Internet/e-commerce

Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (therecord.media)
2026-1-16 Google

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16 Microsoft

Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Microsoft

Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (www.inc.com)
2026-1-16 AI eBay

Amazon Threatens 'Drastic Action' After Saks Bankruptcy (slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Amazon

Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes with support for 55 languages (blog.google)
2026-1-16 Google

Amazon files an objection to Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, and says its $475M investment in the department store is now effectively “worthless” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 Amazon

Researchers discover WhisperPair, a set of vulnerabilities in Google's Fast Pair protocol affecting 17 audio device models from 10 brands; Google has patched (www.wired.com)
2026-1-16 Google

BlackRock raises $12.5B as part of its Microsoft partnership to bankroll data centers and energy infrastructure, bringing it closer to its $30B goal from 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Microsoft Energy

Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 Spotify

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get “tuned” API access; Google is already a member (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-15 Google Amazon Microsoft

Microsoft: Windows update blocks access to Cloud PC sessions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 21.6% YoY to $155.8B in 2025, but app downloads dropped 2.7% to 106.9B (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-15 Google Mobile

Microsoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Microsoft disrupts massive RedVDS cybercrime virtual desktop service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Source: Apple's Google Gemini deal will be a cloud contract where Apple pays Google; another source says OpenAI declined to be Apple's custom model provider (t.co)
2026-1-15 Google Apple

Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 Reddit

Google plans to make Chrome for Android an agentic browser with Gemini (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Android Google Browser Chrome

Google's Personal Intelligence links Gmail, Photos and Search to Gemini (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Google Intelligence

OpenAI's hidden ChatGPT Translate tool takes on Google Translate (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Google

YouTube now lets parents set time limits on their kids' YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from 15 minutes to two hours, with an option for zero minutes coming soon (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-15 YouTube

Permalink to Google unveils new open-source standard for agentic commerce (sdtimes.com)
2026-1-15 Google

Microsoft updates Windows DLL that triggered security alerts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence, linking to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to provide context-aware responses, for paid users (www.zdnet.com)
2026-1-15 Google YouTube Intelligence

UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Intelligence Mistake (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 Microsoft Intelligence

Reprompt attack let hackers hijack Microsoft Copilot sessions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Source: Microsoft quietly becomes one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 AI Airbnb Apple

US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570+ people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Energy AI

Microsoft: Windows 365 update blocks access to Cloud PC sessions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14 Microsoft

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