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US judge sentences Binance founder Changpeng Zhao to four months in prison — Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for failing to establish adequately anti-money laundering protections. Zhao, once the head of the largest crypto exchange in the world, pleaded guilty in November 2023.
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The US DOJ says it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with filing false tax returns and more to evade paying nearly $50M — The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with mail fraud and filing false tax returns.| Amazon: |
Amazon Q1: revenue up 13% YoY to $143.3B, net income of $10.4B, vs. $3.2B YoY, operating income of $15.3B, vs. $4.8B YoY, subscription revenue up 11% to $10.7B — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2024.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Screenshots seems to show TikTok circumventing Apple's App Store fees by showing some users a link to a site for buying digital coins, instead of using IAPs — TikTok may be routing around the App Store to save money on commissions. According to new findings, the ByteDance-owned social video app …
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| Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider: |
Source: Apple is testing Safari 18 features, including more advanced content blocking and an AI-powered Intelligent Search tool, expected to debut later in 2024 — Apple is testing a version of its Safari web browser that includes UI tweaks, advanced content blocking features …
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| Derek Andersen / Cointelegraph: |
Coinbase adds support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network via payments startup Lightspark, letting customers transfer bitcoin faster and at a lower cost — The integration brings instantaneous transfers on the layer-2 Lightning Network to the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange. — Total views
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| Bloomberg: |
The EU opens a DSA investigation into Meta over deceptive Facebook and Instagram ad and political content; sources say the probe is about a pro-Kremlin campaign — - Probe said to target pro-Putin Doppelganger campaign — Meta probe is under the EU's tough new Digital Services Act
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| Katie Robertson / New York Times: |
Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden, the second-largest US newspaper operator, sue OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly using copyrighted articles to train AI — The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an “app creator” in preview to let employees build generative AI apps based on company data — Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q … | 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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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $5.47B, vs. $5.46B est., Data Center revenue up 80% YoY to $2.3B, and a $123M net income, up from a $139M net loss YoY — Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD, talks about the AMD EPYC processor during a keynote address at the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., January 9, 2019.| Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty plans to say before a US House panel on May 1 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 … | Evan Schuman / CSO: |
Marriott quietly admits to not encrypting certain user data impacted by a 2018 breach, after arguing in court it used encryption so the case should be dismissed — Marriot revealed in a court case around a massive 2018 data breach that it had been using secure hash algorithm 1 … | Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: Google has agreed to pay News Corp $5M to $6M annually to develop new AI-related content and products, as part of its Google News Initiative — Google has agreed to pay Wall Street Journal owner News Corp between $5 million and $6 million annually to fund the news organization's development … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
The Browser Company debuts Arc on Windows, after testing began in December 2023, and says the Windows app has 150K+ users; the macOS app shipped in July 2023 — The Browser Company, makers of the Arc web browser, released its Windows version today. The company started testing the Windows client …
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Letter from US senators: only five of 14 automakers require police to have a warrant before requesting user data, and only Tesla tells users about such requests — Modern cars are internet-connected and have hundreds of sensors. Lawmakers and regulators have concerns about what's happening with all that data.| Raymond Wong / Inverse: |
A profile of, and interview with, Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, on the origins of the R1, taking “10 minutes to design” the device, the AI gadget competition, and more — Everyone seems entranced by Jesse Lyu, the new AI prophet. — Clad head to toe in black, Lyu stands on stage …
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| BBC: |
A Finnish court sentences hacker Julius Kivimäki to six years and three months, after he breached a health care database and tried 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.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SafeBase, which helps companies automate software security reviews using AI, raised a $33M Series B led by Touring Capital, bringing its total funding to $50M+ — Entrepreneurs Al Yang and Adar Arnon met at Harvard Business School and quickly realized that they had an interest in common: cybersecurity.| Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
IBM wins a court decision overturning $1.6B in damages it was ordered to pay BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing a mutual client, AT&T — - Appeals court says IBM won BMC's client ‘fair and square’ — Judgment in 2022 was one of the largest-ever of its kind
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