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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, Ars Technica, New York Times, TechCrunch, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE, CyberScoop, Access Now, Platformer, The Hill, Reuters, The Register, Agence France-Presse, USA Today, The Record, Cyber Daily, Engadget, Social Media Today, Cyber Security News, The Verge, Financial Times, Politico, Axios, dailyjournal.com, BankInfoSecurity.com, The Intercept, and Default
Bluesky: @davidakaye, @kschake, @kimlanelaw, @jsrailton, @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, TechEBlog, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Yanko Design, Windows Central, Trusted Reviews, Neowin, Liliputing, PhoneArena, Ars Technica, PCWorld, ZDNET, CNET, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Gizmodo, XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware, Thurrott, 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 …, AppleInsider, Laptop Mag, MakeUseOf, GeekWire, Dexerto, Mashable, Washington Post, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocket-lint, mjtsai.com, Engadget, The Information, iDownloadBlog.com, and Android Police
Bluesky: @lu.is and @quinnypig.com
Mastodon: @matt@isfeeling.social, @tsturm@famichiki.jp, and @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Threads: @benedictevans, @mgsiegler, @crumbler, and @joshteder
X: @timsweeneyepic, @adamconner, @markrein, @dhh, @dhh, @joshgans, @richontech, and @parkerortolani
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/RooCode, r/singularity, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| 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: Reuters, OpenAI, The Information, Mashable, Futurism, Silicon UK, Breitbart, Yahoo Finance, New York Times, and TechCrunch. Forums: 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, Pocket-lint, iTnews, Forbes, Silicon UK, Quartz, Engadget, Motley Fool, and Fox Business
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| 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, and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
DoorDash plans to acquire NYC-based hospitality tech company SevenRooms for $1.2B in cash, set to close in H2 2025; SevenRooms works with 13K+ restaurant groups — In a matter of five hours, the US delivery firm DoorDash Inc. announced two multibillion-dollar acquisitions that stand to turn …
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| 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.| 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 … | 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: @proudlyblue, @ihatetrump4ever, @kolchak, @fridaghitis, @urocklive1, @lorak, and @ericmgarcia. LinkedIn: Rebecca Patterson
Forums: r/skeptic, r/QuiverQuantitative, r/Buttcoin, r/politics, and r/LeopardsAteMyFace
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| 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Patreon rolls out an updated version of its iOS app that lets users make purchases via the web in addition to using in-app purchases — Creator platform Patreon has rolled out an updated version of its app that now allows users to make purchases via the web, in the wake of the Apple-Epic court ruling … | Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
More: MacRumors, Above Avalon, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, PCMag, and The Verge
X: @loudmouthjulia, @zeffmax, @unofficialdf, @timsweeneyepic, and @simonowens. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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.| 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.
More: Video Games Chronicle, VentureBeat, Variety, TheGamer, Push Square, VentureBeat, ir.ea.com, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and Investor's Business Daily. Forums: r/xbox
| 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 … | 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| 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| 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, NVIDIA, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Runtime, CIO.com, The New Stack, Network World, Constellation Research, Techstrong.ai, Business Insider, The Information, 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 and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @brianmfloyd, @sethabramson, @politico.com, @niedermeyer.online, @nateforutah, @bkingdc, @fredsmith, @smtuffy, and @arielwittenberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/environment, r/memphis, r/grok, and r/politics
| 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.| 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 valuation of at least $1B — Periodic Labs, a startup founded by Liam Fedus, a former vice president of post-training research at OpenAI …
| 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 …
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