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The FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data with aggregators “without customer consent” — The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators …
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, r/technews, r/privacy, and r/technology
| Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube: |
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is reasonable but emblematic of a trend of selling unfinished products at full price while vowing to fix the issues later to win a “race” — AI in a Box. But a different box. R1 provided by Rabbit for review. So this is the rabbit R1 and it's 0:07 another AI …
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| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 12.81% YoY to ~$52.3B, vs. ~$51.6B est., operating profit up 932.8% YoY to ~$4.8B, vs. ~$4.3B est., as memory chip prices rebound — Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy S24 smartphones during a media preview event in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub unveils Copilot Workspace, a developer environment using “Copilot-powered agents” to help brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code in natural language — Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE? GitHub's floating the idea.
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LinkedIn: Scott Guthrie, Stephen Derksen, Madhan Arumugam Ramakrishnan, Thomas Dohmke, and Satya Nadella. Forums: Hacker News
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
NBCUniversal plans to raise Peacock Premium with ads by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month starting July 18, its second hike in two years — NBCUniversal is looking to wring more money out of Peacock subscribers, with the streamer set to raise prices this summer …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K developer accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 — Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user's security.| Bloomberg: |
Ahead of Changpeng Zhao's April 30 sentencing, a look at the contrast between CZ/Binance and SBF/FTX, as Binance claims 40M+ new users in 2023, up 30% YoY — The ex-CEO is about to learn if he'll be the richest US inmate ever. But, with friends on the company's board …
More: DL News, Coinpedia Fintech News, Coinspeaker, and Unchained
| Monica Anderson / Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 78% say social media companies have too much political power; 51% say Big Tech should be regulated more than the companies are now — Most think social media companies have too much influence in politics and censor political viewpoints they object to - both sentiments are growing among Democrats
More: Cybernews.com, Social Media Today, and TechCrunch
X: @tomcoates, @pewinternet, and @pewresearch
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Apple hired at least 36 AI experts from Google since 2018 and has a secretive European laboratory in Zurich to develop new AI models and products — iPhone maker also recruits generative AI experts into secretive Zurich lab as it prepares fightback against rivals
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, and Cointelegraph
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| Zosia Wanat / Sifted: |
Lithuanian second hand marketplace Vinted reports 2023 revenue up 61% YoY to €596.3M and a €17.8M net profit, up from a €20.4M loss in 2022 — The company reported a net profit of €17.8m in 2023 — Vinted, the Lithuanian startup which has become one of Europe's best …
More: ChannelX, PYMNTS.com, Silicon Canals, and Proactive
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Internal Oracle documents: ~6,900 workers are assigned to California offices, compared to 2,500 in Texas, despite Oracle moving its HQ to Texas three years ago — - Internal documents show California remains largest office hub — Chairman Larry Ellison said Oracle will move to Nashville| Timothy B. Lee / Asterisk: |
Tech journalism is often characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research, and publishers are reluctant to invest in it without a clear ROI — A huge proportion of tech journalism is characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research. Can we fix it?
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Blaize, which designs AI chips for edge devices and data centers, raised $106M; the company announced in December 2023 plans to go public via a SPAC merger — Startup Blaize Inc., which supplies artificial intelligence chips for edge devices and data centers, today disclosed that it has raised $106 million in fresh funding.
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