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Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 13:17:30

Google may have escaped the most serious consequences in its most recent antitrust fight with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), but the European Union is still gunning for the search giant. After a brief delay, the European Commission has announced a substantial 2.95 billion euro ($3.45 billion) fine relating to Google's anti-competitive advertising practices. This is not Google's first big fine in the EU, and it probably won't be the last, but it's the first time European leaders could face b

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Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-14 13:27:47

Dot, an AI companion app that aimed to be a friend and confidante, is shutting down, the company announced on Friday. On a message published on its website, the startup behind Dot, New Computer, said that the product will remain operational until October 5, giving users time to download their data. Launched in 2024 by co-founders Sam Whitmore and former Apple designer Jason Yuan, Dot waded into what’s now become a more controversial area for AI chatbots. The app they created was described as an

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EU fines Google $3.5 billion over adtech antitrust violations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 17:37:01

The European Commission has announced that it will fine Google €2.95 billion, or around $3.5 billion, for violating European Union antitrust laws and "distorting competition in the advertising technology industry." The decision follows a similar ruling from earlier in 2025, where a US federal judge concluded that Google maintains a monopoly in online advertising technology. Google displays ads in search results, but it also has a dominant position as a software provider for online advertisers a

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Type checking is a symptom, not a solution

news.ycombinator.com Paul Tarvydas 2025-10-14 04:56:19

What if the programming industry’s decades-long obsession with type checking is solving the wrong problem entirely? What if our increasingly sophisticated type systems—from Haskell’s category theory to Rust’s borrow checker—are elaborate workarounds for fundamental architectural mistakes we’ve been making since the beginning? The software industry has convinced itself that type checking is not just useful, but essential. We’ve built entire programming languages around the premise that catching

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Broadcom stock jumps 11% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-14 21:01:50

Analysts at Mizuho, Cantor Fitzgerald and KeyBanc all said they think AI startup OpenAI is the customer. The Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the partnership, that the two companies co-designed a chip that will hit the market next year. "One of these prospects released production orders to Broadcom, and we have accordingly characterized them as a qualified customer for XPUs," Tan said. He added that the order increased Broadcom's forecast for AI revenue next yea

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Roblox announces short-video, AI features amid child safety concerns

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-10-14 21:39:23

Roblox on Friday announced new short-video and AI features that come amid increasing lawmaker scrutiny into how the company protects children on its platform. With Roblox Moments, users 13 and older will be able to create and share video clips of their gameplay with others on a feed within the platform. The artificial intelligence additions, meanwhile, will allow users to generate advanced 3D objects for the games they create on the platform. Tune in at 4:15 p.m. ET: Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki j

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Building a WASM compiler in Roc (series)

news.ycombinator.com Dusty Phillips 2025-10-11 02:49:26

Table of contents for my series on building a WASM compiler in Roc:

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Amazon’s ‘Neflix for AI’ Plans to ‘Reconstruct’ Lost Orson Welles Film With Slop

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-14 21:50:00

Orson Welles’ 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons has a complicated legacy—both considered one of the greatest films of all time and a complete mess that saw the iconic director’s vision stifled by his studio and the original cut destroyed. Somehow, the AI guys have decided that’s their signal to get involved. According to The Hollywood Reporter, an Amazon-backed generative AI company called Showrunner, the creators of a streaming service that lets subscribers create their own episodes of shows

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Tesla’s ad spend on X has shrunk to almost nothing

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-14 21:00:46

Tesla spent $400,000 advertising on Elon Musk’s social media platform X in 2024, according to a new regulatory filing. But the automaker appears to be on track to spend just a fraction of that in 2025 as sales have struggled. In the first two months of 2025, Tesla spent $10,000 on X ads, putting it on track to spend only $60,000 annually unless it radically increases its advertising for the remainder of the year. During the same time period last year, it had already spent $200,000 on X, Tesla d

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Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-15 01:56:21

Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance 6 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Reuters Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector - the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favouring its own products for displaying online ads, to the detriment of rivals. It co

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Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-15 00:40:07

Tesla's board has proposed an unprecedented pay package for its CEO Elon Musk: around $1 trillion worth of shares, Bloomberg reports. It's a major escalation in the firm's increasingly desperate attempts to encourage its highly divisive leader to stick around and stay attentive. That's despite Tesla's core business imploding over the past year, largely the result of Musk's alienating behavior and surging international competition. "Simply put, retaining and incentivizing Elon is fundamental to

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EU fines Google $3.5 billion for anti-competitive ad practices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-15 01:36:03

