New York Times:
Microsoft's Activision deal is the biggest test yet of the new alignment on antitrust enforcement between the US FTC, the European Commission, and the UK's CMA — Until recently, antitrust regulators in Europe and the United States took different approaches.
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Sunday, February 5, 2023
Microsoft's Activision deal is the biggest test yet of the new alignment on antitrust enforcement between the US FTC, the European Commission, and the UK's CMA (New York Times)
Sources: Apple has discussed adding a higher end "Ultra" model to its lineup in 2024, in addition to iPhone Pro and Pro Max models (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has discussed adding a higher end “Ultra” model to its lineup in 2024, in addition to iPhone Pro and Pro Max models — Apple's Tim Cook told investors that consumers are willing to pay up for the best iPhone they can get, signaling that even more ritzy models may be on the way.
How 1M female health care workers in India are using WhatsApp to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country's high maternal mortality rates (Sanket Jain/MIT Technology Review)
Sanket Jain / MIT Technology Review:
How 1M female health care workers in India are using WhatsApp to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country's high maternal mortality rates — Female volunteers are using messages, statuses, and hyperlocal groups to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country's high maternal mortality rate.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
A viral tweet alleges bias as ChatGPT refuses to write a poem about positive attributes of Trump but writes one about Biden; sources: OpenAI doesn't know why (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
A viral tweet alleges bias as ChatGPT refuses to write a poem about positive attributes of Trump but writes one about Biden; sources: OpenAI doesn't know why — Even ChatGPT's creators can't figure out why it won't answer certain questions — including queries about former U.S. President Donald Trump …
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a "2007 Twitter" vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies (Steven Levy/Wired)
Steven Levy / Wired:
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a “2007 Twitter” vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies — Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer supplies.
Interviews detail the Conti ransomware group's 2021 attack on Ireland's public health system; Conti seemingly called off the hack without receiving a ransom (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Interviews detail the Conti ransomware group's 2021 attack on Ireland's public health system; Conti seemingly called off the hack without receiving a ransom — At first the attack on Ireland's public-health system fell into a depressingly familiar pattern.
EU sends formal warning to Microsoft over $69 bn Activision Blizzard deal
Close to 1 lakh tech employees lost jobs in January alone globally
After YouTuber MrBeast made a video about paying for 1,000 blind people's eye surgery, critics raise questions about "stunt philanthropy" and "charity porn" (Kelsey Weekman/BuzzFeed News)
Kelsey Weekman / BuzzFeed News:
After YouTuber MrBeast made a video about paying for 1,000 blind people's eye surgery, critics raise questions about “stunt philanthropy” and “charity porn” — Is it stunt philanthropy or self-funded charity in the YouTube age? — A YouTuber just helped treat 1,000 people with blindness and low vision.
Friday, February 3, 2023
Some US emergency services operators say they are inundated with false calls placed by the Apple Watches or iPhone 14s of skiers and other fitness enthusiasts (Matt Richtel/New York Times)
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Some US emergency services operators say they are inundated with false calls placed by the Apple Watches or iPhone 14s of skiers and other fitness enthusiasts — 911 dispatchers are buried under an avalanche of false, automated distress calls from skiers and other Apple device owners who are very much alive.
Big Tech earnings face more heat as cloud cover fades
YouTube rolls out "Go Live Together", which lets creators with 50 or more subscribers co-host livestreams with one guest at a time, on its iOS and Android apps (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
YouTube rolls out “Go Live Together”, which lets creators with 50 or more subscribers co-host livestreams with one guest at a time, on its iOS and Android apps — YouTube is rolling out a collaboration feature that allows two users to livestream together.
Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft will collectively incur more than $10B in charges related to mass layoffs, real estate, and other cost savings (Dave Lee/Financial Times)
Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft will collectively incur more than $10B in charges related to mass layoffs, real estate, and other cost savings — Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft reveal hefty price tag as they rein in spending — Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft …
As the spat between Binance and WazirX escalates, Binance invites the Indian exchange to withdraw its assets held in Binance wallets after February 3 (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)
Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
As the spat between Binance and WazirX escalates, Binance invites the Indian exchange to withdraw its assets held in Binance wallets after February 3 — The solution ostensibly ends worries about what would happen to customer funds if Binance and WazirX end their collaboration.
A group of MEPs launches a website for European parliament staff and EU officials to warn about "shady lobbying" by Big Tech and other interest groups (Jennifer Rankin/The Guardian)
Jennifer Rankin / The Guardian:
A group of MEPs launches a website for European parliament staff and EU officials to warn about “shady lobbying” by Big Tech and other interest groups — Exclusive: Dutch MEP hopes site will give early warning of suspicious tactics such as use of front organisations
Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)
New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...