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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret — 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Beehaw, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Epic v. Google: Google agreed to pay Samsung $8B over four years in 2020 to make Google Search, Play Store, and Assistant the default on Samsung mobile devices — - Google paid Samsung $8 billion over four years, jurors told — Epic Games is trying to show Alphabet unit undercut rivalry
More: The Verge, The Guardian, Android Authority, Hindustan Times, PhoneArena, SamMobile, 9to5Google, Sam Lover, Android Headlines, Phandroid, and Sammy Fans
X: @megangra and @leah_nylen
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they upload realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including videos made using its tools, in 2024 — Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties — YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google … | James Somers / New Yorker: |
A eulogy for coding, which has always felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after ChatGPT swallowed knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master — Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
More: Voicebot.ai and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Reuters: |
Investigation: for over six months, the FBI has known the identities of 12+ hackers tied to the MGM and Caesars breaches, baffling experts at the lack of action — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that's …
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| Nathan Grayson / Aftermath: |
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 — Video game workers just can't catch a break — Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically at this point become …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out the ability for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account — Meta is rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile without having to delete your Instagram account, too. You'll be able to access the new feature …
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| Scott Patterson / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Aurora, the Intel- and HPE-made, Argonne National Laboratory-based supercomputer, set to be the first to hit two quintillion operations per second — That's two billion billion operations a second, enough to explore the brain and discover drugs — LEMONT, Ill.—Inside … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620K URLs — Two men who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to bombard Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA's filing: Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales since its early 2022 launch and lost $23M in H1 2023 — The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.
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| Reuters: |
Microsoft and Google do not plan to challenge “gatekeeper” status under the EU DMA, ahead of a November 16 deadline to object; sources say TikTok may challenge — Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will not challenge an EU law that would require them to make it easier …
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| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$47.7B, net income up 11% YoY to ~$1.3B, and lowers the outlook for its components business to flat YoY — - It also revised down forecast for components business segment — Company beat average profit estimate in the September quarter
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| Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law: |
In a letter to Chuck Schumer, over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups urge the Senate to not renew FISA's Section 702, set to expire on December 31, 2023 — More than 30 civil liberties and privacy groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday urging …
More: Wired, Washington Post, Cybernews.com, Techdirt, and Center for Democracy …
X: @parents4privacy and @cendemtech
| Arriana McLymore / Reuters: |
Amazon updates Buy With Prime to let customers return items outside of Amazon.com without its shipping labels and see their order history in merchants' apps — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is adding package tracking and return services for subscription members who use Buy With Prime …
More: USA Today, About Amazon, and The Register
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers are collecting browsing data in much more detail than previously known, including for those in sensitive jobs — Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail
More: 9to5Mac, Forbes, and Irish Council …
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance's revenue rose 40%+ YoY to $29B in Q2, with markets outside of China accounting for nearly 20% of its total, and H1 2023 revenue hit ~$54B — ByteDance is closing the revenue gap with Facebook owner Meta Platforms as it generates more sales from advertising and e-commerce.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on how he changed tech gadget reviews, business strategy, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more — Marques Brownlee has rewired the way people shop for gadgets—and how companies sell them. Inside the humble workshop … | Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its search engine, not just a 51% stake, amid pressures relating to the war in Ukraine — - Deal to sell Russian unit may be announced in December — Dutch-registered Yandex previously planned to sell a 51% stake
More: Reuters
| Joshua Rothman / New Yorker: |
A profile of Geoffrey Hinton, who argues that by analyzing human writing, LLMs like GPT can comprehend the meanings of words and learn how the world works — Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours.
More: Insider, Financial Times, and BGR
X: @wayne_crews, @anniekowalewski, and @robinhanson
LinkedIn: Scott Shaffer and Mark Montgomery
| 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 …
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