The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) for abusing its dominance in the digital advertising technology market and favoring its adtech services over those of its competitors. Google was also ordered by the EU's top antitrust regulator to stop anti-competitive and "self-preferencing" practices and take measures to mitigate future conflicts of interest in the adtech market. Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, told BleepingComputer that t

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Show HN: Vapor – A notepad that fades away as you type

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 18:16:28

Vapor A transient notepad Your words fade away as you type You cannot go back Focus on what comes next Save when you're done

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Google fined $3.5 billion by EU for ad tech abuse

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-15 01:51:29

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The European Commission has waged a €2.95 billion (~$3.5 billion) fine against Google for “abusing its dominant position” in advertising technology. In its announcement, the Commission claims that Google’s alleged anticompetitive practices have increased costs f

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X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn’t trust it yet

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-15 01:04:03

X, formerly Twitter, has started rolling out its new encrypted messaging feature called “Chat” or “XChat.” The company claims the new communication feature is end-to-end encrypted, meaning messages exchanged on it can only be read by the sender and their receiver, and — in theory — no one else, including X, can access them. Cryptography experts, however, are warning that X’s current implementation of encryption in XChat should not be trusted. They’re saying it’s far worse than Signal, a techno

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Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-15 01:37:48

Sodium-ion battery startup Natron ceased operations this week, ending the company’s 12-year quest to commercialize its technology in the U.S. The company had $25 million worth of orders lined up for its Michigan factory, but it couldn’t deliver them until it had UL certification, according to Raleigh’s The News & Observer, which reported on the business’s closure because Natron had been planning to bring jobs to the state of North Carolina with its new factory. However, receiving the UL certif

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Nothing teases its fourth-gen earbuds called the Ear (3) because numbers are hard

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 05:37:41

TL;DR Nothing has confirmed it will launch its next-generation flagship TWS earbuds soon. After previously adopting a new naming scheme that removed numbers from the name, Nothing is going back to “straightforward numerical order.” The next earbuds will be called the Ear (3). There’s nothing that London-based electronics maker Nothing loves more than teasers. In typical fashion, the company released a teaser for a new product this morning. The teaser in question is for Nothing’s next-generati

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A Quarter of Nvidia's Revenue Comes From a Single Giant Customer

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-15 08:06:09

In case you haven't heard, there might be a slight problem with the US economy: that it's being propped up by a tiny number of tech companies betting big on an AI revolution. Among the tech titans, no company is more important than the AI chip maker Nvidia. Often likened to a shovel seller during a goldrush, Nvidia's revenue has exploded in recent years, from $26.9 billion in 2023 to a heart stopping $130.5 billion in 2025. That unprecedented growth propelled Nvidia to become the first company

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Why Browser Company at $610M is cheap

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 09:38:07

first, what does this price mean for the browser company? their last round valued them at $550m, so this is basically giving the previous investors their money back. in other words, bare minimum price they could sell for without somebody taking a loss. pretty bad for them: the market sees no future value, josh’s “vision” for browsers couldn’t get better than buzzwords. second, what does this price mean for atlassian? they have $3b cash, so this is 20% of their piggy bank. and with $1.2b q3 prof

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OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-15 08:30:46

OpenAI is set to produce its own artificial intelligence chip for the first time next year, as the ChatGPT maker attempts to address insatiable demand for computing power and reduce its reliance on chip giant Nvidia. The chip, co-designed with US semiconductor giant Broadcom, would ship next year, according to multiple people familiar with the partnership. Broadcom’s chief executive Hock Tan on Thursday referred to a mystery new customer committing to $10 billion in orders. OpenAI’s move foll

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Tesla offers $1 trillion to Elon Musk to unleash his army of robots

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-15 09:29:59

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire if Tesla shareholders approve a new pay package that was just put forward by the company’s board. Musk would need to meet certain milestones in order to receive that eye-popping compensation, such as producing 1 million robotaxis and 1 million humanoid robots, as well a

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Tesla shareholders to vote on investing in Musk’s AI startup xAI

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-15 09:23:20

Tesla shareholders will soon vote whether to let the electric vehicle maker invest in Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, a proposal pitched as a way to strengthen Tesla’s ambitions in AI, robotics, and energy. Listed in Tesla’s proxy statement alongside a company-backed push to raise Musk’s 10-year pay package to $1 trillion, the proposal comes from Stephen Hawk, a Florida shareholder with a $2,000 stake of common stock. His supporting statement reads: Tesla’s integration of Grok into its vehicles de

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Broadcom stock jumps 15% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-15 13:33:12

