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November 14, 2023, 8:10 AM
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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
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Reuters:
Investigation: for over six months, the FBI has known the identities of 12+ hackers tied to the MGM and Caesars breaches, baffling experts at the lack of action  —  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that's …
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Sources: EU regulators plan to file anti-competitive charges against Adobe's $20B Figma deal as early as this week; Adobe announced the deal in September 2022  —  EU preparing to file anti-competitive charges, according to people familiar with probe  —  Adobe's $20bn deal to buy Figma …
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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
RIL, a nonprofit coalition of tech VCs and execs, releases a voluntary commitment for startups building AI responsibly, signed by Insight, IVP, and 33 other VCs  —  The new guidelines are part of an effort to enact some guardrails for potentially thousands of startups across the AI industry.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Top500: the AMD-powered Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer at 1.194 Exaflop/s, fending off the Argonne National Laboratory's Intel-powered Aurora  —  Intel's oft-delayed Aurora remains a work in progress.  —  The Top500 organization released its semi-annual list of the fastest supercomputers …

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The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Atlas Obscura's co-founders were pushed out of the company amid clashes with CEO Louise Story, who has trimmed staff and changed editorial strategy

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Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:
London-based Fnality, which is developing a blockchain-based wholesale payment system, raised a £77.7M Series B led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas

Earlier Picks

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
A look at OpenAI's structure where a six-member non-profit board can decide if the company has achieved AGI, which would exclude Microsoft from some IP licenses
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp launches a Discord-like voice chat feature for large groups that is designed to be less disruptive than a group call, which rings every group member
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
The Biden administration directs agencies to work toward giving up airwaves to make room for commercial 5G networks, as part of the National Spectrum Strategy
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Salesforce names executive Denise Dresser as Slack's CEO, the unit's third leader in the past year; Dresser was Salesforce's president of accelerated industries
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
In a first, researchers show that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to full compromise
Maddie Stone / The Verge:
After Apple voiced support for California's Right to Repair Act, a look at what's next for the movement, like tackling unsustainable designs and software locks
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Google sues unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam for tricking US-based SMB owners with Facebook accounts into clicking fake Bard ads that install malware
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