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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games says Fortnite for iPadOS and iOS is back on the US App Store, and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU; Apple kicked it off in August 2020 — After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States.
More: App Store, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, MacRumors, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, TechSpot, New York Times, Gameranx, Ghacks, Tom's Guide, Aftermath, Spyglass, PC Guide, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Macworld, Livemint, MarketWatch, Gamereactor UK, Mobilegamer.biz, Yahoo Finance, and Engadget
Mastodon: @johnvoorhees@mastodon …. X: @fortnite, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @donaldmustard, @gergelyorosz, @vbuckscurrency, @ballmatthew, @aaronp613, @timsweeneyepic, @vortexlorefn, @aaronp613, @drbarnard, @openwebadvocacy, @jason_kint, @rjonesy, @matthewstoller, @zollotech, @zaidjilani, @nickeh30, @shiinabr, @mgsiegler, @markgurman, @loudmouthjulia, @hydrakles, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Adam Smith
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/FORTnITE, r/FortNiteBR, and r/FortNiteBR
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft files an amicus brief supporting Epic Games' App Store fight and blames Apple for delaying the Xbox mobile gaming store, first announced in May 2024 — Microsoft has filed support for Epic Games' fight with Apple, as it wants to launch new Xbox mobile improvements.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels selling how AI changes everything, even search, and can give users superpowers — At its annual developer conference, the company seeks to reassure everyone that AI is for everyday utility — but the great disruption to the web continues
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Bluesky: @caseynewton.mastodon …. X: @joshm, @deedydas, @poojauniyall, @rowancheung, @diesol, @kevinroose, and @ehuanglu
| Michael L Hicks / Android Central: |
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Threads: @michaelbtech. X: @heaney555, @heaney555, @scobleizer, @parkerortolani, @mikeisaac, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @arian_ghashghai, @heaney555, and @xreal_global. Forums: r/Android
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
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Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com. Threads: @wongmjane. X: @drbarnard, @altryne, @rakeshsfnyc, @google, @nathievr, @realdowd, @xreal_global, @google, @google, and @benbajarin. LinkedIn: Juston P.
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang calls US AI chip export controls “a failure” that spurred Chinese rivals, cutting Nvidia's market share in China from 95% to 50% over four years — World's top AI semiconductor maker says export controls have accelerated Chinese rivals' advances
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Bluesky: @carnage4life. X: @rnaudbertrand, @jcmittelstaedt, @brianroemmele, @okaythenme, @jukanlosreve, @theresaafallon, @ft, and @business
| MIT Technology Review: |
Analysis: AI's energy consumption is exploding, with data centers' electricity use doubling from 2017 to 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption — The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn't tracking and consider where it's heading next.
More: Financial Times, PV Tech, and Simon Willison's Weblog
Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk, @caseycrownhart, @helenczerski, and @niallfirth
Forums: Hacker News, r/TrueReddit, r/climate, r/ChatGPT, r/technews, Beehaw, and Lobsters
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
Google rolls out Jules, its asynchronous coding agent unveiled in December 2024, in public beta for free with usage limits and will share pricing after the beta — Vibe coding and the growth of AI-powered coding platforms gave rise to yet another battleground among tech companies.| CNBC: |
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X: @ednewtonrex, @skirano, @googledeepmind, @martinnebelong, @nearcyan, @emollick, @nearcyan, @sherveen, @mrjasonchoi, @ishansharma7390, @swyx, @cokanestudio, @mattvidpro, @maxescu, @arikuschnir, @emollick, @googledeepmind, @fofrai, @mattshumer_, @teodor_io, @pizza_later, @google, @angrytomtweets, @saboo_shubham_, @google, @kylebrussell, and @mkbhd. LinkedIn: Jeff Chang
Forums: Hacker News, r/movies, and Slashdot
| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
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X: @officiallogank, @archit_sharma97, @mattturck, @natolambert, @jack_w_rae, @erikbryn, @tunguz, and @googledeepmind. LinkedIn: Thomas Kurian. Forums: Hacker News
| William Langley / Financial Times: |
Inside China's “stolen iPhone building”: electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold for a profit — We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold on a single district in Shenzhen
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and PhoneArena
| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online — A Brazilian team used Discord's API to scrape 10% of its open servers. — Researchers published a massive database … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says weather apps have “graduated from beta” on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in, and that Android Auto will “soon” get browser and video apps — Google has revealed that Android Auto is about to get more apps, including wider access to weather apps … | CoinDesk: |
The US SEC sues Unicoin and its executives, alleging they broke securities laws by raising $100M+ for crypto tokens falsely claimed to be backed by real estate — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued crypto company Unicoin and three executives on Tuesday night on fraud charges … | Reuters: |
Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending on May 4, including travel plans — A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier …
Bluesky: @zachsdorfman, @metacurity.com, @micahflee.com, and @stokel
Mastodon: @malwarejake@infosec.exchange and @Bmwalt@infosec.exchange
X: @lesleyabravanel, @verambergen, and @rhinozzcode
Forums: r/technology and r/technology
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old from Massachusetts, pleads guilty to hacking two US companies and extorting them for ransoms; a source says one firm is PowerSchool — The Massachusetts man agreed to plead guilty to obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
More: US Department of Justice, BleepingComputer, Cyber Security News, Infosecurity, CyberInsider, and CyberScoop
X: @dmanews1 and @fbiboston
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google rolls out AI Mode to all Google Search users in the US, and announces Deep Search, agentic capabilities, chart generation, and more coming to Labs users — Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to every Search user in the US. The company announced the expansion during its I/O 2025 conference.
