Big Tech

Meta’s Big AI Gamble Pays Off With Q2 Profit Turnaround Powered by AI, the Facebook and Instagram owner has just posted its first quarterly profit since 2021

Is Slack Down? Company Responds As Thousands Report Issues With Platform Slack experienced an outage this morning, but some users are now back up and running and able to send messages again.

Microsoft Did Very Well Last Quarter, Surprising No One The rise of generative AI has given Microsoft a serious boost, with the company reporting an absolutely stellar Q4 2023.

Apple Faces $1bn Lawsuit Over iPhone and iPad App Charges A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of over 1,500 developers, taking aim at Apple's "abusive" commission rates.

Big Tech Firms Have Agreed to AI Rules from White House Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and other AI firms will voluntarily follow specific rules when it comes to AI development.

Amazon Expanding Pay-By-Palm to Hundreds of US Stores Lots of companies are adopting Amazon One, which utilizes biometric data to help customers pay with nothing but their hands.

Meta to Be Fined $100k a Day Over Privacy Breaches Europe is tightening its regulatory grip around Meta, as the platform's data hoarding techniques come under fire.

Twitter Blocks Links To Rival Threads, as Traffic Dips As Threads soars in popularity, Twitter puts a stop on linking to the platform while downplaying reports of traffic decline.

Microsoft Axes Office and Remote Workers in New Layoffs The latest Microsoft job cuts are in addition to the 10,000 announced earlier in the year.

New US Navy Tool Exposes Microsoft Teams Security Flaws ‘TeamsPhisher’ could be used to easily send and spread malware.

How To Get Instagram Threads First The new platform went live today, briefly, but launches officially, tomorrow. Is this the first real Twitter alternative?

Google Could Use Your Data to Train Its AI Models The small-but-significant Privacy Policy update was made at the weekend.