Internet/e-commerce

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

Fake Google Security site uses PWA app to steal credentials, MFA codes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3 Google

Microsoft Bans 'Microslop' On Its Discord, Then Locks the Server (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3 Microsoft

Facebook blocks pro-government Hungarian news weeks ahead of elections (www.rt.com)
2026-3-3 Facebook

Florida woman imprisoned for massive Microsoft license fraud scheme (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3 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)
2026-3-3 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)
2026-3-2 Amazon Iran

Grab this refurbished Microsoft Surface Pro 6 at 72% off (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-2 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)
2026-3-2 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)
2026-3-1 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)
2026-3-1 Amazon Interview AI

'World's Largest Battery' Soon At Google Data Center: 100-Hour Iron-Air Storage (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-1 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)
2026-3-1 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)
2026-3-1 Google AI

Google Quantum-Proofs HTTPS (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-1 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)
2026-2-28 Google Amazon Nvidia

South Korea Set To Get a Fully Functioning Google Maps (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 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)
2026-2-28 Netflix

'The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 Spotify

As part of the Amazon-OpenAI deal, the companies plan a “stateful runtime environment” for AWS, letting agents carry context forward to handle ongoing projects (www.axios.com)
2026-2-28 Amazon

Microsoft testing Windows 11 batch file security improvements (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-28 Microsoft

Amazon is paying ~16x Microsoft's price per OpenAI percentage point, while getting none of Microsoft's exclusives, showing the cost of being late in AI (om.co)
2026-2-28 Amazon Microsoft AI

Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-28 Google Amazon Microsoft

Netflix Ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery After Paramount's Offer is Deemed Superior (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 Netflix

Microsoft: Computer Programming Is Dying, Long Live AI Literacy (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 Microsoft AI programming

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