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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
After the House vote, Chinese officials say the US has shown “robber's logic” toward TikTok, and Washington must “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies” — Beijing urges Washington to ‘stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies’
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| Bloomberg: |
Memo: TikTok is “disappointed” that the US House passed the TikTok divestment bill, and reiterates its plans to lobby the Senate not to pass the legislation — TikTok told employees the company isn't planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple acquired DarwinAI, which makes tech for inspecting components during manufacturing and focuses on making AI systems smaller and faster — - Canada's DarwinAI was quietly acquired earlier this year — The iPhone maker has promised a big AI announcement in 2024| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to shut down CrowdTangle in August 2024 and replace it with Meta Content Library, available to academic and nonprofit researchers, not news outlets — CrowdTangle, a source for embarrassing articles about Facebook and Instagram, has been used to track conspiracy theories, viral content
More: Engadget, Nieman Lab, Social Media Today, and Benzinga
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel launches the $689 Core i9-14900KS Special Edition processor, with clock speeds up to 6.2GHz on two cores to become the company's fastest mainstream chip — 6.2 GHz and a whole lotta power draw. — Jump to: — Gaming Benchmarks - Productivity Benchmarks - Thermals and Power - Conclusion
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Proton releases its mail app for macOS and Windows out of beta, available as part of its $4/month Mail Plus or $10/month Unlimited tier, and a Linux app in beta — And a Linux app is launching in beta soon. — Proton, the privacy-focused company that offers a variety of internet tools like mail …
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| Hugo Barra / Hugo's Blog: |
A deep dive into Vision Pro by Meta's ex-VP of VR: the audacity of Apple's hardware decisions, a dull software story, how Meta can respond, and more — Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
The EU opens a DSA investigation into Alibaba's AliExpress over illegal content concerns, ad and product recommendations, and more, the third DSA investigation — The European Commission on Thursday said it opened a formal investigation into AliExpress, an international e-commerce website run … | Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
X removes a graphic video shared by Elon Musk purporting to show cannibalism in Haiti, for violating its rules; there's no evidence the video was shot in Haiti — - Move is rare case of company taking action involving its owner — Musk's posts are increasingly focused on immigration issues
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Google adds real-time URL protection to Chrome's Safe Browsing Standard on desktop and iOS, claiming to guard users' privacy; Android will get the feature soon — Google has added real-time browsing protection to Chrome that it claims should protect your privacy.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Reddit launches free-form ads, an ad format that looks similar to posts made by users, but with a “Promoted” label, to help advertisers get maximum engagement — Reddit is introducing a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users on the platform, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Sources: Google's Search Generative Experience could cut organic search traffic to publishers by 20% to 60%; Google says “it's premature to estimate” the impact — Search Generative Experience could upend over 60% of publishers' total organic traffic
More: Search Engine Land and Digital Content Next
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Pro worldwide with a one-month free trial; Pro subscribers can use the AI assistant in Office web apps without a Microsoft 365 sub — Microsoft is expanding its $20 monthly Copilot Pro subscription to more markets today, after launching the AI-powered assistant for consumers in January.
More: XDA Developers, Thurrott, and Windows Central
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
A UK High Court judge rules that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, saying the “evidence is overwhelming” — A surprise ruling at the end of a six-week trial in the UK High Court ends Craig Wright's campaign to be recognized as the inventor of Bitcoin.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snapchat is testing Infinite Retention Mode, which lets users save their DMs indefinitely, bringing it closer to a pure-play messaging app like iMessage — - The experiments are starting in smaller markets, but will eventually make their way to the U.S.
More: Lifewire
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
WarpStream, which is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service based on the Apache Kafka protocol, raised $20M led by Greylock and Amplify — When the open source streaming service, Apache Kafka, was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem.
More: FinSMEs and Yahoo Finance
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In an email to the European Commission, Spotify says Apple is holding up an iPhone app update that adds pricing information and links to subscriptions — In an email to the European Commission obtained by The Verge, Spotify writes that Apple has “neither acknowledged nor responded to Spotify's submission” … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google schedules I/O 2024 for May 14, where details on Android 15 and Android XR, AI announcements, and more are expected; the date was hidden behind a puzzle — Following the “Break the loop” puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2024 is taking place Tuesday, May 14.
More: Engadget, Android Police, Android Central, Wccftech, Android Headlines, and The Verge
| Assaf Gilead / Globes Online: |
US cybersecurity company Zscaler acquires Israel-based cybersecurity startup Avalor for $350M; Avalor was founded in 2022 and has raised just $30M to date — Avalor was founded only two years ago and has raised $30 million to date. — US cybersecurity company Zscaler has announced …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Pornhub blocks access to users in Texas, after a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law last week requiring porn sites to institute age-verification measures — Pornhub and other affiliated adult websites have blocked access to users in Texas, amid a legal battle with the Lone Star State's attorney general …
More: 404 Media, Gizmodo, The National Pulse, Reclaim The Net, and DataGuidance
| Kimberly Chin / Axios: |
Netherlands-based TheyDo, which helps companies map customer journeys, raised a $34M Series B led by Blossom Capital, bringing its total funding to about $50M — Exit Content Preview … - Entrepreneur Steven van Belleghem, HighSage Ventures and 20Sales also participated.
More: Tech Funding News, Tech.eu, TNW, and Silicon Canals
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out a generative AI feature that creates a product page, including a description and images, using information from a seller's external website — Sellers on Amazon will soon be able to make product pages with just the copy-and-paste of a link.
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| Chainalysis: |
In 2023, crypto investors achieved total gains of $37.6B, up from a $127.1B loss in 2022 but down from the $159.7B in gains during the 2021 bull run — 2023 was a year of recovery for cryptocurrency markets, with asset prices and market sentiment improving over the course of the year after a challenging 2022.
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