Internet/e-commerce

A book excerpt details the “enshittification” of Amazon, and how its “flywheel” technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants (www.theguardian.com)
7 hours ago Amazon

California's Uber and Lyft Drivers Get Union Rights (yro.slashdot.org)
15 hours ago Uber California

Cory Doctorow Explains Why Amazon is 'Way Past Its Prime' (news.slashdot.org)
17 hours ago Amazon

Amazon's Prime Video Rolls Back Controversial 'Stylized' James Bond Thumbnails Without Guns (entertainment.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Amazon

Microsoft's CTO Hopes to Swap Most AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for In-House Chips (hardware.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Microsoft Nvidia AMD

Amazon's Ring Plans to Scan Everyone's Face at the Door (yro.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Amazon

How researchers at Microsoft, IBM, and other organizations are using AI to speed up the search for new materials and chemicals for batteries (spectrum.ieee.org)
1 day ago Microsoft IBM AI

Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google and Microsoft apps amid US tensions; Sensor Tower: Zoho messaging app Arattai hit 400K+ downloads in Sept. (www.reuters.com)
2 days ago India Google Microsoft Sensor

Google Is Ending Gmailify and POP Support (tech.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Google

Google's Jules Enters Developers' Toolchains As AI Coding Agent Competition Heats Up (developers.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Google AI

Google Confirms Android Dev Verification Will Have Free and Paid Tiers, No Public List of Devs (developers.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Android Google

Microsoft is About To Launch Free Xbox Cloud Gaming With Ads (games.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Microsoft Xbox

Rob Williams, Amazon's VP of device software and services and member of the S-team advising CEO Andy Jassy, will retire and leave Amazon by the end of 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2 days ago Amazon

Microsoft Excel UK Championships Crowned Its First Winner (slashdot.org)
2 days ago Microsoft

Google and Apple removed Red Dot, an app for reporting ICE sightings; Google says the app was being used to share the location of a “vulnerable group” (www.404media.co)
2 days ago Google Apple

Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without a Game Pass subscription (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago Microsoft

Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated (www.businessinsider.com)
3 days ago Amazon AI

Supabase, an open-source rival to Google's Firebase, raised a $100M Series E led by Accel and Peak XV at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $500M+ (fortune.com)
3 days ago Google

Microsoft Says AI Can Create 'Zero Day' Threats In Biology (science.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Microsoft AI

Uber acquihires Belgian data labeling startup Segments.ai to expand its lidar data labeling capabilities; its founders and staff will join Uber AI Solutions (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Uber Startup AI Belgium

IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open source “enterprise-ready” LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than traditional LLMs (venturebeat.com)
3 days ago IBM

A Google exec says Alphabet has been working for the past two years to technologically decouple its life sciences unit Verily so that it can be sold or spun off (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Google Alphabet

AMD In Early Talks To Make Chips At Intel Foundry (hardware.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Intel AMD

Two Amazon Delivery Drones Crash Into Crane In Arizona (tech.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Amazon Drone

Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is now generally available and supports more aspect ratios, priced at $0.039/image and $30/1M output tokens (developers.googleblog.com)
3 days ago Google

Microsoft researchers say AI models can be used to design toxins that evade biosecurity systems used to screen DNA orders for potential biothreats (www.technologyreview.com)
3 days ago Microsoft AI

Amazon's Fire TV Stick 4K Select, which comes with Vega OS, will use cloud app streaming to run Android versions of apps that haven't been ported to Vega (www.lowpass.cc)
3 days ago Android Amazon

Google Says Hackers Are Sending Extortion Emails To Executives (tech.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Google

Google adds a new command-line interface and public API to its AI coding agent Jules, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Google AI Slack

Microsoft has committed $33B+ to neocloud providers; sources: its $19.4B Nebius deal will provide computing power for creating LLMs and a consumer AI assistant (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Microsoft AI

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