024
A trio of antitrust cases on the docket threaten to reshape Google's business and sap its profits.
Tesla plans to update Autopilot in 2M+ vehicles after the NHTSA issued a recall and called its safety measures inadequate and open to misuse, after a long probe
- US regulator finds system doesn't do enough to prevent misuse — Agency will keep defect investigation open, monitor remedies
Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023's first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023
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Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed
Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.
The EU Council and Parliament agree a deal to reclassify millions of ride-hailing and food delivery app workers as staff, possibly costing the industry billions
European Union negotiators backed a deal to reclassify millions of people working for ride-hailing and food-delivery apps …
Google announces Gemini Pro for enterprises, letting Cloud clients build apps for free, with some limits, and plans to add Gemini Pro to AI Studio and Vertex AI
Gemini Pro is aimed at businesses and app developers — Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced a slate of upgraded artificial intelligence features …
Apple expands Self Service Repair to the iPhone 15 lineup and M2 Macs, brings the program to 24 new countries, and releases an Apple Diagnostics tool in the US
Apple today announced it has expanded its Self Service Repair program to cover the iPhone 15 lineup and Mac models powered by M2 chips …
Apple updates its law enforcement guidelines to now require a judge's order before handing over users' push notification data, instead of only a subpoena
Apple (AAPL.O) has said it now requires a judge's order to hand over information about its customers' push notification to law enforcement …
Sources: 3AC co-founder Su Zhu for the first time faced questioning in a Singapore court about the fund's collapse; Teneo estimates 3AC owes creditors ~$3.3B
- Failed crypto fund's co-founder Zhu was arrested in September — Liquidators seek information for creditors owed $3.3 billion
Coinbase Asset Management debuts Project Diamond, combining Coinbase's custody tools, wallet, L2 network Base, and Circle's USDC to create a capital marketplace
“Project Diamond” lets institutions create and trade digital native versions of financial instruments such as debt using Base in a regulated manner.
Google announces MedLM, a family of AI models fine-tuned for the medical industries and based on Med-PaLM 2, available to Google Cloud customers in the US
- Google on Wednesday announced a suite of new health-care AI models called MedLM. — The move marks Google's latest attempt …
Meta is working to extend its fact-checking to Threads early next year; its fact-checking now only rates Threads content matching posts on Facebook or Instagram
The program will roll out next year, according to executives. — Threads is going to make an effort to moderate more of the user-generated content on the platform.
Axel Springer signs a multiyear deal with OpenAI, which plans to offer ChatGPT news summaries and use Politico, Business Insider, and others to train AI models
Generative-AI company reaches multiyear pact with owner of Politico, Business Insider and major European properties
Google releases Imagen 2, launched in preview in May 2023 and built using Google DeepMind tech, offering “significantly” improved image quality and new features
Google's making the second generation of Imagen, its AI model that can create and edit images given a text prompt …
Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses as an early access beta in the US, letting Meta AI answer voice queries by taking and analyzing photos
I tried these Ray-Ban AI glasses, and they're pretty wild. Here's how the experimental feature works. — “Hey, Meta.
A parliamentary report warns the UK is vulnerable to a “catastrophic ransomware attack at any moment” because of the government's failures to tackle ransomware
Because of the British government's failures to tackle ransomware, there is a “high risk” the country faces a …
Coinbase rolls out spot crypto trading on its international exchange as part of a global expansion, letting investors trade bitcoin and ether against USDC
- Hazy regulatory outlook deters some investors from US venues … Institutional investors can initially trade Bitcoin and Ether …
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses beating Google, but not Apple, thanks to a jury trial, Google erasing chats, and because “Apple didn't write anything down”
Amazon launches Your Books, a hub to let users organize all of their books, including print, Kindle, and Audible titles, while also providing recommendations
Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns.
Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate claims to have hacked Russia's state tax service and that Russia has been trying to restore the service for four days
Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia's state tax service with malware …
Google, Meta, Qualcomm, and seven other tech companies form the Coalition for Open Digital Ecosystems, aiming to promote open digital ecosystems in the EU
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed up to push …
Microsoft warns that threat actors are misusing OAuth apps to automate phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for crypto mining
Microsoft warns that financially-motivated threat actors are using OAuth applications to automate BEC and phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for cryptomining.
Apple releases an iOS beta with Stolen Device Protection; if enabled, the feature limits actions like Apple ID password resets when not in a “familiar location”
here's how it works James Bentley / iMore : Apple debuts new highly-requested feature to stop thieves who steal your iPhone Ashwin / Ghacks : Apple introduces Stolen Device Protection for iPhone with ...
