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November 13, 2023, 5:15 PM
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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue the internet giant earns from search ads through Safari, per the US v. Google testimony of Alphabet's main economics expert  —  Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Sam Altman expects “to raise a lot more over time” from Microsoft and other investors to keep up with the punishing costs of building more sophisticated LLMs  —  Sam Altman expects big tech group will back start-up's mission to create software as intelligent as humans
Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
A look at OpenAI's structure where a six-member non-profit board can decide if the company has achieved AGI, which would exclude Microsoft from some IP licenses  —  According to OpenAI, the six members of its nonprofit board of directors will determine when the company has “attained AGI” …
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Email: Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and cuts ~180 jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023  —  Amazon.com (AMZN.O) has cut around 180 jobs in its Games division, at least the second round of cuts in under a week …
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Google sues unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam for tricking US-based SMB owners with Facebook accounts into clicking fake Bard ads that install malware  —  Lawsuit attributes the alleged scheme to hackers in India and Vietnam  —  Scammers are capitalizing on the rush of consumer interest …
Maddie Stone / The Verge:
After Apple voiced support for California's Right to Repair Act, a look at what's next for the movement, like tackling unsustainable designs and software locks  —  Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California's right-to-repair law.  But software locks and other obstacles seem …
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
Nvidia announces the H200, an update to its standalone H100 accelerator that swaps 5.3Gbps/pin HBM3 memory for 6.5Gbps/pin HBM3E memory and ships in Q2 2024  —  With faster and higher capacity HBM3E memory set to come online early in 2024, NVIDIA has been preparing its current-generation server GPU products to use the new memory.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
In a first, researchers show that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to full compromise  —  An error as small as a single flipped memory bit is all it takes to expose a private key.  —  For the first time …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp launches a Discord-like voice chat feature for large groups that is designed to be less disruptive than a group call, which rings every group member  —  WhatsApp is rolling out a new Discord-like voice chat feature for large groups, the Meta-owned company announced on Monday.
James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
New York regulators draft cybersecurity rules that require hospitals to assess risks and use tech like MFA, develop and test incident response plans, and more  —  String of hacks at medical facilities prompts focus on security  —  New York regulators Monday plan to issue cybersecurity regulations …
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From Mediagazer

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

Inside Radio:
iHeart reduces its total debt by over $440M and extends most of its debt maturities by three years, by using debt exchange transactions

More News

Will Greenwald / PCMag:
Sony PlayStation Portal review: a limited, expensive gaming handheld with a mediocre screen that does little besides enable Remote Play streaming from a PS5
Axios:
The Block sells an 80% stake to Singaporean VC Foresight Ventures, valuing the crypto outlet at $70M and freeing the business from its financial ties to FTX

Earlier Picks

Reuters:
Chinese chipmaker YMTC sued Micron on November 9 in California, alleging that the US chipmaker infringed on eight of its patents and did not pay its fair share
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