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Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Trump's claims that Huawei was banned because it is a security threat and that the ban may be lifted as part of a trade deal, are incompatible and make no sense — Over the past week, the US government has taken extreme and unprecedented steps against Huawei, cutting it off from every US partner …

More: Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, and The Startup

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David Richards / Channel News:

Report: court documents, government and industry sources detail decades of Huawei's alleged IP theft, from the science behind 5G to phone accessory designs — As Australians move to flog their Huawei smartphones due to security concerns and the fact that Google has pulled the plug …

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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:

Small, rural carriers, dependent on Huawei's inexpensive equipment, are having to rethink expansion plans or replace existing gear due to the ban on the company — Many small carriers depend on inexpensive equipment from the Chinese company. Now they must rethink expansion plans, and perhaps replace existing gear.

Tweets: @nytimestech, @greta, @nytimes, @bobfrankston, @sangernyt, @ceciliakang, and @nadabakos

James Vincent / The Verge:

China supplies around 80% of world's rare earths, crucial elements for electronics, but this monopoly is not an effective tool to retaliate over the Huawei ban

More: Ars Technica. Tweets: @verge, @drpippam, and @greenminerals

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Nvidia brings pro-level Quadro RTX 5000 series to laptops, announces 17 “RTX Studio” laptops from seven partners including ASUS, Dell, HP, Razer, and Gigabyte — NVIDIA has succeeded in shrinking its beefy Quadro RTX 5000 graphics hardware in order to bring it to laptops.

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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:

Nvidia announces Nvidia EGX, its first AI platform for edge devices that can perceive, understand, and act on data in real-time without sending it to the cloud — Nvidia Corp. is bringing artificial intelligence to the edge of the network with the launch early Monday of its new Nvidia EGX platform …

More: VentureBeat and ZDNet

Ian Cutress / AnandTech:

AMD announces five Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs, including the Ryzen 9 3900X, a new mainstream desktop 4.6 GHz chip with 12 cores, coming July 7 for $499 — Today at Computex, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is announcing the raft of processors it will be launching on its new Zen 2 chiplet-based microarchitecture.

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Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

AMD says the first GPU cards with the new Navi architecture, the Radeon RX 5700 series, are coming in July, touts 50% better power efficiency over Vega

More: Engadget and Engadget

Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk:

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is taking Sequoia Capital China back to court for allegedly harming his reputation after its case against him was dismissed — Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao is taking a unit of Sequoia Capital back to court after the VC investor's case against him was dismissed.

More: NewsBTC, Messari Crypto, Cointelegraph, Asia, The Block, Coinspeaker, CryptoGlobe, and Decrypt

Tweets: @cz_binance, @ellazhang516, and @mdudas

Christopher Dring / World Health Organization:

World Health Organisation makes “gaming disorder” a recognized illness; classification to come into effect January 1, 2022 — Classification to come into effect January 1, 2022 — The 194 members of the World Health Organisation have recognised ‘gaming disorder’ as an illness at the 72nd World Health Assembly today.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

ARM announces the Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU touting performance improvements, and a more energy efficient and powerful machine learning processor — Arm, the company that designs the basic chip architecture for most of the world's smartphones, today announced the launch of its next suite of designs for premium phones.

More: XDA Developers, AnandTech, The Register, ZDNet, VentureBeat, PCWorld, AnandTech, and Engadget

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

India-based FreshToHome, which operates a fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform, raises $11M Series A led by CE Ventures — Shan Kadavil, who spent early days of his career managing tech support firm Support and then heading India operations of gaming firm Zynga, says he had a calling of sorts when his son was born.

More: The Economic Times, YourStory.com, and Inc42 Media

Már Másson Maack / The Next Web:

Estonia's Ambassador at Large for Cybersecurity talks about “cyber diplomacy” and the need to establish “arms control” for cyberwarfare among Western nations — I'm an avid consumer of any TV series or podcast that's even remotely political.

Julia Alexander / The Verge:

YouTubers are seeing an increase in aggressive copyright claims from record labels, creating frustration among creators, who believe their work is fair use — Glenn Fricker didn't run into any issues when he uploaded a video about digital music editing to YouTube in 2014.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing

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Agnieszka Barteczko / Reuters:

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