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| Matt Simons / Courthouse News Service: |
A US jury awards Meta nearly $168M in damages from NSO Group in connection with the 2019 spyware attack on more than 1,400 WhatsApp users' phones — Although NSO Group will likely appeal, the jury's award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the notorious spyware vendor.
More: Meta, TechCrunch, Washington Post, CyberScoop, SiliconANGLE, Platformer, Ars Technica, The Record, New York Times, The Hill, The Register, Engadget, Access Now, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, USA Today, The Verge, Social Media Today, Axios, Default, The Intercept, dailyjournal.com, Politico, Financial Times, and BankInfoSecurity.com
Bluesky: @kimlanelaw, @davidakaye, @kschake, @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com, and @natynettle. Threads: @mwi.invest
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the $899+ Surface Laptop 13, with a smaller 13" screen, an 8-core Snapdragon X Plus, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB/512GB options, shipping from May 20 — The new Surface Laptop 13-inch ditches the Surface Connect port and Windows Hello camera for a smaller footprint.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Microsoft Devices Blog, Engadget, The Verge on YouTube, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Yanko Design, Windows Central, Liliputing, Trusted Reviews, Ars Technica, PCWorld, ZDNET, CNET, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Gizmodo, XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware, Thurrott, Laptop Mag, Pocket-lint, Windows Central, and Windows Central
| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Amazon updates its iOS Kindle app to add a prominent orange “Get book” button, enabling purchases via the mobile browser, after the recent Epic v. Apple ruling — Amazon has updated its Kindle iOS app to take advantage of recent changes to Apple's App Store rules.
More: 9to5Mac, Six Colors, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, MacStories, Put the knife …, Dexerto, The Information, AppleInsider, Laptop Mag, Engadget, MakeUseOf, GeekWire, Mashable, Washington Post, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, mjtsai.com, and Android Police
Threads: @crumbler, @benedictevans, @mgsiegler, and @joshteder
X: @timsweeneyepic, @adamconner, @markrein, @richontech, @dhh, @dhh, @joshgans, and @parkerortolani
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's attorney says OpenAI's nonprofit reversal is “a transparent dodge that fails to address the core issues” and “the founding mission remains betrayed” — Elon Musk's attorney said OpenAI's decision to partly walk back its plan to restructure as a for-profit business …
More: OpenAI, Mashable, Futurism, Silicon UK, Breitbart, Yahoo Finance, New York Times, and TechCrunch. Forums: Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
DoorDash agrees to acquire UK food delivery company Deliveroo for £2.9B in cash; Deliveroo has struggled since its London IPO at a £7.6B valuation in March 2021 — Takeover comes after UK company has struggled since going public four years ago — DoorDash has agreed … | Bloomberg: |
More: DoorDash, New York Times, Silicon UK, PYMNTS.com, Android Police, Barron's Online, Chain Store Age, Reuters, and Proactive
X: @itzsuds, @davidtisch, @morningbrew, @natlungfy, @greg16676935420, @packym, and @mattturck
| Logan Kilpatrick / Google Developers Blog: |
Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview I/O Edition with “significantly” improved capabilities for coding and building interactive web apps, before I/O on May 20 — We've seen developers doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so we decided to release an updated version a couple …
More: The Keyword, InfoWorld, Simon Willison's Weblog, Android Police, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Android Headlines, PYMNTS.com, TipRanks Financial, Neowin, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, Android Authority, WinBuzzer, VentureBeat, Developer Tech News, The Decoder, CNET, Analytics India Magazine, and Android Central
X: @demishassabis, @scobleizer, @tulseedoshi, @lmarena_ai, @_philschmid, @elliscrosby, @jeffdean, @kimmonismus, @jonasaadler, @signulll, @oriolvinyalsml, @scobleizer, @koraykv, @dynamicwebpaige, @geminiapp, @jeffdean, @kwindla, @googledeepmind, @sundarpichai, and @officiallogank
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/singularity, r/RooCode, and Slashdot
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon's Zoox says it temporarily paused all driverless vehicle operations after a crash in Las Vegas on April 8 and issued a software recall for 270 robotaxis — Amazon's Zoox issued a software recall for 270 of its robotaxis after a crash in Las Vegas last month, the company said Tuesday.
More: The Verge, Reuters, Fox Business, Pocket-lint, iTnews, Forbes, Silicon UK, Quartz, Engadget, and Motley Fool
X: @jason and @lasvegaslocally
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and Slashdot
| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Microsoft officially removes VR and MR support for Minecraft, after announcing its plans to sunset it in October of last year — If you ever thought about virtually wandering through Minecraft's Overworld in a VR headset, think again. Those days are over, at least from Microsoft's perspective.| Micah Lee / micahflee: |
Analysis: TM SGNL, TeleMessage's modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, could send plaintext chat logs to TeleMessage's archive server — Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials …
More: Wired, Washington Post, and NBC News
Bluesky: @micahflee.com, @riana, and @katie-drummond. Mastodon: @heidilifeldman@mastodon …. X: @austinc3301
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Chainalysis: ~2M wallets have bought the $TRUMP memecoin, of which ~764,000 wallets have lost money and 58 have made over $10M each, totaling ~$1.1B in profits — WATCH NOW — About 764,000 wallets that purchased President Donald Trump's $TRUMP meme coin have lost money on the investment …
More: Cryptopolitan. Bluesky: @kolchak, @fridaghitis, @urocklive1, @lorak, and @ericmgarcia. LinkedIn: Rebecca Patterson
Forums: r/skeptic, r/QuiverQuantitative, r/Buttcoin, r/politics, and r/LeopardsAteMyFace
| Financial Times: |
More: Cointelegraph, Daily Mail, Bloomberg, Cryptopolitan, The US Sun, New York Post, and Raw Story
| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Q&A with Tim Sweeney on the recent Epic v. Apple ruling, bringing Fortnite back to iOS via Epic's Swedish developer account, and spending $100M+ on legal fees — - Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney — the guy behind Fortnite — has been fighting Apple over its App Store rules for five years.
