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Gene Park / Washington Post:
The ESA shuts down the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, after new competitors, partner withdrawals, changing audience habits, and more; E3 began in 1995  —  The collapse ends years of attempts to revive the event that once dominated the industry  —  The Electronic Entertainment Expo …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
The jury in Epic v. Google finds that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution and in-app billing services markets; Google plans to appeal  —  Three years after Fortnite maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win.
More: Epic Games, Wired, Seattle Business Journal, New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, BIG by Matt Stoller, Reuters, Dexerto, Engadget, Bloomberg, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Droid Life, For The Win, Bloomberg, BBC, Wall Street Journal, PC Gamer, Tom's Guide, ExtremeTech, Business Insider, PCMag, TweakTown, MacDailyNews, HotHardware, Kotaku, TechStartups, iMore, Mostly signs, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Club386, WinBuzzer, Game World Observer, Tech in Asia, Game Developer, Mobilegamer.biz, KnowTechie, Developer Tech News, TechSpot, GamesIndustry.biz, Android Central, guru3d.com, MediaNama, AppleInsider, American Economic …, Silicon Republic, TechPowerUp, GamingonPhone, SamMobile, United States District Court Northern District of California, Pocket-lint, Ghacks, Android Authority, Axios, Variety, and Reuters
Threads: @scott.nover, @alexhcranz, @karaswisher, @joenandez, @alexheath, @skillupyt, @chris, @anildash, @carnage4life, @mishaal_rahman, @anildash, @anildash, @eshumarneedi, and @reckless1280
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X: @timsweeneyepic, @techcases_bot, @adamkovac, @courtneyr, @markrein, @paultassi, @leehepner, @adamkovac, @ow, @khushitavasant, @capitolkvd, @matthewstoller, @econliberties, @wholemarsblog, @nhegde, @timsweeneyepic, @senblumenthal, @benvol, @hoeglaw, @matthewstoller, @jason_kint, @lutherlowe, @evan_greer, @zacharygraves, @adamkovac, @ballmatthew, @lutherlowe, @ballmatthew, @stephentotilo, @gregbensinger, @jason_kint, @ballmatthew, @macton93, @profthomlambert, @joshuaogundu, @gregbensinger, and @florianederer
LinkedIn: Sean O'Brien, David Lewis, Rafael Brown, and Steve Allison
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/Android, r/gaming, r/technology, and Slashdot
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses beating Google, but not Apple, thanks to a jury trial, Google erasing chats, and because “Apple didn't write anything down”  —  - The verdict is a significant win for Epic Games and its CEO Tim Sweeney, which have been fighting against mobile app stores …
Bloomberg:
Google's legal defeat to Epic threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple that generates nearly $200B/year and accelerate the weakening of app store rules
Daryna Antoniuk / The Record:
Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telco, is mitigating a cyberattack that led to a “large-scale technical failure”, leaving millions without internet and cell service  —  Kyivstar customers began complaining about network and internet outages in the early morning.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple releases an iOS beta with Stolen Device Protection; if enabled, the feature limits actions like Apple ID password resets when not in a “familiar location”  —  Stolen Device Protection can prevent criminals from using your passcode to change your Apple account
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: Apple offers to let rivals access its tap-and-go payments systems for mobile wallets, hoping to settle EU antitrust charges and avoid a possible fine  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has offered to let rivals access its tap-and-go mobile payments systems used for mobile wallets …
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023's first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023  —  - X to miss internal goals for ad revenue, people familiar say  — Musk's personal tweets continue to scare off advertisers
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed  —  Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.
Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg:
Stanford professor David Mills, who led SBF's defense as a favor to his parents, says the ex-FTX CEO is “the worst person I've ever seen do a cross examination”  —  Stanford Law Professor David Mills, who led defense for FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried as favor to his parents, now fears ‘unwinnable’ case has ended their friendship.
Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta adds multimodal AI to its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses as an early access beta in the US, letting Meta AI answer voice queries by taking and analyzing photos  —  I tried these Ray-Ban AI glasses, and they're pretty wild.  Here's how the experimental feature works.  —  “Hey, Meta.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Microsoft releases Phi-2, an AI language model the company says outperforms Mistral and Llama 2 at 7B and 13B parameters and is small enough to run on a phone  —  The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn't slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023 and the traditional winter holiday quiet period.
More: Microsoft Research and The Information
Threads: @vitor_dlucca.  LinkedIn: Stephane Requena, Eric Horvitz, and Jia Li.  Forums: Hacker News
CNN:
A US GAO review of nearly 24 agencies' AI usage catalogs 200+ current applications and 500+ planned uses of AI and ML, despite the lack of government guidance  —  The US government plans to vastly expand its reliance on artificial intelligence, but it is years behind on policies …
Reuters:
Seychelles-based crypto exchange KuCoin agrees to block New York state users and pay $22M to settle a lawsuit brought by New York AG Letitia James in March 2023  —  New link at Reuters
Simon Cohen / Digital Trends:
Bose confirms the company “is in the process of phasing out” its Bose Frames line of audio smart glasses, launched in December 2018 as part of its AR initiative  —  Bose has confirmed to Digital Trends that it is discontinuing its Bose Frames line of audio glasses.
More: The Verge

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