Collaborate Disseminate
Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way. From a report: The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design standards for the world’s most popular apps. Bru… Continue reading The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling
An anonymous reader shares a report: Israel has arrested several people, including army reservists, for allegedly using classified information to place bets on Israeli military operations on Polymarket. Shin Bet, the country’s internal security agency,… Continue reading Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket To Bet on Strikes
Telecom operators planning aggressive fiber and fixed wireless broadband rollouts in 2026 face a serious supply problem — DRAM and NAND memory prices for consumer applications have surged more than 600% over the past year as higher-margin AI server se… Continue reading 600% Memory Price Surge Threatens Telcos’ Broadband Router, Set-Top Box Supply
Anna’s Archive, the shadow library that announced last December it had scraped Spotify’s entire catalog, has quietly begun distributing the actual music files despite a federal preliminary injunction signed by Judge Jed Rakoff on January 16 that explic… Continue reading Anna’s Archive Quietly ‘Releases’ Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback
The Detroit Big Three — General Motors, Ford and Stellantis — have collectively announced more than $50 billion in write-downs on their electric-vehicle businesses after years of aggressive investment into a transition that, even before Republican la… Continue reading Detroit Automakers Take $50 Billion Hit
Meta was granted a patent in late December that describes how a large language model could be trained on a deceased user’s historical activity — their comments, likes, and posted content — to keep their social media accounts active after they’re gone… Continue reading Meta’s New Patent: an AI That Likes, Comments and Messages For You When You’re Dead
Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive by restricting access to foreign technology, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer Kent Walker told the Financial Times, as Brussels accelerates efforts to reduce reliance on… Continue reading Google Warns EU Risks Undermining Own Competitiveness With Tech Sovereignty Push
Spotify’s best developers have stopped writing code manually since December and now rely on an internal AI system called Honk that enables remote, real-time code deployment through Claude Code, the company’s co-CEO Gustav Soderstrom said during a fourt… Continue reading Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven’t Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI
The US Federal Trade Commission is accelerating scrutiny of Microsoft as part of an ongoing probe into whether the company illegally monopolizes large swaths of the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings, including Copilot… Continue reading FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency is rescinding the legal finding that it has relied on for nearly two decades to limit the heat-trapping pollution that spews from vehicle tailpipes, oil refineries and f… Continue reading EPA Reverses Long-Standing Climate Change Finding, Stripping Its Own Ability To Regulate Emissions