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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €530M for illegally sending user data to China, ordering a halt to EU data transfers in six months if protections aren't guaranteed — Irish privacy watchdog says app failed to protect user data sent to China — Ireland's data-privacy watchdog fined TikTok …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Microsoft says new accounts will be “passwordless by default”, asking people to use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys — The company is trying to get everyone to get rid of passwords, eventually.
More: Microsoft Security Blog, BleepingComputer, CNET, PCWorld, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, Tom's Hardware, Security Affairs, Thurrott, PC Gamer, Digit, Tech Monitor, PCMag, CyberInsider, Neowin, Tom's Guide, Security Boulevard, Business Standard, WinBuzzer, Ghacks, and Cyber Security News
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Mastodon: @rmondello@hachyderm.io, @mttaggart@infosec.exchange, and @brian_greenberg@infosec …. LinkedIn: Mohit Vaish
Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| Apple Inc.: |
Apple reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $95.4B, vs. $94.6B est., China sales down 2% YoY to $16B, vs. $16.83B est., and authorizes a $100B share buyback program — Services revenue reaches new all-time high — EPS sets March quarter record … The Company posted quarterly revenue of $95.4 billion …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
More: Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Neowin, Tom's Guide, Mashable, Silicon Republic, TechIssuesToday.com, Daring Fireball, BGR, Appleosophy, MarketWatch, and Financial Times
Forums: r/technology, r/politics, and r/wallstreetbets
| Bloomberg: |
More: Tom's Hardware, Business Insider, Quartz, Inc42 Media, Verdict, and South China Morning Post
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
More: Breitbart, Financial Express, Nikkei Asia, Business Standard, BBC, Livemint, Digit, Newser, ddnews.gov.in, and Press Trust of India
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
More: Computerworld, AppleInsider, Macworld, and The Hollywood Reporter
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates its App Store Guidelines to comply with a US judge's April 30 Epic injunction, letting app developers link to external payment methods in the US — Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with yesterday's injunction handed down in its legal case with Epic Games.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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Forums: r/technews, r/technology, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Rockstar Games delays the release of Grand Theft Auto VI from fall 2025 to May 26, 2026, saying it needs extra time to deliver the expected and deserved quality — Rockstar Games says it needs more time to deliver the ‘quality you expect and deserve.’ — Rockstar Games is delaying …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
The Google search antitrust trial is effectively a fight about AI's future, as lawyers and rivals argue Google's monopoly could make it the dominant AI player — A federal judge issued a landmark ruling last year, saying that Google had become a monopolist in internet search.
More: Ars Technica, MakeUseOf, Shelly Palmer, Digital Trends, and The Economic Times. Forums: r/singularity
| Selam Gebrekidan / New York Times: |
The US designates Cambodia's Huione Group as a money-laundering operation, saying it laundered $4B+ since August 2021 for criminals such as North Korean hackers — The Treasury Department said Huione Group and its affiliates had laundered more than $4 billion.
More: FinCEN.gov, The Block, CoinDesk, DL News, The Record, Security Boulevard, Reuters, Blockonomi, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, and ZyCrypto
| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA plans to ban retail investors from borrowing money to buy cryptocurrencies, as it aims to bring much of the crypto market under its regulatory remit — UK financial regulator sets out proposals to regulate much of the digital asset market — The UK financial watchdog plans … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A California man pleads guilty to illegally accessing Disney's Slack channels and stealing 1.1TB+ of data in 2024; he later posed as hacktivist group NullBulge — A California man who used the alias “NullBulge” has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney's internal Slack channels … | David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
President Trump's World Liberty Financial says Abu Dhabi's MGX fund is investing $2B in Binance using World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin, raising ethical concerns — A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president's son …
More: Wired, Quartz, Bloomberg, Axios, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin Insider, Yahoo Finance, Blockworks, Washington Post, New Republic, New York Post, The Crypto Basic, Diane Ravitch's blog, and Cointelegraph
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @mattblaze@federate.social, @_dm@infosec.exchange, and @SeanCasten@mastodon.social
X: @justinsuntron, @justinsuntron, @wublockchain, @libsoftiktok, @token2049, @richardhanania, @erictrump, @justinsuntron, @janemayernyer, @kenvogel, @donwinslow, @iansams, @trondao, @senblumenthal, @davemcclure, @jonlemire, @zachwitkoff, @timodc, @public_citizen, @coindesk, @sawyerhackett, @teresagoody, @richardhanania, @kenvogel, @mattyglesias, @senblumenthal, and @senwarren
Forums: r/economicCollapse, r/politics, and Slashdot
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Temu appears to have removed all products in the US version of its online store that ship directly from China to US consumers, confusing suppliers and customers — The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “Local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end …
More: BBC, CNN, PCMag, Fortune, The Information, Jamaica Observer, Chinesellers, Supply Chain Dive, South China Morning Post, NPR, Financial Times, Sourcing Journal, CBC News, Fox Business, and The Economic Times
Bluesky: @wrenispinkle, @carnage4life, @zeyiyang, and @wired.com
Forums: r/worldnews, r/TemuThings, and r/Economics
| Laura Holliday / Wired: |
An investigation finds 70+ content-farm YouTube channels using AI to produce cartoon content featuring gore and child abuse, featuring characters like minions — A WIRED investigation found that dozens of YouTube channels are using generative AI to depict cartoon cats and minions being beaten … | Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $155.67B, vs. $155.04B est., operating income up 20% YoY to $18.4B, and forecasts Q2 operating income below estimates — - Net sales increased 9% to $155.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $143.3 billion in first quarter 2024.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Atlassian reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.29B est., and a net loss of $70.8M, vs. a $12.8M net income in Q3 2024; TEAM drops 10%+ — Shares in Atlassian Corp. were down nearly 18% in after-hours trading today after the Australian collaboration software company posted …
More: Atlassian, Capital Brief, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, Investor's Business Daily, and Reuters
| Ann Gehan / The Information: |
Livestream marketplace Whatnot says it hit $3B+ worth of goods sold through its app last year and viewers spend 80+ minutes per day on average on the app — Livestream shopping, while popular in Asia on apps like ByteDance-owned Douyin and Alibaba's Taobao Live, has been hard for most U.S.-focused startups and creators to crack.
X: @anngehan
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Reddit plans to add Reddit Answers, its AI search tool that was launched in beta in December 2024, to its main search bar and says the tool has 1M weekly users — The feature has already reached 1 million weekly users, according to CEO Steve Huffman. — Late last year, Reddit introduced its AI-powered search tool, Reddit Answers.| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
More: Yahoo Finance, Search Engine Journal, and Business Wire
| Ahmed Hagagy / Reuters: |
Kuwait cracks down on crypto miners for being a “major” cause of its blackouts; Al-Wafrah's energy consumption fell by 55% after last week's security operation — Kuwait has launched a crackdown on cryptocurrency miners it accuses of being a “major” cause of a power crisis …
More: Tom's Hardware, Engadget, and arabtimes
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