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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
The FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data with aggregators “without customer consent”  —  The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators …
Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube:
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is reasonable but emblematic of a trend of selling unfinished products at full price while vowing to fix the issues later to win a “race”  —  AI in a Box.  But a different box.  R1 provided by Rabbit for review.  So this is the rabbit R1 and it's 0:07 another AI …
Raymond Wong / Inverse:
A profile of, and interview with, Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, on the origins of the R1, taking “10 minutes to design” the device, the AI gadget competition, and more
Bloomberg:
The EU opens a DSA investigation into Facebook and Instagram over deceptive ad and political content; sources say the move relates to a pro-Kremlin campaign  —  - Probe said to target pro-Putin Doppelganger campaign  — Meta probe is under the EU's tough new Digital Services Act
Sheila Chiang / CNBC:
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 12.81% YoY to ~$52.3B, vs. ~$51.6B est., operating profit up 932.8% YoY to ~$4.8B, vs. ~$4.3B est., as memory chip prices rebound  —  Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy S24 smartphones during a media preview event in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024.
Maciej Pocwierz:
How an empty, private AWS S3 bucket had ~100M PUT requests in a day, racking up a substantial bill, due to a popular open source tool using the same bucket name  —  Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference.  What will your AWS bill be the next morning?
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Analysis: Apple hired at least 36 AI experts from Google since 2018 and has a secretive European laboratory in Zurich to develop new AI models and products  —  iPhone maker also recruits generative AI experts into secretive Zurich lab as it prepares fightback against rivals
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
GitHub unveils Copilot Workspace, a developer environment using “Copilot-powered agents” to help brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code in natural language  —  Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE?  GitHub's floating the idea.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal plans to raise Peacock Premium with ads by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month starting July 18, its second hike in two years  —  NBCUniversal is looking to wring more money out of Peacock subscribers, with the streamer set to raise prices this summer …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K developer accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022  —  Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user's security.
Pieter Haeck / Politico:
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says a TikTok ban is “not excluded” and “we know exactly the danger of TikTok” during a 2024 election debate  —  The remark comes amid a streak of bad news for TikTok in Europe.  —  Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hinted …
More: Benzinga.  X: @theresaafallon, @glenn_diesen, and @jimbethell.  Forums: r/europe
Timothy B. Lee / Asterisk:
Tech journalism is often characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research, and publishers are reluctant to invest in it without a clear ROI  —  A huge proportion of tech journalism is characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research.  Can we fix it?
Monica Anderson / Pew Research Center:
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 78% say social media companies have too much political power; 51% say Big Tech should be regulated more than the companies are now  —  Most think social media companies have too much influence in politics and censor political viewpoints they object to - both sentiments are growing among Democrats
Zosia Wanat / Sifted:
Lithuanian second hand marketplace Vinted reports 2023 revenue up 61% YoY to €596.3M and a €17.8M net profit, up from a €20.4M loss in 2022  —  The company reported a net profit of €17.8m in 2023  —  Vinted, the Lithuanian startup which has become one of Europe's best …
More: ChannelX and PYMNTS.com

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

More News

Bloomberg:
Microsoft announces plans to invest $1.7B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia over four years and train 840,000 people with AI skills in the country
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
OpenAI rolls out an optional feature called Memory, letting ChatGPT Plus users tell ChatGPT things they want the chatbot to remember across chats

Earlier Picks

Sander Lutz / Decrypt:
Unredacted parts in Consensys' lawsuit vs. the SEC say the SEC on April 13, 2023 approved an internal order, which called ETH a security, to probe Ethereum 2.0
Philip Lagerkranser / Bloomberg:
Tether says it invested $200M in brain-computer interface company Blackrock Neurotech, via its newly established VC arm Tether Evo
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
SCOTUS rejects Elon Musk's appeal to overturn an SEC agreement from 2018 to have an in-house lawyer pre-approve his X posts about Tesla, without giving a reason
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
The NHTSA is investigating Ford's driver assistance system BlueCruise, which was active during two crashes that killed multiple people in Texas and Pennsylvania
Alexander Martin / The Record:
The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023
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