Sources: Nintendo told game publishers the Switch 2's launch is delayed from late 2024 to Q1 2025; source: Nintendo needs more time to prepare its own games
That's according to Brazilian journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe, who claims in a new OX do Controle video that he received the information from five separate sources.
Google releases Android 15's first developer preview, with updates related to Android's Dynamic Performance Framework, privacy, the camera experience, and more
Our first official glimpse of Android 15 is here. It includes a lot of under-the-hood tweaks to strengthen communication between hardware …
Sources: OpenAI completed a deal valuing the startup at $80B or more, planning to let employees cash out their shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital
The A.I. start-up's valuation tripled in less than 10 months. — OpenAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco …
Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim
The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX and Trader Joe's, in a legal filing while fighting a case.
Apple's reversal on RCS wasn't forced by the EU, but likely by China, whose government began codifying in 2023 a requirement for new 5G devices to support RCS
We've had pretty obvious hints since early September that iMessage and Bing would be considered exempt from “gatekeeper” status, and thus exempt from the DMA.
Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content
- Social media firm agrees $60 million deal with AI company — Reddit advised to seek at least $5 billion IPO valuation
Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada must give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airline's chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support — https://arstechnica.com/... Jeffrey P. Bigham / @jbigham@hci.social : open season on “redteaming” these annoying company chatbo...
Sources: FISA's Section 702 bill was shelved over a rule that would end the government's ability to pay US firms for information rather than serving a warrant
A surprise disclosure of a national security threat by the House Intelligence chair was part of an effort to block legislation …
Sources: the UK, the US, and other allies are working to provide Ukraine with thousands of new AI-enabled drones that could swarm Russian targets simultaneously
- Technology could help Ukraine overwhelm some Russian targets — Germany's Scholz calls on EU allies to increase Ukraine aid
Epic plans to “start developing the Epic Games Store on iOS soon” and launch the store in 2024, thanks to the DMA, after Apple approved its developer account
Epic Games Store just completed theirs. — The Short Version - It's way better than yours. …
Despite Google and OpenAI's promises, Gemini and ChatGPT appear to have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinfo for the 2024 US presidential election
Google and OpenAI's chatbots have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinformation for the 2024 presidential election.
Two professional gamers sue Activision Blizzard in the US, alleging the company is unlawfully monopolizing the market for Call of Duty leagues and tournaments
Video game maker Activision Blizzard has been hit with a U.S. lawsuit claiming it restricts competition for organized gaming involving its flagship franchise “Call of Duty.”
A look at the global outreach of India's UPI, which has expanded to seven other Asian countries and now lets Indian tourists buy tickets at the Eiffel Tower
signs that show UPI is accepted there — could take up to 12 months and only then will transaction traffic pick up. India Edition by @menakadoshi LinkedIn: Menaka Doshi : 🌏Seven done, 23 more to go on ...
Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof's NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside
RT Watson / The Block :
Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on managing the company after the failed sale to Adobe, maintaining culture, using the $1B breakup fee, expansion plans, and more
Figma has a billion dollars and big plans for expansion as it emerges from the acquisition with its ‘foot on the gas.’ — Happy Friday. Mastodon: @marcedwards@mastodon.social . X: @alexeheath Mastodo...
PitchBook: VC investment in crypto rose 2.5% QoQ in Q4 2023 to $1.9B, the first rise since Q1 2022; Q4 2023 saw 12 crypto exits, the lowest number since Q4 2020
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, TikTok, X, and 11 other companies sign a voluntary accord to fight deepfakes that deliberately trick voters
we need to do more to fight this.https://apnews.com/... Nora Benavidez / @attorneynora : Voluntary promises like the one announced today simply aren't good enough to meet the global challenges facing ...
Google stopped notifying publishers of “right to be forgotten” removals, after a Swedish court ruled that informing webmasters is a breach of privacy
Move after Swedish court rules that informing webmasters about delisted content is breach of privacy
Email: Revolut is testing a cryptocurrency exchange targeted at “advanced traders”, with trading fees between 0% and 0.09%, limit and market orders, and more
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :
Sources: Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100B for an AI chip venture to rival Nvidia; one scenario involves $30B from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern investors
Welcome to Runtime! Today: why ridiculous sums of money … Pranav Dixit / Business Today : After Sam Altman, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son joins AI chip race to challenge Nvidia dominance Rupam Roy /...
Apple's Vision Pro could become a valuable multiuser device, but it undermines that fantasy at every turn through its single-user setup and more
Adi Robertson / The Verge : Threads: @jwolman . X: @mahyarm8 Threads: Jacob Wolman / @jwolman : Apple's years-long insistence on making its devices impossible to share is truly infuriating, and in ma...
Sources: the Biden administration is in talks to confer more than $10B in subsidies to Intel, in what would be the largest award yet under the CHIPS Act
Bloomberg :
Letter: 28 civil rights organizations, like Ekō and noyb, urge the EDPB to reject Meta's approach of asking EU users to pay or consent to being tracked for ads
Meta is matching existing fact checks to “near-identical content on Threads”, and says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Threads: @mikehos3 , @vintagemillennial81 , @renee.diresta , @culturecrave , @mattnavarra , @mattnavarra , and @cformiles Threads: Mike / @mikehos3 : When you forget the pe...
Google announces the AI Cyber Defense Initiative, which includes launching new AI security training and open sourcing Magika, a tool used to protect Gmail users
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