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Epic Games sues Google, Samsung over ‘Auto Block’ mobile cybersecurity feature
Epic Games Inc. today sued Google LLC and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. over the Auto Block feature in Samsung’s Android devices. The complaint is the second that the video game maker has brought against Google in recent years. The previous lawsuit, which dates back to 2020, ended last year with a jury verdict against the ...
Google will invest $3.3B to increase its data center capacity in South Carolina
Google LLC will spend $3.3 billion to build two new data centers in South Carolina and expand an existing cloud campus. The Alphabet Inc. detailed the project on Thursday. It’s the latest in a string of 10-figure data center investments that the company has announced since the start of the year. In the same time ...
Report: Intel could finalize $8.5B CHIPS Act direct funding agreement by year’s end
Intel Corp. and the U.S. government will likely finalize a deal to provide the company with $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding by year’s end, the Financial Times reported today. Plans for the cash infusion were first announced in March as part of a broader financing deal. Alongside the direct funding, the Commerce Department intends ...
Ireland fines Meta €91M over plaintext user passwords
Ireland’s privacy regulator today fined Meta Platforms Inc. €91 million over a cybersecurity flaw in its internal systems that came to light five years ago. The Data Protection Commission, or DPC, also issued the company a reprimand over the matter. In January 2019, Meta discovered that it had stored several hundred million account passwords in an ...
Privacy-focused Tails operating system merges with the Tor Project
The organizations behind two popular privacy technologies are merging to advance their product development efforts. The Tails Project and the Tor Project announced the move today. According to Ars Technica, the merger follows a years-long collaboration between the groups. The Tor Project is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that develops Tor, a network privacy technology. The software ...
Supermicro shares drop on reported Justice Department probe
Shares of Super Micro Computer Inc. dropped more than 12% today after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is facing a probe from the U.S. Justice Department. The report didn’t specify the nature of the investigation. However, the Journal’s sources did detail that a prosecutor has asked for information seemingly “connected to a ...
Startup Redbird launches AI-powered data analytics platform
Venture-backed startup Redbird Software Inc. today launched an analytics platform, also called Redbird, that uses artificial intelligence to help companies find useful patterns in their data. The product milestone comes about two years after the company closed a $7.6 million seed round backed by Y Combinator. Redbird says that it has tripled its headcount since ...
Allen Institute for AI debuts new Molmo series of open-source multimodal models
The Allen Institute for AI today released Molmo, a family of open-source language models that can process text and images. The launch came against the backdrop of Meta Platforms Inc.’s Connect 2024 product event. Alongside new mixed reality devices, the company debuted an open-source language model series of its own called Llama 3.2. Two of ...
Broadcom to develop high-speed cable internet chips with Charter and Comcast
Broadcom Inc., Charter Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. today announced plans to develop new chips for delivering cable internet. Cable TV companies distribute video content to subscribers’ homes via physical cables. In many cases, those cables are also used to deliver residential internet packages. The chips that Broadcom, Charter and Comcast are developing are intended ...
Google files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft over software licensing
Google LLC today announced that it has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft Corp. with the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm. The move has to do with Windows Server. According to Google, a set of licensing terms that Microsoft applied to the operating system in 2019 harmed competition and raised costs for customers. ...