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Sources: Google's “cease and desist” letter forces Kantar and Barb to halt UK TV measurement service comparing YouTube viewership with linear TV and streamers (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 Google YouTube

Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees (slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Amazon Layoffs

Amazon partners with Harris Farm to offer fresh food delivery in Australia for the first time, starting in inner Sydney, free for Prime members on AU$100 orders (www.afr.com)
2026-1-28 Australia Amazon Sydney

Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday “Project Dawn” meeting about company efficiency (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon Layoffs

Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 Microsoft

Amazon To Pay $309 Million To US Shoppers In Settlement Over Returns (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Amazon

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp To Test Premium Subscriptions (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

France To Ditch US Platforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom For 'Sovereign Platform' Amid Security Concerns (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 France Microsoft

Google expands its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries and territories, including the US at $7.99/month, with “enhanced access” to Gemini 3 Pro and more (9to5google.com)
2026-1-28 Google AI

Microsoft Was Routing Example-Domain Traffic To a Japanese Cable Company for Five Years (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Japan Microsoft

TikTok, Meta, and YouTube sued in first-ever child addiction trial (www.rt.com)
2026-1-28 YouTube

TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 YouTube California

Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions “seamlessly” via AI Mode (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-28 Google AI

France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government (www.euronews.com)
2026-1-28 France Microsoft

Google expands Android's anti-theft suite, including a dedicated toggle for its Failed Authentication Lock feature on devices running Android 16 or later (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 Android Google

Amazon To Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores (slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Amazon

Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (www.axios.com)
2026-1-28 Microsoft Mobile AI Yahoo

Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods (www.geekwire.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon Retail

UPS plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year as part of winding down its partnership with Amazon; it expects $3B in savings related to the Amazon unwind (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon

Amazon agrees to pay a $309M settlement and return $600M to users in a US class action lawsuit over allegedly incorrectly denied refunds since September 2017 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon

Google to pay $68 million over voice assistant ‘spying' – media (www.rt.com)
2026-1-28 Google

Microsoft Is Refreshing the Xbox Cloud Gaming Web Experience (games.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Microsoft Xbox

Uber launches Uber AV Labs, a division to collect real-world driving data via sensor-equipped vehicles to train reinforcement learning models for its partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 Uber Sensor

The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-27 Android Google AI

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-1-27 Google

Reddit Lawyers Force Founder to Redact 'WallStreetBets' From Miami Event (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Reddit

Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Claims Performance Edge Over Amazon and Google (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Gemini In Google Calendar Now Helps You Find the Best Meeting Time For All Attendees (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Google

Google Settles $68 Million Lawsuit Claiming It Recorded Private Conversations (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Google

DOT Plans To Use Google Gemini AI To Write Regulations (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Google AI

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