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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 Guardian, GamesIndustry.biz, Android Authority, Wccftech, PhoneArena, Hindustan Times, SamMobile, 9to5Google, Sam Lover, Android Headlines, Phandroid, Sammy Fans, and The Verge
X: @megangra and @leah_nylen
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
Forums: r/cybersecurity
| 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.
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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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| 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 … | 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, Cybernews.com, Techdirt, and Center for Democracy …
X: @parents4privacy and @cendemtech
| 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| 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 …
More: RTÉ and The Information
| 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 … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Internal conversations reveal how Etsy struggled to develop moderation policies and manage employees' feelings around the Israel-Hamas war — The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers' wares. Some employees aren't happy| 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; H1 2023 revenue was ~$54B — ByteDance is closing the revenue gap with Facebook owner Meta Platforms as it generates more sales from advertising and e-commerce.
X: @natebecker
| Joshua Rothman / New Yorker: |
A profile of Geoffrey Hinton, who argues that LLMs like GPT can comprehend the meanings of words and learn how the world works by analyzing human writing — Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours.| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators plan to file anti-competitive charges against Adobe's $20B Figma deal as early as this week; Adobe announced the deal in September 2022 — EU preparing to file anti-competitive charges, according to people familiar with probe — Adobe's $20bn deal to buy Figma … | Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint: Chinese smartphone sales grew 11% YoY in October, led by Huawei, up 83% due to the Mate 60, and Xiaomi, up 33%; iPhone sales were unusually muted — - Inventory glut that plagued industry now in rear view mirror — Domestic brands picked up the slack while iPhone struggled
More: 9to5Mac, Reuters, and Counterpoint Research
| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Amazon reaches a deal with Snap that lets users buy Amazon products directly from ads on Snapchat, resembling Amazon's deal with Meta announced on November 9 — Amazon has reached a deal with Snap that will let people buy Amazon products directly from ads on the Snapchat app, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed.
More: PYMNTS.com, Barron's Online, and Reuters
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber rolls out new tools in the US to identify riders or Uber Eats users who consistently give bad ratings to get refunds, to cut down on unfair deactivations — Uber is introducing new features geared toward addressing the issues of unfair deactivations that ride-hail and delivery drivers often face.
More: The Economic Times, PYMNTS.com, and Fast Company
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber plans to test Uber Tasks, a TaskRabbit-like service that lets users hire people to complete household tasks, in Fort Myers and Edmonton in the coming weeks — - Firm to test ‘Uber Tasks’ in an effort to find new revenue — Tasks include furniture assembly, laundry and lawn mowingSponsor Posts
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