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| Akriti Sharma / Reuters: |
Microsoft resolved a networking issue impacting Teams, Azure, Outlook, and other services, taking them offline in India, Japan, the UK, and elsewhere for hours — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Wednesday said it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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 US DOJ's case against Google could succeed due to being rooted in real harms and a prime example of market consolidation resulting in overcharged customers — 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: |
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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| Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: |
Wharton School Professor Christian Terwiesch found OpenAI's ChatGPT was able to pass a final exam for the school's MBA program, scoring between B- and B — ChatGPT uses AI to pass final exam at UPenn's Wharton — New research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple's 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 due to 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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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Apple releases iOS 12.5.7 and macOS 11.7.3 to patch security issues on older devices including the iPhone 5S and the 2013 MacBook Air, Mac Pro, and MacBook Pro — Apple has provided iOS 12.5.7, macOS 11.7.3, and other updates for older devices that can't be updated to the latest releases.
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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 tried skirting his ban, called Hitler “really fucking cool”, and is banned elsewhere — Nazi, white nationalist, and Taliban fan Nick Fuentes is back on Twitter. — Fuentes was originally banned from Twitter …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Marc Benioff's controversial acquisitions, focus on growth over profits, celebrity relationships, and philanthropic pursuits have vexed shareholders — Marc Benioff helped build software group into a Silicon Valley giant but shareholders are agitating for change
Tweets: @muradahmed and @ivanlevingston
| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
After unofficial walkouts in 2022, hundreds of Amazon workers in a UK warehouse are striking, an unprecedented step in the country, after 98% voted in favor — Hundreds of Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center workers in the UK plan to strike on Wednesday as part of unprecedented industrial action by the company's British employees.
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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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| 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 transcends features and specs: craftsmanship.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Dutch chip equipment maker ASML reports Q4 sales up 29% YoY to €6.4B, 2022 net sales up 13% YoY to €21.1B, and forecasts 25% revenue growth in 2023 — - Dutch chip equipment maker ASML forecast a 25% jump in 2023 revenue. — ASML CEO Wennink said China accounted for around 15% …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Shutterstock launches a tool to let Creative Flow users create images based on text prompts, part of a partnership with OpenAI; images are “ready for licensing” — When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI's Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
The Brookings Institution: from 2008 to 2021, Chinese companies accounted for 201 facial recognition tech export deals, followed by US companies with 128 deals — Experts fear sales of the technology also export authoritarian ideas about biometric surveillance. The second largest exporter is the US.Sponsor Posts
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