LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud

LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court in Washington on Oct. 2, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images LinkedIn has set aside an effort to relocate its data center technology out of its physical facilities and into Microsoft’s Azure cloud, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision not to proceed … Read more

Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount in discussions for a max merger

Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount in discussions for a max merger

Warner Bros. Discovery might merge with another entertainment giant: Paramount. Sources tell Axios that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav held talks with Paramount CEO Bob Bakish on Tuesday about a possible merger. The meeting reportedly took place at Paramount’s headquarters in Times Square, with the two CEOs discussing how the companies could complement one … Read more

Pig butchering scam results in four indictments, two arrests: DOJ

Pig butchering scam results in four indictments, two arrests: DOJ

Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Federal prosecutors have disrupted a so-called pig-butchering scheme that cost victims more than $80 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. Four men have been indicted and two arrests have been made in one of the most sweeping enforcement actions yet on a type … Read more

Meta attorneys ask judge to dismiss suit claiming that directors' obligations extend beyond company

Meta attorneys ask judge to dismiss suit claiming that directors' obligations extend beyond company

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Meta and Mark Zuckerberg asked a Delaware judge on Wednesday to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit asserting novel claims about the roles of corporate leaders and arguing that the loyalties of Meta directors should not lie exclusively with the social media giant. James McRitchie, who runs a website focused on … Read more

Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy

Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy

A banner for electric scooter rental company Bird is displayed outside of the New York Stock Exchange as the company goes public via a SPAC on Nov. 5, 2021. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The electric scooter company Bird, once valued at $2.5 billion by investors, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Florida federal … Read more

Right-wing social media platform Parler plans to relaunch early next year

Right-wing social media platform Parler plans to relaunch early next year

NEW YORK (AP) — The social media platform Parler, which caters to right-wing voices and was temporarily booted offline following the Jan. 6 insurrection, is relaunching ahead of next year’s presidential elections. The new owners of the company announced this week the platform is preparing for a “powerful resurgence” that emphasizes “a return to its … Read more

Apple’s immersive next-gen CarPlay will start with Porsche and Aston Martin

Apple’s immersive next-gen CarPlay will start with Porsche and Aston Martin

Apple said we’d get vehicle announcements tied to its “next generation” of wireless CarPlay by the end of 2023, and today, it delivered mock-ups of the dashboard-spanning UI styled for Porsche and Aston Martin. Instead of simply taking over the infotainment center and small segments of the in-dash areas, it seeks to overhaul all displays … Read more

OpenAI unveils framework to protect against ‘catastrophic’ AI risks

OpenAI unveils framework to protect against ‘catastrophic’ AI risks

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the popular AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, unveiled a framework to protect against the “catastrophic risks” posed by the rapidly developing technology. “The study of frontier AI risks has fallen far short of what is possible and where we need to be,” OpenAI said in a Monday news release. “To … Read more