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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds carveouts to its EU core tech fee, exempting free app developers 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 … | 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.| 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 … | 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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Forums: r/Fauxmoi and r/popheads
| New York Times: |
A US federal judge grills the DOJ and Google in the closing arguments of US v. Google, as the most consequential tech antitrust case since the 1990s concludes — Judge Amit P. Mehta tried poking holes in the closing arguments of a landmark monopoly case as he weighs a ruling that could reshape tech.
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| Senator Scott Wiener / @scott_wiener: |
[Thread] California State Senator Scott Wiener defends his AI safety bill, SB 1047, after criticism that it will “crush OpenAI's competitors” and open-source AI — AI policy is a new & fast-moving field & it's healthy & important to have a diversity of perspectives. However, this thread contains some extreme inaccuracies — indeed outright fear-mongering — about our AI safety legislation (SB 1047) that need to be corrected: 🧵
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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 — Listen to a voiceover of this post, download the recording for later, or subscribe to the feed in your podcast app.
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| The Verge: |
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy steps down, as the company lays off ~15% of its workforce, or ~400 people, its fifth cut since its 2021 peak, when it had 8,600 staff — Peloton's CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after announcing yet another round of layoffs, this time affecting about 15 percent … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces plans to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI services infrastructure in Malaysia over four years and train 200K people in 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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| 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.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft confirms the April 2024 Windows security updates break 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.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft bans US police departments from using integrations with Azure OpenAI Service, including integrations with OpenAI's text- and speech-analyzing models — Microsoft has changed its policy to ban U.S. police departments from using generative AI through the Azure OpenAI Service …
More: Microsoft Learn and Techdirt
| Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
Sources and documents: Huawei is secretly funding cutting-edge research at US universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based foundation — - Chinese telecom maker is sole funder of optics competition — Blacklisted company's role kept private by DC-based group
More: The Register, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, and Light Reading
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Sony plans to remove Horizon Zero Dawn, one of its biggest first-party PS4-only games, from PlayStation Plus on May 21, adding to speculation of a PS5 remaster — Horizon Zero Dawn to leave later this month. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — Follow Horizon: Zero Dawn| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is the right price, fun design, and a good mic, but the best features are all MIA, finicky and slow, and using a phone is better — Artificial intelligence might someday make technology easier to use and even do things on your behalf. All the Rabbit R1 does right now is make me tear my hair out.| 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 … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Hyundai invests $475M in self-driving startup Motional and will spend another $448M to buy 11% of Aptiv's common equity interest in Motional — Hyundai has agreed to spend nearly $1 billion on Motional, an investment that will give the automaker a majority stake while providing … | 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 …
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Tether says it is working with Chainalysis to identify crypto wallets that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities like terrorist financing — The monitoring system would help Tether identify risky crypto addresses that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities … | 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
| 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
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