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Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order (t.co)
2025-6-27 Facebook Brazil

Google has been banned from selling the Pixel 7 in Japan due to a patent dispute related to 4G connectivity; further bans against the Pixel 8 and 9 are possible (9to5google.com)
2025-6-27 Japan Google

Google launches Doppl, an experimental AI app to let users virtually try on outfits by generating videos from photos, available on iOS and Android in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-27 Android IOS Google AI

Google fully releases Gemma 3n, an open-source, multimodal AI model that can run on as little as 2GB of memory; the model was previously available as a preview (www.neowin.net)
2025-6-27 Google AI

Uber In Talks With Founder Travis Kalanick To Fund Self-Driving Car Deal (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-6-27 Uber

As AI Kills Search Traffic, Google Launches Offerwall To Boost Publisher Revenue (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-6-27 Google AI

YouTube Search Gets Its Own Version of Google's AI Overviews (news.slashdot.org)
2025-6-27 Google AI YouTube

Sources: Instagram and TikTok are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens, following YouTube's success in attracting a TV audience (www.theinformation.com)
2025-6-27 YouTube Instagram

Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China (www.nytimes.com)
2025-6-27 China Uber AI

Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen “providing better information” in an update “later this summer” (www.theverge.com)
2025-6-27 Microsoft

Microsoft Moves Antivirus Software Out of Windows Kernel To Prevent CrowdStrike-Style Crashes (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-6-27 Microsoft

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-27 Google AI

Amazon's VP of Generative AI Vasi Philomin left for another company; VP of Amazon Elastic Block Store Rajesh Sheth assumed some of Philomin's responsibilities (www.reuters.com)
2025-6-27 Amazon AI

YouTube launches an AI Overviews-like carousel for searches related to shopping, places, and things to do in a specific place, for Premium users in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-27 AI YouTube

Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
2025-6-26 Google AI Adobe Dropbox

Microsoft 365 'Direct Send' abused to send phishing as internal users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-6-26 Microsoft

Amazon's crackdown on counterfeits nets $180M in penalties, dozens of criminal convictions (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-26 Amazon

Microsoft confirms Family Safety blocks Google Chrome from launching (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-6-26 Google Microsoft Chrome

Microsoft fixes Outlook bug causing crashes when opening emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-6-26 Microsoft

Amazon launches at-home diagnostic services in six Indian cities in partnership with Orange Health Labs, marking its entry into India's diagnostics market (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-26 India Amazon

Xbox division job cuts: Thousands at Microsoft brace for yet another round of layoffs (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-26 Microsoft Layoffs Xbox

Sam Altman on NYT podcast: Key highlights including Microsoft tensions, AI jobs disruption (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-26 Microsoft AI

Internal docs: Scale AI's efforts to train Google's Gemini were flooded with “spammy behavior” from unqualified independent contractors submitting shoddy work (www.inc.com)
2025-6-26 Google AI

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman warns against companies trying to game the site with AI-generated content, saying “human verification is top of mind for us right now” (t.co)
2025-6-26 AI Reddit

Sources: Microsoft is pushing to remove the AGI clause from its OpenAI contract, which lets OpenAI limit Microsoft's access to its IP once its systems reach AGI (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-26 Microsoft

Microsoft and OpenAI dueling over artificial general intelligence: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-26 Microsoft Intelligence

US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote (appleinsider.com)
2025-6-26 Google Apple

A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model (www.reuters.com)
2025-6-26 Microsoft AI

Microsoft Sued By Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training (news.slashdot.org)
2025-6-26 Microsoft AI

Hackers abuse Microsoft ClickOnce and AWS services for stealthy attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-6-26 Microsoft

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