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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more — Justice Department says iPhone maker leveraged its dominance to block software and limit functionality of competing devices
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Mastodon: @paul@tapbots.social, @sdw@mastodon.social, @johnvoorhees@mastodon …, @elkmovie@mastodon.social, and @viticci@mastodon …
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LinkedIn: Langley Steinert, Caroline Giegerich, and Cole Dansie
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/iphone, r/politics, r/applesucks, r/gadgets, r/technology, r/apple, r/law, r/technology, r/technews, r/technology, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
A look at DOJ's case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+ — The U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday.
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says the US DOJ winning its lawsuit “would set a dangerous precedent, empowering government to take a heavy hand in designing people's technology” — The U.S. Department of Justice today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of operating … | Matt Rosoff / TechCrunch: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Reddit opens up 38%, at $47 per share, in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at about $9B on a fully diluted basis — The San Francisco-based company's stock began trading on Thursday at $47 each, above the offering price of $34 per share.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How Reddit, one of the last online spaces where real people gather, went from one of the darkest parts of the internet to a content moderation success story — The site's journey from toxic cesspool to trusted news source illustrates the business value of keeping bad actors at bay.
More: Android Headlines and Washington Post
| Paul Graham / Y Combinator: |
More: Deadline. X: @katmanalac, @btrautschold, @yuris, @dadiomov, @snowmaker, @krishnanrohit, @akaushik759, @helloshreyas, and @paulg
| The Information: |
Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection's models available for sale on Azure — Microsoft doesn't want its plan to hire two of Inflection AI's co-founders and most of its 70-person staff to be seen as an acquisition.
More: Reuters. X: @gavinsbaker, @jessicalessin, @nmasc_, @jrichlive, @mikeisaac, @jessicalessin, @iatalkspace, @aaronpholmes, and @alex
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 for enterprises, adding a Copilot key, a Neural Processing Unit for Windows 11's AI features, and more — Microsoft is gearing up for its “year of the AI PC” with two new Surface devices that won't be sold directly to consumers.
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X: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, and @markhachman
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU plans to announce investigations into Apple's and Google's DMA compliance in the coming days; Meta's subscriptions could also face scrutiny — - Meta also expected to face scrutiny in EU's Big Tech clampdown — Digital Markets Act investigations could pave way for fines
More: The Verge, Reuters, Business Post, Australian Financial Review, Channel NewsAsia, MarTech, and Benzinga
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, raised $50M led by Pace Capital at a $550M valuation, bringing its total funding to $128M — The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, has raised $50 million in a round led by Pace Capital at a $550 million valuation, TechCrunch has learned exclusively.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube TV gets multiview support on iOS and iPadOS, letting users watch up to four TV channels at once; Android support is set to arrive “in the coming months” — Google has confirmed that YouTube TV is now rolling out support for Multiview on the iPhone and iPad, but the feature won't arrive on Android for a while.
More: Tom's Guide, ZDNet, iClarified, GSMArena.com, SamMobile, and The Streamable. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to users are “demonstrably false” and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over — - Ray called the claims ‘callously’ and ‘demonstrably’ false — SBF had claimed customers on the exchange suffered no harm
More: Protos, Cryptonews, CoinGape, Financial Times, and CoinDesk
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| Financial Times: |
Chinese state media: Tim Cook said “there's no supply chain in the world that's more critical to us than China” and praised “modernization in Chinese factories” — Apple chief Tim Cook has said China is “critical” to its business in comments made during a visit to the country … | Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Fairly Trained certifies KL3M, an LLM legal tech consultancy startup 273 Ventures claims to have built without the permissionless use of copyrighted materials — OpenAI claimed it's “impossible” to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” …
More: Hugging Face, Benzinga, Silicon Republic, Cryptopolitan, and Fairly Trained
| Emily Mullin / Wired: |
Neuralink shows its first brain implant patient, a 29-year-old man paralyzed from the shoulders down, playing online chess using the Neuralink device — In a livestream on X, the paralyzed 29-year-old man used his Neuralink brain implant to control a computer.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/gaming, r/singularity, r/Futurology, r/technology, r/teslainvestorsclub, and r/Neuralink
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
An analysis of cookie pop-ups on the 10K most popular websites shows that dozens share data with 1,000+ companies, and thousands share data with 100+ companies — Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies …
Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange and @Theeo123@mastodon.social
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out Threads fediverse integration beta in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated platforms like Mastodon — Threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan. In a post on Thursday …
More: TechCrunch, Engineering at Meta, venera.social 🍀, and FediForum on YouTube
Threads: @zuck, @guillecummings, and @zuck
| Yossi Matias / The Keyword: |
In a research paper, Google Research details how AI helped to provide more accurate flood forecasting in 80+ countries up to seven days in advance of the flood — A paper published in Nature today shows how Google Research uses AI to accurately predict riverine flooding and help protect livelihoods …
More: Tech Brew, ZDNet, Google AI Blog, Nature, Engadget, Android Headlines, Business Standard, Google Research on YouTube, Interesting Engineering, Livemint, and Hindustan Times
LinkedIn: Kate Brandt, Juliet Rothenberg, and Adam Elman
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, founded by two Google researchers, releases three Japanese language models built using “model merging”, which combines existing AI models — Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup founded by two prominent former Google (GOOGL.O) researchers …
More: Sakana AI, Verdict, and arXiv.org
X: @sakanaailabs, @vkhosla, @sakanaailabs, @sakanaailabs, and @graceisford
LinkedIn: Mohamed El Mehdi Khalfoun and Christine Tsai
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Canadian regulatory agency ISED clarifies its stance on banning Flipper Zero, saying its aim is to “restrict the use of such devices to legitimate actors only” — A Canadian regulatory agency says the aim is to restrict the Flipper Zero ‘to legitimate actors only.’ — Michael Kan
More: XDA Developers and BleepingComputer
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
After a classified briefing on TikTok, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says that “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing” — - But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.
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X: @ashleyrgold, @nathanleamerdc, and @ashleyrgold
| Zephyr Teachout / The Atlantic: |
X: @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @mark_histed, @theatlantic, @dlberes, and @niubi
Forums: r/technology, r/DecodingTheGurus, r/JordanPeterson, and r/politics
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
BlackRock unveils its first tokenized asset fund, BUIDL, built on the Ethereum network and fully backed by cash, US Treasury bills, and repurchase agreements — The asset management giant also made a strategic investment in asset tokenization company Securitize.
More: BlackRock, Cryptopolitan, Crypto Briefing, Protos, Blockonomi, CryptoGlobe, and Bitcoin Insider
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ethtrader
| Shen Lu / Wall Street Journal: |
Investor letter: Shein announces a “supply chain as a service” initiative, offering its supply chain infrastructure and tech to outside brands and designers — China-founded fashion giant shifts business strategy as it faces U.S. challenges — China-founded Shein has built …
X: @jchengwsj and @wsj
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