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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:

Neuralink's President and co-founder Max Hodak tweets that he has left the brain-computer interface startup — - Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak announced Saturday that he is no longer working with the brain tech company he started with Elon Musk. — Musk - who is also the CEO of auto …

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Bloomberg:

Sources: Verizon is nearing a deal to sell its media division, including AOL and Yahoo!, to Apollo; deal could be worth ~$5B and be announced as soon as Monday — - Deal for Verizon Media could be announced as soon as Monday — Division includes online brands Yahoo!, AOL and TechCrunch

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Doug Kramer / The Cloudflare Blog:

Cloudflare, which was sued by “patent troll” Sable Networks, is offering a $100K bounty to those who can find evidence of prior art on Sable Networks' patents — Here we go again. — On March 15, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks …

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft planned to reduce its cut from 30% to 12% for Xbox games too, a document filed as part of Epic vs Apple lawsuit in January shows — Confidential Microsoft documents reveal some big plans — Microsoft had been planning to cut its Xbox store cut to just 12 percent …

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Epic expert's testimony, based on internal Apple docs, estimates that App Store had an operating margin of 77.8% in 2019; Apple says the estimates are wrong — - Apple: Calculations are “simply wrong,” will refute in court — App Store's profits at heart of allegations of Apple monopoly

Benedict Evans / Ben Evans:

The sandboxed App Store model has been a hugely good thing, but Apple has often made wrong decisions in running it and now the EU is stepping in to regulate it

More: Forbes. Tweets: @eric_seufert, @keleftheriou, @benedictevans, @rjonesy, and @stroughtonsmith

David Pierce / Protocol:

Ahead of the Epic vs. Apple trial, which starts on Monday, a look at what is at stake, how the trial will work, key witnesses who will testify, and more

More: BBC, Associated Press, iTnews, Reuters, Japan Today, The Economist, CNN, Washington Post, The Guardian, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, HotHardware.com News, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, iMore, and The Verge

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David Phelan / Forbes:

SEC filing: Rockley Photonics, developer of sensors that can be used for blood pressure and glucose monitoring, says Apple is currently its biggest customer — A new report says that a future Apple Watch could have a new raft of health sensors, including blood pressure and …

Source: Telegraph. More: AppleInsider and Engadget

Tweets: @forbes, @davidphelan2009, @engadget, and @jamestitcomb

Joseph Cox / VICE:

At least 15 Basecamp employees announced on Twitter that they are leaving the company, with some specifically citing new policy banning political talk at work — Multiple employees say they are leaving specifically because of recent policy changes. — On Friday, numerous employees …

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Sam Goldheart / iFixit News:

Teardown of Apple's AirTag: it has a magnet to turn its body into a speaker driver, but still has a more compact design than the Tile Mate or Galaxy SmartTag — The long-rumored, tiniest Apple product (that isn't a dongle) is finally here. Welcome, AirTag!

More: Engadget, SlashGear, MacRumors, Wccftech, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocketnow, and The Verge. Tweets: @backlon

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:

Researchers find new exploit leaving all modern AMD and Intel processors with micro-op caches defenseless to Spectre threat, in spite of all current mitigations — Micro-op caches prone to attacks. — Researchers from two universities have discovered several new variants of Spectre exploits …

Source: University of Virginia School …. More: iTnews, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, Phoronix, and HotHardware.com News

Tweets: @paulrteich, @alspeirs, @weldpond, and @p3b7_

Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo:

After an investigation found 800+ Etsy listings for weapons, porn, other items violating its policies, Etsy says it'll invest ~$40M in policy enforcement in '21 — The online marketplace Etsy has been flooded with activity since the pandemic's onset as millions flocked to online shopping to stave off lockdown blues.

Source: Insider and Etsy Blog. More: Engadget

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Monica Chin / The Verge:

Members of the Linux developer community reflect on “hypocrite commits” research, which got University of Minnesota banned from contributing to the Linux kernel — On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later …

More: The New Stack. Tweets: @thehackersnews, @physicsteo, @ebomike, and @reckless

Reuters:

Intel says it will invest another $600M in Israel, primarily to expand its Mobileye R&D, and confirms it is spending $10B on a new chip plant there — Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Sunday it will invest another $600 million in Israel to expand its research and development (R&D) …

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Associated Press:

A federal judge ruled the DOD violated his earlier order undoing most of the Pentagon's press pass policy and failed to reinstate NYT reporters' credentials

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: the DOJ is probing whether the NFL uses anticompetitive tactics that harm consumers; regulators and others have raised concerns about streaming deals

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:

Trump says Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have “Low IQs” and “their views are the opposite of MAGA” after they blasted him over Iran

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Laurens Cerulus / Politico:

Critics say the EU should focus on producing older generations of chips instead of making big plans to invest billions of euros into cutting-edge chip-making

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Helsinki-based Yousician, which claims to have 20M MAUs across its music education app and guitar tuning app, raises $28M Series B led by True Ventures

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Patrick McGee / Financial Times:

By limiting iOS apps' ad tracking capabilities, Apple could see increased commissions from IAPs and subscriptions if developers start charging for apps

Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:

A deep dive into Apple's M&A strategy, which focuses on technology and engineering talent, and, sources say, values startups at around $3M per engineer

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Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:

Facebook says 60% of eligible users on Instagram have updated to a new experience that allows them to exchange messages with people on Messenger

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David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:

CA appellate court rules Amazon is responsible for the safety of third-party products it sells, rejecting Amazon's claim of merely connecting buyers and sellers

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