Amazon is being sued over slow deliveries to lower-incomer areas. What is the Oxford University's 2024 word of the year? Canada's antitrust watchdog is suing Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in advertising. And Leo tries not to spend too long on the Google Changelog items.

• 'Hawk tuah' girl Haliey Welch launches crypto memecoin—but insists it's not a cash grab.
• Amazon sued over slow deliveries to low-income areas.
• Bluesky COO rejects idea upstart social app is 'left-leaning'.
• Australia bans social media for everyone under 16.
• What is Brain rot, the Oxford University 2024 word of the year?
• Intel stock wavers on CEO Pat Gelsinger's departure.
• FTC opens Microsoft antitrust investigation that Trump administration must carry on or drop.
• Canada's antitrust watchdog sues Google alleging anti-competitive conduct in advertising.
• FTC changes its telemarketing rules to cover growing 'tech support scam' calls.
• Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say.
• U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls.
• No one is talking about ChatGPT anymore.
• Romans and cultural leaders criticize Airbnb's planned two-night Colosseum experience for up to 32 guests in May 2025, saying it will demean a cultural treasure.
• Google Chat rolling out audio 'Huddles' powered by Meet.
• Google Maps app showing incident reports from Waze.
• Gemini app rolling out 'Make calls and send message without unlocking'.
• Google Wallet for Wear OS adding corporate badges, campus IDs, and more.
• Pixel 6-9 now lets you check device temperature after 'Troubleshooting' update.
• Google's video generator comes to more customers.
• Google's beefing up Android app security, but not everyone's going to be happy.
• Google Photos rolling out 'Undo device backup' setting.
• Mikah's TATOFY for Magic Mouse 2 Grip
• Can the "Bookazine" save Magazines?
• Calculator Soup.

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• Paris' stuffing recipe.
• Source: Google has canceled the Pixel Tablet 2, not the Tab 3.
• Meta gains steam in its push to make Apple, Google verify users' ages.
• A complex new age of face tech.
• Musk unleashes online army on federal workers. 'A tough way to find out she's losing her job.'
• Elon Musk admits X is making it harder for people to read news.
• Elon Musk's Twitter backers gain windfall from xAI deal.
• Google's new chess game lets you customize pieces with AI.
• Google's Black Friday sale features record low prices on Pixel, Nest, and more.
• Here's the full list of Gemini extensions and what they can do.
• Google's iOS app now injects links on third-party websites that go back to Search.
• Google Maps now does a better job of highlighting stairs.
• Holding Space for Defying Gravity.
• What Leo, Paris, and Jeff are thankful for with the Internet.

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• DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome to break search Monopoly.
• Trump's pick for FCC chair has vowed crackdown on big tech 'censorship'.
• Musk joined call between Trump, Google CEO.
• CFPB looks to place Google under federal supervision, setting up clash.
• What Brendan Carr, Trump's FCC pick, wrote in 'Project 2025' chapter.
• Bluesky tops 20M users, narrowing gap with Instagram Threads.
• Google's Gemini AI now has its own iPhone app.
• Live Scam Detection in calls rolling out to Pixel 6-9 Phone app.
• Coca-Cola causes controversy with AI-generated ad.
• Instagram will let you 'reset' your recommendations.
• Meta fined nearly €800mn for breaking EU law over classified ads practices.
• Meta's reward for providing free global communications? FTC lawsuit.
• Comcast to Spin Off Cable Networks, Including MSNBC and CNBC.
• Google fixes Chrome issue that broke text highlighting on some sites.
• Mobile browser Arc Search is now generally available on Android.
• Google Lens can now check prices and inventory when shopping in the real world.
• Source: Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad.
• Exclusive: Google Pixel laptop in development!
• Can we talk about ALF hog?
• YouTuber Rosanna Pansino smokes cannabis grown from her father's ashes.
• Mike Masnick: One Billion Users, the Social Media card game.

