Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: A UK class action lawsuit filed last week accuses Vodafone, EE, Three UK, and O2 of overcharging up to 4.8M customers over 16 years and seeks £3.3B in damages  —  Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are accused of levying ‘loyalty penalties’ on customers  —  The biggest UK mobile phone operators … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Levy / Wired: How author Steven Johnson, now a Google employee for over a year, helped create NotebookLM, which lets writers extract key themes from their research material  —  Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer’s research material and help them extract and explore the key themes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Knutson / Axios: 23andMe changed its TOS to prevent lawsuits days after its October data breach; to opt out, customers must email the company that they disagree within 30 days  —  Days after a data breach allowed hackers to steal 6.9 million 23andMe users’ personal details, the genetic testing company changed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Source: the US FTC is examining the nature of Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI and whether it violates antitrust laws  —  – The agency hasn’t opened a formal probe into Microsoft-OpenAI  — Microsoft didn’t report deal to FTC due to non-profit status Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: A countdown timer viewable only on the Threads.net home page in EU countries indicates the service will start rolling out to EU users on December 14  —  Following its rollout in countries like the US and UK this past July, Threads will finally be expanded to users in the European Union on December 14th. Lees verder op Tech Meme