Internet/e-commerce

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)
14 days ago 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)
14 days ago 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)
14 days ago 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)
14 days ago Intel

Google Chrome shifts to two-week release cycle for increased stability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
14 days ago 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)
14 days ago 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)
14 days ago 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)
14 days ago Spotify

Amazon Cloud Unit's Data Centers In UAE, Bahrain Damaged In Drone Strikes (tech.slashdot.org)
14 days ago Amazon Drone

Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
14 days ago 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)
14 days ago Google

Apple Might Use Google Servers To Store Data For Its Upgraded AI Siri (apple.slashdot.org)
15 days ago Google AI Apple

Fake Google Security site uses PWA app to steal credentials, MFA codes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
15 days ago Google

Microsoft Bans 'Microslop' On Its Discord, Then Locks the Server (tech.slashdot.org)
15 days ago Microsoft

Facebook blocks pro-government Hungarian news weeks ahead of elections (www.rt.com)
15 days ago Facebook

Florida woman imprisoned for massive Microsoft license fraud scheme (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
15 days ago Microsoft

Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while adhering to Apple's privacy standards (www.theinformation.com)
15 days ago Google Apple

The US-led Iran bombing campaign causes longer delivery times for Amazon, Shein, and others in the Middle East, one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Amazon Iran

Grab this refurbished Microsoft Surface Pro 6 at 72% off (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
15 days ago Microsoft

Ted Sarandos interview on the scenario planning Netflix did before Paramount's final WBD bid, how if Paramount's deal closes there'll be cuts of $16B+, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Interview Netflix

Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago Netflix

An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago Amazon Interview AI

'World's Largest Battery' Soon At Google Data Center: 100-Hour Iron-Air Storage (hardware.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Google Battery

Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago Israel Google Iran

Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
17 days ago Google AI

Google Quantum-Proofs HTTPS (tech.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Google Quantum

Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic (www.wired.com)
17 days ago Google Amazon Nvidia

South Korea Set To Get a Fully Functioning Google Maps (tech.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Korea Google

Paramount agrees to acquire WBD, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B; Paramount paid a $2.8B breakup fee to Netflix (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
18 days ago Netflix

'The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Spotify

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