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The DOJ sues Google, joined by California and seven other US states, calling for the breakup of its ad tech business that allegedly monopolizes the US ad market — The US Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet Inc.'s Google, calling for the break up of the search giant's ad-technology business …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
The DOJ's case against Google could succeed as it is rooted in real harms and is a fairly simple case of market consolidation hurting people by overcharging — The US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win — Today let's talk about a major new antitrust case …
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Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 2% YoY to $52.7B, net income down 12% YoY to $16.4B, Dynamics 365 revenue up 21% YoY, and LinkedIn revenue up 10% YoY — Earnings Release FY23 Q2 Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — January 24, 2023 …
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
A review of Ivory, a new Mastodon iOS app from Tapbots, maker of the now-defunct Tweetbot: an inspired design, Tweetbot-like gestures, custom filters, and more — There's an intangible, permeating quality about Tapbots apps that trascends features and specs: craftsmanship.
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Riot Games says the company won't pay a ransom after hackers exfiltrated source code for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and “a legacy anticheat platform” — Riot Games, the video game developer and esports organizer, said on Tuesday that it had received a ransom email following a social engineering attack last week.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass parent company GoTo confirms hackers stole encrypted backups, an encryption key for some data, billing info, and more, in a breach disclosed in 2022 — GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) is warning customers that threat actors who breached its development environment in November 2022 stole …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
The new 256GB Mac mini with M2 and 512GB 14-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro have slower SSD read and write speeds than M1 models because they have fewer NAND chips — While the new Mac mini with the M2 chip has a lower $599 starting price, the base model with 256GB of storage has slower SSD read …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter for web no longer defaults to the algorithmic feed and remembers which timeline the user had open last; the update is coming to iOS and Android “soon” — Twitter should now be less annoying about pushing its “For You” algorithmic timeline.
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| Prem Thakker / New Republic: |
Twitter reinstates Holocaust-denying white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who says Hitler is “really fucking cool”, tried skirting the ban, and is banned elsewhere — Nazi, white nationalist, and Taliban fan Nick Fuentes is back on Twitter. — Fuentes was originally banned … | WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp releases a beta version of its native macOS app, built with Mac Catalyst, to all users via its website, following a limited TestFlight app early-beta — After releasing a very limited early-beta program of WhatsApp beta for macOS for a small number of people on TestFlight …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says ChatGPT's underlying techniques are “not particularly innovative” and other companies and research labs do similar work — Much ink has been spilled of late about the tremendous promise of OpenAI's ChatGPT program for generating natural-language utterances …
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| J.D. Capelouto / Semafor: |
Live Nation President Joe Berchtold to Congress: during Taylor Swift's tour presale, Ticketmaster saw triple the bot traffic, which then impacted Verified Fan — The president of Ticketmaster's parent company explained to a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday why its site melted down in November during …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches RxPass, which lets US Prime users pay $5 per month to get as many generic versions of medications as they need, initially for 80 common ailments — More than two years since announcing Amazon Pharmacy to take some of the prescription drugs business away from big (and smaller) …
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A second Twitter whistleblower tells the FTC and Congress that engineers can access “GodMode” and tweet from any account, supporting Mudge's complaint from 2022 — Too many people can still access a program that lets them tweet under any account, he says in a complaint
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| Mike Oitzman / The Robot Report: |
Autonomous construction equipment maker Built Robotics acquihires Y Combinator-backed Roin Technologies, which designs and builds concrete finishing robots — San Francisco-based Built Robotics has acquired Roin Technologies. Roin is a three-year-old engineering company that has designed …
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| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
SoundHound raised $25M after reportedly laying off half of its staff and says it will pay former staff severance, which was allegedly contingent on the funding — Employees said their two-week severance was contingent on SoundHound raising more money. The company promised some of the investment would fund their payments.| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Binance admits to mistakenly storing collateral for some of its tokens in the same wallet as customer funds; reserves for 41 out of 94 coins are in one wallet — Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto platform, acknowledged that it mistakenly keeps collateral for some of the tokens …
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Netflix, Apple, and Amazon accounted for 19 Oscars nominations, down from 37 in 2022, and only one streaming title got more than one nomination — Despite all of the uncertainty about the future of theatrical distribution, streaming services collectively took a step back in this year's Oscar race … | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
NYC-based VC firm Thrive Capital sells a 3.3% stake for ~$175M to Disney CEO Robert Iger and others, valuing Thrive at $5.3B, a rare move to expand its reach — Group of five investors is paying about $175 million for 3.3% of venture firm — Venture firm Thrive Capital is selling a stake … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Strava acquires Fatmap, a 3D mapping app with 1.6M registered users, and sets up a team to integrate the tech into Strava for paid and free users in mid-2023 — Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap … Sponsor Posts
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