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The US DOJ seizes 32 domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian efforts to influence the 2024 US presidential election — The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence … | Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back X ad spending in 2025 and 14% plan to pull budgets in 2024, over concerns about content and trust in disseminated info — Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminated| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program — The legal battle was spurred by book publishers objecting to the archive's digital lending library.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel cancels plans to use its Intel 20A process node for its consumer Arrow Lake processors and instead plans to use external nodes, likely from TSMC — Out with the Intel node, in with TSMC. — In a surprise move, Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use its own ‘Intel 20A’ process node … | Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
YouTube begins limiting repeated video recommendations about fitness levels, body weights, physical features, and more to teens globally, expanding from the US — Platform will ensure algorithms do not keep pushing similar content to young viewers, even though it does not breach guidelines| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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Cybersecurity company Pango Group acquires all of Kaspersky's US customers, or ~1M users, after the Commerce Department banned Kaspersky's software in the US — - Pango owns and offers a portfolio of cybersecurity products, including VPNs, antivirus software and identity theft protection tools.| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Sources: OSOM, the smartphone startup founded by ex-Essential employees, is shutting down later this week, after a lawsuit alleged CEO Jason Keats misused funds — OSOM is effectively closing up shop later this week and laying off most of its employees. — • — TL;DR| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and hasn't been subpoenaed, following a report that it had received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns — - Bloomberg reported on the antitrust investigation Tuesday — Nvidia says it has been in contact with the Justice Department| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Germany-based Aleph Alpha, which raised $500M+ in 2023, is pivoting to focus on helping clients use AI tools, instead of trying to outperform OpenAI and others — - For years, Aleph Alpha was hailed as Europe's rival to OpenAI — Then it opted to stop relying on costly large-language models| New York Times: |
Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City, California, which holds about 36 human technicians who oversee and provide remote assistance to robot taxis — In places like San Francisco, Phoenix and Las Vegas, robot taxis are navigating city streets, each without a driver behind the steering wheel.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks — Google announced on Tuesday it's releasing Android 15 and making its source code available ahead of the coming consumer launch … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
An adviser to CJEU sides with Italy's antitrust authority that Google's refusal to provide third-party access to Android Auto may breach EU competition rules — An adviser to Europe's top court on Thursday sided with Italy's antitrust authority, saying Alphabet (GOOGL.O) … | Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked Disney files include personal data of some staff and customers, and show that Disney+ had $2.4B+ revenue in March quarter, or 43% of Disney's DTC revenue — Data trove sheds light on entertainment giant's operations, and exposes personal data of some staff and customers| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
The US, UK, EU, and others sign a Council of Europe treaty to ensure that the use of AI is “fully consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law” — We're not very close to any specifics on how, exactly, AI regulations will be implemented and ensured … | Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Shares of Truth Social's parent TMTG continue to slide, as the expiration date nears for a lockup agreement preventing Trump and others from selling their stock — Trump Media shares on Wednesday closed below where they stood at the end of 2023, as the Truth Social maker's stock continued … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more — The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark … | Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Huawei and SMIC are struggling with making chips for Huawei's next flagship Mate 70, due to US restrictions; Huawei was aiming for a September release — Huawei Technologies, whose phones are a major competitor to Apple's iPhones in China, has scheduled a big product announcement for next Tuesday … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
DJI unveils Neo, a $200 drone aimed at content creators and casual users with features like palm takeoff, voice control, ActiveTrack, smartphone control, more — It's simple to use but offers advanced features like smartphone and voice control. — DJI has just unveiled the Neo … | Bloomberg: |
India and Singapore sign a series of deals to ramp up collaboration in semiconductors and digital technologies, including cybersecurity, 5G, AI, and more — - Countries seek bigger role in global tech supply chains — Southern Asia trying to capitalize on US-China tensions| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
A San Francisco federal judge rules that X must face a class action age bias suit by around 150 older workers who were laid off by the company in 2022 — A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X when Elon Musk acquired … | Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
Applied Digital, which leases out data-center space and has started an AI cloud-computing service with Nvidia chips, raised $160M from Nvidia and others — Capital is expected to help data-center and AI cloud company grow — Artificial-intelligence chip giant Nvidia is joining other investors … | Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
PayPal expands into point-of-sale payments in the US by integrating its debit card with Apple Wallet and offering 5% cash back for some products up to $1K/month — PayPal (PYPL.O) is expanding into U.S. point-of-sale payments by integrating its debit card with Apple's mobile wallet … | Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Some tech and crypto firms, and Wyoming rush to launch their own stablecoins to profit from a recovering crypto market, as experts say tokens are of little use — But some industry experts warn that tokens are a ‘novelty asset’ used mostly for trading — Technology and crypto companies …
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