/r/technology
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'PS5 Has Put a Dampener on Gaming': 45% of Playstation Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC
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Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees
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OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances
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CEOs are being left baffled at the high cost of moving to AI — shockingly enough, sacking human workers isn't resulting in huge savings
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Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal
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State Senator Pockets Massive Real Estate Fee From a $30M Data Center Land Sale, Then Introduces Bill to Fast-Track Development
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StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal | CEO Eric Baker runs a side company that resells millions in tickets on StubHub
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New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices / Rule from Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customers into paying recurring charges and also targets ‘junk fees’
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FCC approves giant mirror satellite designed to beam sunlight to Earth after dark
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People are ditching smartphones for old phones, 'dumb phones,’ landlines
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The EU just revived a law that lets Meta and Google scan your messages – critics call it mass surveillance
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Data shows physical PlayStation games can be up to 90% cheaper than their digital versions
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Flock Cameras Screw Up, Swarm Innocent Man With Armed Police
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Microsoft emissions surge 27% as AI buildout crimps climate goals
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Meta found to breach EU laws with 'addictive' Instagram, Facebook designs
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Meta AI Can Now Use Your Instagram Photos Without Consent. SAG-AFTRA Urges App Users to Opt Out: ‘Take Action to Protect Your Likeness’
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Interpol arrests 5,811 people, seizes $293 million in global scammer crackdown
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Disable auto-play and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta — “These features fuel the user’s urge to keep scrolling and shift the brain into ‘autopilot mode’”
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LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests
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American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI
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A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
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Apple says OpenAI leadership "normalized" misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is "rotten to its core by its illegal reliance" on stolen trade secrets (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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In its lawsuit, Apple chronicles in vivid detail how its former employees that went to work for OpenAI allegedly violated their confidentiality agreements (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
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Apple alleges that a former Apple engineer kept a work-issued Apple laptop and exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud file storage while employed by OpenAI (Megan Morrone/Axios)
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Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets (CNBC)
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Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole "Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI", and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
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Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down (CNBC)
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The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
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China drops a numerical target for urban job creation in its five-year plan, the first such omission since the 1990s, amid volatility fueled by AI displacement (Bloomberg)
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Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)
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Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years (Bloomberg)
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SK Hynix closed up 12.76% at $168.01 in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, after raising $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or "cookie stuffing" to claim affiliate commissions (Bloomberg)