Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $362.5M, vs. $353.1M est., net loss of $27.9M, vs. $45.9M YoY, and Q1 revenue guidance above est.; NET jumps 17%+  —  – Cloudflare’s revenue and adjusted earnings surpassed expectations, as did quarterly guidance. Source link

The government is planning new regulations that may impose penalties on both creator and platform hosting deepfakes as it looks to clamp down on what IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishaw described as “a threat to democracy”.  Amid some celebrities reporting their faces being manipulated onto another video, new protection regulations being considered will look at measures

CNBC: Arm closed up 47.89% after issuing a strong profit forecast, adding ~$38B to its market cap, with $34B+ of that accruing to SoftBank, which owns 90% of Arm  —  – Shares of chip designer Arm climbed 48% on Thursday.  — The company reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter, and issued an optimistic forecast.

India’s government on Friday warned social media firms including Facebook and YouTube to repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes and content that spreads obscenity or misinformation, two sources told Reuters. The warning was conveyed by deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a closed-door meeting where he said many companies had

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: A profile of OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, tasked by Sam Altman with striking a deal with Axel Springer, which may offer a road map for additional media deals  —  Brad Lightcap helped seal the startup’s deal with publisher Axel Springer.  Now he’s experimenting with the company’s business model. Source link

WhatsApp — the messaging app with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) owned by Meta — will soon add support for cross-platform messaging. Support for third party chats will allow people using a different messaging platform to text users on WhatsApp, and Meta has said that the feature will be opt-in to prevent users from being

Thomas Claburn / The Register: In iOS 17.4 Beta 2, Apple demotes PWAs in the EU from standalone apps to shortcuts that open in the default browser, to comply with the DMA  —  PWAs demoted to OWB: Operating Within Browser  —  Apple has argued for years that developers who don’t want to abide by its

India is seeking to end a freeze on countries taxing electronic trade, a move that would allow tariffs to be imposed on anything from software downloads to video games. New Delhi will ask World Trade Organization members to lift a moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions, according to a person familiar with the matter,

The Information: Sources: Flexport lost at least $2M/month in 2023 on its air freight deal with Apple, started in late 2022 to ship products from some Asian factories to the US  —  For Flexport, a logistics company billing itself as the future of trade, it’s hard to think of a more impressive client than Apple,

Some Assassin’s Creed Odyssey console players encountered in-game pop-up ads for Ubisoft’s Black Friday Sale while playing the game. As per a Reddit video posted by u/triddell24, they stumbled upon an advertisement when toggling open the world map, filling the screen with a dismissible banner for Assassin’s Creed Mirage, currently available at a 20 percent