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A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which scraped billions of web pages since 2013, including paywalled articles, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (www.theatlantic.com)
2025-11-4

The UK's High Court rules against Getty in its lawsuit against Stability AI over its image generator; the judge calls the ruling “extremely limited in scope” (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-4 AI

Uber reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $13.5B, Gross Bookings up 21% YoY to $49.7B, trips up 22% YoY to 3.5B, and a $1.1B operating profit, below $1.6B est. (t.co)
2025-11-4 Uber

This $329.99 open-box Chromebook now costs $160 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-4

Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for 72% of all US data center capacity as of July; places like Umatilla have been transformed by an AWS build-out (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-4 Goldman

Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €4.3B, above €4.23B est., subscribers up 12% YoY to 281M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 713M, and a €582M operating income (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-4 Spotify

How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-dependent economy to a tech and industrial hub (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-4 GDP Portugal

Chainalysis CEO Jonathan Levin says DeFi platforms' rapid growth leaves their users' assets at risk of attack; DefiLlama says $140B+ is held on DeFi protocols (www.ft.com)
2025-11-4 Asset

EV Sales Plummet In October After Federal Tax Credit Ends (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-4 Tax

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround, AI, paying drivers more, Uber, partnership with Tensor for autonomous vehicle tech, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-11-4 Uber AI Autonomous Car

Hackers exploit critical auth bypass flaw in JobMonster WordPress theme (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-4 WordPress

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue of $3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., and net profit of ~$667M, vs. ~$412M est.; it now expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-4 Nintendo

Australians To Get At Least Three Hours a Day of Free Solar Power - Even If They Don't Have Solar Panels (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-11-4 Australia Solar

Antarctic Glacier Saw the Fastest Retreat In Modern History (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-4

Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M est., and an adjusted EBITDA of $136M, helped by offerings like group food orders and cheaper shared rides (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-4

LADWP Says It Will Shift Its Largest Gas Power Plant To Hydrogen (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-11-4

Sources: China offers to cut data center power bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others, if they use local chips like Huawei's over foreign ones like Nvidia's (t.co)
2025-11-4 China Alibaba Nvidia

Spotify Sued Over 'Billions' of Fraudulent Drake Streams (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-11-4 Spotify

Sources: WeRide is set to raise ~$308M in its Hong Kong listing, planning to price shares at ~$3.48, representing a ~4% discount to its Monday Nasdaq close (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-4 Hong Kong

Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-4 AI

Ukraine First To Demo Open Source Security Platform To Help Secure Power Grid (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-11-4 Open Source Ukraine

Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M (venturebeat.com)
2025-11-4 AI Intelligence

AMD Will Continue Game Optimization Support For Older Radeon GPU's After All (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-4 AMD

DeFi protocol Balancer says its V2 Composable Stable Pools suffered an exploit, which security experts estimate resulted in total losses worth about $128M (decrypt.co)
2025-11-4

Waymo To Expand Robotaxi Service To Las Vegas, San Diego and Detroit Next Year (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-4 Detroit Vegas

Anthropic announces a deal with Cognizant, under which Cognizant will deploy Claude to its 350,000 employees and co-sell Claude models to its business customers (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-4

Coca-Cola's New AI Holiday Ad Is a Sloppy Eyesore (slashdot.org)
2025-11-4 AI

US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware (cyberscoop.com)
2025-11-4

Google Removes Gemma Models From AI Studio After GOP Senator's Complaint (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-4 Google AI Republican

Apple releases version 26.1 of its full family of OSes, including a “tinted” option for the Liquid Glass design to reduce transparency and increase contrast (www.macstories.net)
2025-11-4 Apple

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