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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Universal Music Group and TikTok strike a new music licensing deal to bring UMG music back to the platform, including “improved remuneration” and AI protections — The months-long standoff between Universal Music Group and TikTok over royalty payments and AI policies is finally over …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google says 400M+ Google Accounts have used passkeys since the rollout, logging 1B+ authentications, and expands passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program — Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts toward replacing the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys.
More: TechCrunch, The Keyword, PCMag, 9to5Google, Engadget, BetaNews, Android Central, Security Boulevard, and SiliconANGLE
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out passkey support for all consumer accounts; Microsoft account owners can generate passkeys across Windows, Android, and iOS — Microsoft is fully rolling out passkey support for all consumer accounts today. After enabling them in Windows 11 last year …
More: Microsoft Security Blog, 9to5Mac, Engadget, PCWorld, Washington Post, Neowin, Digital Spy, iClarified, and MSPoweruser
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income — The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers allege Google …
More: AppleInsider, New York Post, Macworld, The Register, Barron's Online, MacRumors, Business Insider, PhoneArena, Quartz, The News International, iMore, New York Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Benzinga, Trusted Reviews, Business Times, Hindustan Times, Android Headlines, Business Today, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, iThinkDifferent, The Hindu, The Verge, iClarified, 9to5Mac, Supercharged, and Bloomberg
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users tune or even turn off their Feed — Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
More: Knight First Amendment …, MediaPost, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, Android Headlines, Knight First Amendment …, Engadget, and Courthouse News Service
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds carve-outs to EU core tech fee, exempting developers of free apps and giving those with annual global revenue under €10M a three-year “free on-ramp” — Apple is tweaking how it applies a new fee that can apply to iOS developers in the European Union as it continues …
More: MacRumors, The Irish Times, Silicon Republic, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Reuters, and iMore
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft confirms the April 2024 Windows security update breaks VPN connections across client and server platforms on Windows 11, 10, and Server 2008 or later — Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms.
More: Ars Technica, ZDNet, Thurrott, The Verge, Windows Central, TweakTown, Tech.co, and Guru3D
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Testimony: UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty says the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe” 30% of US citizens; UnitedHealth will notify users in “several months” — Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data …
More: House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Cybersecurity Dive, CNN, CSO, Cyber Daily, and CNBC
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
As people yearn for the web's “good old days”, bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users — Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better …
More: Sheep.Horse and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces plans to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia over four years and train 200,000 people with AI skills in the country — - Nadella announces plan for more AI infrastructure in Malaysia — Tech companies are targeting Southeast Asia as new growth area
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| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Sony plans to remove Horizon Zero Dawn, one of its biggest first-party games, from PlayStation Plus on May 21; the game is PS4-only, hinting at a PS5 release — Horizon Zero Dawn to leave later this month. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — Follow Horizon: Zero Dawn
More: The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, Gameranx, IGN, and TechRadar
Forums: r/PlayStationPlus and r/PS4
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Trend Micro: cybercriminals and nation-state spies are coexisting inside the same compromised name-brand routers, using the devices to disguise their attacks — How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet. — Cybercriminals and spies working …
More: Trend Micro, Beyond Search, TechRadar, and The Hacker News
Mastodon: @kim_harding@mastodon.scot and @arstechnica@mastodon.social. X: @privacydigest. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| The Verge: |
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy steps down, as the company lays off ~15% of its workforce, or ~400 people, its fifth layoffs since 2021, when it had 8,600 staffers — Peloton's CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after announcing yet another round of layoffs, this time affecting about 15 percent …
More: Engadget, PYMNTS.com, The Information, New York Times, TechCrunch, SlashGear, CNBC, Peloton, and Financial Times
| Tess Owen / Wired: |
Tech Transparency Project: US extremist militias are quietly coordinating across ~200 Facebook groups and profiles, after lying low since the January 6 riot — After lying low for years in the aftermath of January 6, exclusive reporting shows, militia extremist groups and profiles … | Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN: |
The US DOJ sentences Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13+ years in prison and orders $16M in restitution for helping REvil conduct ransomware attacks — A Ukrainian national was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution … | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
LA-based wealth management startup Altruist, whose software and app help with trading and more, raised a $169M Series E led by Iconiq at a $1.5B valuation — - Iconiq Growth led investment in competitor to Schwab, Fidelity — Altruist provides software for registered investment advisers| Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
As social media platforms pivot away from news distribution, a look at news sites like The Verge, which feel more like social media, with aggregation and more — As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
More: The Overspill. Mastodon: @paul_irish@toot.cafe and @michellemanafy@journa.host
X: @chrismoranuk, @michaelluo, @maxwelltani, @voxmedia, @chaykak, @michaelroston, @chaykak, @maxrivlinnadler, @chaykak, @chaykak, @amandakhurley, and @mjnblack. LinkedIn: Justin B. Smith. Forums: Hacker News
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Snap announces Snapchat users can edit messages within five minutes of sending them, “coming soon” to Snapchat+ subscribers “first”, map reactions, and more — Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing … | Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
Sources and documents: Huawei is secretly funding cutting-edge research at US universities including Harvard via an independent Washington-based foundation — - Chinese telecom maker is sole funder of optics competition — Blacklisted company's role kept private by DC-based group| Justin Ling / Wired: |
A look at Ukraine's combat drone startup industry; Kyiv estimates ~200 local startups produce drones based on commercial first-person-view or photography drones — Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.
Mastodon: @justinling@mastodon.online
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
LayerX, which makes a browser extension to let companies secure their devices and SaaS apps, raised a $26M Series A, bringing its total funding to $34M — The Israeli startup's Enterprise Browser Extension integrates with any browser, helping enterprises to secure their devices, identities … | Kalley Huang / The Information: |
Some developers are releasing longer context windows for Llama 3 thanks to Meta's open-source approach; Llama 3 has a short context window of 8,000+ tokens — Developers have been praising Meta Platforms' Llama 3, the latest version of its flagship large language model.
More: Ollama and Towards Data Science
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