Broadcom shares soared 15% on Friday after the chipmaker said on its earnings call that it had secured a new $10 billion customer. Analysts quickly pointed to OpenAI. Following a better-than-expected earnings report late Thursday, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told analysts that a fourth large customer had put in orders for $10 billion in custom artificial intelligence chips, which the company calls XPUs. "One of these prospects released production orders to Broadcom, and we have accordingly character

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Bose’s New QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Play Nicer With iPhones

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-15 13:40:27

Good news for people who love powerful active noise cancellation, aka ANC: Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra Headphones are back, and they’re getting a few notable upgrades. The QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) will open up for preorder starting next week on Sept. 10, and if you’re a fan of listening to headphones wired instead of wireless, this is probably the pair for you. According to Bose, you can hook the QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) via USB-C instead of a 3.5mm jack, which is ob

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Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-15 17:15:46

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would make the source code for Microsoft BASIC for the 6502 Version 1.1 publicly available and open-source. The code is now uploaded to GitHub under an MIT license (with a cheeky commit time stamp of “48 years ago”). Microsoft called the code—written by the com

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Bose announces QuietComfort Ultra headphones with support for lossless audio over USB-C

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-15 18:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Bose has announced a second-generation version of its QuietComfort Ultra wireless headphones it first introduced nearly two years ago. The name is the same, but the new Ultra finally adds support for listening to lossless audio over a USB-C cable, while still

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OpenAI is reportedly producing its own AI chips starting next year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 02:39:24

OpenAI is gearing up to start the mass production of its own AI chips next year to be able to provide the massive computing power its users need and to lessen its reliance on NVIDIA, according to the Financial Times. The company reportedly designed the custom AI chip with US semiconductor maker Broadcom, whose CEO recently announced that it has a new client that put in a whopping $10 billion in orders. It didn't name the client, but the Times' sources confirmed that it was OpenAI, which apparent

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WordPress.com review: A heavyweight site builder that makes you work for it

zdnet.com Marshall Gunnell 2025-10-16 02:00:18

WordPress.com ZDNET's key takeaways WordPress.com gives you a lot, but you won't get the good stuff like plugins and serious SEO tools unless you're on the pricier Business plan The block editor works once you figure it out, but it's nowhere near as beginner-friendly as drag-and-drop builders like Wix or Squarespace It's great for blogs or content-heavy sites, but not the best choice if you're new to building websites or want a cheap way to run an online store. View now at WordPress Follow ZD

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Waymo Says You’re Not Getting Its Footage Without a Warrant

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-16 00:59:40

Waymo is quietly drawing new boundaries over how authorities access data from its autonomous vehicles. The company said it will reject any requests that are not backed by a legal request such as a warrant or court order. The move is one of several signaling a growing tension between innovation, privacy, and law enforcement power. A new privacy guardrail Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana recently emphasized that the company will challenge, limit, or reject robotaxi footage requests from law enforc

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RFK Jr. says COVID shots still available to all as cancer patients denied access

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-15 14:18:36

US health secretary and ardent anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday amid turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and widespread chaos over access to COVID-19 vaccines. In the combative three-hour hearing, Kennedy defended his dramatic firing of the CDC director last week, less than a month after her confirmation, which he effusively supported. Today, he repeatedly called her a liar and made the extraordinary claim tha

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Latest Tech News

Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly

Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

EU fines Google $3.5 billion over adtech antitrust violations

Type checking is a symptom, not a solution

Broadcom stock jumps 11% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

Roblox announces short-video, AI features amid child safety concerns

Building a WASM compiler in Roc (series)

Amazon’s ‘Neflix for AI’ Plans to ‘Reconstruct’ Lost Orson Welles Film With Slop

Tesla’s ad spend on X has shrunk to almost nothing

Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance

Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion

EU fines Google $3.5 billion for anti-competitive ad practices

Show HN: Vapor – A notepad that fades away as you type

Google fined $3.5 billion by EU for ad tech abuse

X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn’t trust it yet

Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries

Nothing teases its fourth-gen earbuds called the Ear (3) because numbers are hard

A Quarter of Nvidia's Revenue Comes From a Single Giant Customer

Why Browser Company at $610M is cheap

OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips

Tesla offers $1 trillion to Elon Musk to unleash his army of robots

Tesla shareholders to vote on investing in Musk’s AI startup xAI

Broadcom stock jumps 15% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

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Bose announces QuietComfort Ultra headphones with support for lossless audio over USB-C

OpenAI is reportedly producing its own AI chips starting next year

WordPress.com review: A heavyweight site builder that makes you work for it

Waymo Says You’re Not Getting Its Footage Without a Warrant

RFK Jr. says COVID shots still available to all as cancer patients denied access

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