Lina Khan, Aiming to Block Microsoft’s Activision Deal, Faces a Challenge
Ms. Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has staked an ambitious trustbusting agenda on a case that may be difficult to win.Read...
Year: 2022
They’re Taking Jigsaw Puzzles to Infinity and Beyond
In upstate New York, two algorithmic artists make wooden puzzles inspired by natural forms.Read More
Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees to Testify Before House Committee
The FTX founder said on Twitter he would appear before a House committee next week, but was quiet about a similar request from a...
Tell Us How Your Family Uses Alexa
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We want to hear about the creative or surprising ways your household uses digital assistants. Find Alexa creepy? Tell us about that, too.Read More
Can ChatGPT Make This Podcast?
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OpenAI’s new chatbot is a coder, a teacher, a potential Google killer, and … a friend?Read More
Inside the Frantic Texts Exchanged by Crypto Executives as FTX Collapsed
A group chat including crypto leaders shows Binance’s Changpeng Zhao accusing FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried of orchestrating trades to destabilize the industry.Read More
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, challenging one of the largest tech acquisitions in...
A group of former Twitter employees who are suing the company spoke out Thursday, alleging that new owner Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at the...
Pentagon awards multibillion-dollar cloud contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle
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The Defense Department has named Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle as the winners of a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract whose predecessor the Pentagon had...
Apple abandons controversial plan to check iOS devices and iCloud photos for child abuse imagery
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Apple is abandoning its plans to launch a controversial tool that would check iPhones, iPads and iCloud photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM)...