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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad mini, possibly for 2024, and nearing production of an iPhone SE without a home button and iPad Air models for early 2025  —  - New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers  — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Developer Christian Selig says third-party YouTube app Juno for the Vision Pro was “removed from the App Store”, after YouTube said it violated its ToS in April  —  Juno, the third-party YouTube app created for the Apple Vision Pro, has been removed from the App Store.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more  —  A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says it will start rolling out Click to Do, akin to Google's Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced Windows search improvements for Copilot+ PCs next month
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google's AI Overviews, to all US users, underpinned by a mix of AI models
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator  —  GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator.  —  Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx …
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says his previous post on ToS updates “may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works” but “little has changed”  —  - Pavel Durov announced changes to terms of service last week  — He faces charges in France for crimes committed on his app
Wired:
Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa  —  Scamming operations that once originated in Southeast Asia are now proliferating around the world, likely raking in billions of dollars in the process.
More: crypto.news.  X: @lilyhnewman, @knibbs, @sweetcainmusic, and @usip.  LinkedIn: Kelvin Low
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist  —  Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he'll be joining Anthropic.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts  —  Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse …
Sebastiaan de With / Lux:
An in-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are the standouts  —  For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert.  Take a deep dive into what's new — and why it's close to the last of its kind.
Pui Gwen Yeung / Bloomberg:
Filing: Hong Kong stock exchange executive Yang Qiumei received a 20% stake in SenseTime, worth $1.5B, from her late husband, making her its largest shareholder  —  - Yang inherited the shares from her late husband Tang  — Tang was one of the co-founders of the Chinese AI giant
Geraldine Brooks / Washington Post:
A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation's cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years  —  Geraldine Brooks is a novelist and former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
The UK says the ransomware gang Evil Corp. conducted cyberattacks and espionage on NATO allies on Kremlin orders; the UK, US, and Australia sanction the group  —  - Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members  — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers

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Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:
At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted “Trump is winning”, citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others

Todd Spangler / Variety:
A MoffettNathanson chart showed Netflix delivered 48 cents of revenue per hour viewed in 2025, below competitors, giving it room for its price hike this week

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Internal figures show Business Insider's paid subscribers have consistently declined, from about 185K at the end of 2022 to 135K at the end of 2025, a 27% drop

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts its Realtime API in public beta, for quickly making speech-to-speech features, a way to use images and text to fine-tune GPT-4o apps, and more
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic debuts a program to reduce the royalty rate for games built with Unreal Engine from 5% to 3.5% if they launch on the Epic Game Store, starting in 2025
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google announces new Chromebook models from Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key
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