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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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| 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
Mastodon: @mike@flipboard.social, @poga@g0v.social, @JMarkOckerbloom …, and @sarahhbickerton@mastodon.nz
X: @aaronsdevera, @molly0xfff, @ethanz, @katylcowan, @darius, and @philebloomfield. Forums: Hacker News
| 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, MacRumors, Barron's Online, PhoneArena, iMore, The News International, Business Times, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada Blog, New York Times, The Verge, iThinkDifferent, Benzinga, Trusted Reviews, Hindustan Times, Business Today, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, The Hindu, 9to5Mac, Supercharged, iClarified, Courthouse News Service, The Hill, and Bloomberg
Threads: @benedictevans. X: @rustybrick, @d_feldman, @timsweeneyepic, @carnage4life, @darius, @arpitrage, @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, @joshm, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| 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: ZDNet, Thurrott, Windows Central, The Verge, Tech.co, TweakTown, Guru3D, Forbes, CNET, The Register, and Digital Trends
| 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 …, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, Inc.com, Knight First Amendment …, Engadget, Courthouse News Service, and Oneindia
Mastodon: @RonaldTooTall …, @eff@mastodon.social, and @ethanz@octodon.social
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Forums: r/technology, r/privacy, and r/business
| 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, CNN, CSO, Cyber Daily, BankInfoSecurity.com, and CNBC
Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange. X: @senator77billy, @malwarejake, @aapatel09, @wbm312, @harlemedic, @arryinseattle, @wbm312, @infinitedly, and @ronwyden. Forums: Slashdot
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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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.| 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, Gameranx, Video Games Chronicle, IGN, and TechRadar
Forums: r/PlayStationPlus and r/PS4
| 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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LinkedIn: Laurence Si, Kevin Wo, and Matthew Barsing
| 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
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources: Google laid off 200+ employees from its Core teams, including IT and its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to India and Mexico — Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, US, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024.
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LinkedIn: Ilya Bezdelev, Austin Parker, and Jennifer Elias
| 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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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: @michellemanafy@journa.host. X: @chrismoranuk, @michaelluo, @maxwelltani, @voxmedia, @chaykak, @michaelroston, @chaykak, @maxrivlinnadler, @chaykak, @chaykak, @amandakhurley, and @mjnblack. LinkedIn: Justin B. Smith. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.
More: The Korea Herald
| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Karius, which uses AI to help analyze blood tests in 400 hospitals, raised $100M led by Khosla, after raising $165M in early 2020 led by Vision Fund II — Karius' technology is already being used to test patients' blood for infections. — Blood-testing company Karius Inc. raised $100 million … | 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
More: Finextra. Bluesky: @onesieind.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Adrian Garcia-Aranyos, Nick Beim, and Mazi Bahadori
| Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: |
TMTG co-founder Andy Litinsky, testifying as a witness in an insider trading case, says Trump nearly derailed the DWAC deal in October 2021, before signing on — Andy Litinsky, who helped start the former president's social media company, revealed Mr. Trump's last-minute doubts about an agreement that made them all very wealthy.
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