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Gene Park / Washington Post:
The ESA shuts down the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, after new competitors, partner withdrawals, changing audience habits, and more; E3 began in 1995  —  The collapse ends years of attempts to revive the event that once dominated the industry  —  The Electronic Entertainment Expo …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
The jury in Epic v. Google finds that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution and in-app billing services markets; Google plans to appeal  —  Three years after Fortnite maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win.
More: Epic Games, New York Times, Wired, CNN, Associated Press, Washington Post, Dexerto, BIG by Matt Stoller, Bloomberg, Engadget, Seattle Business Journal, PCMag, PC Gamer, BBC, Tom's Guide, Wall Street Journal, ExtremeTech, HotHardware, Business Insider, AppleInsider, TweakTown, MacDailyNews, Kotaku, TechStartups, iMore, Mostly signs, Game Developer, Android Central, Mobilegamer.biz, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Club386, WinBuzzer, Game World Observer, Developer Tech News, TechSpot, guru3d.com, MediaNama, GamesIndustry.biz, Tech in Asia, American Economic …, Silicon Republic, KnowTechie, United States District Court Northern District of California, GamingonPhone, Pocket-lint, Axios, Ghacks, Android Authority, SamMobile, TechPowerUp, Variety, Neowin, PhoneArena, iClarified, Business Today, Ars Technica, Android Police, SlashGear, Aftermath, Los Angeles Times, The Register, and Reuters
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LinkedIn: David Lewis, Sean O'Brien, Rafael Brown, and Steve Allison
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/Android, r/gaming, r/technology, and Slashdot
Bloomberg:
Google's legal defeat to Epic threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple that generates nearly $200B/year and accelerate the weakening of app store rules  —  - Jury decision poised to accelerate crumbling of business model  — Case takes aim at app store commissions of up to 30%
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: Apple offers to let rivals access its tap-and-go payments systems for mobile wallets, hoping to settle EU antitrust charges and avoid a possible fine  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has offered to let rivals access its tap-and-go mobile payments systems used for mobile wallets …
Wall Street Journal:
Apple releases an iOS beta with Stolen Device Protection; if enabled, the feature limits actions like Apple ID password resets when not in a “familiar location”  —  Stolen Device Protection can prevent criminals from using your passcode to change your Apple account
Daryna Antoniuk / The Record:
Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telco, is mitigating a cyberattack that led to a “large-scale technical failure”, leaving millions without internet and cell service  —  Kyivstar customers began complaining about network and internet outages in the early morning.
Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg:
Stanford professor David Mills, who led SBF's defense as a favor to his parents, says the ex-FTX CEO is “the worst person I've ever seen do a cross examination”  —  Stanford Law Professor David Mills, who led defense for FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried as favor to his parents, now fears ‘unwinnable’ case has ended their friendship.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed  —  Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.
CNN:
A US GAO review of nearly 24 agencies' AI usage catalogs 200+ current applications and 500+ planned uses of AI and ML, despite the lack of government guidance  —  The US government plans to vastly expand its reliance on artificial intelligence, but it is years behind on policies …
Reuters:
Seychelles-based crypto exchange KuCoin agrees to block New York state users and pay $22M to settle a lawsuit brought by New York AG Letitia James in March 2023  —  New link at Reuters
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Microsoft debuts Phi-2, an AI language model it says can outperform Llama 2 and Mistral at 7B and 13B parameters and is small enough to run on a smartphone  —  The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn't slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023 and the traditional winter holiday quiet period.
More: Microsoft Research and The Information
Threads: @vitor_dlucca.  LinkedIn: Stephane Requena, Eric Horvitz, and Jia Li.  Forums: Hacker News
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple redesigns Apple TV in iOS 17.2 and tvOS 17.2 with a sidebar that unifies content; iTunes now redirects users searching for shows and movies to Apple TV  —  Starting Monday, the iTunes Store app on iPhone and iPad will redirect users searching for TV and film titles to the newly redesigned Apple TV app.
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Apple releases iOS 17.2, with a Journal app, Qi2 support on iPhone 13 and 14, and 15 Pro spatial video capture, alongside macOS, tvOS, watchOS, iPadOS updates
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
OpenAI's nonprofit arm reports $44,485 in 2022 revenue, despite the company being valued at ~$86B, avoiding California's $2M threshold for auditing its finances  —  - OpenAI's nonprofit organization generated $44,485 in revenue in 2022, almost entirely from investment income …
Simon Cohen / Digital Trends:
Bose confirms the company “is in the process of phasing out” its Bose Frames line of audio smart glasses, launched in December 2018 as part of its AR initiative  —  Bose has confirmed to Digital Trends that it is discontinuing its Bose Frames line of audio glasses.
More: The Verge
Paresh Dave / Wired:
YouTube no longer displays whether a channel is part of the YouTube Partner Program, which gives a cut of ad revenue, leaving researchers in the dark  —  YouTube removed a snippet of code that publicly disclosed whether a channel receives ad and subscription payouts, obscuring which creators benefit most from the platform.
More: The Verge and 9to5Google.  Bluesky: @wagatwe.bsky.social
Financial Times:
Emmanuel Macron warns that the EU's AI Act may hamper tech companies compared to US, UK, and Chinese rivals, and says France is “neck and neck with the British”  —  French president argues landmark rules may leave European tech companies lagging rivals in US, UK and China

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Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator and veteran political adviser who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, dies at 58

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