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Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their newsfeed — Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
Chennai-based CRM software maker Freshworks redesignates CEO Girish Mathrubootham as the executive chairman and names Dennis Woodside as his replacement (Bhavya Dilipkumar/Moneycontrol)
Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol:
Chennai-based CRM software maker Freshworks redesignates CEO Girish Mathrubootham as the executive chairman and names Dennis Woodside as his replacement — Mathrubootham will now be spending more time on the long-term product vision, innovation and AI strategy.
The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator’s chief data officer and director of its data division (Mengqi Sun/Wall Street Journal)
Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal:
The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator’s chief data officer and director of its data division — Commodity Futures Trading Commission has promoted Ted Kaouk to the chief data and artificial intelligence officer role
An NLRB judge finds Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated US labor law with his comments in 2022 suggesting workers would be “less empowered” if they voted in a union (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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An NLRB judge finds Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated US labor law with his comments in 2022 suggesting workers would be “less empowered” if they voted in a union — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law in comments he made to media outlets about unionization efforts at the company …
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe a third” of Americans and it’ll take “several months” to notify victims (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe a third” of Americans and it’ll take “several months” to notify victims — Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data …
Snapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out “soon” and available first for Snapchat+ subscribers (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Snapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out “soon” and available first for Snapchat+ subscribers — Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing you to rectify a …
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google’s payments constituted 17.5% of Apple’s operating income (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google’s payments constituted 17.5% of Apple’s operating income — The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers allege Google …
Nvidia updates its ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to add support for voice queries and three AI models: Google’s Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI’s CLIP (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia updates its ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to add support for voice queries and three AI models: Google’s Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI’s CLIP — Nvidia is updating its experimental ChatRTX chatbot with more AI models for RTX GPU owners.
Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco — Game engine maker Unity has appointed Matthew Bromberg, former COO of Zynga, as its new CEO, president and board member.
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $9.39B, vs. $9.34B est., handset sales up 1% YoY to $6.18B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $9.39B, vs. $9.34B est., handset sales up 1% YoY to $6.18B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates — Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon responds to a question during a keynote conversation at CES 2024, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 10, 2024.
