Jon Henley / The Guardian: Romania's regulator calls for TikTok's suspension after an ultranationalist's shock first-round win fueled by viral TikTok videos, amid vote interference fears — Far-right, pro-Moscow candidate Călin Georgescu came from 5% in polls to win presidential election's first round
Published: 2024-11-27 23:45:03
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google Chat is rolling out huddles to let users instantly start an audio-first meeting, with a floating window displaying controls to add video or share screens — As previewed in August of 2023, Google Chat is adding an audio-first meeting feature called “Huddles” that are described as being “instant-on.”
Published: 2024-11-27 23:20:02
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Spotify will no longer allow developers building new third-party apps with its Web API to access several features, such as song and artist recommendations — Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform …
Published: 2024-11-27 22:50:01
Marty Swant / Digiday: US filing: Google sent subpoenas in October 2024 to OpenAI, Perplexity AI, and Microsoft for the remedies part of the US v. Google search antitrust trial — For the remedies phase in the Google search antitrust trial, the giant has subpoenaed three of its biggest rivals — OpenAI, Perplexity AI, and Microsoft.
Published: 2024-11-27 22:15:02
Bloomberg: Sources: US FTC has opened an antitrust investigation of Microsoft, focusing on its cloud and software licensing business and its cybersecurity and AI products — - FTC has sent detailed information demand to Microsoft — Questions focus on software licensing, cybersecurity and AI
Published: 2024-11-27 21:19:09
The Information: Sriram Krishnan, a general partner at a16z, is leaving the firm; source: he has talked to Elon Musk about joining the Department of Government Efficiency — Sriram Krishnan, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former product leader at Twitter, is leaving the firm four years after joining …
Published: 2024-11-27 21:10:28
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: T-Mobile's CSO says “suspicious behavior, discovery-type commands” on the company's network devices tipped it off to the suspected Salt Typhoon-linked breach — - Carrier says the unauthorized activity resembled Salt Typhoon — Companies trying to work together to avert further hacks
Published: 2024-11-27 21:01:01
Bloomberg: Sources: Trump's team interviewed Paul Atkins, a former SEC commissioner and strong proponent of crypto and fintech companies, as a candidate to lead the SEC — - Atkins is a proponent of crypto and fintech companies — Uyeda, Tarbert and Stebbins have also been in contention
Published: 2024-11-27 20:45:01
Bloomberg: Filing: Google asks a US federal appeals court to throw out the Epic ruling that would force it to overhaul the Play Store, as it competes with Apple and more — Google said in a filing Wednesday that US District Judge James Donato's ruling is flawed and asked that the outcome of the long-running litigation be set aside.
Published: 2024-11-27 20:01:30
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: The US FTC is investigating Uber after customers complained the company signed them up for Uber One without their consent and made it difficult to cancel — - Agency opened investigation into Uber One service this year — Uber's lawyers complained about agency's push for a settlement
Published: 2024-11-27 19:30:01
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta appears to be developing a Threads feature inspired by Bluesky's “starter packs”, with profiles “handpicked by people on Threads” for users to follow — Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta's Threads …
Published: 2024-11-27 18:15:05
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Chinese self-driving company Pony.AI raised $413.4M in its US IPO, after pricing shares at $13, which rose 19% at open, giving it a nearly $5.4B market cap — - IPO priced at top of marketed range raised $260 million — Firm also agreed private placements worth $153.4 million
Published: 2024-11-27 17:00:59
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Cloudflare says it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug on November 14; Cloudflare sends ~4.5T logs to customers daily — Internet security giant Cloudflare announced that it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug …
Published: 2024-11-27 16:40:00
Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company expects any impact of Trump's new tariffs to hit it less than its rivals, citing its global manufacturing footprint — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Wednesday it expects any impact of new tariffs from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to hit …
Published: 2024-11-27 16:15:02
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 review: the new $45+ module is a compact Pi 5 with more power than a CM4, but whose cooling fan doesn't work with a passive cooler — The Raspberry Pi 5 now in a Compute Module 4 sized package — Tom's Hardware Verdict
Published: 2024-11-27 15:45:01