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Google tells Canada's government it will remove Canadian news links from Search, News, and Discover and close Google News Showcase when Bill C-18 takes effect — President of Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet … The Government of Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C-18 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/canada, r/CanadianConservative, and r/worldnews
| Kotaku: |
Niantic lays off 230 employees, closes its Los Angeles studio, and moves away from in-house game development, saying its expenses grew faster than its revenue — Pokémon Go will remain one of Niantic's top priorities moving forward — Niantic is shuttering its Los Angeles studio …
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Forums: r/Games, r/PikminBloomApp, r/nbaallworldhub, and r/Ingress
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Inflection AI, a startup led by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman that released its Pi chatbot in May 2023, raised $1.3B, a source says at a $4B valuation — Backed by Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman …
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Twitter: @mustafasuleymn, @ericschmidt, @alexrkonrad, @alex, @mhbergen, @trace_cohen, @tomaxwell, @alexrkonrad, @dan_jeffries1, @saranormous, @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, and @nic__carter. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad blocker users to three videos, giving them the option to turn off their tool or subscribe to YouTube Premium — YouTube is currently running what it describes as a “small experiment globally,” warning users to toggle off their ad blockers …
More: Android Authority, Android Police, The Verge, Android Central, TechRadar, SlashGear, and Thurrott
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start with select Android app developers as soon as in 2023 — Meta is planning to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads, setting the company up to eventually compete with Google and Apple's app stores.
More: 9to5Mac and Social Media Today
Mastodon: @syaochan@mastodon.online. Twitter: @drbarnard, @supbagholder, @alexeheath, @philwinkle, @supbagholder, and @supbagholder. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Fidelity refiles for a spot bitcoin ETF with the US SEC, after similar applications from BlackRock, Invesco, WisdomTree, Valkyrie, Bitwise, and others — Fidelity Investments is the latest financial services heavyweight to throw its name into the race to offer the first US exchange-traded fund investing in Bitcoin.| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes — In December 2021, San Francisco police were working to solve the murder of an Uber driver. As detectives reviewed local surveillance footage …
Mastodon: @jann@twit.social. Twitter: @rachelmetz, @lancemackwilson, @eff, @sarahfrier, and @tomaxwell. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on “Public Intellectual Marc”, software and the physical world, his AI essay, COVID-19, Twitter, China, a16z, crypto bets, and more — Today's Stratechery Interview — and the last Interview of the summer — is with Marc Andreessen.
Mastodon: @TradingPlacesResearch …. Twitter: @bmorrissey, @packym, @sarthakgh, and @jrichlive. Forums: Hacker News
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft adds AI-powered shopping tools, including GPT-generated buying guides in the US, to its Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in Edge's sidebar — Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar.
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Twitter: @yusuf_i_mehdi and @tomwarren
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure's cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022; AWS generated $72B in revenue in the same period — For years Microsoft has kept a lid on details about the true size of its Azure cloud server rental business …
More: SiliconANGLE and The Verge
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| Reuters: |
US authorities charge three men for allegedly making $22M+ via insider trading over a planned SPAC merger between Trump Media, which runs Truth Social, and DWAC — U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged three Florida men with making more than $22 million through insider trading in late 2021 ahead …
More: U.S. Securities …, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Hill, Livemint, and Axios
Twitter: @bettingbruiser, @mopeng, and @reuterslegal
| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Ontario-based Passage, which is building a service that helps immigrants access financing to learn and work in Canada, raised a CA$40M seed led by Drive Capital — Ex-ApplyBoard CEO plans to finance skilled immigrants that meet Canada's workforce needs. — After spending seven years … | Bloomberg: |
Documents and sources: in the coming weeks, the FTC plans to file a far-reaching antitrust lawsuit against Amazon's marketplace, after months of honing its case — Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission has already filed three cases against Amazon.com Inc. Now she's gearing up for the Big One.
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Twitter: @progresschamber, @gdufault, @rbreich, and @annaedge4
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| Richard Priday / Tom's Guide: |
Asus Zenfone 10 review: compact for a 5.9" display, powerful performance, and excellent battery life, but limited cameras and only two years of software updates — Everything you need in a premium Android phone, in a surprisingly small frame — Tom's Guide Verdict … Why you can trust Tom's Guide?
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| Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: |
NYC-based Venn, which sells a Secure Enclave product that can be installed and controlled on remote employee laptops, raised a $29M Series A led by NewSpring — New York startup scores early stage financing to build new technology to replace virtual desktop infrastructure.
More: Venn Software, Venn, SiliconANGLE, BankInfoSecurity.com, TechNewsWorld, FinSMEs, and FinTech Global
| Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press: |
Industry group NetChoice, which includes Meta and Twitter, sues Arkansas over a new law requiring parental permission for minors to create social media accounts — A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas on Thursday challenging a new state law that requires parental permission for minors to create social media accounts.
More: Bloomberg Law and NetChoice
Twitter: @paul_taske, @paul_taske, @voiceofd, @nsaadbembridge, @paul_taske, @paul_taske, @netchoice, @chrismarchese9, and @tommarslaw
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta publishes a deep dive into how AI recommends Facebook and Instagram content, including 22 “system cards” covering AI use in Feed, Stories, Reels, and more — Meta has published a deep dive into the company's social media algorithms in a bid to demystify how content is recommended for Instagram and Facebook users.
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LinkedIn: Nick Clegg. Mastodon: @brendannyhan@mastodon.social. Twitter: @qjurecic and @mrinaldesai. Forums: r/technology
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Seoul-based Levit, which operates the shopping app Alwayz that uses social features and gamification to draw customers, raised a $46M Series B led by DST Global — Seoul-based e-commerce company Levit, an operator of the shopping app Alwayz, wants to make the shopping experience more entertaining and affordable.| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Activists and researchers file a GDPR complaint against Pornhub in Italy, claiming the company is “illegally” handling users' data; the process could take years — Complaints filed in the European Union claim the porn site fails to follow basic data-collection policies under GDPR.
More: Mashable. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @mattburgess@infosec.exchange. Twitter: @afrontiercity. Forums: r/technology
| Washington Post: |
Meta's Oversight Board calls for Meta to suspend Cambodian PM Hun Sen on Facebook and Instagram, the first time the Board has asked Meta to ban a head of state — MANILA — The social media giant Meta's Oversight Board called Thursday for the immediate suspension of Cambodian Prime Minister …
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Bluesky: @yoyoel.com and @yoyoel.com
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| New York Times: |
A test of five AI-image detection tools finds they tend to struggle with altered and low-quality images and sometimes fail even when an image is obviously fake — The pope did not wear Balenciaga. And filmmakers did not fake the moon landing. In recent months, however … | Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tiger Global refused hundreds of bids for its private assets in recent months for being too low; on January 1, Tiger managed $51B, including $37B in VC — Tiger Global Management turned down hundreds of bids for its private assets in recent months because it felt the offers were too low …
Twitter: @eliotwb and @bamabonds
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snap announces that Snapchat+, which lets users access experimental and pre-released features for $3.99 per month, reached 4M paid subscribers in its first year — Snapchat on Thursday will announce that its subscription service, Snapchat+, has reached 4 million paid subscribers in its first year, executives told Axios.
More: Social Media Today, Neowin, CNN, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, and Reuters
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Advertisers demand significant refunds from YouTube after an Adalytics report found millions of ads served via YouTube's TrueView system are hidden from users — Study shows millions of ads are hidden away in violation of Google-owned group's policies — Advertising industry figures …
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