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Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more — - Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures — Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers
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Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, r/Android, r/technology, r/firefox, r/wallstreetbets, Beehaw, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
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Brendan Carr claims Big Tech “worked with marketing, ad, & ‘fact checkers’ to punish free speech outlets” and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships — Brendan Carr, currently a senior GOP commissioner, is a longtime opponent of net neutrality regulation …
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Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage — Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies …
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Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad — To compete with the iPad, Google plans to push Android as its unified desktop OS. — • — TL;DR — A source within Google has told Android Authority …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for in-line editing, more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model — Mistral, the French startup that made waves last year with a record-setting seed funding amount for Europe …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/singularity
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Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program — AI-powered search engine Perplexity is venturing into e-commerce. On Monday, the company debuted a new shopping feature …
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Internal document: Amazon has held talks with several partners for handling specific tasks on the AI-powered Alexa, including Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart — - Amazon discussed partnerships with other companies for an AI-powered Alexa upgrade. — Partners under consideration included Uber …
Bluesky: @stark.soy and @jensenharris.com
| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Amazon and SpaceX argued the NLRB, which recently found issues at the companies, is unconstitutional; 5th Circuit judges questioned the timeline of the charges — A panel of U.S. judges on Monday seemed likely to rule that Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Elon Musk's SpaceX were too quick to bring … | NBC News: |
The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 — The Library of Congress didn't specify who was behind the hack. — The Library of Congress said hackers broke into its communications systems …
More: Nextgov/FCW, Bloomberg, Security Affairs, and SecurityWeek
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Telegram updates “mini-apps” to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a “gift” sending feature, and more — Full-screen mini-apps, including games such as Doom, can run in either portrait or landscape orientations inside Telegram …
More: Telegram, Android Police, PhoneArena, and Neowin
| Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban — - Company increases investment proposal tenfold, sources say — Indonesia banned sales of iPhone 16 over local content rules| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the early days of OpenAI, discussing its partnership with Microsoft, fundraising, employee compensation, AGI, more — Emails in Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup's rocky origins. … As OpenAI was ironing out a new deal with Microsoft in 2016 …
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Sources: Trump Media is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange's crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65%, BKKT up 162.46% — Truth Social owner is close to an all-share takeover of Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt — Donald Trump's social media company …
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Roblox debuts new parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts to a child's and banning text chat for under 13s outside games — Videogame company has denied the allegations and says the new protections were planned before a short seller's report
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