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Filing: Amazon's Ring agrees to pay $5.8M to settle FTC allegations that until 2017, Ring gave employees and third-party contractors access to customers' videos — Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $30.8 million to resolve two cases brought by the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday related to privacy lapses by its smart devices.
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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says he was humbled and outraged by toxic workplace culture claims and blames “outside forces” for most of Activision's image issues — Bobby Kotick has a secret: He was ready to buy Time Warner a few years ago.The CEO of Activision Blizzard drops …
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Eclypsium: a firmware flaw in 271 Gigabyte motherboards could let hackers install malware when the PC restarts; Gigabyte plans a fix, but problems could persist — Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say.
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Apple touts an Analysis Group study saying its App Store ecosystem generated $1.1T in 2022, up 29% YoY; $910B came from the sale of physical goods and services — Ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference next week, the company is offering an update on its app ecosystem with the release …
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Filing: Fidelity marks down the value of its Twitter stake, estimating the company is worth ~33% of the $44B that Elon Musk paid, down from 44% in November 2022 — Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
After a fake image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon went viral, Twitter adds Community Notes to images, set to appear on “recent and future matching images” — Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly …
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A profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who orchestrated one of the great tech turnarounds after her 2014 takeover, as the company attempts to take Nvidia's AI chip crown — AMD's CEO orchestrated one of the great turnarounds in Silicon Valley history, driving the dying semiconductor maker's stock price up nearly 30-fold in less than a decade.
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Torrent site RARBG, founded in 2008, shuts down and stops all its content releases, citing COVID-related health problems, Russia's war in Ukraine, and inflation — RARBG, one of the world's largest torrent sites, has said “farewell” to millions of users. The site, which was a prominent … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Reddit client Apollo's developer says Reddit plans to charge $12K for 50M API requests and that he would need to pay $20M per year to keep operating the app — Popular Reddit app Apollo might not be able to operate as is in the future due to planned API pricing that Reddit is implementing.
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| Eleanor Hawkins / Axios: |
Google's head of communications and public affairs, Corey duBrowa, will leave the company in June 2023 to serve as the CEO of global PR firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe — Corey duBrowa will depart Google and parent company Alphabet in June to serve as CEO of global public relations firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW), Axios has learned.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Magic, which offers SDKs to help companies create and maintain bespoke on-chain crypto wallets, raised $52M led by PayPal Ventures at a sub-$500M valuation — The biggest crypto wallet you've never heard of is flourishing. San Francisco-based Magic announced on Wednesday that it's raised $52 million …
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| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised ~$240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault, theft, and more — If you've been to an annual open enrollment fair in the past few years, you may have noticed a new eldercare benefit with the unusual name of Papa.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.25B, vs. $8.18B est., capital expenditures up 36% YoY to $243M, vs. $205M est., and raises Q2 guidance above est. — - Salesforce surpassed estimates across the board and raised its full-year earnings guidance.
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Sources: the Biden administration is split on how to regulate generative AI; some support the EU's model while others want to avoid a competitive disadvantage — Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated … | Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A look at the BabyLM Challenge, which asks teams to create language models using datasets less than one-ten-thousandth the size of those used by advanced LLMs — Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. — When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better.
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 42% YoY to $692.6M, vs. $676.4M est., and ARR up 42% YoY to $2.73B, slower than the 61% growth in Q1 2023; CRWD drops 10%+ — - CrowdStrike reported first quarter results for its fiscal 2024 year on Wednesday, at a time when China-related cybersecurity concerns have mounted.
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| Jane Lee / Reuters: |
Boston-based Lightmatter, which uses light for AI computing, raised a $154M Series C from Fidelity, GV, and others, and claims to have tripled its valuation — Lightmatter, a Boston-based startup using light for AI computing, said on Wednesday it raised $154 million and tripled its valuation …
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SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, Lightmatter, and TNW
| Jenny Surane / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Plaid, valued at $13.4B, and co-founder Zach Perret, after a $58M data scraping settlement in 2022, as the startup expands and fights a PNC lawsuit — Zap $50 to a friend via Venmo. Trade Bitcoin on Robinhood. Get a student loan with SoFi.| Nikkei Asia: |
How Taiwan became indispensable in the electronics supply chain, creating Taiwanese, Chinese, and US interdependence that has deepened even as tensions rise — In the days after then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year, Taiwanese suppliers to U.S. tech giants including Apple …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Meta asks a US federal court to block the FTC's attempt on May 3 to change the 2020's $5B privacy settlement, which the FTC alleges the company has violated — Meta Platforms Inc. is asking a federal court to bar the Federal Trade Commission from moving forward with an agency proceeding to revise its 2020 privacy settlement.| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
An interview with reclusive Bitcoin programmer @Fiatjaf on building the Nostr protocol to offer an alternative to Twitter and other centralized social media — Disenchanted with social media options like Twitter, the reclusive Bitcoin programmer tells Forbes how he designed his chat … Sponsor Posts
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