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The US FTC sues Uber, claiming the company charged for Uber One without consent, made it difficult to cancel, and failed to deliver promised savings — The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber, accusing the ride-hailing and delivery company of deceptive billing and cancellation practices tied to its subscription service.
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| Julian Mark / Washington Post: |
The US v. Google remedies trial opens with the DOJ arguing that Google should be forced to divest Chrome, and Google calling the proposed remedies “extreme” — The remedies trial opens in Washington with the government pushing to break up the company through measures that Google lawyers deem “extreme.”
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team — Bluesky's new verification process launches today. It mixes the old-school, Twitter-style blue check bestowed by the platform with a more decentralized option for trusted organizations.
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Bluesky: @samuel.bsky.team, @pfrazee.com, @shreyanjain.net, @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, @jcsalterego, @berniemichalik.ca, @digiphile, @digiphile, @pfrazee.com, @pfrazee.com, @tchambers, and @bsky.app. Threads: @quillmatiq
Forums: r/BlueskySocial and r/BlueskySocial
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta is testing using AI tools in the US to detect teen Instagram users, even if they've lied about their birthday, and place them under Teen Account settings — On Instagram, AI tools will detect underage users and automatically change their account settings.
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default; a Biden-era FTC rule on “junk fees” is set to go into effect on May 12 — Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality — Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved …
More: Airbnb Newsroom, The Verge, Tech in Asia, PCMag, Yahoo Finance, Mercury News, and Bloomberg Law
Forums: r/technews and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Report: over a thousand international students have had US immigration statuses terminated in 2025; a Caltech ML professor says it's harming the talent pipeline — An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immigration status at risk.
More: Trak.in, SiliconANGLE, Just Security, Mission Local, and TechCrunch
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Circle unveils a network designed to link financial institutions and enable real-time settlement of cross-border payments, starting with USDC and EURC in May — Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality — Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.
More: CoinGape, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
X: @circle, @dberenzon, @sprucepointcap, @alanadlevin, @fireblockshq, and @jerallaire
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he's raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything” — On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin ‘Roy’ Lee announced he's raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures …
More: Cluely, StrictlyVC, Research & Development World, Decrypt, and Stove Top
Bluesky: @hypervisible, @mcken, @carnage4life, and @ramshackle78
X: @tautologer, @thinkingshivers, @im_roy_lee, @tautologer, @kyledesana, @trycluely, @zebulgar, @richardzphotoz, @broderick, @byyourlogic, @signulll, @statisticurban, and @eli_schiff. LinkedIn: LinkedIn
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Verizon consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath on why net neutrality “has gone literally nowhere”, owning Yahoo, FCC probes over DEI, and more — Today, I'm talking with Verizon consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath, who goes by “Sampath.”| NDTV: |
Google settles an Android TV case with India's competition regulator, will offer standalone licenses for Play Store and Play Services for Android TVs in India — This is the first case that has been settled under the amended Competition Act, wherein the settlement and committment provisions were introduced in 2023.
More: Business Today, Press Trust of India, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Livemint, The Hindu BusinessLine, Financial Express, ThePrint, Reuters, and Channel NewsAsia. Forums: r/Android
| Kevin Beaumont / DoublePulsar: |
Microsoft has improved Recall, but biometrics are only required for setup and users can open it with just a PIN, and sensitive data filtering is unreliable — Last year, Microsoft announced Recall, a feature which screenshots your PC every few seconds, OCRs the screenshots and produces … | Marianna Giusti / Financial Times: |
Crypto casinos rival traditional betting groups in scale despite being illegal in most countries, with $81.4B in gross gaming revenue in 2024, up 5x since 2022 — Platforms now rival traditional betting groups in scale despite their services being illegal in most countries| Reuters: |
Sources: Huawei plans mass shipments of its 910C chip, which combines two 910B chips and is comparable to Nvidia's H100, to Chinese customers as early as May — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C artificial intelligence chip to Chinese customers … | Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
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