reader comments 52 Google wound down its defense in the US Department of Justice’s ad tech monopoly trial this week, following a week of testimony from witnesses that experts said seemed to lack credibility. The tech giant started its defense by showing a widely mocked chart that Google executive Scott Sheffer called a “spaghetti football,” ..
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reader comments 97 Most members of Dell’s sales team will no longer have the option to work remotely, starting on Monday, Reuters reported this week, citing an internal memo. The policy applies to salespeople worldwide and is aimed at helping “grow skills,” per the note. Like the rest of Dell’s workforce, Dell’s salespeople have previously ..
Enlarge / Former US President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on September 11, 2024, in New York City. Getty Images | Michael M. Santiago reader comments 239 Elon Musk’s X is blocking links to the JD Vance “dossier” containing the Trump campaign’s research on ..
Amazon corporate office building in Sunnyvale, California. Getty Images reader comments 93 An overwhelming majority of Amazon employees are “dissatisfied” with Amazon killing remote work and requiring them to be in the office five days a week next year. That’s according to a survey of 2,585 employees by Blind, an online community where verified employees ..
Enlarge / Caroline Ellison, former chief executive officer of Alameda Research LLC, was sentenced Tuesday for helping Sam Bankman-Fried cover up FTX’s fraudulent misuse of customer funds. reader comments 104 Caroline Ellison was sentenced Tuesday to 24 months for her role in covering up Sam Bankman-Fried’s rampant fraud at FTX—which caused billions in customer losses. ..
Enlarge / California Governor Gavin Newsom at a press conference in San Francisco on September 19, 2024. Getty Images | Anadolu reader comments 180 California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required makers of web browsers and mobile operating systems to let consumers send opt-out preference signals that could limit businesses’ use ..
reader comments 33 Cloudflare announced new tools Monday that it claims will help end the era of endless AI scraping by giving all sites on its network the power to block bots in one click. That will help stop the firehose of unrestricted AI scraping, but, perhaps even more intriguing to content creators everywhere, Cloudflare ..
reader comments 100 If the past five years of EU tech rules could take human form, they would embody Thierry Breton. The bombastic commissioner, with his swoop of white hair, became the public face of Brussels’ irritation with American tech giants, touring Silicon Valley last summer to personally remind the industry of looming regulatory deadlines. ..
Aurich Lawson reader comments 39 As the US Department of Justice aims to break up Google’s alleged ad tech monopoly, experts say that remedies sought in the antitrust trial could potentially benefit not just advertisers and publishers but also everyone targeted by ads online. So far, the DOJ has argued that through acquisitions, Google allegedly ..
Aurich Lawson | Cards Against Humanity reader comments 227 Cards Against Humanity sued SpaceX yesterday, alleging that Elon Musk’s firm illegally took over a plot of land on the US/Mexico border that the party-game company bought in 2017 in an attempt to stymie then-President Trump’s attempt to build a wall. “As part of CAH’s 2017 ..
