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💥 US government considers breakup of Google
🏅 Google DeepMind researchers win Nobel Prize in chemistry
🤔 HBO documentary claims to reveal Bitcoin's creator
🇧🇷 X returns to Brazil after ban
💉 TikTok faces lawsuits over addictive algorithm
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
💥 US government considers breakup of GoogleLINK
Judge Amit Mehta has identified Google as a monopolist, prompting Department of Justice attorneys to explore remedies to combat the company's illegal conduct and rejuvenate competition in the search engine industry.
The proposed solutions span a range of enforcement strategies, from regulatory oversight ensuring fair practices to potential divestitures of key business divisions like Chrome, Android, or Google Play.
Addressing Google's market dominance in search distribution is a priority, with the DOJ considering compulsory educational campaigns to encourage consumers to select search engines according to their preferences, counteracting Google's financial grip on default settings in devices.
🏅 Google DeepMind researchers win Nobel Prize in chemistryLINK
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists, including two Google DeepMind researchers, for breakthroughs in protein structures, celebrated as "chemical tools of life" by the Nobel Committee.
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, honored for their AlphaFold2 AI model, achieved groundbreaking advancements by predicting nearly all identified human protein structures, which previously took years to discover.
The third recipient, David Baker, was recognized for his pioneering computational protein design that led to the creation of novel proteins for use in medicine and technology over the past twenty years.
🤔 HBO documentary claims to reveal Bitcoin's creatorLINK
Filmmaker Cullen Hoback claims in 'Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery' that Peter Todd, a Canadian Bitcoin developer, is Satoshi Nakamoto, though Todd and others deny this. Hoback points to a 2010 forum post and Todd's influence during the block size wars as evidence, suggesting Todd’s role contradicts Bitcoin's decentralized ideals. The documentary has sparked skepticism in the Bitcoin community, with critics doubting Todd's skills and highlighting risks to Bitcoin’s stability if Satoshi’s identity were revealed.
🇧🇷 X returns to Brazil after banLINK
X has resumed operations in Brazil after a five-week ban, following compliance with the demands of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, allowing regulators to restore the platform's service. The dispute involved demands for X to block specific accounts, which the company initially resisted, calling them 'censorship orders.' This led to frozen bank accounts for Starlink in Brazil and nearly $5 million in fines before X eventually complied. During the ban, X's competitor Bluesky, originally a project under former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, gained significant momentum, adding more than 2 million new users in the aftermath of the service disruption.
💉 TikTok faces lawsuits over addictive algorithmLINK
Attorneys general from 14 states have filed lawsuits against TikTok, accusing the platform of causing mental health issues in children and misleading the public regarding the safety of its social media service.
The lawsuits claim TikTok uses addictive features to extend children's engagement, such as autoplay videos and temporary stories, which violate various state laws and the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by allegedly profiting from data of minors under 13.
TikTok disputes these allegations, asserting its commitment to improving user safety, while simultaneously dealing with broader challenges such as the threat of a U.S. ban if it fails to separate from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
Other news you might like
Roblox accused of lying to investors about user numbers by Hindenburg Research.LINK
MediaTek’s new flagship chipset is ready for AI agents and tri-fold phones.LINK
Russia blocks Discord after failing to remove 'illegal content'.LINK
Wimbledon will evict line judges from its tennis matches after 147 years—and turn to AI instead.LINK
Anthropic challenges OpenAI with affordable batch processing.LINK
The White House has started posting on Reddit.LINK
Apple’s unreleased M4 MacBook Pro is being sold on the black market.LINK
Bankrupt Fisker says it can’t migrate its EVs to a new owner’s server.LINK
Latest research and tools
Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models: the paper presents a method showing that simpler mathematical operations can make artificial intelligence language models more energy efficient.LINK
SSH Tunnel Manager: a tool that simplifies managing SSH tunnels, utilizing a TOML file for configuration of local or remote forwarding, supporting macOS and Linux.LINK
Miqt: MIT-licensed Qt bindings for Go that enable the development of applications with the Qt toolkit in the Go programming language, requiring a Qt C++ toolchain and offering a clean-room approach without using other Qt binding code.LINK
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