Antitrust, Competition Law, Consumer Protection
Arts, Books, Entertainment, Music
1. Facebook parent Meta cuts 11,000 jobs, 13% of workforce. See also Time to Get Fit — an Open Letter from Brad Gerstner to Mark Zuckerberg (and the Meta Board of Directors). Zuckerberg’s big bet on the Metaverse is backfiring
2. Amazon reportedly plans to lay off about 10,000 employees starting this month
3. India workers face painful exit from the US after US tech layoffs
4. Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0 to public (November 1983) and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s art collection smashes record with $1.6 billion auction
5. Can Jeremy Hunt’s plans to turn the UK into the next Silicon Valley become a reality?
6. FTX was co-founded in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang and filed for bankruptcy this month. It’s also investigating a possible $473 million hack. A visual look at its balance sheet in its final moments. Here’s how a bankruptcy affects investors. The executive who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess ‘unprecedented.’ But one bright spot for Sam Bankman-Fried was that FTX didn't invest in Twitter.
7. Is Google getting worse? It used to feel like magic. Is the problem with Google — or with us?
8. Gig workers in India are uniting to take back control from algorithms
9. Meta pulls Galactica, an AI language model meant to accelerate scientific writing, after users manipulate the platform into generating fake conclusions, racist and offensive output
10. But, on the other hand, Meta’s algorithm, Cicero, tackles both language and strategy in a classic board game that involves negotiation
11. Charles River Associates’ paper, a critical review of 5G SEP studies, talks about the importance of standard essential patents in technology, but comes under criticism for being funded by Apple, that wants to devalue SEPs so that it pays less royalties
12. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 is the most versatile gadget you can buy (being a long-time Note user, I hope they integrate the S-Pen into the next one)
13. How the Graphical User Interface was invented. Three decades of UI research came together in the mice, windows, and icons used today and…
14. The Transistor turns 75. The past, present, and future of the modern world’s most important invention
15. Klobuchar expresses ‘serious concerns’ about Ticketmaster in letter to CEO
16. Private equity's antitrust future
17. The Competition Commission of India's Google order imposes a Rs 1,338 cr anti-trust fine. Opinion split on how ecosystem will change after regulator asks tech giant to stop misusing its 'dominant position'. Probe against Google began in 2019, based on information submitted to CCI by then research associates Umar Javeed & Sukarma Thapar & law student Aaqib Javeed
18. European Union’s Digital Markets Act to enter into force soon
19. Cory Doctorow on Unfair Methods of Competition
20. Antitrust misunderstands innovation. This is how we fix it
Arts, Books, Entertainment, Music
21. Taylor Swift first artist ever to lock down the 10 top spots in the Hot 100 in one week
22. The Rock Hall of Fame 2022 induction ceremony’s 10 best moments and Duran Duran thank fans for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame entry
23. Men At Work’s ‘Down Under’ wins Billion Award. The 40-year journey of the song is as remarkable as the travel tales told in its lyrics
24. U2 has stayed together since 1976. As the band approaches a staggering 50 years together and accepts the Kennedy Center Honors, the foursome has remained intact and, more compellingly, an active, creative unit
25. Here’s every song with over 1 billion Spotify streams which begs the question…
26. why does music have such a hold over us? It’s a complex web of influences that determines which songs we really fall for
27. TikTok is huge now, and music labels want a bigger piece of the pie
28. Most of Apple Music’s Top 10 songs of 2022 weren’t even released this year. 2022 was a big year for 2021
29. The 100 greatest TV theme songs of all time
30. Christine McVie, keyboardist and singer for Fleetwood Mac, dies age 79. Tango in the Night was the album that got me into the band. 16 essential songs of hers
31. A 4-part Netflix documentary is an exploration of FIFA reveals the organisation's chequered history from power struggles to global politics — and what it takes to host a World Cup. Here's how the group stage works in the 2022 World Cup
Big Data, Cybersecurity, the Digital Economy, and Privacy
32. Brendan Carr, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, called on the US government to ban TikTok over concerns the app exposes private American data to Chinese interests. He asked both Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores in June
33. What are the leading causes for individual GDPR fines?
34. Two hundred passwords you shouldn't use
35. India’s data protection bill: Government can access personal data under certain circumstances, says minister
36. Dutch government will stop using Facebook if it doesn’t improve private data handling
37. Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone à France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school
38. Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook and Meta faces lawsuit to stop 'surveillance advertising.' The case claims collecting personal data breaches UK GDPR, but implications could be wider (cue Ace’s How Long!)
