Journals

Jon Keegan / The Markup: A Consumer Reports study involving 709 volunteers: a total of 186,892 companies shared the volunteers’ data with Facebook, averaging 2,230 companies per person  —  A new study looks at who is sending information about your… Read More »A Consumer Reports study involving 709 volunteers: a total of 186,892 companies shared the volunteers’ data with Facebook, averaging 2,230 companies per person (Jon Keegan/The Markup)

Janus Rose / VICE: Bipartisan bills are being introduced across the US to fight AI deepfakes, especially non-consensual AI-generated porn and fake celebrity endorsements  —  Lawmakers are introducing new bills to protect famous actors and musicians from ‘AI Fraud’—and maybe… Read More »Bipartisan bills are being introduced across the US to fight AI deepfakes, especially non-consensual AI-generated porn and fake celebrity endorsements (Janus Rose/VICE)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Internal memo: Sundar Pichai says Google will see more “role eliminations” in 2024, though not at the scale of 2023’s reductions and not affecting every team  —  Google has laid off over a thousand employees… Read More »Internal memo: Sundar Pichai says Google will see more “role eliminations” in 2024, though not at the scale of 2023’s reductions and not affecting every team (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple plans to sell the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature online starting 6am PT on January 18 and in Apple Stores on the same day  —  Earlier today, a US… Read More »Apple plans to sell the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature online starting 6am PT on January 18 and in Apple Stores on the same day (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Abigail Summerville / Reuters: LiveRamp, which helps match up customer datasets for brands and advertisers, agrees to acquire marketing data startup Habu for ~$200M in cash and stock  —  , a software company which helps match up customer datasets for… Read More »LiveRamp, which helps match up customer datasets for brands and advertisers, agrees to acquire marketing data startup Habu for ~$200M in cash and stock (Abigail Summerville/Reuters)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg plans to leave Meta’s board of directors and become an informal advisor to the company in May 2024  —  Former Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg plans to leave Meta’s board… Read More »Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg plans to leave Meta’s board of directors and become an informal advisor to the company in May 2024 (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Netflix is not planning to launch a native Apple Vision Pro app or allow its iPad app on the platform, and says users can watch Netflix on the web browser  —  Netflix Inc. isn’t planning to… Read More »Netflix is not planning to launch a native Apple Vision Pro app or allow its iPad app on the platform, and says users can watch Netflix on the web browser (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

BBC: Fujitsu says it has a “moral obligation” to compensate hundreds of UK postal employees wrongly prosecuted from 1999 to 2015 due to bugs in its Horizon software  —  Watch: Fujitsu ‘truly sorry’ for role in Post Office prosecutions  — … Read More »Fujitsu says it has a “moral obligation” to compensate hundreds of UK postal employees wrongly prosecuted from 1999 to 2015 due to bugs in its Horizon software (BBC)

James Hale / Tubefilter: Sources: YouTube is restructuring its creator management teams, including consolidating various sports, media, film, and TV teams into a single global team  —  YouTube’s partnerships side is undergoing its first corporate restructuring in a decade-one that’ll… Read More »Sources: YouTube is restructuring its creator management teams, including consolidating various sports, media, film, and TV teams into a single global team (James Hale/Tubefilter)

Nico Grant / New York Times: Email: YouTube plans to cut 100 employees from its operations and creator management teams; a source says YouTube employs 7,173 people  —  The layoffs are part of efforts by the video platform’s parent company,… Read More »Email: YouTube plans to cut 100 employees from its operations and creator management teams; a source says YouTube employs 7,173 people (Nico Grant/New York Times)