Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Unacademy acquires PrepLadder, which offers medical education courses online, for $50M, as Unacedemy and Byju's eye edtech consolidation in India with more M&A — Indian online learning platform Unacademy said on Tuesday it has acquired Chandigarh-based startup PrepLadder for $50 million …
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Unacademy acquires PrepLadder, which offers medical education courses online, for $50M, as Unacedemy and Byju's eye edtech consolidation in India with more M&A (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
A group of best-selling authors is teaming up with Amazon in filing a lawsuit against Kiss Library, which they claim sold unauthorized ebooks of their work (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
A group of best-selling authors is teaming up with Amazon in filing a lawsuit against Kiss Library, which they claim sold unauthorized ebooks of their work — A group of best-selling authors, including some who previously fought Amazon over digital book pricing, are now teaming …
Facebook ad boycott organizers see 'no commitment to action' in Zuckerberg meeting
Walmart's membership program set to launch in July: Report
Government wants a level playing field across media with light regulation: I&B secretary
Jio Platforms gets Rs 43,574 Crore, completes Facebook deal
The Best Hindi Movies on Disney+ Hotstar
Ubisoft confronts allegations of sexual harassment at its Toronto offices, amid an open letter from 100+ employees, resignation of the studio's co-founder, more (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)
Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Ubisoft confronts allegations of sexual harassment at its Toronto offices, amid an open letter from 100+ employees, resignation of the studio's co-founder, more — There's a story some people tell at Ubisoft Toronto, the studio currently finishing one of this fall's bigger planned releases, Watch Dogs: Legion.
Covid-19 pandemic will drive adoption of digital payments: PayPal CEO
Redmi Note 9 Pro Max to Go on Sale Today at 12 Noon via Amazon, Mi.com
Uber drivers in Southern California and Sacramento can now set their own fares, higher or lower than Uber's existing rates, in response to AB5 state law (Carolyn Said/San Francisco Chronicle)
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
Uber drivers in Southern California and Sacramento can now set their own fares, higher or lower than Uber's existing rates, in response to AB5 state law — Uber is letting drivers in Southern California and Sacramento set their own fares, a feature it will soon bring to the Bay Area and the entire state.
Fashion & apparel companies still hurting
Unsealed court documents reveal identity of Fxmsp, a Kazakh hacker responsible for information theft from 300+ companies and governments in 44 countries (Patrick O'Neill/MIT Technology Review)
Patrick O'Neill / MIT Technology Review:
Unsealed court documents reveal identity of Fxmsp, a Kazakh hacker responsible for information theft from 300+ companies and governments in 44 countries — Newly-unsealed court documents name a Kazakh man as the mastermind behind a hacking campaign that hit 44 countries. They also detail his short-lived successes.
Sources: FTC and Justice Department are looking into allegations TikTok failed to live up to a 2019 agreement to protect children's privacy (Diane Bartz/Reuters)
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Sources: FTC and Justice Department are looking into allegations TikTok failed to live up to a 2019 agreement to protect children's privacy — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Justice Department are looking into allegations that popular app TikTok failed …
How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost: open-source approach, pure reinforcement learning, not supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat : How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost: open-source approach, pure reinforcement learning, not supe...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...