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Yelp files antitrust lawsuit against Google
28 Aug

Yelp files antitrust lawsuit against Google

John RoutledgeLatest News
Yelp has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. The move caps off years of animosity between the two companies, with Yelp alleging that Google has leveraged its control over online searching to dominate local queries and prioritize its own reviews. CNN first reported on the lawsuit."Google abuses its monopoly power in general search to keep users within Google’s owned ecosystem…
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been charged and released from police custody
28 Aug

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been charged and released from police custody

John RoutledgeLatest News
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been formally charged by French prosecutors and is barred from leaving the country amid their investigation into the Russian billionaire. Durov was officially charged Wednesday with “complicity in distributing child pornography, illegal drugs and hacking software” on the messaging app he founded, as well as “refusing to cooperate with investigations into illegal activity on the…
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Instagram may be adding real-time Spotify integration
28 Aug

Instagram may be adding real-time Spotify integration

John RoutledgeLatest News
Mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted an Instagram feature that may be in development: real-time Spotify integration. The extant code seems to indicate that songs played on Spotify will create Notes automatically within Instagram. These Notes appear on top of your inbox and profile picture if people tap to view your Instagram profile.This sort of feature already exists in Discord. And…
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Reddit is back up after a 30-minute outage
28 Aug

Reddit is back up after a 30-minute outage

John RoutledgeLatest News
Reddit is back up after an outage took the site out for half an hour this afternoon. The site appears to have been down across the board, apart from a blank homepage that didn’t contain or point to any content. “We encountered an error,” the website reads. Attempting to navigate to any specific subreddit brought up the error you see…
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Concord aside, PlayStation is having a great year
28 Aug

Concord aside, PlayStation is having a great year

John RoutledgeLatest News
By all accounts, Concord has landed with a heady thud.The team-based shooter is one of a scant few new first-party PlayStation games that's coming out this year. Sony released it on both PS5 and PC on August 23. The company doesn't typically reveal detailed player numbers for its own platforms. However, Steam does. The numbers there are not pretty.A Steam…
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Threads is making fediverse replies more visible in its app
28 Aug

Threads is making fediverse replies more visible in its app

John RoutledgeLatest News
Over the last six months, Meta has slowly begun to make good on its promise to make Threads compatible with the fediverse. The app allows users to share their posts to Mastodon and other Activity Pub-enabled services and began showing replies originating on those services earlier this summer.Now, Threads is making those replies even more visible by allowing users who…
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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard accused of ‘bad faith bargaining’ by Raven Software union workers
28 Aug

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard accused of ‘bad faith bargaining’ by Raven Software union workers

John RoutledgeLatest News
Raven Software’s union — the first of its kind in the gaming industry — has hit another snag negotiating its collective bargaining agreement with Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, games journalist Stephen Totilo reported in his Game File newsletter. The union has filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging chiefly that their employer refuses to…
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