Emma Roth / The Verge: WhatsApp plans to let users switch between two accounts on Android in the coming weeks; a second account will still need a separate phone number and SIM card  —  If you use two different WhatsApp accounts, you’ll soon be able to access both from just one device. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU adjusts DSA charges to cap them at 0.05% of 2022 profit; X and Amazon may pay €0 while Alphabet and Meta together pay ~€31M, or 75% of the total  —  – Alphabet and Meta to pick up three-quarters of the tab  — Charges for large platforms adjusted based on profitability Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Lohr / New York Times: US v. Google: Pandu Nayak, Google’s VP of Search and first witness, testifies that smart employees explain its success and lead to innovations, such as on LLMs  —  While the Justice Department says Google has squeezed partners and made expensive deals to maintain its search dominance, the company has a more genteel story to tell. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Thornhill / Financial Times: Meta’s Yann LeCun says regulating R&D for AI “is incredibly counterproductive” and only serves to reinforce the dominance of Big Tech and stifle competition  —  Artificial intelligence is still dumber than cats, says pioneer Yann LeCun, so worries over existential risks are ‘premature’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Nokia plans to cut up to 14,000 jobs, or ~16% of its 86,000 workforce, and reports Q3 2023 net sales down 20% YoY to €4.98B and profit down 69% YoY to €133M  —  – Nokia said it would cut up to 14,000 jobs as part of a cost cutting plan following third quarter earnings that plunged. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU adjusts DSA charges to cap them at 0.05% of 2022 profit; X and Amazon may pay €0 while Alphabet and Meta together pay ~€31M, or 75% of the total  —  – Alphabet and Meta to pick up three-quarters of the tab  — Charges for large platforms adjusted based on profitability Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: US v. SBF: accounting professor Peter Easton testifies that FTX used “over a billion dollars” of customer funds to buy back Binance’s FTX stake, bought in 2019  —  Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a 2022 post the company had received over $2.1 billion in binance usd (BUSD) stablecoins and FTX’s FTT tokens. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wayne Ma / The Information: Sources: Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company’s App Store in China following an internal investigation into business misconduct  —  Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company’s App Store in China following an internal probe into business misconduct … Lees verder op Tech Meme