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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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Forums: r/worldnews and r/technology
| 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, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCWorld, Mashable, Tech Monitor, PC Gamer, XDA Developers, PCMag, CyberInsider, Neowin, Tom's Guide, Security Boulevard, Business Standard, Security Affairs, WinBuzzer, Digit, Ghacks, Tom's Hardware, and Cyber Security News
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Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| 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: |
More: Spotify, The Verge, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, Silicon Republic, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, TechRadar, CNBC, Digital Music News, Cryptopolitan, MacRumors, PCMag, Variety, Music Ally, Tom's Guide, KnowTechie, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Standard, Mashable, Digital Trends, Neowin, Stash.gg, iClarified, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, TechRadar, Vercel, 9to5Mac, and Bloomberg
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Threads: @rsgnl and @eshumarneedi@www.threads.com
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Forums: r/technews, r/technology, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working with Anthropic for a new version of Xcode that will use Claude Sonnet to write, edit, and test code, with plans to roll out internally — Apple Inc. is teaming up with startup Anthropic PBC on a new “vibe-coding” software platform that will use artificial intelligence to write …
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Reuters, iClarified, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| 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
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple plans to source 19B+ chips from the US in 2025, including from TSMC's expanding Arizona operations, part of its shift to lessen its reliance on China — He also affirmed expectations that Apple will in future make the vast majority of its US-bound iPhones in India …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| 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, Reuters, Blockonomi, Security Boulevard, The Record, Cryptopolitan, and ZyCrypto
| 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 … | 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 … | OpenAI: |
OpenAI shares details on how an update to GPT-4o inadvertently increased the model's sycophancy, why OpenAI failed to catch it, and the changes it is planning — A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we're making. — On April 25th, we rolled out an update to GPT‑ …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Livemint, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and Blockchain.News
Bluesky: @natolambert and @timkellogg.me
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Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Temu stops shipping products from China directly to US shoppers and lists only products shipped from US warehouses, as Trump closes the de minimis exemption — Bargain Chinese retailer Temu changed its business model in the U.S. as the Trump administration's new rules on low-value shipments took effect on Friday.
More: BBC, Baltimore Sun, Tech in Asia, Financial Times, Jamaica Observer, South China Morning Post, and Wired
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the under-13 users' data to train its AI — The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.
Bluesky: @pxmorris, @pxmorris, @jesteinf, and @hypervisible
| 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 … | 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 …
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Forums: r/economicCollapse, r/politics, and Slashdot
| 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
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