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A 2018 email from Mark Zuckerberg explored spinning off Instagram; he testified his thinking at the time took into account where politics seemed to be going (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 Instagram Zuckerberg

A look at the FCC's “Delete, Delete, Delete” initiative, meant to identify burdensome rules, as ISPs, broadcasters, and others send in deregulation wishlists (arstechnica.com)
2025-4-16

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, March 2025: Sales Plunge, Supply Surges, Overall Prices Drop to Multi-Year Lows, Driven by Toronto (wolfstreet.com)
2025-4-16 Real Estate Canada Toronto

The valuation of Kavak, a Mexico City-based online used car dealer and LATAM's most valuable startup, was cut by $6.5B to $2.2B in a $127M equity round in March (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 Mexico Startup Equity

Embargoes: The Flip Side of Trump's China Tariffs (dailyreckoning.com)
2025-4-16 Trump China

Uber Cofounder Kalanick Says AI Means Some Consultants Are in 'Big Trouble' (slashdot.org)
2025-4-16 Uber AI

You Should Still Learn To Code, Says GitHub CEO (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-4-16 GitHub

Landmark Admin data breach impact now reaches 1.6 million people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-16

Anthropic's Claude adds Research, capable of searching the web and internal documents to give comprehensive answers, in beta for Max, Team, Enterprise plans (www.inc.com)
2025-4-16

Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist (slashdot.org)
2025-4-16 Google

Infamous message board 4chan taken down following major hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-16

Lifetime access to 15 coding courses is down to $40 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-16

Sources: OpenAI recently gave staff and third-party groups just days, vs. several months previously, to evaluate the risks and performance of its latest models (www.ft.com)
2025-4-16

In a rare move for the country, China names three alleged NSA staffers who, they claim, were part of cyberattacks against the Asian Winter Games and Huawei (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 China

Microsoft blocks ActiveX by default in Microsoft 365, Office 2024 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-16 Microsoft

Europe cannot be ‘permanent security vassal' of US – Vance (www.rt.com)
2025-4-16 Europe

Anthropic says Claude now integrates with Google Workspace for access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs, coming first to Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-16 Google

Source: Anthropic could launch a “voice mode” feature for Claude as soon as this month, which will initially roll out on a limited basis (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16

Details of Iran's nuclear demands revealed – media (www.rt.com)
2025-4-16 Iran

Whistleblower: at NLRB, DOGE staff disabled monitoring tools, deleted logs, one worked on “NxGenBdoorExtract”; one DOGE account tried to log in via a Russian IP (www.npr.org)
2025-4-16 Russia

OpenAI is Building a Social Network (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-4-16

Google rolls out its text-to-video AI model Veo 2 to Gemini Advanced subscribers and makes its Whisk Animate tool available for Google One AI Premium users (www.theverge.com)
2025-4-16 Google AI

Mark Zuckerberg's $1B Instagram and $19B WhatsApp deals, central to the FTC's antitrust case, were mocked at the time, and the trial hinges on hypotheticals (www.nytimes.com)
2025-4-16 Instagram WhatsApp Zuckerberg

Android Phones Will Soon Reboot Themselves After Sitting Unused For 3 Days (it.slashdot.org)
2025-4-16 Android

Trump freezes over $2bn in Harvard funding over ‘non-compliance' (www.rt.com)
2025-4-16 Trump

EU eyeing legal loopholes to ditch Russian gas contracts – FT (www.rt.com)
2025-4-16 Russia Europe

FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg testified about his acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, including a 2012 email exchange rationalizing the apps' acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 Instagram WhatsApp Zuckerberg

Sources: OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own X-like social network, focused on ChatGPT image generation, and is asking some outsiders for feedback (www.theverge.com)
2025-4-16

Zuckerberg Had a 'Crazy Idea' in 2022 For Facebook - Purge All Users' Friends (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-4-16 Facebook Zuckerberg

4chan is down after an apparent hack late on April 14; an Imgur post seems to show a hacker gained shell access to 4chan's hosting server and doxxed some users (www.engadget.com)
2025-4-16 Hacker

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