Tech

• Lawmakers ask DOJ for antitrust probe of Apple for shutting down iMessage on Android

  19-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 23

  A bipartisan group of four US senators and representatives asked the Department of Justice whether Apple violated antitrust laws for shutting down...

• Nikola founder Trevor Milton gets four years in prison for $600M fraud

  19-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 38

  Prosecutors last week urged the judge to sentence Milton, 41, to around 11 years in prison - in line with the sentence Theranos founder Elizabeth...

• What your email signature says about you — and what to use instead

  19-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 45

  Signatures are often the part of an email that people spend the least amount of time on — but how you sign off could say more about you than you...

• A-Rod’s SPAC plans $800M merger with satellite comms provider Lynk Global

  19-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 37

  Alex Rodriguez's blank-check firm announced plans to merge with satellite communications provider Lynk Global in a deal worth at least $800 million.

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• A suspected cyberattack paralyzes the majority of gas stations across Iran

  18-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 38

  Nearly 70% of Iran's gas stations went out of service on Monday following possible sabotage - a reference to cyberattacks, Iranian state TV reported.

• European Union investigating Musk's X over possible breaches of social media law

  18-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 106

  European Union are looking into whether Elon Musk's online platform X breached tough new social media regulations in the first such investigation...

• Love it or hate it, self-checkout is here to stay. But it's going through a reckoning

  18-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 80

  The promise of self-checkout was alluring: Customers could avoid long lines by scanning and bagging their own items, workers could be freed of...

• Apple halting US sales of Series 9, Ultra 2 smartwatches over blood-oxygen patent dispute

  18-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 44

  The move comes after an order in October from the US International Trade Commission that could bar Apple from importing its Apple Watches after...

• OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it allegedly used GPT to build rival AI product: report

  18-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 50

  ByteDance has reportedly relied on OpenAI’s application programming interface, or API, “during nearly every phase of development” of its AI product.

• Why you should think twice about handing over your email, number for discounts

  18-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 78

  You’re probably like me — I don’t like paying full price. But is handing over your email address, phone number or even more worth it for a coupon...

• EU probes X for allegedly sharing illegal content, disinformation on Israel-Hamas

  18-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 76

  The European Union has launched an investigation into whether Elon Musk’s X is complying with rules that require the social media giant to counter...

• How Google’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have ‘escaped all scrutiny’ in landmark antitrust trials

  18-12-2023 Tech NY Post - Tech 48

  Page and Brin, the masterminds behind the Google’s search tool, did not testify at the company's recent antitrust trials.