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April 5, 2024, 11:45 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's next-gen display and car teams were reportedly based  —  The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run  —  Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate
Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will start cracking down on password sharing in June in some countries and more broadly in September  —  New York CNN —  —  Disney is curbing password sharing for its Disney+ streaming service as part of a larger effort to boost signups and revenue.
Song Jung-a / Financial Times:
Samsung estimates Q1 operating profit of $4.9B, up 931% YoY, and sales of $52.68B, up 11.4% YoY, as memory chip prices surge, hinting end of the chip downturn  —  World's biggest maker of memory chips beats expectations with strong first-quarter guidance  —  Samsung Electronics expects …
Louise Matsakis / Wired:
How a TikTok whistleblower may have driven congressional concerns about the app despite working at TikTok for just six months and making improbable claims  —  Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months.  Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable.
Platformer:
A look at Marissa Mayer's troubled startup Sunshine, which raised $20M, and its photo-sharing app Shine, which a source says had ~1K downloads on its first day  —  Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn't ready
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country's strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown  —  Coinbase has been granted a registration license in Canada, the company told CNBC, allowing it to make deeper inroads abroad …

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