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Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding it in breach of GDPR in relation to how it handles children's data and gives the company three months to comply — It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X partners with Au10tix to launch government ID-based account verification for paid users; verification is not yet available in the EU and the UK — X, formerly Twitter, has launched government ID-based account verification for paid users to prevent impersonation and give them benefits such as “prioritized support.”| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature — Talks are at an early stage, sources say, as Facebook parent looks for new ways to increase revenue
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| Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters: |
Apple plans a software update for iPhone 12 in France to address radiation concerns, says “this is related to a specific testing protocol” used by the regulator — Apple said on Friday it would issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in France, in what seemed to offer …
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| Victor Tangermann / Futurism: |
Microsoft's Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42” — “AI should not be writing obituaries.” — Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users' location for commercial gain even after they opted out — Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023 — - New hires will be split among sales, engineering, data cloud — Many hires will be boomerang employees, CEO Benioff says
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| Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines — Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
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| Bloomberg: |
At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle” — Hi all, it's Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google confirms it currently offers no repair options for cracked Pixel Watch screens; the company's hardware warranty does not cover accidental damage — If you crack the screen on the Pixel Watch, getting it officially repaired by Google isn't in the cards.
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini AI model, as the company nears a launch of the GPT-4 rival — Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its highly anticipated conversational artificial intelligence software …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Playtika agrees to acquire Innplay Labs, a mobile game studio in Israel, for an upfront fee of $80M and as much as $300M in total — Playtika has agreed to acquire Innplay Labs, a mobile game studio in Israel, for an upfront fee of $80 million and as much as $300 million.| Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft and Oracle expand their cloud partnership with Oracle Database@Azure, letting customers run Oracle workloads natively in Azure data centers — The new level of collaboration reflects how technology and customer demand have fostered more cooperation among software companies
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| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
Sources: Unity offered a 100% Runtime Fee waiver to studios using its LevelPlay mediation platform and 80% to 100% waivers to developers switching from AppLovin — Unity is quietly offering developers a Runtime Fee waiver if they switch to its LevelPlay mediation platform, we're told.
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LinkedIn: David Lähner and Shannon Loftis
Forums: Hacker News, r/gaming, r/gamedev, r/Unity3D, and Beehaw
| Christopher Beam / Wired: |
A look at the race to build tools to identify AI-generated text and evade detection, such as GPTZero and WorkNinja, which were built by college students — And college students are developing the weapons, quickly building tools that identify AI-generated text—and tools to evade detection.| Bloomberg: |
The US Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national security issues raised by Elon Musk's denial to extend Starlink to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russia — The Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national-security issues raised by Elon Musk's decision not to extend … | Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC has told its suppliers to delay the delivery of high-end chipmaking equipment, as the chipmaker grows increasingly nervous about customer demand — Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW) has told its major suppliers to delay the delivery of high-end chipmaking equipment …
More: TechPowerUp
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI framework that the company says can help create enzymes for new therapeutics and drug delivery methods — Proteins, the natural molecules that carry out key cellular functions within the body, are the building blocks of all diseases.
More: BigTechWire, Microsoft on GitHub, Robots.net, bioRxiv, and Microsoft Research
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