The amount of fines Google has to pay in Europe may have become just a bit smaller. It has successfully convinced the European Union's General Court to annul the €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) penalty levied against it back in 2019 for what the Europe…
Continue reading "Google wins appeal against $1.7 billion EU fine for ‘abusive’ advertising practices"Kremlin-affiliated Russian troll farms are running disinformation campaigns that aim to interfere with this year’s US presidential elections, and according to Microsoft, they’re focusing their efforts on discrediting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The com…
Continue reading "Microsoft says Russian troll farms are targeting the Harris-Walz campaign"Nintendo has announced a couple of new Switch bundles in time for this year’s upcoming holiday shopping season. Starting in October, it will sell Switch consoles bundled with a download code for the digital version of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and a 12-month…
Continue reading "Nintendo will sell cheaper Switch Mario Kart bundles in October"Intel is turning its foundry business, which manufactures chips for other companies, into an independent subsidiary. The company has revealed its plan in a note to employees from its CEO Pat Gelsinger, published over a month after Intel disclosed that …
Continue reading "Intel is separating its ailing foundry business from the main company"Meta has banned RT and other Russian state media outlets on its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram. "After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets," the company told Engadget…
Continue reading "Meta bans Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram"23andMe is close to settling a proposed class action lawsuit filed against the company over a data breach that compromised 6.9 million users' information. According to the preliminary settlement filing, the DNA testing company has agreed to pay $30…
Continue reading "23andMe will pay $30 million to settle 2023 data breach lawsuit"Sam Altman has told OpenAI staff members during their weekly meeting that the company is changing its rather convoluted non-profit corporate structure next year, according to Fortune. The CEO said OpenAI will move away from being controlled by a non-pr…
Continue reading "OpenAI is reportedly moving away from its complicated non-profit structure next year"Starting next week, Meta will no longer put an easy-to-see label on Facebook images that were edited using AI tools, and it will make it much harder to determine if they appear in their original state or had been doctored. To be clear, the company will…
Continue reading "Meta hides warning labels for AI-edited images"The entire Annapurna Interactive team has left the company after its executives walked out, according to Bloomberg. Apparently, the video game publisher's president, Nathan Gary, had been negotiating with Annapurna Pictures' founder Megan Ellis…
Continue reading "Annapurna’s entire video game team has reportedly left the company"Google's latest update for its AI-powered research tool NotebookLM can turn the materials you want to pore over into a podcast-like audio discussion. The new feature called Audio Overview takes information from documents you've uploaded and the…
Continue reading "Google’s AI notebook can generate a podcast about your notes"