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, Tom's Guide, and The Verge
X: @loudmouthjulia, @zeffmax, @unofficialdf, @timsweeneyepic, and @simonowens. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
An AWS survey of 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries finds 45% plan to prioritize spending on generative AI in 2025, and 30% on cybersecurity — Generative AI will surpass cybersecurity in many corporate tech budgets this year — with 45% of global IT leaders naming …
More: About Amazon and VentureBeat
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 36% YoY to $7.4B, vs. $7.12B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $3.7B, vs. $3.66B est., and forecasts Q2 sales above estimates — The guidance stems from an export restriction imposed in April that targeted AMD's MI308 chips, the company said during an earnings call on Tuesday.| Sam Becker / Fast Company: |
Cisco says it's made a prototype entanglement source chip that may cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by up to a decade and opens a quantum lab — The networking company is the latest to announce a breakthrough as the race heats up to bring the transformative technology to the masses.| Bloomberg: |
FTC v. Meta: 2019 report from Meta found that minors made up 27% of the follow recommendations that Instagram surfaced to “groomers”, vs. 7% to all adults — Instagram's automated software systems recommended that child “groomers” connect with minors on the app … | Kendra Barnett / Adweek: |
Google unveils AI Max for Search ad campaigns, a suite of AI-powered targeting and creative enhancements, rolling out to advertisers in beta later this month — AI Max for Search has led to an average lift of 14% in conversions without raising cost-per-acquisition
More: Google, Search Engine Journal, Music Technology Policy, MediaPost, WinBuzzer, TVNewsCheck, and Search Engine Land. Bluesky: @wavesblog
| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
ServiceNow launches ServiceNow CRM to take on Salesforce and automate many common workflow steps and “human middleware” with AI — ServiceNow unveiled ServiceNow CRM in a move that aims to expand its total addressable market, leverage its ability to automate workflows with AI and couple selling …
More: ServiceNow, SiliconANGLE, NVIDIA, The Information, Business Insider, Network World, VentureBeat, Runtime, CIO.com, The New Stack, Constellation Research, Techstrong.ai, and CRN. Bluesky: @fredericl
| Ariel Wittenberg / Politico: |
Environmental groups: xAI's Memphis plant now has ~35 gas turbines, and xAI has no Clean Air Act permits; Elon Musk said turbines were necessary to train Grok 3 — The company's turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
More: Inc, WinBuzzer, and Tech Policy Press
Bluesky: @brianmfloyd, @sethabramson, @arielwittenberg, @politico.com, @niedermeyer.online, @nateforutah, @bkingdc, @fredsmith, and @smtuffy
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/environment, r/politics, r/memphis, and r/grok
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung updates Samsung Wallet to add a “Tap to Transfer” feature that lets US users quickly exchange money between themselves, rolling out “later this month” — Samsung Wallet is adding a clever new “Tap to Transfer” feature that lets you quickly exchange money between friends …
More: Samsung Newsroom, MacRumors, PhoneArena, FinTech Futures, SamMobile, Engadget, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, SammyGuru, Phone Scoop, Techaeris, Android Police, CNET, Android Authority, Android Headlines, Android Central, Tom's Guide, The Verge, and How-To Geek. LinkedIn: Kiria Habel
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Sources: Legora, whose AI software helps lawyers draft contracts, review and analyze documents, and more, is in talks to raise $85M at a $675M valuation — The startup hopes to take on AI rivals Harvey and incumbents Thomson Reuters as it gains traction among law firms. — SaveComment| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
EA reports Q4 net bookings up 8% YoY to $1.8B, vs. $1.56B est., and forecasts FY 2026 bookings above estimates; EA jumps 5%+ after hours — Electronic Arts shares rose more than 5% after the company topped fiscal fourth-quarter bookings estimates and issued upbeat guidance.| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Spotify debuts a “plays” metric for podcasts that shows users and creators how many times people have actively listened to or watched an audio or video episode — YouTube continues to dominate the podcasting space, but Spotify is actively working to close the gap.| CNBC: |
The CFTC has moved to drop its appeal of a federal judge's ruling that had allowed Kalshi to take bets on the outcome of US political elections — WATCH NOW — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday moved to drop its appeal of a federal judge's ruling that had allowed commodities … | Axios: |
Sources: Senate Democrats are in talks with Republicans about an eleventh-hour effort to try to save the bipartisan GENIUS Act on stablecoin regulation — Senate Democrats are in discussions with relevant Republicans about an eleventh-hour meeting to try to save the bipartisan GENIUS Act, according to people familiar with the matter.
More: Decrypt, The Verge, CBS News, Semafor, American Banker, The Hill, The Block, and The Crypto Times
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