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Threads: @that.map.guy.craig and @wongmjane
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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Bluesky: @hypervisible and @danhon.com
X: @munster_gene, @vijayshekhar, @kimmonismus, @maxwinebach, @parkerortolani, @googledeepmind, and @googledeepmind. Forums: r/Android
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
After a protest at Build 2025, Microsoft's head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's planned AI tools use — Internal messages were displayed after two former Microsoft employees disrupted a Build session.
More: Windows Central and PC Gamer
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Maine AG filing: Coinbase says its recent data breach impacted 69,461 individuals; stolen data included government IDs, account info, and personal identifiers — Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, revealed that a recent data breach in which cybercriminals stole customer …
More: TechCrunch, Security Affairs, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Cryptoforensic Investigators, and CyberInsider
X: @arrington, @brian_armstrong, @tayvano_, and @arrington
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon issues refunds for returns as far back as 2018; CFO Brian Olsavsky said on May 1 that Amazon took a ~$1.1B charge over “some historical customer returns” — Amazon.com Inc. customers are suddenly getting refunds for products they purchased and returned as far back as 2018 … | Laura Onita / Financial Times: |
UK retailer M&S says it expects a £300M operating profit hit from an April cyberattack and disruption to continue until July 2025; its market cap is down ~£750M — UK retailer discloses that breach came via supplier and warns online operations will be disrupted until July
More: BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, BleepingComputer, The Register, Associated Press, Infosecurity, Bloomberg, Insurance Journal, and Fortune
| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, like an overdubbed foreign language speaker on the news — New AI speech translation in Google Meet video chats can mimic the speaker's voice, tone and emotion.| Colin Lecher / The Markup: |
New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns — How a family's neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look … Karlena Hamblin was sitting on a stool …
Bluesky: @surambaya, @themarkup.org, @themarkup.org, @khari, @themarkup.org, and @drifterlife.com
| Keach Hagey / Wired: |
Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg — The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. … Like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel had long been obsessed …
Forums: r/artificial
| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
AMD unveils Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 CPUs with up to 96 cores, and an RDNA 4-based Radeon AI Pro R9700 workstation GPU, both slated to launch in July 2025 — COMPUTEX AMD aims to extend its lead over Intel in the high-end desktop (HEDT) and workstation arenas with its 9000-series …
More: HotHardware, CRN, Network World, TechPowerUp, The Verge, PCMag, TechSpot, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, StorageReview.com, Ars Technica, Engadget, Forbes, PCWorld, VideoCardz.com, XDA Developers, Phoronix, ServeTheHome, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, How-To Geek, Neowin, Guru3D, VentureBeat, and Tech4Gamers. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Volvo expands its Google partnership to integrate Gemini across its model lineup, the first automaker to do so, hoping to ease a driver's “cognitive load” — Gemini can ease a driver's “cognitive load” so they can keep their eyes on the road, the automaker says.
More: Volvo, Telematics News, TipRanks Financial, T3, and Engadget
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
Google expands its sovereign cloud options in the EU, including a new “data shield” that provides additional cyber security protections to European clients — Tech giant offers additional data security protections in EU as local customers express concern over reliance on US tech
Forums: r/eutech
| Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg: |
Abu Dhabi's TII releases Falcon Arabic, an AI model that it claims can match the performance of models up to 10 times its size, and smaller model Falcon H1 — A research arm of the Abu Dhabi government has released a powerful new Arabic-language artificial intelligence model in a bid …
More: Business Wire and The Circuit
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