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Spotify calls Apple's DMA compliance plan 'extortion''complete and total farce'

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Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU’s...
Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which sets the stage for sideloading apps, alternative app stores, browser choice, and more. On Friday, the streaming music company issued its response to Apple’s new DMA rules, calling the new fees im...
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Apple's reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its goodwill

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Apple is on a roll when it comes to having its hand forced by state entities...
Apple is on a roll when it comes to having its hand forced by state entities and governing bodies: Alternative payment methods, stripping features from existing hardware, allowing alternate app stores and genuine browser default competition – everywhere you turn it seems to be satisfying some reversal, owing either ...
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Bluesky CEO confronts content moderation in the Fediverse

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The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation:...
The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who have come together to discuss content moderation in the fediverse. It’s been more than a year since Musk showed u...
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23andMe admits it didn't detect cyberattacks for months

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In a data breach notification letter filed with regulators this weekend, 23andMe revealed that hackers started...
In a data breach notification letter filed with regulators this weekend, 23andMe revealed that hackers started breaking into customers’ accounts in April 2023 and continued through most of September. In other words, for around five months, 23andMe did not detect a series of cyberattacks where hackers were trying — a...
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Cruise reveals DOJ, SEC probes, releases internal report on pedestrian crash

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Cruise, the GM self-driving subsidiary, said Thursday that federal prosecutors and securities regulators have opened investigations...
Cruise, the GM self-driving subsidiary, said Thursday that federal prosecutors and securities regulators have opened investigations into the October 2 incident that left a pedestrian stuck under and then dragged by one of its robotaxis. The probes by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commissi...
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OpenAI said to be considering developing its own AI chips

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OpenAI, one of the best-funded AI startups in business, is exploring making its own AI chips....
OpenAI, one of the best-funded AI startups in business, is exploring making its own AI chips. Discussions of AI chip strategies within the company have been ongoing since at least last year, according to Reuters, as the shortage of chips to train AI models worsens. OpenAI is reportedly considering a number of strate...
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China Pulls Draft Gaming Rules from Website

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Exxon throws a fit over shareholders exercising their rights

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It’s a dirty little secret in business that everybody has a boss, even the bosses. Top...
It’s a dirty little secret in business that everybody has a boss, even the bosses. Top executives report to the CEO, the CEO answers to the board, and the board serves at the whim of the shareholders. Exxon’s management has now decided that it doesn’t like what its bosses have to say. On Sunday evening, the oil supe...
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LoanDepot 16.6M customers 'sensitive personal' information stolen in cyberattack

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Only 150 apps have been designed specifically for Apple's Vision Pro, so far

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It’s not just Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube that don’t have apps for Apple’s Vision Pro at...
It’s not just Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube that don’t have apps for Apple’s Vision Pro at launch. New App Store data indicates the new mixed reality headset and Apple’s foray into virtual reality has so far seen only a tepid response from app developers. As of this weekend, the AR/VR device’s App Store has just 150...
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Sony tells Zee it's terminating the $10B India merger

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Sony called off the merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment on Monday, ending a...
Sony called off the merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment on Monday, ending a two-year acquisition deliberation that would have created a $10 billion media powerhouse in the South Asian market. Sony said in a statement that it has sent a termination letter to Zee after the Indian firm failed to meet th...
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Lamborghini licenses MIT's new high-capacity, fast-charging organic battery tech

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Lithium-ion batteries have come a long way, but in many ways they haven’t come far enough....
Lithium-ion batteries have come a long way, but in many ways they haven’t come far enough. They charge faster than ever before, but there’s still room for improvement. The materials they’re made of, particularly cobalt and nickel, are pricey and problematic. Researchers have been scrambling to find alternative mater...
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Hackers breached Microsoft to find out what Microsoft knows about them

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Wouldn’t you want to know what tech giants know about you? That’s exactly what Russian government...
Wouldn’t you want to know what tech giants know about you? That’s exactly what Russian government hackers want, too. On Friday, Microsoft disclosed that the hacking group it calls Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear — and widely believed to be sponsored by the Russian government — hacked some corpora...
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Microsoft makes its AI-powered reading tutor free

