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Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app policies until at least September 2032 and mandates he praise them (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-5 Google

Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model it says matches larger systems while using far less compute and training data (venturebeat.com)
2026-3-5 Microsoft

Father Sues Google, Claiming Gemini Chatbot Drove Son Into Fatal Delusion (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5 Google chatbot

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (apnews.com)
2026-3-5 Twitter Elon Musk

Google Ends Its 30% App Store Fee, Welcomes Third-Party App Stores (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5 Google

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-5 Google Amazon Microsoft

Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a (arstechnica.com)
2026-3-5 Google Battery

Epic and Google propose a settlement that would have Google share its Play Store app catalog with rivals and offer a registered app store program for Android (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-5 Android Google

Intel's Make-Or-Break 18A Process Node Debuts For Data Center With 288-Core Xeon 6+ CPU (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5 Intel

A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines “many times” (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-5 Android Google

Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government (www.wired.com)
2026-3-4 Google

Intel says board chair Frank Yeary, who has served on the board since 2009, will retire after Intel's annual meeting in May and be replaced by Craig Barratt (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-4 Intel

Google Chrome Is Switching To a Two-Week Release Cycle (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-4 Google Chrome

LibreOffice Says Its UI Is Way Better Than Microsoft Office's (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-4 Microsoft

Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-4 Facebook

Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service “in the coming months”; some shows will be available on Audible (variety.com)
2026-3-4 Amazon

Google adds a feature to let users with a Pixel 8 and newer connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a “desktop-like multi-window experience” (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-4 Google

Microsoft: Hackers abuse OAuth error flows to spread malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-4 Microsoft

Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-4 Amazon AI chatbot

Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-4 Android Google

Microsoft moves Build from Seattle back to San Francisco, scheduled for June 2-3, instead of May, and invites 2,500 developers, down from the usual ~3K to ~5K (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-4 Microsoft San Francisco Seattle

Intel unveils its Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, its first data center CPUs built on 18A, offering up to 288 Darkmont efficiency cores, set for a 2026 release (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-3-4 Intel

Google Chrome shifts to two-week release cycle for increased stability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-4 Google Chrome

Google plans to move Chrome to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four, starting with the Chrome 153 stable release on September 8 (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-4 Google Chrome

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which it says delivers “enhanced performance” at a fraction of the cost of larger models and outperforms 2.5 Flash (blog.google)
2026-3-4 Google

Audible launches a cheaper, $8.99/month streaming tier in the US, vs. $14.95 for its premium plans, to compete with Spotify; the plan includes ad-free podcasts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-4 Spotify

Amazon Cloud Unit's Data Centers In UAE, Bahrain Damaged In Drone Strikes (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-4 Amazon Drone

Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3 Amazon Drone

Google unveils Home updates to fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies, and debuts Live Search to let Gemini analyze and describe live camera feeds (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-3 Google

Apple Might Use Google Servers To Store Data For Its Upgraded AI Siri (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3 Google AI Apple

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