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Meta’s beef with the press flares at its antitrust trial
Long-simmering tension between Silicon Valley and the press that covers it is surfacing during the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial against Meta. During a heated cross-examination of the FTC’s key economic expert, Scott Hemphill, Meta’s lead attorney, Mark Hansen, noted that Hemphill joined Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and former Biden official Tim Wu in pitching regulators on an antitrust probe…
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I’m obsessed with Max’s Karen Read trial documentary — you should get on this wild ride
I believe in the Sixth Amendment. I believe people deserve a fair trial — especially when they’re accused of murder. But “A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read,” now streaming on Max, made me question how that’s even possible when the criminal justice system is this broken. The three-part docuseries follows the 2024 trial of Karen Read,…
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Apple exec ‘outright lied’ during Epic trial
In her ruling banning Apple from charging a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says that an Apple executive “outright lied under oath.” According to Gonzalez Rogers, Alex Roman, vice president of finance at Apple, gave testimony that was “replete with misdirection and outright lies.” The judge writes that Roman lied when testifying that…
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Google’s antitrust trial begins with a fight over Chrome, money, and AI
Near the beginning of his opening arguments, David Dahlquist, a lawyer for the US Department of Justice, showed a slide that he described as Google’s “vicious cycle.” It goes like this: Google pays billions of dollars to be the default search engine practically everywhere, thus it gets more search queries, thus it gets better data, thus it is able to…
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Zuckerberg defends his empire during FTC antitrust trial
Making Instagram a separate company. Buying Snapchat. Wiping everyone’s Facebook friends. Creating a feed of only ads. These were some of the ideas that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered over the years as he built his social media empire. Over the past two days, he talked about them from the witness stand at a federal courthouse in Washington, DC, where…
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram purchase in antitrust trial
“Your honor, the FTC calls Mark Zuckerberg.” Flanked by two bodyguards, Meta’s CEO solemnly strode into a Washington, DC courtroom. Despite his last-ditch efforts to avoid a trial, he was there, jaw clenched, to defend his company from being broken up by the US government. Shortly after he was sworn in, the Federal Trade Commission’s lead attorney for the case,…
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College Students Can Get a Two-Month Free Trial of ChatGPT Plus
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve used ChatGPT. But have you paid for ChatGPT? OpenAI offers a number of ways to do so, but the cheapest plan is $20 per month. It’s pretty steep, especially since the company continues to offer premium features for free users. However, there are still plenty of features and perks exclusive to paying customers.…
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UK tech firms have a chance to trial a four-day week this year – here’s how other pilot schemes fared
British tech companies considering shifting to a four-day week can now sign up for a supported six-month trial with the 4 Day Week Foundation. The campaign group is offering six weeks of training and workshops beginning in May, as well as holding an event on 17 April in London for more information. The trial will be followed and assessed by…
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US v. Google antitrust trial: updates
That ended the biggest tech antitrust trial since the US took on Microsoft in the 1990s — possibly aside from the government’s antitrust case targeting Google’s ad business — but it’s also just the start of the process. Now, lawyers for Google and the Department of Justice are arguing over the ruling, as well as what to do about the…
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British Gas launches trial scheme to reuse waste heat from data processing – and it involves installing a tiny ‘virtual data center’ in homes
British Gas is carrying out a trial using excess heat from data processing to provide free hot water in homes. The company has signed a deal with sustainable cloud business heata that will see the heat generated by corporate data processing channeled directly into hot water cylinder in the home. Not only could this cut heating costs for homeowners, British…
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