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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:

The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok — The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it …

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New York Times:

How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more — Has there ever been an app more American seeming than TikTok, with its messy democratic creativity, exhibitionism, utter lack of limits and vast variety of hustlers?

More: Politico and CNET

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Jameson Dow / Electrek:

Tesla cuts the price of its Full Self-Driving software to $8K from $12K in the US, following a price cut from $15K to $12K in September 2023 — Tesla has once again lowered the price of its Full Self-Driving software by $4,000, now costing $8,000, down from a previous price of $12,000 in the US.

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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:

President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026 — The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying …

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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:

A look at Block-funded Gridless, which operates bitcoin mines in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, powered through solar power and wasted energy from a geothermal site — WATCH NOW — Jack Dorsey backed start-up taps into geothermal, hydro and solar power to run bitcoin mines across Africa

More: Cryptonews. X: @kenziesigalos, @cnbc, and @jeromebailly

Forums: r/UpliftingNews and Slashdot

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:

A look at Home Assistant, an open-source smart home platform with an estimated 1M users, as its creators announce a foundation to help it reach the mainstream — How Home Assistant plans to transition from an enthusiast platform to a mainstream consumer product.

Mastodon: @pee@mastodon.online, @oh_that_courtney@hachyderm.io, and @TechDesk@flipboard.social. X: @quinnypig

Forums: r/gadgets, r/technology, r/tech, r/homeautomation, and r/homeassistant

Washington Post:

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 — Waves of layoffs and policy shifts are forcing campaigns to change tactics, potentially transforming the 2024 election

OatmealDome:

Open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is not coming to App Store as Apple doesn't allow JIT recompilers on iOS, possibly due to security considerations — Two weeks ago, Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store.

More: 9to5Mac and Tom's Guide

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Forums: Hacker News, r/iosgaming, and r/EmulationOniOS

John Koblin / New York Times:

Antenna: ~25% of subscribers to US streaming video services, or 29M+ users, canceled 3+ of them in the past 2 years, as they increasingly jump between services — Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.

X: @sportstvratings and @dentuttle

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Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:

President Trump says Fox News “bears responsibility” for the GOP's losses after “constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat opposition, and worse”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

As Democrats take the House and the Senate, David Ellison and other media executives are likely to face inquiries and hearings over their deals and Trump ties

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Thomas Claburn / The Register:

Researchers: when given 15 CVE descriptions, GPT-4 autonomously exploited 87% of the “one-day” vulnerabilities, compared to 0% for every other model tested

More: Dark Reading, arXiv, arXiv, Daniel Kang, and Tom's Hardware

Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @mttaggart@infosec.town

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LinkedIn: Stanley Tsang, Michael Tchuindjang, Ben Hanson, Christopher Peacock, and Andrew Bandeira

Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:

PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down

X: @clareconley. LinkedIn: Jason James and Kyle Houser

Kate Rogers / CNBC:

A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed

Bluesky: @ndnickerson.bsky.social. X: @simonkp, @capolicylab, and @mmitchell_ai

Forums: r/technews and r/technology

David Cassel / The New Stack:

An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more

More: The Verge, PC Gamer, Cryptopolitan, and ZDNet

X: @arungupta, @arungupta, @arungupta, @arungupta, @arungupta, @dwaynephillips, @ron_brash, @joab_jackson, and @mdolan. LinkedIn: The Linux Foundation

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:

Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles is “revisionist history” and a bid to boost his AI company

More: The Decoder. X: @business

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:

Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits

More: Business Today. Mastodon: @jwildeboer@social …. X: @onlycliches, @pamelawatching, @carnage4life, @quinnypig, and @reuterslegal

Forums: Hacker News and r/technology

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Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:

National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production

More: TrendForce Insights, ExtremeTech, TechNode, and Tom's Hardware

X: @kanthan2030 and @pstasiatech

Nikkei Asia:

SK Hynix partners with TSMC to develop next-gen HBM4 chips, which are critical for AI and slated for mass production in 2026, and advanced chip packaging tech

More: KED Global, DatacenterDynamics, SK hynix Newsroom, KED Global, TweakTown, DigiTimes, The Korea Herald, SamMobile, Wccftech, insideHPC, The Investor, and AnandTech

Bloomberg:

Filing: a group of FTX investors and customers agree to drop their claims against SBF if he cooperates in cases against celebrities and others who pushed FTX

More: Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, Crowdfund Insider, crypto.news, DL News, PYMNTS.com, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, and Cointelegraph

X: @chrisdolmetsch. LinkedIn: Kelvin Low

George Steer / Financial Times:

Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

More: MarketWatch, Nikkei Asia, Benzinga, Quartz, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg Television on YouTube, Agence France-Presse, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg

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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:

Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone

More: The Verge and 9to5Toys

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Emma Roth / The Verge:

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow “fast enough”

More: Post. and TechCrunch

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