Techmeme
November 14, 2023, 11:00 AM

Top News

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret  —  Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
Bloomberg:
Epic v. Google: Google agreed to pay Samsung $8B over four years in 2020 to make Google Search, Play Store, and Assistant the default on Samsung mobile devices  —  - Google paid Samsung $8 billion over four years, jurors told  — Epic Games is trying to show Alphabet unit undercut rivalry
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they upload realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including videos made using its tools, in 2024  —  Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties  —  YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
James Somers / New Yorker:
A eulogy for coding, which has always felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after ChatGPT swallowed knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master  —  Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain.  Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
Nathan Grayson / Aftermath:
Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and cuts ~180 jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023  —  Video game workers just can't catch a break  —  Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically at this point become …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out the ability for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account  —  Meta is rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile without having to delete your Instagram account, too.  You'll be able to access the new feature …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA's filing: Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales since its early 2022 launch and lost $23M in H1 2023  —  The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.
Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law:
Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups urge Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to not reauthorize FISA's Section 702, set to expire on December 31, 2023  —  More than 30 civil liberties and privacy groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday urging …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers are collecting browsing data in much more detail than previously known, including for those in sensitive jobs  —  Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail
Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg:
Sources: Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its search engine, not just a 51% stake, amid pressures relating to the war in Ukraine  —  - Deal to sell Russian unit may be announced in December  — Dutch-registered Yandex previously planned to sell a 51% stake
More: Reuters
Joshua Rothman / New Yorker:
A profile of Geoffrey Hinton, who argues that by analyzing human writing, LLMs like GPT can comprehend the meanings of words and learn how the world works  —  Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn.  Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours.

Sponsor Posts

Airtable:
The central nervous system of your business  —  Used by 80% of Fortune 100 companies, Airtable combines AI with the scale of an infinitely flexible, no-code system.  With all your data in one place, it's like mission control for your company.
Intel:
5G's most deployed platform  —  Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN.  That's the power of Intel Inside®
Zoho:
Keep your business moving with delegated signing in Zoho Sign  —  Contracts piling up while you're traveling or stuck in back-to-back meetings?  With Zoho Sign's delegated signing feature, those delays will be a thing of the past.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Featured Podcasts

Great Chat:
What comes after the Girl Boss?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Lenny's Podcast:
How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Everybody Goes Home: How technology is helping prevent wildfires from spreading
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Synthesia's Victor Riparbelli: Using AI To Replace Boring PowerPoints With Interactive Video
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
The Nick, Dick and Paul Show:
The Death of Hollywood? W/ Allan Loeb
Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo, and Paul Kedrosky pull back the curtain on AI, startups, and the future rushing toward us, all with healthy dose of irreverence.
Subscribe to The Nick, Dick and Paul Show.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Max Junestrand from Legora
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:00 AM ET, November 14, 2023.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

More News

Earlier Picks

Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
Maddie Stone / The Verge:
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: