Internet/e-commerce

Meta restores Facebook services after a brief outage (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-27 Facebook

Microsoft unveils the 3.8B-parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter Phi-4-multimodal, claiming both outperform similar-sized models in certain tasks (siliconangle.com)
2025-2-27 Microsoft

Canada's broadcast regulator says that Google will be charged a fee to recover regulatory costs related to Canada's online news law, starting April 1 (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-27 Google Canada

Amazon Uses Quantum 'Cat States' With Error Correction (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-2-27 Amazon Quantum

IBM releases its Granite 3.2 LLM family, featuring optional reasoning capabilities, a new vision model optimized for document processing, and time series models (venturebeat.com)
2025-2-27 IBM

Google Is Making It Easier To Remove Personal Info On Search (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-2-27 Google

eBay reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.6B, GMV up 4% YoY to $19.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below expectations; EBAY drops 7%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2025-2-27 eBay 4Q

Google says it received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3's Loss of Pulse Detection feature, available in the EU and rolling out in the US at the end of March (9to5google.com)
2025-2-27 Google

Microsoft says it completed a multi-year project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, to let Europe-based cloud customers store and process data in EU (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Europe Microsoft

Google redesigns Results About You, its tool for requesting the removal of Search results with personal info, adding a new hub and the ability to update results (www.engadget.com)
2025-2-27 Google

YouTube Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Podcast Viewers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-2-27 YouTube

Amazon says Alexa+ will be able to navigate through movies on Prime Video due to Alexa, Prime Video, and Fire TV's integration, including “jump to a scene” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon

Amazon says Alexa+ is “model agnostic”, using Amazon Nova models and Anthropic's models, and picks the “best” AI model for a task, drawing on Amazon Bedrock (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon AI

Amazon Revamps Alexa With Generative AI After Year-Long Delay (slashdot.org)
2025-2-27 Amazon AI

Amazon's Panos Panay demoed Alexa+ in a flowing ongoing conversation and says it can book concert tickets, make restaurant reservations, and text a babysitter (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon

Amazon unveils Alexa+, a generative AI update trained to detect tone and mood, with vision capabilities, after first planning to “supercharge” Alexa in 2023 (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon AI

A live blog of Amazon's Alexa event, where the company is expected to announce its new AI-powered Alexa, a new Fire TV platform, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon AI

YouTube says it now has 1B+ monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide; users watched 400M+ hours of podcasts monthly on living room devices in 2024 (variety.com)
2025-2-27 YouTube

Lasso: 20,000+ once-public GitHub repositories from Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM, Tencent, and 16,000+ other companies are still accessible via Copilot (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 Google Microsoft IBM Tencent GitHub

A US federal judge dismisses a lawsuit against TikTok and YouTube over “choking challenge” videos, saying the case failed on its merits and citing Section 230 (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2025-2-26 YouTube

A survey of 2,000 US adults finds 42% say that search engines like Google are becoming less useful, 60% view the state of social media negatively, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-26 Google

Microsoft unlocks free, unlimited access to Copilot Voice and Think Deeper (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-26 Microsoft

Why claims of Microsoft cancelling AI data centre leases are raising eyebrows (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-26 Microsoft AI

A profile of Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, who led the company from trailing eBay and Apple in online sales to becoming the world's second-largest e-commerce firm (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-26 Apple eBay Walmart

Google makes its Gemini AI coding tool free to use with ‘practically unlimited' capacity (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-26 Google AI

Sources: in July 2024, Microsoft told top GOP officials that Chinese hackers had accessed the RNC email system for months; the RNC chose not to alert the FBI (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-26 China Microsoft FBI Republican

Analysts expect Amazon to spend up to $25B of its $100B capex in 2025 on its retail network, focusing on automation and efficiency, amid the AI spending boom (t.co)
2025-2-26 Amazon Retail AI

Google loses fight on Android Auto access, bodes ill for Big Tech (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-26 Android Google

YouTube will show fewer mid-roll ads that interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more ads at “natural break points” like transitions, starting May 12 (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-26 YouTube

Google, Qualcomm Will Support 8 Years of Android Updates (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-2-26 Android Google

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