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Apple is renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its Maps app, following Google, first for users in the US and soon for all users globally (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-12 U.S. Mexico Google Apple

Google schedules I/O 2025 for May 20 and 21, with a main keynote on May 20 at 10am PT; announcements on Gemini, Android 16, and more are expected (9to5google.com)
2025-2-12 Android Google Google I/O

Anduril To Take Over Managing Microsoft Goggles for US Army (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-2-12 Microsoft

Google Chrome May Soon Use 'AI' To Replace Compromised Passwords (it.slashdot.org)
2025-2-12 Google AI Chrome

Microsoft February 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 4 zero-days, 55 flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-2-12 Microsoft

Windows 10 KB5051974 update force installs new Microsoft Outlook app (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-2-12 Microsoft

Anduril plans to assume management and eventual manufacturing of the US Army's infantry goggles from Microsoft, in an up to $20B deal that the Army must approve (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-12 Microsoft Manufacturing

Neal Mohan says AI auto dubbing will expand to all YouTube Partner Program creators, and YouTube will use ML to estimate users' ages for age-appropriate content (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12 AI YouTube

Shopify says Ye's store, which began selling swastika shirts before a Super Bowl ad boosted traffic to the site, was shuttered because it violated Shopify's ToS (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-2-12 Shopify

YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as 'Primary Device' for Viewing (news.slashdot.org)
2025-2-12 Mobile YouTube

Microsoft releases DocumentDB (NoSQL atop Postgres) under MIT license (opensource.microsoft.com)
2025-2-12 PostgreSQL NoSQL Microsoft

Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2025-2-12 Mobile YouTube

Boston-based QuEra Computing, which is developing neutral-atom quantum computing to help scale systems, raised $230M+ from Google's Quantum AI unit and others (www.reuters.com)
2025-2-12 Google AI Quantum

Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.8B, above $2.73B est., GMV up 26% YoY to $94.5B, a $465M operating loss, and 2024 revenue up 26% YoY to $8.9B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-11 4Q Shopify

Documents: Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon sold 2.5M+ shares in 2024, netting ~$1B, the highest sales since 2019, and now own ~16% of Spotify (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-11 Spotify

Google Calendar removes Pride month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and other events, saying it wasn't “scalable or sustainable” to keep them (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-11 Google

Microsoft report reveals 64% of Indians used Gen AI in 2024, parents more aware of AI risks (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-11 Microsoft AI

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says global AI regulation should ‘draw on existing laws' (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-11 Google AI

Source: Shopify tells support staff to give “no comment” if merchant clients asked about Kanye West using its tech to sell a T-shirt with a Nazi swastika (thelogic.co)
2025-2-11 Shopify

In response to the $97.4B OpenAI bid, Sam Altman says on X “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want”; Elon Musk replies “swindler” (thehill.com)
2025-2-11 Twitter Elon Musk

Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-11 U.S. Mexico Google

Google brings NotebookLM Plus, its note-taking AI assistant with higher usage limits, to individuals on Google One AI Premium, and debuts a 50% student discount (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-11 Google AI

Microsoft raises rewards for Copilot AI bug bounty program (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-2-11 Microsoft AI

Microsoft To Adjust Office-Teams Pricing in Bid To Avoid EU Antitrust Fine (slashdot.org)
2025-2-11 Microsoft

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition 'Atrophied and Unprepared' (slashdot.org)
2025-2-11 Microsoft AI

Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using self-driving tech from Intel's Mobileye, in Dallas “as soon as 2026” (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-11 Intel

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek's $6M training cost claim is “exaggerated and a little bit misleading” and a “fraction of the total cost” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-11 Google

Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord raised $27M+ to provide free, open-source tools for improving child safety online, called Robust Open Online Safety Tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-11 Google

Nokia names Justin Hotard, who currently leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its CEO starting April 1, as it focuses on data centers to drive growth (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-10 Intel AI Nokia

Google Photos now watermarks AI-edited images with SynthID (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-10 Google AI

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