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June 4, 2024, 7:00 AM

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Intel unveils its Lunar Lake laptop chips, with a new SoC design, up to 14% faster CPU, 50% faster integrated GPU, and NPU with up to 48 TOPS of AI performance  —  Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, dubbed Core Ultra, represented the company's biggest architectural shift in 40 years.
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A leaked internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013 to 2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes Google made  —  Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users …
AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram confirms testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling, similar to the free version of YouTube  —  Instagram confirmed it's testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media.
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Sources: Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in Azure; one source estimated the Azure for Operators team cuts involved as many as 1,500 staffers  —  - Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from the Azure business, sources say.  — The layoffs impact Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering teams.
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
Coinbase donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake Super PAC; Fairshake raised ~$161M for the 2024 US election, including $25M each from a16z and Ripple  —  Coinbase followed Ripple and a16z in each giving a new $25 million to their political action committee, Fairshake …
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
After nine months with Starlink, the Marubo, an Indigenous Amazon tribe, faces challenges like addiction and concerns about potential loss of cultural identity  —  Elon Musk's Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.
Li Yuan / New York Times:
Analysis: China's internet had 3.9M websites in 2023, down ~27% from 2017; Chinese-language websites are 1.3% of the global total, down 70% from 4.3% in 2013  —  The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.
Forums: r/China
RT Watson / The Block:
Filing: Dapper Labs, maker of NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs, settles a class action lawsuit for $4M over allegations of selling unregistered securities  —  - Dapper Labs, the creator of the NBA Top Shot Moments NFT collection, said it had settled a class-action lawsuit which alleged the company had violated securities laws.
Victoria Song / The Verge:

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