Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at the rise in video podcasts, as YouTube leads in podcast consumption in the US and companies invest in video to gain new audiences and boost ad revenue — To some, “video podcasts” are a contradiction in terms. That hasn’t made them any less popular.
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers (William Brown/Firstyear’s blog-a-log)
William Brown / Firstyear’s blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers — At around 11pm last night my partner went to change our lounge room lights with our home light control system.
A review of Dana Mattioli’s The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan’s antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful (Jonathan Ford/Financial Times)
Jonathan Ford / Financial Times:
A review of Dana Mattioli’s The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan’s antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful — Dana Mattioli’s important book looks the winner-takes-all dynamic that built a competition-squashing behemoth
Investors cheer Microsoft and Alphabet’s huge AI spending plans as shares of both firms rallied but not Meta’s, which saw its worst trading day in 18 months (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal:
Investors cheer Microsoft and Alphabet’s huge AI spending plans as shares of both firms rallied but not Meta’s, which saw its worst trading day in 18 months — Meta had its worst trading day in 18 months after warning of years of AI investment; shares of Microsoft and Alphabet rallied
Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says “Taiwan is Google’s largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US” (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia:
Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says “Taiwan is Google’s largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US” — Search engine giant ‘serious’ about beefing up equipment and software ecosystem
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in — There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting Apple users tonight.
Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills — Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google said on Friday it would invest $3 billion to set up a data center campus in Indiana and expand sites in Virginia.
A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers — New York obtains significant win for states’ ability to regulate broadband. — A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling …
Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub (Andy Edser/PC Gamer)
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
