Internet/e-commerce

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation (www.geekwire.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft AI

Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-5 Facebook AI Instagram Facial Recognition

This open-box Microsoft Surface SE drops nearly 50% to just $190 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft

Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft Nvidia Portugal

Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-5 Google

CloudZ malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to steal SMS and OTPs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft

Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on his plan to make Uber an everything app, Uber's AI integrations, investing in autonomous cars, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-5 Uber AI Autonomous Car

Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to Meta, TikTok, Google, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Google Insurance

Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and its executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Intel Samsung Apple Texas

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill To Fund 'AI Literacy' In Schools (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-5 Google Microsoft AI

Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by failing to disclose the 5%+ stake he had in the company (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Twitter Elon Musk

Amazon SES increasingly abused in phishing to evade detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Amazon

Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis (www.crn.com)
2026-5-5 Intel AI

GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion (slashdot.org)
2026-5-5 eBay

Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Google Insurance

eBay's stock jumps 6%+ to ~$111, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop's stock drops ~4% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-4 eBay

Microsoft confirms April Windows updates cause backup failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4 Microsoft

Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, allowing other companies to use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver raw materials, final products, and more (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-4 Amazon Logistics

A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-4 Twitter Elon Musk

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says he is making an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay and will take the offer to shareholders if the company is not receptive (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-4 eBay

Former Nintendo Executive Says Amazon Once Requested 'Illegal' Price Discounts (games.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4 Amazon Nintendo

Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4 Microsoft

How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-3 Amazon Jeff Bezos

Claude, Microsoft Copilot Fail Again to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby (slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 Microsoft

Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google (mashable.com)
2026-5-3 Google

Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube's Subtitles 'Appallingly Bad'? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 YouTube

A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states, where player “whales” spend tens of thousands via IAP on Apple, Google, and Meta platforms (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-3 Google Apple

GameStop Is Preparing Offer For eBay (slashdot.org)
2026-5-2 eBay

A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-2 Microsoft IPO

Amazon Stuck With Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes On Data Centers (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-2 Amazon Drone

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