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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s law forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news is ready to take effect, though the laws’ architect said it will take time for the digital giants to strike media deals. The Parliament on Thursday passed the final amendments to the so-called News Media Bargaining Code agreed between Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. In return for the changes, Facebook agreed to lift a ban on Australians accessing and… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a logo of Google in front of at an office building in Zurich, Switzerland July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department asked the judge hearing its antitrust fight with Alphabet’s Google for a huge list of documents from the search and advertising giant, including some about Facebook and Google’s Chrome browser, according to a court filing on Wednesday. Among the documents requested was communications with third parties… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a logo of Google in front of at an office building in Zurich, Switzerland July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department asked the judge hearing its antitrust fight with Alphabet’s Google for a huge list of documents from the search and advertising giant, including some about Facebook and Google’s Chrome browser, according to a court filing on Wednesday. Among the documents requested was communications with third parties… Source link

The privacy regulator overseeing Facebook Inc., FB -0.58% Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 1.17% Google and Apple Inc. in the European Union expects to boost its tally of big tech decisions this year—and rejects complaints that its enforcement has been too slow. Helen Dixon, who leads Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, said her office is on… Source link

Google Cloud today announced a new operating mode for its Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that turns over the management of much of the day-to-day operations of a container cluster to Google’s own engineers and automated tools. With Autopilot, as the new mode is called, Google manages all of the Day 2 operations of managing these clusters and their nodes, all while implementing best practices for operating and securing them. This new mode augments the existing GKE experience, which already… Source link

This is from an earlier rollout, but Google Maps’ dark mode should look something like this. … Source link

Google is probably not a name that comes to mind when you think of managed service providers. But at least in the realm of Kubernetes, Google now wants to offer managed services — including but not limited to node management by real, live Google SREs. That’s one of the takeaways from the company’s announcement today of Autopilot, a new operational mode for Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE. The Multiple Meanings of Managed Kubernetes

More than 150 chief executives signed a letter on Wednesday urging for more government stimulus and supporting President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan.” Among the executives who signed the letter included Google (GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai, Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO David Solomon, Zillow (Z) CEO Rich Barton, BlackRock (BLK) CEO Laurence Fink, and Visa (V) CEO Alfred Kelly, Jr. “Previous federal relief measures have been essential, but more must be done to put the country on a… Source link

(Pocket-lint) – Google recently announced six updates for Android users, including that the Google Maps app is finally getting a true dark mode called dark theme. It’s widely releasing the option, which it has been testing since late 2020, and making it easily accessible from the app’s settings. “These days, we’re all experiencing a bit of screen fatigue”, Google explained in a blog post on 23 February… Source link

SYDNEY—Australian legislation effectively requiring Facebook Inc. FB 2.12% and Google to pay news outlets for content cleared its last major parliamentary hurdle, capping a multiyear effort that could set a global precedent for regulating the tech giants’ relations with publishers. As its spat with the Australian government over the proposed media code deepened, Facebook last week followed through on a… Source link