39. The warnings in connection with Google Fonts have been causing a GDPR-related stir in Europe for a while à if these fonts are not stored locally, the browser downloads them from an external server and personal data is sent to Google via the associated server
40. Leaked EU anti-money laundering regulations indicate Bloc plans to ban privacy coins
41. Estee Lauder to buy Tom Ford in a deal valued at $2.8B
42. Thanks to social media and a sustainable ethos, Liquid Death has become the canned water for a generation and Folgers Coffee is trying to be the same
43. Harvard and Yale law schools ditch U.S. News & World Report's rankings calling them “profoundly flawed"
44. 40th edition of Best New Restaurants in America, 2022
45. $15,126,700 à is what Fortune 500 Companies Have Given to Election Deniers Since Jan. 6
46. Corporations are not “We the People”
47. Mapping the global supply of electricity
48. Here’s possibly why disruptive innovation has declined since 2000
49. U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why
50. Shipping giant Maersk warns of ‘dark clouds on the horizon’ because of a looming global recession that is expected to reduce container demand by between 2% and 4% in 2022
51. Intelligence report details extent of United Arab Emirates' influence on US foreign policy decisions over last decade, claims UAE used legal and illegal tactics
52. Day of Eight Billion: 5 November 2022. The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion people. This unprecedented growth is due to the gradual increase in human lifespan owing to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicine. It is also the result of high and persistent levels of fertility in some countries
53. Are 8 billion people too many — or too few? Welcome to the population paradox of the 21st century
54. Saudi Arabia’s China policy is made in the USA
55. CVS, Walgreens announce opioid settlements totalling $10B
56. Is IQ a load of BS?
57. Toxic smog turns India's capital "into a gas chamber"
58. Elegant ‘typograms’ visualise complex systems and make them easier to understand
59. Visualising the evolution of vision and the eye
60. CRISPR is so popular that thousands of viruses appear to have stolen the gene-cutting mechanism from bacteria
61. Reverse mentorship: How young workers are teaching bosses
62. Good advice for life à
63. Do you have the kind of power that really matters? Leaders who inhabit their power in a positive way can be more effective in attaining the good of everyone on their team than those who use their positional power in a command and control manner
64. How America turned against the First Amendment. Moderation laws. Book bans. Courts that keep getting played. America’s politicians are tired of the First Amendment getting in their way, and no one seems to care
65. After more than 600 mass shootings this year, let’s be honest about guns
66. Electric vehicles are changing the way Americans fuel up. Will it mean the end of the gas station?
67. How to slice an onion to help it keep its shape - the more cellular walls you damage, the softer the onion will become
68. The Collins Word of the Year 2022 is...permacrisis
69. Why dollar bills are pinned to bar walls?
70. Life Satisfaction and Age… it might be time to rethink life
71. The most mispronounced foods & drinks from every country and why making the effort to pronounce names matters
72. Breaking down the language of lying and how you can spot a lie
73. How to become a truly excellent gift giver à a great present should have at least one of these three qualities
74. Here’s a Time feature on the best inventions of 2022
75. Merriam today names "gaslighting" — "a deliberate conspiracy to mislead" — as 2022's Word of the Year. The noun is emblematic of "this age of misinformation — of 'fake news, conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls and deepfakes," the dictionary folks say.
76. Forbes reveals 2022 list of the highest-paid dead celebrities
77. And here’s their list of 30 Under 30 for 2023
78. When a security guard is in the way of a dance routine
79. What’s in a face? Tracking cultural changes through depictions of faces in Time magazine 1923-2014
80. American suffragist and civil rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton born (12 November 1815)
81. Famed anthropologist Margaret Mead dies (15 November 1978)
82. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison
83. President Abraham Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address (19 November 1863)
84. Amazing! Martin Luther King Jr. paid the bill for Julia Roberts' birth
85. Odd sexists questions crop up everywhere! Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin dismiss suggestion their age and gender was reason for meeting
86. Winston Churchill born 30 November 2022
87. International policymaking must evolve
88. The U.S. SEC’s vision for competition in markets would stifle innovation
89. Rule of law continues five-year decline, but bright spots emerge
90. Regulating the future: A look at the EU’s plan to reboot product liability rules for AI. The update will arm EU consumers with new powers to obtain redress for harms caused by software and AI, putting tech firms on AI Act compliance watch
91. US regulators unanimously vote to ban new telecommunications and surveillance equipment from five Chinese companies, including Huawei and ZTE, on national security grounds
92. How should the law tackle rapidly evolving financial technologies?
93. What is Mastodon, the decentralised site some see as a Twitter alternative
94. Elon is speaking. VPs are resigning. Is bankruptcy next? Inside the Twitter meltdown
95. Elon Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs and retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman also sounds off
96. Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer. Musk’s personal lawyer is telling people, ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.’
97. Why is Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover increasing hate speech?
98. The world’s top social media and messaging apps
99. Interesting! The Age of Social Media Is Ending…It never should have begun, says Ian Bogost (related article from June 2022 à Why social media makes people unhappy – platform designs make us lose track of time spent on them and can heighten conflicts, and then we feel upset with ourselves – and simple ways to fix it)
100. The economics of content moderation on social media
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