Tech

Oliwier Jaszczyszyn of kontrabanda.net website · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Google cuts ties with an Android partner that turned 1.3 million devices into a botnet

5 pages

Google says Videostrong Technology, a manufacturer based in Shenzhen, China, secretly built a backdoor into the devices, mostly Android TV set-top boxes.

Justauserboy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Four US newspapers sue the Brave browser over alleged content scraping

5 pages

The New York Times filed one suit Monday in federal court in Manhattan, and three other newspapers filed a similar one the same day.

UK Prime Minister · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Anthropic's loss shrinks as revenue jumps ahead of its IPO

5 pages

The AI company's net loss fell to US$23.29 billion in the three months ended Sep 30, from US$66.3 billion in the second quarter, an amended regulatory filing showed Monday.

Squarespace lays off 19 per cent of its workforce

4 pages

The website-building company is cutting about 300 of its 1,800 jobs to simplify how it operates, a spokesperson said Monday.

Ka23 13 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

SpaceX discusses buying Boost Mobile to become a mobile carrier, according to reports

5 pages

Elon Musk spoke in October with Charlie Ergen, chairman of Boost Mobile's parent company EchoStar, about a deal, according to reports. SpaceX could buy the carrier or gain access to its network.

Krd (photo)Von Sprat (crop/extraction) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

AI helps make the Linux 7.4 merge window the largest in kernel history

5 pages

The Linux 7.4 merge window drew 19,671 commits, the most on record, up from 16,267 for Linux 7.3.

Joi Ito from Cambridge, MA, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Microsoft's AI chief warns the industry against building conscious machines

5 pages

In a post on X on Sunday, Mustafa Suleyman said current AI systems are not conscious, have no subjective experiences and cannot suffer.

King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Marvell buys Lumentum for US$115 billion in an AI data-centre bet

5 pages

The chipmaker is buying Lumentum, a maker of optical components that move data at high speed in AI data centres, in an all-stock deal including debt.