A Pew survey of US adults finds ~38% support a federal TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023; Republicans' support of a ban dropped from 60% to 50%
A new Pew survey suggests that the Republican-led push to ban the app will face a huge challenge in persuading voters, many of whom use the app themselves
The FCC issues a final denial of Starlink's request for $885M to expand rural coverage, saying Starlink “failed to demonstrate” an ability to offer the service
The FCC has made a final denial of Starlink's application for $885 million in public funds to expand …
Etsy plans to lay off 11% of its workforce, or ~225 employees, as the e-commerce marketplace grapples with slow consumer spending and increased competition
Etsy is laying off roughly 11% of its workforce, a spokesperson confirmed, as the e-commerce site that helps small businesses sell …
A profile of Mena Kato, Microsoft's head of Japan partnerships, who is trying to reverse years of failure selling Xbox in a Sony and Nintendo dominated market
- Japanese studios need to go beyond PlayStation, Mena Kato says — Sony and Nintendo command country's video game market
Sources: the EU plans to hit Apple with a ban on anti-steering App Store rules for music streaming rivals and a possible fine in 2024, after Spotify's complaint
- EU to ban allegedly abusive App Store rules for music rivals — Antitrust decision due early 2024 and could come with fines
Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division ends perpetual licenses, moves to subscriptions, and makes a “dramatic simplification” of its product portfolio
Now that our acquisition by Broadcom has successfully completed … Ed Targett / The Stack : Broadcom is killing off VMware perpetual licences and strong-arming users onto subscriptions Larry Dignan / C...
Microsoft releases Phi-2, an AI language model the company says outperforms Mistral and Llama 2 at 7B and 13B parameters and is small enough to run on a phone
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A profile of Nandini Jammi, co-founder of Check My Ads, a nonprofit ad watchdog that works to cut off the revenue streams of far-right creators and publishers
Nandini Jammi is fighting to defund right-wing influencers like Alex Jones — When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer …
Google plans to shorten Maps' default auto-delete history feature from 18 months to three months and let users store Maps Timeline data locally on their devices
and it's good for your privacy Aman Gupta / Livemint : Google Maps is bringing THESE 5 privacy-focused upgrades on Android and iOS. Here's what you should know Saurav Dey / KnowTechie : Google Maps up...
The US Senate confirms former National Security Agency executive director Harry Coker as the next National Cyber Director, 10 months after Chris Inglis resigned
Worldcoin now supports World ID integrations with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify, and Mercado Libre, on top of Discord and others, and debuts World ID 2.0
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The UK Judicial Office issues guidance letting judges use AI tools like ChatGPT, while warning of their shortcomings, for tasks such as writing legal rulings
Denver-based True Anomaly, which designs hardware and software for military and intelligence space reconnaissance, raised a $100M Series B led by Riot Ventures
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Kakao names Shina Chung, who joined in 2014 and leads its VC arm, as its CEO; Chung is a rare female leader in South Korea's male-dominated business sphere
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Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh are promoting AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools ahead of the January 2024 elections
Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times : X: @1br0wn , @areeqchowdhury , @tobywalsh , and @valayism X: Ian Brown / @1br0wn : “It's easy for a politician to say, ‘This is deepfake’, or 'This is #AI-generate...
Airbnb agrees to pay €576M to Italian authorities to end a long-running tax dispute, covering 2017 to 2021, that led the country to seize funds in November 2023
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Fujitsu plans to sell its chip packaging unit Shinko Electric for ~$4.8B to a group led by Japan Investment Corp., in an effort to offload non-core operations
Ampere: Disney+ and Hulu combined would have more popular titles in the US than any other service and its catalog size would rank second only to Prime Video
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Hackers breached Coin Cloud, which went bankrupt in February 2023, and stole the data of 300K users; source: the Bitcoin ATM company didn't have a security team
A look at Praxis, which raised $19.2M from Paradigm, Alameda Research, and others to build a city on the Mediterranean for tech bros and downtown NY tastemakers
Paris-based Pivot, which sells spend management and procurement software, raised a €20M Series A, after raising a €5M pre-seed in April 2023
Just 6 months after our creation and 2 months after announcing our €5M Pre-Seed …
Sources: ByteDance cancels the Pico 5, an upcoming VR headset from its Pico subsidiary, after Pico 4 sales fell far short of expectations and the VR market sags
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Sources: Foxconn plans to invest at least $1B more, on top of the $1.6B allocated earlier, in to its 300-acre Bengaluru plant to make Apple devices
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Line Next, an LY Corporation unit that focuses on NFTs and currently has 5.5M users globally, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel-backed Crescendo Equity Partners
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Q&A with USDS head Mina Hsiang, who previously worked for HealthCare.gov, on having more job applicants in 2023 than in any prior year, AI chatbots, and more
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As Taiwan's government rejects suggestions that the chip industry was crowding out other sectors, a look at TSMC's outsized economic role ahead of the elections
The Drucker Institute's Management Top 250 ranking shows tech still leads; Microsoft was first for the fourth year, followed by Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, and IBM
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Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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