Internet/e-commerce

Chrome begins disabling uBlock Origin as part of Google's plan to phase out Manifest V2 extensions; uBlock Origin has 39M+ downloads on the Chrome Web Store (www.pcmag.com)
2024-10-16 Google Chrome

Over 200 malicious apps on Google Play downloaded millions of times (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-10-16 Google

Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on recent searches and YouTube history, coming to mobile first, and adds AI-generated shopping tips (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-16 Google Mobile AI YouTube

YouTube rolls out new features: granular playback speed controls, an improved miniplayer on iOS and Android, updated playlists, a sleep timer, and more (9to5google.com)
2024-10-16 Android IOS YouTube

Spotify starts rolling out music videos in beta for Premium subscribers in 85 additional markets, after introducing the feature in 12 markets earlier in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 Spotify

How Google plans to deflect and delay the US breakup threat; a remedies ruling is likely in mid-2025 and legal timelines may let it put off any impact for years (t.co)
2024-10-15 Google

Alphabet's stock has fallen 15%+ from its $191.18 record high on July 10, as the DOJ seeks a breakup of Google (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-15 Google Alphabet

Intel unveils its Arrow Lake desktop processors, with an NPU, better power efficiency at higher clock speeds, and 2x the graphics performance vs. its 14th Gen (www.theregister.com)
2024-10-15 Intel

Google EMEA President Matt Brittin says he plans to step down after a decade in the post and to continue running operations until a successor is chosen (www.reuters.com)
2024-10-15 Google

Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 Android Google Microsoft Xbox

A look at the possible outcomes of the Google Search antitrust trial, including the very likely scenario that Google's default search engine deals won't survive (www.platformer.news)
2024-10-15 Google

Sources: in negotiations with California lawmakers, Google insisted that the state use taxpayer funds as a precondition to spending $110M to support journalism (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-15 Google California

Sources: Microsoft plans to test the ability to stream games that users own but aren't in the Xbox Game Pass library, starting with Xbox Insiders in November (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 Microsoft Xbox

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-15 Uber

An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-15 Google Energy

The UK appoints Microsoft UK CEO Clare Barclay to lead its new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, which will focus on growing eight sectors, including tech (t.co)
2024-10-15 Microsoft

Google's Threat To Elections Worldwide (activistpost.com)
2024-10-15 Google

A look at what's changed since Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal in 2023: layoffs, exec departures, some Xbox exclusives on PlayStation and Switch, and more (www.eurogamer.net)
2024-10-15 Microsoft Layoffs Xbox

Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft's VP of GenAI research who is known for his work on its Phi small language models, is joining OpenAI to “further his work” on AGI (www.reuters.com)
2024-10-15 Microsoft

Google signs an deal to buy nuclear energy generated from multiple small modular reactors developed by US-based Kairos Power, targeting 500 MW by 2035 (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-15 Google Energy

Sources: Microsoft lost billions of dollars on HoloLens before discontinuing the device, and is pulling back work on IVAS, the combat goggles for the US Army (africa.businessinsider.com)
2024-10-15 Microsoft

In a report citing experts, China rejects US and Microsoft claims that Chinese hackers were behind Volt Typhoon, calling the claims a “political farce” (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-15 China Microsoft

Reddit is back online after hours-long outage affecting users globally (indianexpress.com)
2024-10-15 Reddit

Facebook, Instagram face outages in US as thousands of users report app, website glitch (indianexpress.com)
2024-10-15 Facebook Instagram

Get help studying for Microsoft tech certifications in this course deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-10-15 Microsoft

Google to buy power for AI needs from small modular nuclear reactor company Kairos (indianexpress.com)
2024-10-15 Google AI

Microsoft deprecates PPTP and L2TP VPN protocols in Windows Server (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-10-15 Microsoft VPN

Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-10-15 Google

US considers asking court to break up Google as it weighs remedies in the antitrust case (indianexpress.com)
2024-10-9 Google

The US DOJ's quest to end Google's long-standing dominance remains the stuff of fantasy, as whatever the courts may order, any real reckoning will take years (t.co)
2024-10-9 Google

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