Andy Edser / PC Gamer:
Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub — Fond memories of beige machines. — Ah, the PC in the spare room. Back when “going on the computer” was an event, not a daily necessity, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS games.
IBM plans to expand its semiconductor packaging and testing plant in Bromont, Quebec, with more than CA$1B in investments over the next five years (Mathieu Dion/Bloomberg)
Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg:
IBM plans to expand its semiconductor packaging and testing plant in Bromont, Quebec, with more than CA$1B in investments over the next five years — – The chips-packaging facility has about 1,000 employees — ‘What you really need is a full supply chain onshore’: Thomas
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time; the stock rose 10%, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015, resulting in a valuation of $2.15T (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time; the stock rose 10%, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015, resulting in a valuation of $2.15T — – Report reassures investors about its prospects with AI — Google parent already twice breached level on intraday basis
Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal’s disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC’s antitrust case against Amazon (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal’s disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC’s antitrust case against Amazon — – Agency accuses retail giant of failing to preserve documents — Top executives communicated via Signal disappearing chats
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing — – The iPhone maker has also been holding discussions with Google — Negotiations center on powering AI chatbot in iOS 18 update
Google is testing “Speaking practice” in Search, which uses a conversational AI bot to let Search Labs users in some countries improve their English skills (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google is testing “Speaking practice” in Search, which uses a conversational AI bot to let Search Labs users in some countries improve their English skills — Google is testing a new “Speaking practice” feature in Search that helps users improve their conversational English skills.
Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments (The Baltimore Banner)
The Baltimore Banner:
Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments — Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with crimes related …
As Intel reports disappointing earnings and guidance, and becomes S&P 500’s worst performing stock in 2024, a look at the long history of company’s missteps (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
As Intel reports disappointing earnings and guidance, and becomes S&P 500’s worst performing stock in 2024, a look at the long history of company’s missteps — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks while showing silicon wafers during an event called AI Everywhere in New York, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.
Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company’s US commercial business (Kate Kelly/New York Times)
Kate Kelly / New York Times:
Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company’s US commercial business — U.S. authorities consider DJI a security threat. Congress is weighing legislation to ban it, prompting a lobbying campaign from the company …
Discord bans Spy Pet-affiliated accounts, which were scraping 12K+ Discord servers to archive and sell user data, and says it is considering legal action (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Discord bans Spy Pet-affiliated accounts, which were scraping 12K+ Discord servers to archive and sell user data, and says it is considering legal action — After 404 Media reported on the service last week, Discord has now shut down a mass of scraping accounts and says it is considering legal action.
