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The EU opens a DSA investigation into Facebook and Instagram over deceptive ad and political content; sources say the move relates to a pro-Kremlin campaign — - Probe said to target pro-Putin Doppelganger campaign — Meta probe is under the EU's tough new Digital Services Act| Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube: |
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is reasonable but emblematic of a trend of selling unfinished products at full price while vowing to fix the issues later to win a “race” — AI in a Box. But a different box. R1 provided by Rabbit for review. So this is the rabbit R1 and it's another AI …
More: CNET, Benzinga, Digital Trends, The Shortcut, Dexerto, and The Verge
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
The FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data with aggregators “without customer consent” — The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators …
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| Maciej Pocwierz: |
How an empty, private AWS S3 bucket had ~100M PUT requests in a day, racking up a substantial bill, due to a popular open source tool using the same bucket name — Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?
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| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 12.81% YoY to ~$52.3B, vs. ~$51.6B est., operating profit up 932.8% YoY to ~$4.8B, vs. ~$4.3B est., as memory chip prices rebound — Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy S24 smartphones during a media preview event in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024.| New York Times: |
Since pleading guilty in November 2023, Changpeng Zhao has networked across the US to set up his next act; sources say CZ and Sam Altman exchanged text messages — Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance … | Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Apple hired at least 36 AI experts from Google since 2018 and has a secretive European laboratory in Zurich to develop new AI models and products — iPhone maker also recruits generative AI experts into secretive Zurich lab as it prepares fightback against rivals
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub unveils Copilot Workspace, a developer environment using “Copilot-powered agents” to help brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code in natural language — Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE? GitHub's floating the idea.
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| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says a TikTok ban is “not excluded” and “we know exactly the danger of TikTok” during a 2024 election debate — The remark comes amid a streak of bad news for TikTok in Europe. — Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hinted …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Asterisk: |
Tech journalism is often characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research, and publishers are reluctant to invest in it without a clear ROI — A huge proportion of tech journalism is characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research. Can we fix it?
Mastodon: @bruces@mastodon.social. X: @brianwilt, @tomaxwell, @adamkovac, @adamthierer, @rob_lh, @chastaylor, @binarybits, @robinwauters, @rao_hacker_one, @kelseytuoc, and @calebwatney. LinkedIn: Flip Vuijsje. Forums: Hacker News
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
NBCUniversal plans to raise Peacock Premium with ads by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month starting July 18, its second hike in two years — NBCUniversal is looking to wring more money out of Peacock subscribers, with the streamer set to raise prices this summer …
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A Finnish court sentences hacker Julius Kivimäki to six years and three months, after he breached a healthcare database and attempted to blackmail 33,000 people — One of Europe's most wanted cyber criminals has been jailed for attempting to blackmail 33,000 people whose confidential therapy notes he stole.| Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
In Congressional testimony, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty plans to say that hackers exploited a Citrix vulnerability to breach UnitedHealth on February 12 — Hackers broke into UnitedHealth's (UNH.N) tech unit on Feb. 12 by exploiting a security vulnerability in software from private …
More: TechCrunch, CSO, Cyber Daily, Cybernews.com, PYMNTS.com, and Bloomberg
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $33M Series B led by NEA, taking its total raised to $46.5M, and says the service has ~20K active newsletters — With the number of people using e-mail globally approaching 5 billion, newsletters delivered regularly into people's inboxes continue … | Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces plans to invest $1.7B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia over four years and train 840,000 people with AI skills in the country — - CEO Nadella tours Southeast Asia in search for growth markets — Nvidia, Apple leaders also visited region before Nadella| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
PayPal reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $7.7B, payment volume up 14% YoY to $404B, and transaction margin dollars up 4% YoY to $3.5B; PYPL rises 5%+ — Total payment volume was $403.9 billion in the first quarter, PayPal said in a statement Tuesday, topping analysts' estimates of $392.9 million.
More: Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, Proactive, PayPal, and PayPal Holdings, Inc.. X: @thetranscript_
| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
In its first TikTok Shop Safety Report, TikTok reports 500K+ sellers in the US and 15M+ sellers worldwide in December 2023, adding 6M+ in H2 2023 — - Company releases first safety report on its shopping platform — Merchants and approved users can link products for sale
More: The Independent
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K developer accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 — Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user's security.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram updates its recommendation algorithms to promote original content, impacting aggregator accounts, and increase distribution for smaller accounts — Instagram is making significant changes to how its system recommends content, with a focus on original content and increased distribution for smaller accounts.
More: Engadget and TechCrunch
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