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| Matt Simons / Courthouse News Service: |
A US jury awards Meta nearly $168M in damages from Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in connection with the 2019 spyware attack on 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: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Meta, Washington Post, The Economic Times, CTech, CyberScoop, Access Now, The Record, Politico, Engadget, Ukrainian National News, Reuters, dailyjournal.com, DataBreachToday.com, Reuters, Social Media Today, The Hill, The Intercept, RTL Today, Default, Platformer, Cyber Security News, The Register, Cyber Daily, Axios, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, The Verge, and Pixel Envy
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| 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, Put the knife …, MacStories, Daring Fireball, Good e-Reader, mjtsai.com, MacRumors, Dexerto, Pocket-lint, nextpit, MakeUseOf, Laptop Mag, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, GeekWire, Washington Post, Android Authority, Mashable, Engadget, The Information, iDownloadBlog.com, and Android Police
Bluesky: @lu.is and @quinnypig.com
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Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Above Avalon, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daring Fireball, WinBuzzer, PCMag, and The Verge
X: @unofficialdf, @zeffmax, @loudmouthjulia, @simonowens, and @timsweeneyepic. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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, 404 Media, NBC News, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden …, The Hill, KGW-TV, Techdirt, and The Verge
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/Military, r/neoliberal, and r/democrats
| 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 … | 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 …
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Microsoft officially removes VR and MR support for Minecraft, after announcing its plans to sunset support in October 2024 — 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.| 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 …
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| Financial Times: |
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
New Hampshire becomes the first US state to pass a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill, permitting public fund investment in bitcoin, either directly or via an ETF — - New Hampshire has become the first state to pass a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” bill, according to Satoshi Action Fund founder Dennis Porter.| 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 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.| Financial Times: |
DoorDash's planned Deliveroo acquisition renews questions about the UK's ability to attract and retain large tech listings in the face of New York's dominance — £2.9bn takeover brings end to app's UK listing after ‘worst ever’ initial public offering
More: BBC, The Times, Reuters, The Guardian, Sifted, The Information, and Financial Times
| 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: |
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
EA reports Q4 net bookings up 8% YoY to $1.8B, above $1.56B est., and forecasts FY 2026 bookings above estimates at $7.6B to $8B; EA jumps 5%+ — Electronic Arts shares rose more than 5% after the company topped fiscal fourth-quarter bookings estimates and issued upbeat guidance.
More: Video Games Chronicle, VentureBeat, Variety, Push Square, VentureBeat, TheGamer, Wall Street Journal, ir.ea.com, Reuters, and Investor's Business Daily
Forums: r/xbox, r/gaming, r/PS5, and r/pcgaming
| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Sources: Periodic Labs, which is building a “ChatGPT for material science”, is seeking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $1B+ valuation — Periodic Labs, a startup founded by Liam Fedus, a former vice president of post-training research at OpenAI …
| 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, Financial Times, Reuters, Pocket-lint, iTnews, Fox Business, Engadget, Silicon UK, Forbes, Quartz, and Motley Fool
X: @jason and @lasvegaslocally
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and Slashdot
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
The CFPB says it will stop enforcing a Biden-era rule treating BNPL firms like credit card lenders; Affirm and other BNPL firms had opposed the rule — For the third time under President Donald Trump, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has pulled back from enforcing a key rule, this time targeting buy now, pay later services.| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
FTC v. Meta: a 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 … | Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell's family offices have committed $1B in total to Coatue's new investment fund targeting high-growth public and private tech companies — Coatue's fund is being anchored by $1 billion from family offices of Amazon founder and Michael Dell
More: Coatue, The Information, Benzinga, and Coatue
| Hannah Ritchie / Sustainability: |
A look at the impact of ChatGPT use on energy consumption, as analysis suggests AI usage is still a rounding error on a person's total electricity footprint — Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do. — A couple of months ago I wrote an article looking at the energy use of artificial intelligence.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @andymasley
Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net and @evan@fedi.evrys.me
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Melbourne-based Blinq, which lets users create custom digital business cards and sync contacts with CRM systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Touring Capital — It's 2025, but business cards are still in vogue — just visit any conference or industry expo and you'll end up with a pile that's likely …
More: Australian Financial Review, Blinq, Capital Brief, and SmartCompany
LinkedIn: Blinq and Stephanie Hales
| Margaux MacColl / The San Francisco Standard: |
A profile of Christian Garrett, co-founder of the Hill and Valley Forum and partner at 137 Ventures, who has become Silicon Valley's diplomat to Washington, DC — The young investor is the rare power broker who gives away no partisan preferences. That's why everyone is listening to him.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai partner to deploy Pony.ai's robotaxis on Uber's platform, starting with a launch in “a key market in the Middle East” in 2025 — Uber announced its third partnership with a Chinese autonomous vehicle company this week, revealing the ride-hail …
More: Forbes ME, Tech in Asia, Reuters, Benzinga, Motley Fool, Bloomberg, Uber, CnEVPost, and The Verge
| 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 …
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