Category: tech

McDonald’s CEO says Muslims’ Gaza boycott hurt quarterly sales  FortuneMcDonald’s Is Definitely Having A Tough Year With Weakened Value Leadership  Yahoo FinanceDiminished Big Mac appetite is a sign of deflationary trend, says Yardeni  MarketWatchMcDonald’s sales fall globally for first time in more than three years  Reuters

Tesla recalls nearly 2M vehicles over fear of hood popping open while driving  New York Post Tesla recalls 1.85 million vehicles over unlatched hood detection problem  Fox BusinessTesla faces recall over alerts for unlatched bonnet  BBC.comTesla Recalls More Than 1.8 Million Vehicles Due to Hood Issue  The Wall Street JournalTesla pushes software fix to 1.8 million EVs to prevent hood from flying open  Electrek.co

WATCH: What the Trump rally shooter is believed to have posted on social media, according to the FBI  PBS NewsHourFBI official: Investigators found social media account believed to belong to Trump shooter  CNNFBI: Thomas Matthew Crooks May Have Hid Antisemitic, Anti-Immigrant Social Page  The Daily BeastLive updates from Senate hearing: Trump rally shooter visited site six days early  USA TODAY

FBI official: Investigators found social media account believed to belong to Trump shooter  CNNWATCH: What the Trump rally shooter is believed to have posted on social media, according to the FBI  PBS NewsHourTrump gunman Thomas Crooks likely had a Gab account that he used to ‘support’ President Biden, site’s CEO says  New York Post FBI says social media account believed to be Trump shooter’s had antisemitic posts  The Times of Israel

Kamala Harris tied with Donald Trump in nationwide FAU poll  South Florida Sun SentinelOpinion | What the Polls Tell Us About Harris vs. Trump  The New York TimesHarris pulls even with Trump among swing state voters: Poll  The HillKamala Harris has energized Democratic voters. But can she expand the map?  CNNLarge rally in Atlanta set to welcome Harris in battleground that Dems feared unwinnable with Biden  The Associated Press

‘Incentive to set foot in the Galilee’: Hezbollah official speaks on Israeli retaliation  The Jerusalem PostHezbollah rejects calls to avoid answering anticipated Israeli attack  ReutersHezbollah has started moving precision-guided missiles amid Israel threat — Lebanese official  The Times of IsraelHezbollah Vows ‘Certain’ Response as Israel Targets Commander in Beirut  NewsweekHezbollah Moves Smart Precision-guided Missiles Over Fears Of IDF Retaliation  i24NEWS

Israeli lawmaker defends alleged rape of Hamas prisoner as far-right protesters rage over IDF troops’ detention  CBS NewsReligious Zionism MK Tzvi Sukkot defends breaking into IDF base: ‘I was doing my job’  The Times of IsraelDoctor who saw abused Gazan detainee: ‘I couldn’t believe an Israeli guard could do this’  HaaretzIsrael’s War Unity Shaken by Allegations Prisoner Was Abused  BloombergA day of chaos in Israel as far-right protesters storm military bases  Axios

Google’s antitrust defense could benefit from the threat of SearchGPT  Yahoo FinanceOpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine  The VergeMicrosoft, OpenAI Chase Google in AI Search as Senate Passes AI Deepfakes Bill  CNETSearch competition fears hit Alphabet stock yet again. We see no reason to join the sellers  CNBCOpenAI Announces AI-Powered Search Engine That Could Challenge Google—And Alphabet’s Stock Drops 3%. Here’s What To Know.  Forbes

One of our key values at Automattic is that access to knowledge, software, and media is for everyone, not just the gatekeepers. That’s why we’ve built our company on the foundation of open source principles. And it’s why we’ve decided to partner with Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine that lets you research on the web like never before. Think of it like a mashup of a search engine, online encyclopedia, and AI-powered conversation—an entirely new way of surfacing knowledge. When you type in a question, Perplexity searches the internet for answers in real time and provides results that include footnotes, live updates, and links to the original source. 

Being part of Perplexity’s Publishing Partners Program means that knowledge from WordPress.com can now be included in the variety of answers that are served on Perplexity’s “Keep Exploring” section on their Discover pages. That means your articles will be included in their search index and your articles can be surfaced as an answer on their answer engine and Discover feed. If your website is referenced in a Perplexity search result where the company earns advertising revenue, you’ll be eligible for revenue share.   

Here’s an example of how it might look:

Perplexity is partnering with select media outlets like TIME, Der Spiegel, Fortune, The Texas Tribune, and Entrepreneur. WordPress.com’s network of incredible content creators makes us a desirable partner for a cutting-edge answer engine. In addition to the revenue share, the partnership offers a great opportunity to drive traffic to your website. 

We’ll share more details of how it works as this partnership evolves, including how we’ll be distributing revenue-share payments to those whose content qualifies. If you want to opt out, we already offer the ability to opt out of content sharing. And remember: We’re always experimenting. Building relationships with AI companies allows us to advocate on behalf of our customers; if we determine that the partnership isn’t a perfect match or doesn’t serve you, we’ll reevaluate what we’re doing, so that we stay true to our mission. 

The first line of our company’s creed is “I will never stop learning.” That’s the spirit in which we’re exploring our partnership with Perplexity. If this works out the way we hope it will, both sides win—an exciting new answer engine will have a wide pool of quality content to serve people, and you’ll get to share in the success of their platform.

Microsoft Says Azure Cloud Service Improving After Outage  BloombergMicrosoft Says Azure Cloud Service Should Be Resolved Shortly  Yahoo FinanceMicrosoft Apologizes to Users for Widespread Outage Disrupting Xbox, Outlook, and Minecraft  GizmodoMicrosoft experiencing outages for some 365 Office and cloud programs  CBS News