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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 …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 — - Jury decision poised to accelerate crumbling of business model — Case takes aim at app store commissions of up to 30%
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| 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
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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.| 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.| 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
| 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 …
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
The UK Judicial Office issues guidance letting judges use AI tools like ChatGPT, while warning of their shortcomings, for tasks such as writing legal rulings — The UK now permits judges to use the “jolly useful” AI chatbot in court. — Robots may help determine your legal fate if you end up in a British court.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google plans to shorten Maps' default auto-delete history feature from 18 months to three months and let users store Maps Timeline data locally on their devices — Google Maps has gotten some fun updates recently, and now it's offering some more privacy-forward tweaks as it adds more ways to control your location data.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Gina Raimondo says Nvidia “can, will, and should” sell AI chips to China for commercial use, but not advanced AI chips, and spoke to Jensen Huang about US rules — The Biden administration is in discussions with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) about permissible sales of artificial intelligence chips …
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Essential AI, co-founded by two co-authors of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, raised $56.5M led by March Capital and calls its tech Enterprise Brain — The startup was founded by two co-authors of a famous Google AI paper — Essential AI, an artificial intelligence startup founded … | Paresh Dave / Wired: |
On November 17, YouTube removed code that said if a channel is in the YouTube Partner Program, which gives a cut of ad revenue, leaving researchers in the dark — YouTube removed a snippet of code that publicly disclosed whether a channel receives ad and subscription payouts, obscuring which creators benefit most from the platform.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat+ subscribers can now generate and send AI images based on a text prompt and add pictures of friends into Dream, Snapchat's generative AI selfie feature — Snapchat is releasing a few new AI powered features for Snapchat+ subscribers, the company announced on Tuesday.| 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 and Notebookcheck
| Elura Nanos / Law & Crime: |
A US judge allows a class action lawsuit over Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition to proceed; the lawsuit alleges Musk lied about bots to manipulate Twitter's stock — A federal judge ruled to allow a class-action lawsuit over the acquisition of Twitter to proceed against Elon Musk Monday …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
OpenAI's nonprofit arm reports $44,485 in 2022 revenue, despite the company being valued at ~$86B, avoiding California's $2M threshold for auditing its finances — - OpenAI's nonprofit organization generated $44,485 in revenue in 2022, almost entirely from investment income … | Christian Vasquez / CyberScoop: |
The US Senate confirms former National Security Agency executive director Harry Coker as the next National Cyber Director, 10 months after Chris Inglis resigned — The former National Security Agency executive director will oversee federal cyber policy as the first Senate-confirmed NCD in 10 months.
More: Axios, The Messenger, The Record, and Politico
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple redesigns Apple TV in iOS 17.2 and tvOS 17.2 with a sidebar that unifies content; iTunes now redirects users searching for shows and movies to Apple TV — Starting Monday, the iTunes Store app on iPhone and iPad will redirect users searching for TV and film titles to the newly redesigned Apple TV app.
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