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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding it in breach of GDPR in relation to how it handles children's data and gives the company three months to comply — It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X partners with Au10tix to launch government ID-based account verification for paid users; verification is not yet available in the EU and the UK — X, formerly Twitter, has launched government ID-based account verification for paid users to prevent impersonation and give them benefits such as “prioritized support.”| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature — Talks are at an early stage, sources say, as Facebook parent looks for new ways to increase revenue
More: RTÉ, TechCrunch, Business Today, WinBuzzer, Neowin, MSPoweruser, BigTechWire, Livemint, Gizchina, International Business Times, Reuters, Analytics Insight, and Tech in Asia
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Victor Tangermann / Futurism: |
Microsoft's Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42” — “AI should not be writing obituaries.” — Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age …
More: WinBuzzer, WOWK 13 News, The Overspill, and Windows Central
| Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters: |
Apple plans a software update for iPhone 12 in France to address radiation concerns, says “this is related to a specific testing protocol” used by the regulator — Apple said on Friday it would issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in France, in what seemed to offer …
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Forums: r/gadgets, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Unity cancels a town hall and closes two offices after receiving what the company says was a credible death threat, following its controversial install fee news — Management announced a controversial pricing decision two days ago — Unity Technologies Inc. canceled a planned town hall …
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LinkedIn: David Lähner and Shannon Loftis
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| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
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| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
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| Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines — Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
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Forums: r/technology, r/technology, r/vegas, and r/technews
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023 — - New hires will be split among sales, engineering, data cloud — Many hires will be boomerang employees, CEO Benioff says
More: The Register, Insider, Coinspeaker, Reuters, Fortune, CIO, Tech in Asia, and MarketWatch
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users' location for commercial gain even after they opted out — Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices.| Bloomberg: |
At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle” — Hi all, it's Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington.
More: Ars Technica, Android Central, Android Headlines, Bloomberg Law, and Washington Post
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google confirms it currently offers no repair options for cracked Pixel Watch screens; the company's hardware warranty does not cover accidental damage — If you crack the screen on the Pixel Watch, getting it officially repaired by Google isn't in the cards.
More: TechRadar, Android Police, Phandroid, iFixit News, Wccftech, Gizchina, and 9to5Google
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini AI model, as the company nears a launch of the GPT-4 rival — Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its highly anticipated conversational artificial intelligence software …
More: DatacenterDynamics, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, BigTechWire, Livemint, Metaverse Post, and Reuters
| Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft and Oracle expand their cloud partnership with Oracle Database@Azure, letting customers run Oracle workloads natively in Azure data centers — The new level of collaboration reflects how technology and customer demand have fostered more cooperation among software companies
More: Microsoft, Microsoft, CNBC, Cryptopolitan, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, DatacenterDynamics, The Official Microsoft Blog, TechCircle, The Register, diginomica, ITPro, Oracle, TechRadar, Wall Street Journal, BigTechWire, WebProNews, SiliconANGLE, CIO.com, Thurrott, The Information, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, GeekWire, Neowin, and Constellation Research
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Playtika agrees to acquire Innplay Labs, a mobile game studio in Israel, for an upfront fee of $80M and as much as $300M in total — Playtika has agreed to acquire Innplay Labs, a mobile game studio in Israel, for an upfront fee of $80 million and as much as $300 million.| Christopher Beam / Wired: |
A look at the race to build tools to identify AI-generated text and evade detection, such as GPTZero and WorkNinja, which were built by college students — And college students are developing the weapons, quickly building tools that identify AI-generated text—and tools to evade detection.| Bloomberg: |
The US Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national security issues raised by Elon Musk's denial to extend Starlink to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russia — The Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national-security issues raised by Elon Musk's decision not to extend … | Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC has told its suppliers to delay the delivery of high-end chipmaking equipment, as the chipmaker grows increasingly nervous about customer demand — Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW) has told its major suppliers to delay the delivery of high-end chipmaking equipment …
More: TechPowerUp
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI framework that the company says can help create enzymes for new therapeutics and drug delivery methods — Proteins, the natural molecules that carry out key cellular functions within the body, are the building blocks of all diseases.
More: BigTechWire, Microsoft on GitHub, Robots.net, bioRxiv, and Microsoft Research
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