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Microsoft today made Reading Coach, its AI-powered tool that provides learners with personalized reading practice, available...
Microsoft today made Reading Coach, its AI-powered tool that provides learners with personalized reading practice, available at no cost to anyone with a Microsoft account. As of this morning, Reading Coach is accessible on the web in preview — a Windows app is forthcoming. And soon (in late spring), Reading Coach wi...
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Reddit plans to launch IPO in March

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Reddit is preparing to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in March, according to a new...
Reddit is preparing to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in March, according to a new report from Reuters. The report notes that the move comes more than three years after the San Francisco-based social media platform first began eyeing an IPO. Reddit is planning to make its public filing in late February and...
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YouTube to eliminate 100 employees as layoffs at Google continue

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Yet another series of layoffs has hit Google, this time at its video-sharing platform, YouTube. The...
Yet another series of layoffs has hit Google, this time at its video-sharing platform, YouTube. The company will eliminate 100 employees, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. Last week, Google laid off more than 1,000 workers across several divisions, including engineering, services and voice-activated product Go...
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Epic plans to contest Apple's 'bad-faith' compliance with ruling over App Store

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Fortnite maker Epic Games is not happy about how Apple intends to comply with a district...
Fortnite maker Epic Games is not happy about how Apple intends to comply with a district court’s injunction that permitted app developers to direct users to their own websites and payment platforms — a court order that came into effect following the Supreme Court’s decision to not hear the Apple antitrust case, leav...
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Uber is closing alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after acquistion

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Uber is shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after the cab-hailing company acquired it...
Uber is shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after the cab-hailing company acquired it for $1.1 billion. Drizly ran independently all this time, and Uber eventually decided to close it, as first reported by Axios. At the time of the acquisition Uber planned to integrate Drizly into Uber Eats, bu...
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AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M

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As search engine incumbents — namely Google — amp up their platforms with GenAI tech, startups...
As search engine incumbents — namely Google — amp up their platforms with GenAI tech, startups are looking to reinvent AI-powered search from the ground up. It might seem like a Sisyphean task, going up against competitors with billions upon billions of users. But this new breed of search upstarts believes it can ca...
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Discord lays off 170 people, blames growing too quickly

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Discord has become a mainstay for many online communities in recent years, but its relative success...
Discord has become a mainstay for many online communities in recent years, but its relative success hasn’t shielded the platform from the financial woes plaguing the tech industry. Like other companies making sweeping cuts to their workforces this week, Discord is laying off 17% of its staff, or about 170 people. In...
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Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024

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Disney-owned animation studio Pixar is poised to undergo layoffs this year, TechCrunch has learned and the...
Disney-owned animation studio Pixar is poised to undergo layoffs this year, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. While sources at the company said the layoffs would be significant and as high as 20% — or reductions that would see Pixar’s team of 1,300 dropped to under 1,000 over the coming months — Pixa...
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Amazon-owned Audible lays off 5% of staff

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Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook company, is laying off 5% of its staff, according to a leaked...
Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook company, is laying off 5% of its staff, according to a leaked memo obtained by Business Insider. Per the memo, Audible CEO Bob Carrigan praised staff for a strong 2023 and assured them that the business was in good shape… but, due to the “increasingly challenging landscape,” the c...
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Hertz is selling 20k EVs and replacing them with gas cars

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Hertz is selling off a third of its electric vehicle fleet, which is predominantly made up...
Hertz is selling off a third of its electric vehicle fleet, which is predominantly made up of Teslas, and will buy gas cars with some of the money it makes from the sales. The company cited lower demand for EVs and higher-than-expected repair costs as reasons for the decision. The sell-off began last month and will ...
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A geofence warrant typo cast a location dragnet spanning two miles over SF

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Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to...
Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed. But errors in the geofence warrant applications that go before a judge can violate the privacy of vastly more people...
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