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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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.
More: Bluesky, GitHub, Axios, Social Media Today, Engadget, MediaPost, TechRadar, The Verge, Pixel Envy, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Thurrott, Neowin, Forbes, The Desk, and TechCrunch
Bluesky: @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, @digiphile, @shreyanjain.net, @berniemichalik.ca, @jcsalterego, @samuel.bsky.team, @pfrazee.com, @digiphile, @pfrazee.com, @pfrazee.com, @tchambers, and @bsky.app. Mastodon: @kevinrothrock@infosec …. Threads: @quillmatiq
Forums: r/BlueskySocial, r/BlueskySocial, and Lobsters
| 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, Digital Trends, 9News, PCMag, Mercury News, and Bloomberg Law
| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
More: Upexi, Inc., Chainwire, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, The Crypto Times, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, NFTgators, ZyCrypto, CoinDesk, crypto.news, and The Block. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| 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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| 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 — Circle Internet Group Inc. is launching a payments network designed to allow financial institutions and technology firms to settle cross-border transactions in stablecoins.
More: CoinGape, CoinDesk, and PYMNTS.com
X: @circle, @dberenzon, @sprucepointcap, @alanadlevin, @fireblockshq, and @jerallaire
| 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: SiliconANGLE, Just Security, Mission Local, Trak.in, and CNN
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @deedydas, @shashankgoyal95, @nearcyan, @thexeophon, @nachristakis, @jacobsullum, @pj11819211, @1amorey, @rahuldave, @nearcyan, @hamish_kerr, @devahaz, @yisongyue, @nearcyan, @garettjones, @mattyglesias, @deedydas, @levyantoine, @yisongyue, @davidafrench, @jasonfx, @paulg, and @paulg
| 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.”| 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, 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
| Kashish Tandon / Reuters: |
Flipkart plans to shift its holding company from Singapore to India as Walmart aims to take it public; Flipkart moved the entity to Singapore in 2011 — Flipkart will shift its holding company from Singapore to India, the e-commerce company said on Tuesday, as its parent Walmart aims to take the 17-year-old company public.
More: Business Today, Financial Times, Moneycontrol, Entrackr, and Times of India
| 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: Press Trust of India, Hindustan Times, Livemint, Times of India, 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 … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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