Epic Games Inc chief executive officer Tim Sweeney testified that Google’s Android operating system is a “fake open platform” in a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit over claims that the technology giant thwarts app market competition. Sweeney, who founded the company that makes the blockbuster Fortnite, took the witness stand Nov 20 …

KUALA LUMPUR: DC Healthcare Holdings Bhd has proposed to acquire the entire 100% stake in I Bella Sdn Bhd for RM70mil as part of the group’s strategy to enhance its service offerings and market presence. The acquisition comes with a profit guarantee for the financial years ending March 31, 2024, …

Nearly all of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to quit and follow ousted leader Sam Altman to work at the company’s biggest investor, Microsoft Corp, unless the current board resigns, leaving the future of the high-profile artificial intelligence startup increasingly uncertain. More than 700 of the AI firm’s roughly 770 employees …

KUALA LUMPUR: Do not politicise the notice of petition filed by Nik Elin Zurina by linking the legal suit as an attempt to “challenge” the Syariah law in the country, warns Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar told the Dewan Rakyat that such an attempt or agenda brought by …

SILKYARA, India (Reuters) – The first images emerged on Tuesday of 41 men trapped for more than a week in a highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas, showing them standing in the confined space and communicating with rescue workers. The men have been stuck in the 4.5-km (3-mile) tunnel in …

KUALA LUMPUR: More than 100 websites offering prostitution services have been blocked as of Nov 15 this year, the Dewan Rakyat was told. Deputy Communications and Digital Minister Teo Nie Ching said the 118 sites were blocked by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) upon the Royal Malaysian Police’s …

KUALA LUMPUR: More than 100 websites offering prostitution services have been blocked as of Nov 15 this year, the Dewan Rakyat was told. Deputy Communications and Digital Minister Teo Nie Ching said the 118 sites were blocked by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) upon the Royal Malaysian Police’s …

KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) is on track to rebrand and transform the Malaysia Green Attribute Trading System (mGATS) into the country’s leading digital marketplace for Renewable Energy Certificates (mREC), with the rebranded mGATS set to launch in the first quarter (1Q) of 2024. In a statement today, TNB …

WASHINGTON: A Senate committee has issued bipartisan subpoenas to the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X, demanding that the heads of the three companies testify at a December hearing on protecting children online. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on …

A Nvidia Corp engineer, during a video conference call with his former employer, had one of those oops moments. He shared his screen, leaving a file up that contained data about robocar technology that he had stolen from his previous company, Valeo SE. The engineer was convicted of infringing business …