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• Mark Zuckerberg just released his own NSFW version of 'Get Low' in a tribute to his wife
• Mattel Mistakenly Lists Porn Site on Packaging for 'Wicked' Dolls
• The Crypto Industry's Spending on the Election Pays Off
• Canada orders shutdown of TikTok's Canadian business, app access to continue
• Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election
• Matter 1.4 tries to set the smart home standard back on track
• Google's learning
• OpenAI Shifts Strategy as Rate of 'GPT' AI Improvements Slows
• Microsoft, A16Z AI manifesto: AI for startups
• Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
• Randy Travis's beautiful baritone was lost. AI helped him sing again.
• Particle launches an AI news app to help publishers, instead of just stealing their work
• YouTube is testing music remixes made by AI
• I Spoke Only to Chatbots for 24 Hours. Who Needs Human Friends?
• Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb
• Chris Wallace Quits CNN to Pivot to Streaming, Podcasting
• Nicholas Carlson, the former top editor of Business Insider, is starting a new company that will focus on video.
• Lena Dunham to write Sam Bankman-Fried movie for Apple
• Banjo Toss, the game
• After years of trying, Just Eat Takeaway is selling Grubhub to Wonder for $650M
• Research suggests people are getting more bored
• Times New Dumbass font

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• Tech in the new Admin
• TikTok Sees Trump Victory As App's Best Hope
• Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump for 'extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory'
• Elon Musk says Trump win is just the start of his political ambitions
• Silicon Valley is officially grieving over Trump but quietly gleeful over a possible tech deal resurgence
• The Crypto Industry's Spending on the Election Pays Off
• Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
• NYTimes Games for the strike
• Florida Access Network
• WebCheck

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• Google Preps AI That Takes Over Computers
• Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
• Jeff: Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
• Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here's Why
• Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content
• Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
• Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
• Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth
• More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
• Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
• McDonald's Finds an Unlikely Savior to Finally Fix Its McFlurry Machines
• RIP Foursquare
• Craig gives CR $5 million for cybersecurity
• WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be 'fantastic'
• LeCun blasts Musk as the biggest threat to democracy today
• Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk's Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
• Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally
• Masnick on Elon Musk Events
• TikTok founder becomes China's richest man
• The Age of Cage
• Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
• McKinsey's 18 next big arenas of competition

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• Requiem for Raghavan
• Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks to Benjamin Franklin
• Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now
• Google will block election ads after polls close
• LinkedIn is News Publishers' New Best Friend
• People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
• Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
• Musk's X seeks to steer lawsuits to conservative court in Texas
• Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand
• Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen's Suicide
• On-device AI could make apps obsolete
• Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
• Controversy after Polish radio station replaces human presenters with AI
• Sotheby's to auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot
• Elvis Found Alive
• Thank you, Steve Ballmer, for a concert app that made me want to scream

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• YouTube takes a baby step toward labeling authentic video
• Wimbledon tennis tournament replaces line judges with technology in break with tradition
• Citizen pruners
• The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
• Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
• LLMs don't do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem
• Google adds new features for Pixel along with Android 15 rollout
• October Pixel Drop: Helpful enhancements for your devices
• Google Shopping is getting an AI upgrade as Alphabet looks to monetize investments
• Google Shopping's getting a big transformation
• The latest Gboard beta lets you switch between Roboto and Google Sans fonts
• Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin
• Google Messages gets a new feature that makes it easier to keep private
• TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege
• The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites
• Joe Trippi starts a social network: sezus
• Short-selling company goes after Roblox to profit
• Trump Signals Skepticism of Google Breakup, Citing Competition With China
• Defector: Year 4 in review
• Doritos to open first restaurant
• AI - generated restaurant via Taylor Lorenz

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• More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed to addict them
• Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto unmasked: Will HBO reveal who really made the cryptocurrency?
• How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain
• OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers
• Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI Who Expressed Alarm Over the Technology, Shares Nobel Prize in Physics
• Paris Megalopolis review
• The Wordpress saga
• Justice Department weighs fixes for Google search monopoly
• Google's response
• U.S. judge orders sweeping changes to Google's Android app store
• Why Caroline Calloway Is Staying Put in Sarasota for Hurricane Milton
• When Cell Service Is Down, You Can Send iPhone Texts via Satellite
• A Google Doc of 2024 Events
• Beer can artwork accidentally thrown in bin by staff member at Dutch museum
• First a statue. Now Zuck designs a minivan for his wife.

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• OpenAI Is A Bad Business
• Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture?
• Taylor Lorenz, Chronicler of Digital Culture, Will Start Own Newsletter
• Twitter's value in freefall: Fidelity cuts estimate by whopping 79%
• Masnick: Gavin Newsom Vetoes Terrible AI Bill 1047, But Brace For Something Worse
• Google showcases bizarre double-sided Japanese keyboard, which it won't sell — the keyboard uses a Möbius strip as its foundation

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