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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A US judge sentences Binance founder Changpeng Zhao to four months in prison for failing to establish adequate anti-money laundering protections — Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for failing to establish adequately anti-money laundering protections.
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More: GeekWire, Better Markets, Gizmodo, Associated Press, RTÉ, Engadget, DL News, Decrypt, The Guardian, Tech Xplore, Fast Company, and Bloomberg
| 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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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC's position on whether ETH is a security — The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says Gensler refused to discuss his view on ETH in testimony even after the SEC was investigating it as a security.
More: Fox Business, Decrypt, Milk Road, Watcher Guru, CryptoPotato, and Bitcoin Insider
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
An APK review suggests the Rabbit R1 runs Android and its entire user interface is powered by a single Android app — The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is certainly powered by an Android app under the hood. — • — TL;DR — The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered …
More: 9to5Google, The Verge, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, and Inverse
Threads: @wongmjane, @parkerortolani, and @marek_hajn
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, r/gadgets, and r/technology
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
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.
More: US Department of Justice, Decrypt, Cryptonews, The Block, Bloomberg, CoinGape, Blockworks, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, and Crypto Briefing
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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 — Advanced Micro Devices reported first-quarter earnings and sales on Tuesday that were slightly ahead of Wall Street expectations … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+ after hours — - Sluggish gaming chip demand also has weighed on sales — Investors waiting for new AI processors to fuel more growth
More: CRN, The Information, and Fierce Electronics
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Screenshots seem 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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Forums: r/apple, r/technews, and MacRumors Forums
| 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
More: Coinbase, Lightspark, Bitcoinist.com, Forbes, and The Daily Hodl
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot which became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities as GPT-4 — An advanced AI model with unknown origins turned heads this week as online communities unpacked a cryptic tweet from Sam Altman.
More: Forward Future AI, W&B, Forbes, and Ars Technica
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Forums: r/singularity and r/LocalLLaMA
| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google's business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation — A software engineer who was fired from Google in connection to internal protests at the company's offices says the company retaliated …
More: Business Today, Hindustan Times, Washington Post, New York Post, Data Center Knowledge, Associated Press, and Reuters
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sam's Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members' purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores — Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts …
More: PYMNTS.com, Walmart Inc., Business Insider, and Chain Store Age
| 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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| 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 … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Twitch rolls out its TikTok-like discovery feed, launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps showing live streams and clips — Twitch is officially rolling out its new TikTok-like discovery feed to all users this week, the company announced on Tuesday.
More: Bloomberg. X: @moot_honey, @t3dotgg, @kawaiiguycom, @maddiechoo, @poijz, @cecianasta, @lucas_shaw, @jinkitsu_, @electrikeely, @twitch, and @twitch
| FinSMEs: |
Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others — Elisity, a San Jose, CA-based company which specializes in identity-based microsegmentation, raised $37M in Series B funding.
More: Wall Street Journal and Elisity
| Kwan Wei Kevin Tan / Business Insider: |
Esther Crawford joins Meta's Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter's director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 — - The former Twitter director Esther Crawford says she has joined Mark Zuckerberg's Meta. — Crawford was one of Elon …
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Threads: @esthercrawford, @will_in_canada, @gergelyorosz_, @stevenbward, @moskov, and @wongmjane. Instagram: Esther Crawford
| 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.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Phone app beta rolls out “Audio Emoji”, letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting — The Google Phone app is picking up a new trick, with the app now rolling out “Audio Emoji” to some users.
More: Android Authority, Android Headlines, MobileSyrup, The Verge, PhoneArena, Android Police, Droid Life, and Neowin. Forums: r/Android
| Entrackr: |
Filing: API Holdings, the parent firm of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its peak valuation of $5.6B in 2021 — API Holdings, the parent company of online drug dispenser PharmEasy, has raised Rs 1,804 crore ($216 million) … | Kelly Le / South China Morning Post: |
Taiwan's KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions — - King Yuan Electronics Co, one of the world's largest chip testing and packaging services firms, has divested its entire stake in a Suzhou subsidiary
More: Tom's Hardware, Fortune, and DigiTimes
| Evan Schuman / CSO: |
Marriott quietly admits to not encrypting some user data impacted by a 2018 breach, after arguing in court for the case's dismissal because it used encryption — Marriot revealed in a court case around a massive 2018 data breach that it had been using secure hash algorithm 1 … | 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
More: Reuters
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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