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US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income — The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers allege Google …
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Threads: @benedictevans. X: @rustybrick, @d_feldman, @timsweeneyepic, @carnage4life, @darius, @arpitrage, @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, @joshm, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
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More: US v. Google, The Verge, Business Insider, The Register, Business Today, Hindustan Times, Quartz, Windows Central, Ars Technica, and The Crypto Times
X: @scobleizer and @tomwarren
Forums: r/microsoft and r/technology
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources: Google laid off 200+ employees from its Core teams, including IT and its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to India and Mexico — Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, US, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024.
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Mastodon: @Yhg1s@social.coop, @carnage4life@mas.to, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @jbzfn@mastodon.social, and @lauren@mastodon …
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LinkedIn: Austin Parker, Ilya Bezdelev, and Jennifer Elias
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe a third” of Americans and notifying victims will take “several months” — Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data …
More: House Committee on Energy and Commerce, CSO, CNN, Reuters, Cyber Daily, BankInfoSecurity.com, and CNBC
Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange. X: @senator77billy, @malwarejake, @aapatel09, @wbm312, @harlemedic, @arryinseattle, @wbm312, @ronwyden, and @infinitedly. Forums: Slashdot
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
US Senate hearing: UnitedHealth's CEO says the company paid a $22M ransom to the hackers who accessed a Change Healthcare server that wasn't protected by MFA — UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
As people yearn for the web's “good old days”, bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users — Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better …
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Mastodon: @mike@flipboard.social, @sarahhbickerton@mastodon.nz, @JMarkOckerbloom …, and @poga@g0v.social
X: @aaronsdevera, @ethanz, @katylcowan, @darius, @philebloomfield, and @molly0xfff. Forums: Hacker News
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Universal Music Group and TikTok agree a new music licensing deal to bring UMG music back to the platform, including “improved remuneration” and AI protections — The months-long standoff between Universal Music Group and TikTok over royalty payments and AI policies is finally over …
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their Feed — Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
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| Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN: |
The US DOJ sentences Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13+ years in prison and orders $16M in restitution for helping REvil conduct ransomware attacks — A Ukrainian national was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Anthropic launches a free iOS app and Team, its first enterprise plan, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month — Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. — The generative artificial intelligence startup …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Snapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out “soon” and available first for Snapchat+ subscribers — Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing you to rectify a …
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| Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times: |
Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar's Up — The company announced a new category of outlandish stays in partnership with brands and celebrities, building on the success of gimmicks like the Barbie Malibu DreamHouse.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia updates its ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to add support for voice queries and three AI models: Google's Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI's CLIP — Nvidia is updating its experimental ChatRTX chatbot with more AI models for RTX GPU owners.
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X: @nvidiageforce, @shadowuk_tv, @tomwarren, and @reijaofthesun
| Justin Ling / Wired: |
A look at Ukraine's combat drone startup industry, based on commercial first-person-view or photography drones; an estimated ~200 local companies produce drones — Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.
More: The Korea Herald
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Trend Micro: cybercriminals and nation-state spies are coexisting inside the same compromised brand-name routers, using the devices to disguise their attacks — How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet. — Cybercriminals and spies working …
More: Trend Micro and TechRadar
| Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
As social media platforms pivot away from news distribution, a look at news sites like The Verge, which function like social media, with aggregation and more — As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
More: The Overspill. X: @chrismoranuk, @michaelluo, @chaykak, @maxrivlinnadler, @chaykak, @amandakhurley, @maxwelltani, @michaelroston, @voxmedia, @chaykak, @chaykak, and @mjnblack. Forums: Hacker News
| Sofia Barnett / Wired: |
Anonymous social media app Sidechat has become both a place for dialog and a breeding ground for hate speech amid US college protests over the Israel-Hamas war — Amidst tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, anonymous social media app Sidechat has become a hotbed of vile rhetoric.
More: FDD. Mastodon: @SteveThompson@mastodon.social. X: @gabidolceb, @fdd, @_sofiabarnett, @wired, @wired, @waterslicer, @wired, and @wired
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Intel's efforts to build Ohio One, a “mega fab” that could become the world's largest chip factory and to which the company has committed $28B — A few months ago, a tugboat set off from New Orleans, pushing a barge up the Mississippi River.| Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: |
TMTG co-founder Andy Litinsky, testifying as a witness in an insider trading case, says Trump nearly derailed the DWAC deal in October 2021, before signing on — Andy Litinsky, who helped start the former president's social media company, revealed Mr. Trump's last-minute doubts about an agreement that made them all very wealthy.
More: Associated Press
| Bloomberg: |
AI has the potential to ease the US meat industry's labor vulnerability by letting robots perform some of the high precision tasks required to butcher meat — Advances in computer vision and machine learning allow robots to perform some of the high precision tasks required to butcher beef and chicken.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces plans to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia over four years and train 200,000 people with AI skills in the country — - Nadella announces plan for more AI infrastructure in Malaysia — Tech companies are targeting Southeast Asia as new growth area| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco — Game engine maker Unity has appointed Matthew Bromberg, former COO of Zynga, as its new CEO, president and board member.Sponsor Posts
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