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May 10, 2023, 11:50 AM
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google posts an unlisted video ad featuring high-res images of the Pixel Fold, expected to be announced at I/O, showing the hinge, a darker color, and more  —  Ahead of the announcement at I/O 2023 tomorrow, Google has released an ad that features NBA stars with the Pixel Fold.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
What to expect at Google I/O 2023: Pixel Tablet, Pixel 7A, foldable-focused Android 14 details, a Pixel 8 and 8 Pro preview, Bard updates, PaLM 2, and more AI
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
The American Psychological Association issues an advisory on social media use by adolescents, saying social networks are “not inherently beneficial or harmful”  —  One of the most prominent mental health organizations in the U.S. is out with a set guidelines designed to protect children …
Financial Times:
Uber launches flight bookings on its UK app in partnership with travel booking company Hopper as part of its efforts to become a travel “super app”  —  Ride-booking giant expands offering after rolling out train, coach and Eurostar ticket tool  —  Uber has launched flight bookings …
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
A US judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against Block over its 2021 Tidal acquisition, saying the company was “free to make a terrible business decision”  —  A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition …
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Tether reports a $1.5B net profit in Q1, $2.44B in excess reserves, and $81.8B+ in assets as of May 9, including $1.5B in bitcoin and $3.3B in precious metals  —  - Tether reported $1.5 billion of net profit for the first quarter — more than double its Q4 2022 net profit.
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
Twitter lets users reply directly to any DM with a threaded message and react to messages with a wider range of emojis  —  Twitter has released two new updates for DMs, which have been in the works for a few months, but are now getting a full launch in the app.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Jump Crypto and Jane Street are pulling back from US crypto trading over regulatory uncertainty; Jump is expanding globally while Jane scales back  —  Jane Street Group and Jump Crypto — two of the world's top market-making firms — are pulling back from trading digital assets …
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will testify to Congress for the first time on May 16 over AI safeguards alongside IBM VP Christina Montgomery and professor Gary Marcus  —  Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief, will appear for the first time as AI scrutiny soars in Washington
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.79B est., its first profitable Q1 with a $117M net income, and a cautious outlook for Q2; ABNB drops 10%+
Molly White:
A critique of a16z's State of Crypto 2023 report, which seems to be an exercise in propaganda with the sole goal of bolstering the VC firm's bottom line  —  Venture capital firm and crypto pusher Andreessen Horowitz wants you to keep buying crypto, and is not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince you to do so.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, pleads guilty for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts and other crimes  —  PlugwalkJoe, aka Joseph James O'Connor, a UK citizen connected to the 2020 Twitter hack affecting many high-profile accounts …
Scott J Shapiro / The Guardian:
A profile of Dark Avenger, a pseudonymous PC virus writer from Bulgaria who gained notoriety in the 1990s after the country became known as the “virus factory”  —  Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc.
Bloomberg:
How Japan-based Rapidus is trying to become a globally competitive chipmaker by 2027, aiming to mass produce 2nm chips just two years after TSMC and Samsung  —  Tetsuro Higashi is taking on what seems like an impossible task: Create a globally competitive semiconductor manufacturer in Japan from scratch - and do it in four years.
Washington Post:
In a Twitter video, Tucker Carlson says he will relaunch his Fox show on the social network; Elon Musk says Twitter did not sign a deal “of any kind whatsoever”  —  The former Fox News host tweeted a video saying he's moving his show to the social media site.

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New York Times:
Sources: an Iranian-aligned militia in Iraq is seeking the release of several detained militia members in exchange for freeing journalist Shelly Kittleson

Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:
Three independent journalists experiment with a 30-day bundle of their newsletters for $8.50, half the normal price, using a service called Trustfnd

Minho Kim / New York Times:
A US appeals court pauses a lower-court order that would have reinstated around 1,000 Voice of America journalists and staff who had been put on paid leave

More News

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
An investigation finds Google Maps isn't proactively deleting location data consistently when users visit abortion clinics, after Google pledged to in July 2022
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
New Jersey-based UVeye, which uses computer vision and ML to inspect vehicles, raised a $100M Series D led by Hanaco VC, a source says at an ~$800M valuation
Jordan Pearson / VICE:
Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a Texas mass shooting a “psyop”, remarking that the case was “odd”, “very strange”, and “gets weirder by the moment”

Earlier Picks

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
EA reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.9B, a $12M net loss, down from a $225M net income YoY, net bookings up 11% YoY to $1.9B, and FIFA net bookings up 31% YoY
James Vincent / The Verge:
Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
iOS 16.5 beta mentions new Beats Studio Pro, which a source says come in four colors with a Transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, and better ANC
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases alignment research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to interpret the behavior of individual GPT-2 “neurons and attention heads”
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
The US says the FBI disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage operation by inspecting FSB's Snake malware and decrypting and decoding its communications
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