Journals

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Apple’s reversal on RCS wasn’t forced by the EU, but likely by China, whose government began codifying in 2023 a requirement for new 5G devices to support RCS  —  We’ve had pretty obvious hints since… Read More »Apple’s reversal on RCS wasn’t forced by the EU, but likely by China, whose government began codifying in 2023 a requirement for new 5G devices to support RCS (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Alex Hern / The Guardian: Google stopped notifying publishers of “right to be forgotten” removals, after a Swedish court ruled that informing webmasters is a breach of privacy  —  Move after Swedish court rules that informing webmasters about delisted content… Read More »Google stopped notifying publishers of “right to be forgotten” removals, after a Swedish court ruled that informing webmasters is a breach of privacy (Alex Hern/The Guardian)

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Two professional gamers sue Activision Blizzard in the US, alleging the company is unlawfully monopolizing the market for Call of Duty leagues and tournaments  —  Video game maker Activision Blizzard has been hit with a U.S.… Read More »Two professional gamers sue Activision Blizzard in the US, alleging the company is unlawfully monopolizing the market for Call of Duty leagues and tournaments (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sources: Nintendo has told game publishers that it has delayed the launch of Switch 2 from late 2024 to Q1 2025  —  UPDATE: VGC SOURCES SUGGEST NINTENDO’S NEXT CONSOLE WILL ARRIVE LATER THAN EXPECTED … Read More »Sources: Nintendo has told game publishers that it has delayed the launch of Switch 2 from late 2024 to Q1 2025 (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)

Amy Or / Bloomberg: Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit’s content  —  – Social media firm agrees $60 million deal… Read More »Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit’s content (Amy Or/Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: the Biden administration is in talks to confer more than $10B in subsidies to Intel, in what would be the largest award yet under the CHIPS Act  —  – Money to come from $39 billion grant and $75… Read More »Sources: the Biden administration is in talks to confer more than $10B in subsidies to Intel, in what would be the largest award yet under the CHIPS Act (Bloomberg)

New York Times: Sources: OpenAI has completed a deal that values the company at $80B or more; OpenAI would sell existing shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital  —  The A.I. start-up’s valuation tripled in less than 10… Read More »Sources: OpenAI has completed a deal that values the company at $80B or more; OpenAI would sell existing shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital (New York Times)

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim  —  The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX… Read More »Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta is matching existing fact-checks to “near-identical content on Threads”, but says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads  —  Threads, Meta’s Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from… Read More »Meta is matching existing fact-checks to “near-identical content on Threads”, but says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

RT Watson / The Block: Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose’s NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof’s NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside  —  – Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs announced it has acquired… Read More »Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose’s NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof’s NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside (RT Watson/The Block)