Apple says JPMorgan will issue Apple Card, replacing Goldman, with an expected two-year transition; sources: Goldman is offloading ~$20B in outstanding balances
Goldman Sachs is offloading the credit-card balances at a more than $1 billion discount — JPMorgan Chase has reached a deal …
Disney and YouTube settle their legal dispute over YouTube's hiring in May of former Disney executive Justin Connolly to be global head of media and sports
Dominic Patten / Deadline :
At the White House dinner, Zuckerberg said Meta plans to spend “something like at least $600B” through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the US
but good: if he wants to waste this much money on AI this will probably bankrupt his wretched company. time it went away, anyway. — just a pity about the pollution it will cause....
The US NTSB says it will not email news outlets and reporters with updates about the two recent plane crashes, and will instead post updates on its X account
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates …
Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels
Sigh. Streaming TV prices are going to get obscene in 2025. — www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24... Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social : TL;DR: Venu Sports, the anticipated joint st...
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit — Disney announced a deal …
The US arrests a US Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, who sold sensitive customer call records stolen from AT&T and Verizon in the Snowflake hack
Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m …
Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more
“All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”
A look at Apple's strategy to keep executives who wish to retire; sources: the M4 Mac mini will have five USB-C and no USB-A ports, and an internal power supply
Apple's succession strategy has come into focus with the upcoming exit of its chief financial officer.
A look at Apple's slow AI features rollout, impressive visionOS 2 beta, and plans for the thinnest, lightest devices in tech in time for the iPhone 17 in 2025
Apple will gradually roll out its new Intelligence features over several months, seeking to avoid the pitfalls that have plagued other AI systems.
Apple is seeking a senior engineer to help build a TV and sports app for Android, a sign the company is bringing its TV+ service to the rival platform
will Apple reveal more at WWDC 2024? David Joseppi / The Apple Post : Apple working on Apple TV+ app for Android, according to new job listing Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Apple TV coul...
X launches Stories on X, with news curated and summarized by Grok AI, available for Premium subscribers in the Explore tab on iOS and on the web
X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app's Explore section.
Sources: US intelligence determined that the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the US in January and February 2023 used a US ISP to communicate with China
An American intelligence assessment found that the balloon used a commercially available U.S. network to communicate, primarily for navigation, U.S. officials say.
Filing: LG suspends including IP-based broadcast signaling standard ATSC 3.0 in its 2024 lineup of US TVs due to a “challenging and uncertain patent landscape”
Citing a ‘challenging and uncertain patent landscape,’ LG has suspended the inclusion of ATSC 3.0 tech in its 2024 TV lineup.
Twitter sets “daily limits” on the number of direct messages that accounts without Twitter Blue can send, as part of changes to reduce spam in DMs
Michael Kan / PCMag :
Twitter says unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of direct messages they can send, as part of changes to reduce spam in DMs
It looks like Elon Musk really wants users to pay for Twitter Blue. … In another controversial change, Twitter will restrict the number …
Sources: Google tests an AI tool to produce news stories, pitching the service to the NYT, WaPo, News Corp, and other outlets as a helpmate for journalists
The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp …
OnePlus Pad review: a bright screen, excellent build quality, and snappy performance, but limited built-in apps, subpar keyboard and stylus, and a mid-tier CPU
OnePlus' first tablet brings high-end features and specs to a midrange price point. It reminds me of the OnePlus we used to know.
Twitter bans Wired's Dell Cameron for covering that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account was hacked; Wired denies breaking Twitter's hacked materials policy
lob insults at Ben Shapiro CT Jones / Rolling Stone : He Reported on a Twitter Hack. Musk's Free Speech Haven Kicked Him Out Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast : Journalist Banned F...