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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: 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 -
New! Steve Lohr / New York Times: A profile of US District Court judge Amit P. Mehta, who is presiding over the US v. Google case, which could set a precedent for other US tech antitrust cases -
Bloomberg: US v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was “very, very worried” in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Jem Aswad / Variety: Universal Music Group and TikTok strike a new music licensing deal to bring UMG music back to the platform, including “improved remuneration” and AI protections -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
26 minutes ago 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Ash Parrish / The Verge: Meta unveils Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game and the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham game series, launching exclusively on the Quest 3 later in 2024 -
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