Amazon says Microsoft’s licensing rules make it “financially unviable” for customers to switch from Azure. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has joined Google in criticizing Microsoft over licensing agreements that restrict competition in the UK’s cloud computing market, claiming Microsoft’s business practices make it harder for customers to switch to alternative
Read MoreWall Street Journal: New Mexico sues Meta, alleging the company let Facebook and Instagram “become a marketplace for predators in search of children”, and blames Mark Zuckerberg — State investigators’ test accounts with AI-generated photos were deluged with sexual propositions and adult sex content …
Read MoreAaron Klotz / Tom’s Hardware: Intel publishes and then removes “Core Truths”, which directly criticizes AMD’s “snake oil” for using its older Zen 2 architecture in new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs — Look in the mirror Intel — Intel recently published a new playbook titled “Core Truths” …
Read MoreTim Hardwick / MacRumors: UK carrier EE launches broadband TV platform EE TV, to replace the BT TV service, partnering with Apple to offer an Apple TV 4K with a customized remote control — EE TV, a new broadband TV platform from EE, today launched as a BT TV replacement service in the UK, offering
Read MoreIllustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Every day, Mitch Stults commutes about 60 miles each way from his home in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a town of 17,000 people, to his job as a sales manager for a manufactured homebuilder in Cullman. Stults was driving a King Ranch pickup 110 miles per day, spending an
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge It’s the most wonderful time of the year: when TikTok publishes its annual roundup of the biggest hits, and I get to see what everyone else has been doing on the app all year. Despite the hold TikTok has on our cultural and political psyche, it’s hard to
Read MoreSpencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to cut seller fees on clothing items under $15 to 5% in January 2024 and $15 to $20 items to 10%, down from 17%, in a bid to compete with Shein — Amazon.com Inc. is sharply cutting fees for merchants selling clothing priced below $20, a sign it’s hunkering
Read MoreRaphael Satter / Reuters: Apple was prevented by the “federal government” from sharing details on governments’ push notifications spying, and will now share info after Ron Wyden’s letter — Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.
Read MoreTIME: Interviews with Sam Altman and 20 people in his circle reveal a complicated portrait of being brilliant but slippery, as Time names him CEO of the Year 2023 — Sam Altman photographed in San Francisco, Calif. on Nov. 8Photograph by Joe Pugliese for TIME … Normally, the CEO of OpenAI flies home to St.
Read MoreIt’s not just Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Car design is largely geared toward men, even though women buy more than 60 percent of all new cars sold in the US. EVs are a chance to right that wrong.
Read MoreWhile the Consumer Electronics Show looks to be a little light on auto-related announcements next year, Honda said it will use the event to launch a new global series of electric vehicles. And today it dropped its first teaser. The photo shows what appears to be a sloping rear section of a car with no
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Apple tells component suppliers of its preference to source iPhone 16 batteries from Indian factories, as part of plans to diversify from China — Tech giant wants suppliers to build key component in India as part of broader effort to diversify supply chain
Read MoreEE is now offering customers in the UK a bespoke live TV platform which can be used on the Apple TV 4K.
Read MoreThe Twelve South ButterFly is now available exclusively at the Apple Store, and it’s the world’s tiniest 2-in-1 MagSafe charger.
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Meta plans to fix an issue causing many Instagram videos posted between June 2013 and October 2014 to lose their audio, but offers no timeframe — Many of the earliest Instagram videos have lost their sound. More than a year of videos posted to the platform are now silent …
Read MoreA disinformation campaign led by a group linked to Russia’s GRU is using images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, and Oprah to lambast Ukraine.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Several groups mainly tackling climate change and disinformation said the Biden administration’s approach to artificial intelligence regulation does not respond to AI’s impact on the climate and how it can be used to spread disinformation. The groups sent a letter to the White House urging the Biden administration,
Read MoreCredit: Gary Sims / Android Authority Apple has confirmed that iOS 17.2 brings Qi2 wireless charging to older iPhones. This allows iPhone 13 and 14 owners to use new third-party charging pads at higher speeds. Apple has long offered magnet-based wireless charging via its proprietary MagSafe solution. The iPhone 15 series still offers MagSafe, but
Read MoreKyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google plans to add its “Help me write” AI tool to Chrome, appearing in autofill popups when typing text, expanding on Google Messages, Gmail, Docs, and Keep — Over the past few months, Google has been steadily introducing AI tools to its many apps and services.
Read MoreActor Julia Louis-Dreyfus bags another award, this time from Apple Podcasts for her ‘Wiser Than Me’ show.
Read MoreHeather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: San Diego-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple plans to shutter its US business, laying off 150, or 75% of its US staff, and move its business to China — Self-driving trucking company will continue to operate out of China — Self-driving trucking company TuSimple Holdings …
Read MoreBeeper Mini is a new app that allows Android users to use iMessage, with no compromises.
Read MoreA new report says Apple suppliers are testing under panel camera technology for an iPhone coming after 2026.
Read MoreIntel’s deleted presentation takes aim at one of AMD’s latest CPUs. | Image: Intel Intel has accused AMD of “selling half-truths to unsuspecting customers” by using its Zen 2 architecture in some of its latest Ryzen 7000 series mobile processors. In a now-deleted presentation to system integrators, Intel’s “Core Truths” largely focuses on AMD’s Ryzen
Read MoreSamuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU leans toward excluding iMessage from DMA rules due to not being popular enough among business users, part of an investigation ending in February — – EU tentatively finds it doesn’t warrant being covered by DMA — New antitrust law imposes raft of Big Tech dos and don’ts
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