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Apple updates App Store guidelines, allowing game emulators for the first time globally, and letting music streaming apps in the EU link to external websites — After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it's not satisfied with the changes the company made to comply …
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Forums: r/Games, r/SBCGaming, r/iphone, r/macgaming, r/jailbreak, r/apple, r/Delta_Emulator, r/emulation, Lobsters, and MacRumors Forums
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A US jury finds Terraform Labs and Do Kwon liable for fraud in a US SEC lawsuit, boosting SEC's efforts to assert greater control over the crypto industry — - Terraform 2022 failure wiped out $40 billion in investor funds — Kwon criminal trial on hold over extradition from Montenegro
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FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 — - Sales figures for the app released in FTC's antitrust lawsuit — Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue …
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Wiz details two now-fixed security issues on the Hugging Face AI platform that put customer data at risk, as Hugging Face partners with Wiz to improve security — Cloud security provider Wiz found two critical architecture flaws in generative AI models uploaded to Hugging Face, the leading hub for sharing AI models and applications.
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Source: Jony Ive and Sam Altman's AI device startup is in funding talks with Emerson Collective and Thrive Capital; Ive wants to raise up to $1B in funding — A mysterious company started by former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to launch an artificial intelligence-powered personal device …
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Sources: ByteDance, which was directly involved in countering US efforts to ban TikTok in 2020, has let the US TikTok team lead the response this time around — - Beijing-based ByteDance has left the US TikTok team to lead its own response in countering legislation that would kick it out of domestic app stores, sources say| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
X promoted a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel on its Explore page, after Elon Musk promised “real-time customized news for you created by Grok AI” — The AI-generated false headline was promoted by X in its official trending news section.
More: TechCrunch. Threads: @hankgreen and @mattbinder
X: @elonmusk, @edzitron, @rvawonk, @brettredacted, @hasanthehun, and @zaleskiluke
Forums: Hacker News and r/Twitter
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Researchers detail how hackers use hijacked Facebook pages to push ads promoting fake AI services to spread malware; a fake Midjourney page had 1.2M followers — Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney … | Ryan Heath / Axios: |
Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board — - The labels could be generated through self-disclosure when a user posts content, as a result of advice from fact-checkers …
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Threads: @mattnavarra. X: @metanewsroom, @whotargetsme, @oversightboard, @oversightboard, and @nighatdad. LinkedIn: Ricardo Dalmaso Marques
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Google, Yahoo, Perplexity, and other search companies are working on understanding user intent to decide whether to show generative AI answers or just links — Yahoo is one of the most visited websites on the planet. It's the most popular news site in the U.S., with more than 3 billion visits each month.
More: WinBuzzer, Near Media, CoinGape, and BBC
| 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
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| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Belgium-based Robovision, which offers AI-based no-code computer vision tools to businesses, raised a $42M Series A co-led by Astanor Ventures and Target Global — Faced with labor shortages, sectors such as manufacturing and agriculture are increasingly adopting AI in their automation.
More: Sifted and Target Global
LinkedIn: Target Global, Thomas Van den Driessche, Red River West, Jonathan Berte, and Robovision
| Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC's swift response to the earthquake highlights the readiness of Taiwan's chip sector, and experts say Japan's chip industry is similarly well-prepared — Manufacturers apply lessons from past to keep industry humming — Taiwan, home to TSMC and other important tech companies, was hit by a major earthquake on April 3.
More: Supply Chain Dive, TechRadar, Wccftech, iLounge, Benzinga, AppleInsider, Neowin, MacRumors, and The Mac Observer
X: @nikkeiasia and @nikkeiasia
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Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas, to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for the US' chip manufacturing plans — South Korean firm plans to add a second semiconductor factory and advanced-packaging facility at its new hub outside Austin
More: Engadget, KXAN Austin, New York Post, PCMag, and Bloomberg
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