Elon Musk got new support for his OpenAI lawsuit in filings last week, including from tech advocacy group Encode, backed by AI researchers like Geoffrey Hinton
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Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure
Unfortunately for big tech, JD Vance is a big fan of Lina Khan and has described here as “doing a pretty good job” so the election is unlikely to be a respite from FTC investigations. … X: Daniel Newm...
Filing: to settle a 2020 class action lawsuit over Chrome's Incognito mode, Google agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected
Over 100 Billion Private Browsing Records To Be Deleted Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide : Google Incognito mode was never private — and now Google's being forced to delete all the data Grace Eliza Goodwin...
Google agrees to pay $350M to settle a lawsuit over a Google+ security lapse that exposed personal data; people who bought stock in 2018-2019 can get a share
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post : X: @rustybrick X: Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : Google+ back from the grave - well, for a lawsuit
Epic ruling is a win for Apple as it costs the company just a few billion annually and doesn't force Apple to change its fees or let 3rd-party app stores on iOS
one of the linchpins of the internet economy — may be ending.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Great summary/quotes. Look beyond the (one) headline. #epicvapple It is very rar...
Sources detail US antitrust investigations into Google, which are focusing on how the company bundles its ad tools in potentially anticompetitive ways
Bloomberg : Tweets: @alistairmbarr , @jason_kint , @gerritd , @thekenyeung , and @mhbergen See also Mediagazer Tweets: Alistair Barr / @alistairmbarr : U.S. officials building an antitrust case again...