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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.
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, CNBC, PCMag, iDownloadBlog.com, iThinkDifferent, Yahoo Finance, Engadget, WinBuzzer, Android Authority, Reuters, New York Times, iMore, WRAL TechWire, Android Headlines, Digital Trends, New York Post, The Information, Beyond Search, Gizmodo, Neowin, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Supercharged, BGR, 9to5Mac, iClarified, AppleInsider, and Daring Fireball
Threads: @georgescriban, @carnage4life, @quillmatiq, Threads, @georgescriban, @georgescriban, @carnage4life, @georgescriban, and @quillmatiq
Mastodon: @slightlyoff@toot.cafe, @asymco@mastodon.social, and @schizanon@mas.to. Bluesky: @epro.social
X: @bigtechontrial, @leah_nylen, @jason_kint, @ccm_brett, @jason_kint, @antitrustmemes, @benremaly, @amaldorai, @lutherlowe, @joshm, @thestalwart, @leehepner, @jason_kint, @bigtechontrial, @eric_seufert, @bigtechontrial, @mrmeador, @jason_kint, @pranavdixit, and @leah_nylen
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Beehaw, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| 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
More: The Guardian, Android Authority, Hindustan Times, PhoneArena, SamMobile, 9to5Google, Sam Lover, Android Headlines, Phandroid, Sammy Fans, and The Verge
X: @megangra and @leah_nylen
| 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.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @shish@techhub.social, @craigmod@mastodon.social, and @jgordon@appdot.net
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Forums: Hacker News and r/MediaSynthesis
| 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 … | 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 …
Forums: r/cybersecurity
| 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 …
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Forums: r/gamingnews, r/newworldgame, r/gaming, r/Games, and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: BBC, Android Authority, Insider, MacRumors, SamMobile, Wccftech, PhoneArena, TweakTown, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, GSMArena.com, The Economic Times, NewsBytes, Sam Lover, KnowTechie, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, FE Tech Bytes, MySmartPrice, Social Media Today, Phandroid, Neowin, Android Headlines, 9to5Mac, Engadget, and Livemint
Threads: @mosseri, @mosseri, @parkerortolani, @kmarford, @guillecummings, @louisetilbrookdesigns, and @cmcalgary. Forums: r/technology
| 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.
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Mastodon: @emilygorcenski@indieweb …. Bluesky: @alanbaxter.bsky.social, @lschmeiser.bsky.social, @cmhenry.bsky.social, and @caseynewton.bsky.social
X: @prestonjbyrne, @akilahobviously, @bradmossesq, @alexweprin, @davidlaz, @asilbwrites, @alexweprin, @tomaxwell, @kimmasters, and @alexweprin
Forums: r/Conservative, r/technology, r/politics, r/TimPool, r/Fauxmoi, r/DWAC, and r/uspolitics
| Scott Patterson / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Aurora, the Intel- and HPE-made, Argonne National Laboratory-based supercomputer, set to be the first to hit two quintillion operations per second — That's two billion billion operations a second, enough to explore the brain and discover drugs — LEMONT, Ill.—Inside … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$47.7B, net income up 11% YoY to ~$1.3B, and lowers the outlook for its components business to flat YoY — - It also revised down forecast for components business segment — Company beat average profit estimate in the September quarter
More: Nikkei Asia, 9to5Mac, CNBC, MacDailyNews, BGR, Financial Times, Reuters, RTÉ, and Tech Xplore
| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620K URLs — Two men who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to bombard Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs … | Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law: |
In a letter to Chuck Schumer, over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups urge the Senate to not renew 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 …
More: Wired, Cybernews.com, Techdirt, and Center for Democracy …
X: @parents4privacy and @cendemtech
| Reuters: |
Microsoft and Google do not plan to challenge “gatekeeper” status under the EU DMA, ahead of a November 16 deadline to object; sources say TikTok may challenge — Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will not challenge an EU law that would require them to make it easier …
More: RTÉ, Android Headlines, WinBuzzer, and The Information
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance's revenue rose 40% YoY to $29B in Q2, with markets outside of China accounting for nearly 20% of its total; H1 2023 revenue was ~$54B — ByteDance is closing the revenue gap with Facebook owner Meta Platforms as it generates more sales from advertising and e-commerce.| 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
More: 9to5Mac, Forbes, and Irish Council …
X: @floorter, @wolfiechristl, @johnnyryan, and @johnnyryan
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on how he changed tech gadget reviews, business strategy, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more — Marques Brownlee has rewired the way people shop for gadgets—and how companies sell them. Inside the humble workshop … | Arriana McLymore / Reuters: |
Ahead of the holidays, Amazon updates Buy With Prime to let customers more easily return items outside of Amazon.com and see their order history via their apps — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is adding package tracking and return services for subscription members who use Buy With Prime …
More: USA Today and About Amazon
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators plan to file anti-competitive charges against Adobe's $20B Figma deal as early as this week; the duo 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 … | Joshua Rothman / New Yorker: |
A profile of Geoffrey Hinton, who argues that LLMs like GPT can comprehend the meanings of words and learn how the world works by analyzing human writing — Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours.Sponsor Posts
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