Tech

Japan's NTT, which owns 57.7% of IT services provider and data center operator NTT Data, launches a $16.4B take-private tender offer to buy the remaining stake (www.reuters.com)
3 days ago Japan

How the three largest US gig economy companies, Lyft, DoorDash, and Uber, are aggressively expanding into Europe and Turkey through acquisitions (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Europe Uber

Datadog acquires Eppo, which offers feature flagging and app experimentation tools, reportedly for $220M; Eppo had raised $47.5M and was valued at $80M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago

AI Use Damages Professional Reputation, Study Suggests (slashdot.org)
3 days ago AI

The US FDA plans to deploy AI tools to all centers by June 30, 2025 to speed up scientific reviews, after completing a pilot and naming its first AI chief (www.fiercebiotech.com)
3 days ago AI

Q&A with SAP CEO Christian Klein on data security, Databricks partnership, building a “social network for B2B”, positioning SAP as a neutral player, and more (stratechery.com)
3 days ago

Meta unveils AssetGen 2.0, an AI system that generates higher quality 3D assets compared to AssetGen 1.0, rolling out to Horizon creators later in 2025 (www.uploadvr.com)
3 days ago AI Asset

Court Unanimously Denies Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes' Request For Rehearing (science.slashdot.org)
3 days ago

Huawei Unveils a HarmonyOS Laptop, Its First Windows-Free Computer (hardware.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

Mexico Sues Google Over Changing Gulf of Mexico's Name For US Users (news.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Mexico Google

Pinterest agrees to pay $34.7M to settle a 2021 lawsuit from Christine Martinez, an early adviser who claimed she co-created the platform without compensation (www.nytimes.com)
4 days ago

Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent (news.bloomberglaw.com)
4 days ago Google Facial Recognition Texas

Kids Are Short-Circuiting Their School-Issued Chromebooks For TikTok Clout (news.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

Texas AG Ken Paxton says Google has agreed in principle to pay $1.375B to settle allegations of violating data privacy rights of the state's residents (www.cnbc.com)
4 days ago Google Texas

A profile of Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ's antitrust unit who has become the leader of the MAGA antitrust movement over Big Tech “censorship” concerns (www.politico.com)
4 days ago

Meta To Add Facial Recognition To Glasses After All (yro.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Facial Recognition

Coffee Shops Ditch WiFi and Laptops To Limit Remote Work (slashdot.org)
4 days ago WiFi

Florida Fails To Pass Bill Requiring Encryption Backdoors For Social Media Accounts (yro.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Social Media

President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US (www.bbc.com)
4 days ago U.S. Mexico Google

Brian Armstrong says Coinbase considered allocating 80% of its balance sheet into bitcoin but decided against the scheme as it was too risky (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Bitcoin Coinbase

Whoop Angers Users Over Reneged Free Upgrade Promises (news.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

Newark Airport Radar Outage Strikes Again, Delaying More Flights (tech.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

Sources: Snowflake challenger ClickHouse is in talks to raise hundreds of millions led by Khosla Ventures at a $6B valuation, triple its valuation from 2021 (www.theinformation.com)
4 days ago

Whoop sparks a backlash after asking its subscribers to pay to upgrade to 5.0, despite earlier promises of free hardware upgrades after six months of membership (www.theverge.com)
4 days ago

Tech companies warn they may pull back from US investment pledges if Congress doesn't fully reinstate the R&D tax deduction pared back in Trump's 2017 tax bill (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Trump Tax

Source: US DOL ended its probe into Scale AI's Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, after announcing a friendlier approach to classifying workers as contractors (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago AI

US Senator Introduces Bill Calling For Location-Tracking on AI Chips To Limit China Access (news.slashdot.org)
4 days ago China AI

Sources: the US Treasury asked Benchmark whether its Manus AI funding is covered by restrictions on investments in tech destined for “countries of concern” (www.semafor.com)
4 days ago AI

Google agrees to pay $50M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of systemic racial bias against Black employees, covering 4,000+ employees in California and New York (www.reuters.com)
4 days ago Google New York California

Ascension says recent data breach affects over 430,000 patients (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago

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