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The US DOJ seizes 32 internet domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian interference in the 2024 US elections — The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
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Mastodon: @protecttruth@mastodon.online and @metacurity@infosec.exchange
X: @thejusticedept, @bennyjohnson, @arictoler, @thejusticedept, @timcast, @eelarson, @lrozen, @taylorlorenz, @capitolhunters, @gldivittorio, @muellershewrote, @itsmelissabrown, @thejusticedept, @ericgeller, @willsommer, @bradmossesq, @rolandsmartin, @willsommer, @mtaibbi, @emptywheel, @lopezmotorscars, @semaforben, @willsommer, @emptywheel, @igorsushko, @yashar, @ronnieadkins_, @andycat3, @arictoler, @jaredlholt, @arictoler, @willsommer, @wiczipedia, @ariehkovler, @kylegriffin1, @justinbaragona, @itsmelissabrown, @eelarson, @alanfeuer, @willsommer, @shanlonwu, @capitolhunters, @lrozen, @stevanzetti, @christogrozev, @alanfeuer, @emptywheel, @eelarson, @fbi, @alecluhn, @sewingdilemma, @oneunderscore__, @joeperticone, @jayinkyiv, @thetnholler, @donie, @itsmelissabrown, and @aaronblake
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
YouTube begins restricting repeated video recommendations to teens about fitness levels, body weights, or physical features globally, expanding beyond the US — Platform will ensure algorithms do not keep pushing similar content to young viewers, even though it does not breach guidelines
More: YouTube Official Blog, Cybernews.com, Business Standard, The Verge, and Mashable. Forums: r/technology
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity — YouTube is expanding its existing set of parental controls with a new feature that would allow a parent to link their account to their teen's account … | Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program — The legal battle was spurred by book publishers objecting to the archive's digital lending library.
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Mastodon: @istuetzle@zirk.us, @yogthos@mas.to, @jtlg@mastodon.lawprofs.org, @juergen_hubert …, @chrisg@kolektiva.social, and @internetarchive …
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| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back ad spending on X in 2025 and 14% say they will pull budgets this year, due to concerns about content on the platform — Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminated
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Sources: OSOM, the smartphone company founded by former Essential employees, is shutting down later this week, after a lawsuit alleged its CEO misused funds — OSOM is effectively closing up shop later this week and laying off most of its employees. — • — TL;DR
More: Android Headlines, 9to5Google, Droid Life, and Liliputing
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Cybersecurity company Pango Group is acquiring all of Kaspersky's US customers, or ~1M users, after Commerce Department banned Kaspersky's software in the US — - Pango owns and offers a portfolio of cybersecurity products, including VPNs, antivirus software and identity theft protection tools.
More: Tech.co
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel cancels plans for using its 20A process node for its Arrow Lake processors for the consumer market and will use external nodes instead, likely from TSMC — Out with the Intel node, in with TSMC. — In a surprise move, Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/stocks, r/hardware, r/intel, r/AMD_Stock, and r/wallstreetbets
| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and hasn't been subpoenaed, following a report that it had received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns — - Bloomberg reported on the antitrust investigation Tuesday — Nvidia says it has been in contact with the Justice Department
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Forums: r/technology, r/wallstreetbets, and r/wallstreetbets
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks — Google announced on Tuesday it's releasing Android 15 and making its source code available ahead of the coming consumer launch …
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| Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: |
Verizon agrees to buy rival telecom operator Frontier Communications for an enterprise value of $20B; Frontier had a revenue of $5.8B in 2023 — - The deal has an enterprise value of $20 billion including debt — Verizon to buy fiber rival to expand high-speed internet| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Shares of Truth Social's parent TMTG continue to slide, as the expiration date nears for a lockup agreement preventing Trump and others from selling their stock — Trump Media shares on Wednesday closed below where they stood at the end of 2023, as the Truth Social maker's stock continued …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Germany-based Aleph Alpha, which raised $500M+ in 2023, is pivoting to focus on helping clients use AI tools, instead of trying to outperform OpenAI and others — - For years, Aleph Alpha was hailed as Europe's rival to OpenAI — Then it opted to stop relying on costly large-language models| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
An adviser to CJEU sides with Italy's antitrust authority that Google's refusal to provide third-party access to Android Auto may breach EU competition rules — An adviser to Europe's top court on Thursday sided with Italy's antitrust authority, saying Alphabet (GOOGL.O) … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more — The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark …
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X: @mbrendan1, @ethicsinai, and @nayafia
| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
Applied Digital, which leases out data-center space and has started an AI cloud-computing service with Nvidia chips, raised $160M from Nvidia and others — Capital is expected to help data-center and AI cloud company grow — Artificial-intelligence chip giant Nvidia is joining other investors … | Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
A San Francisco federal judge rules that X must face a class action age bias suit by around 150 older workers who were laid off by the company in 2022 — A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X when Elon Musk acquired … | Bloomberg: |
India and Singapore sign a series of deals to ramp up collaboration in semiconductors and digital technologies, including cybersecurity, 5G, AI, and more — - Countries seek bigger role in global tech supply chains — Southern Asia trying to capitalize on US-China tensions
More: The Economic Times, The Straits Times, Reuters, Business Today, SG Press Centre, Prime Minister of India, Nikkei Asia, and The Indian Express. Forums: r/singapore
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SpaceX has moved to evacuate employees from Brazil and warned others against traveling to the country, as Elon Musk battles Brazil's top court over X — The moves show how Musk's legal dispute about X is affecting SpaceX and its Starlink satellite-internet service
More: Reuters. Mastodon: @parismarx@mastodon.online and @dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz. Bluesky: @clemens.vasters.com. X: @micahmaidenberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/space
| Todd Feathers / Gizmodo: |
An analysis of OpenAI's GPT Store finds 100+ custom GPTs that appear to violate OpenAI's policies regarding sexual content, legal and medical advice, and more — A Gizmodo analysis of OpenAI's GPT store found more than 100 tools that appear to violate the company's policies regarding sexual content …
More: WinBuzzer
| Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked Disney files include personal data of some staff and customers, and show that Disney+ had $2.4B+ revenue in March quarter, or 43% of Disney's DTC revenue — Data trove sheds light on entertainment giant's operations, and exposes personal data of some staff and customers| The Economic Times: |
Indian bike taxi startup Rapido raised $200M at a $1.1B valuation led by WestBridge and plans to expand its newly launched cab-hailing service — Aravind Sanka, the company's CEO, told ET that the funds will be used to expand Rapido's newly launched four-wheeler taxi service, which competes with Ola and Uber.
More: DealStreetAsia, VCCircle, Inc42 Media, and Entrackr
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
New Mexico's AG sues Snapchat, alleging it is a “breeding ground” for predators seeking to collect sexually explicit images of children and extort them — The state attorney general says the app's design facilitates the trade in explicit images and extortion of children.| Maia Coleman / New York Times: |
Federal prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using AI to create hundreds of thousands of songs by fake bands to get $10M in royalties from streaming services — Federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with gaming the system to win royalties from streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Some tech and crypto firms, and Wyoming rush to launch their own stablecoins to profit from a recovering crypto market, as experts say tokens are of little use — But some industry experts warn that tokens are a ‘novelty asset’ used mostly for trading — Technology and crypto companies … Sponsor Posts
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