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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €530M for illegally sending European user data to China and orders it to bring such transfers into compliance within six months  —  Irish privacy watchdog says app failed to protect user data sent to China  —  Ireland's data-privacy watchdog fined TikTok …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Hayden Field / CNBC:
A US judge schedules the US government's remedies trial in the Google antitrust case regarding its advertising tech to begin on September 22
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
A hacking group called DragonForce takes credit for ransomware attacks targeting British retailers M&S, Harrods, and Co-Op over the past two weeks  —  - Cybercrime spree targeted Marks & Spencer, Co-Op, Harrods  — Hacking gang takes credit for attacks on the retailers
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‑ …
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.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple approves a Spotify iOS app update that lets US customers use other payment options beyond Apple's payment system; Patreon said it plans to do the same
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 …
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.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Filing: Jeff Bezos plans to sell up to $4.75B worth of AMZN, or 25M shares, via an orderly trading plan, set up in March, running through the end of May 2026
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.
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 …
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

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Cuts at ESPN are part of larger Disney layoffs; sources: some corporate functions, film studios, and Disney Entertainment Television are expected to be impacted

MJ Franklin / New York Times:
How publishers are cashing in on surging public interest in The Odyssey through splashy reissues; Circana BookScan says sales of The Odyssey rose by 76% YoY

K.J. Yossman / Variety:
The UK's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham keeps Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy in post; Nandy is currently overseeing the BBC's royal charter renewal

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