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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, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Bloomberg, VideoGamer, Associated Press, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, PCMag, Digital Trends, New York Times, TechSpot, Ghacks, Tom's Guide, Spyglass, Gameranx, PC Guide, TechCrunch, Investopedia, Aftermath, Macworld, MarketWatch, Livemint, 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.| 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 …
Bluesky: @vortexegg.com, @cfiesler, and @josephcox
| 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, @ft, @brianroemmele, @jukanlosreve, @theresaafallon, @business, @okaythenme, and @jcmittelstaedt
| Bloomberg: |
China threatens legal action against anyone enforcing US restrictions on Huawei's chips, escalating the US-China tech dispute as the two countries hold meetings — US-China tech tensions are flaring again, with Beijing threatening legal action against anyone enforcing Washington's restrictions …
More: CNN, Tech in Asia, and Morningstar, Inc.
| 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: @metacurity.com, @stokel, @zachsdorfman, and @micahflee.com
Mastodon: @malwarejake@infosec.exchange and @Bmwalt@infosec.exchange
X: @lesleyabravanel, @verambergen, and @rhinozzcode
Forums: r/technology and r/technology
| 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
More: ZDNET, MacRumors, Regenerator, The Daily Upside, Livemint, TGDaily, Radio Free Mobile, Laptop Mag, Android Headlines, The Rundown AI, TipRanks Financial, Business Standard, and Digit
Bluesky: @caseynewton.mastodon …. X: @joshm, @deedydas, @poojauniyall, @rowancheung, @diesol, @kevinroose, and @ehuanglu
| Michael L Hicks / Android Central: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
More: South China Morning Post, The Information, Road to VR, Engadget, PhoneArena, CNET, VentureBeat, Benzinga, CNBC, TechRadar, XREAL, UploadVR, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Laptop Mag, ZDNET, The Verge, Android Central, and Gizmodo
Threads: @michaelbtech. X: @heaney555, @heaney555, @scobleizer, @parkerortolani, @mikeisaac, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @arian_ghashghai, @heaney555, and @xreal_global. Forums: r/Android
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
More: Business Wire, Benzinga, KnowTechie, Patently Apple, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, Morningstar, Inc., The Korea Herald, Tech Funding News, Verdict, TechCrunch, and Wall Street Journal. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
More: TechCrunch, The Keyword, MacRumors, HotHardware, Forbes, Tasnim News Agency, The Verge on YouTube, Digital Trends, Optician Online, Korea Joongang Daily, KED Global, Phandroid, UploadVR, and CNET
Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com. Threads: @wongmjane. X: @drbarnard, @altryne, @rakeshsfnyc, @google, @realdowd, @xreal_global, @nathievr, @google, @google, and @benbajarin. LinkedIn: Juston P.
| 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 and PV Tech
Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk, @caseycrownhart, @helenczerski, and @niallfirth
Forums: Hacker News, r/TrueReddit, r/climate, r/ChatGPT, r/technews, Beehaw, and Lobsters
| 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. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk and @zackwhittaker.com. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
| 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, Beyond Search, The Mac Observer, and PhoneArena
| CNBC: |
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, new AI filmmaking tool Flow, and expanded access to music generation model Lyria 2 — Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio.
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, HotHardware, The Verge, Silicon Republic, Android Developers Blog, The Economic Times, IndieWire, Coinpaper, KnowTechie, AIN, The Hans India, Financial Express, GSMArena.com, Analytics India Magazine, The Hindu, WinBuzzer, Maginative, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, and TechCrunch
X: @skirano, @googledeepmind, @martinnebelong, @nearcyan, @emollick, @nearcyan, @sherveen, @mrjasonchoi, @ishansharma7390, @swyx, @cokanestudio, @mattvidpro, @maxescu, @arikuschnir, @emollick, @googledeepmind, @fofrai, @mattshumer_, @teodor_io, @pizza_later, @google, @angrytomtweets, @ednewtonrex, @saboo_shubham_, @google, @kylebrussell, and @mkbhd. LinkedIn: Jeff Chang
Forums: Hacker News, r/movies, and Slashdot
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
More: The Keyword, Silicon Canals, TechCircle, WinBuzzer, and The Week
X: @officiallogank, @archit_sharma97, @mattturck, @natolambert, @jack_w_rae, @erikbryn, @tunguz, and @googledeepmind. LinkedIn: Thomas Kurian. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 … | 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 its drivers' “cognitive load” — Gemini can ease a driver's “cognitive load” so they can keep their eyes on the road, the automaker says.
More: Volvo, 9to5Google, Quartz, Android Authority, KnowTechie, Cryptopolitan, Telematics News, TipRanks Financial, T3, and Engadget
| 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 … | 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 … | 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, Coinspeaker, Protos, Crypto Briefing, Cryptoforensic Investigators, and CyberInsider
X: @arrington, @brian_armstrong, @arrington, and @tayvano_
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in “research preview” under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B — AI startup Mistral on Wednesday announced a new AI model focused on coding: Devstral.
More: Mistral AI, VentureBeat, and All Hands AI on YouTube
X: @sophiamyang, @sophiamyang, @mistralai, and @allhands_ai
| 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, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, Infosecurity, CyberInsider, and Cyber Security News
X: @fbiboston and @dmanews1
| 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.| 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| 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.
More: Financial Times, TechCrunch, The Keyword, GSMArena.com, Marketing Week, Search Engine Roundtable, 9to5Google, Benzinga, WebProNews, Gizchina.com, The Straits Times, TipRanks Financial, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Search Engine Land, Mashable, Engadget, Wired, The Verge, The Verge, and 9to5Google
Threads: @that.map.guy.craig and @wongmjane
| 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
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
Google expands its “sovereign cloud” options in the EU, including a new “data shield” that provides additional cybersecurity 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
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Filed, which uses AI to automate tax professionals' low-value tasks, raised $17.2M across seed and preseed led by Northzone, Day One Ventures, and others — Tax software startup Filed Inc. said today it has raised $17.2 million in funding to try and fix what it says is the accounting …
More: FinSMEs
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
AI startup Crusoe secures $11.6B in debt and equity to expand a Texas data center it is building for OpenAI, set to open in 2026 and host up to 400K Nvidia GPUs — The eight-building Texas project is a central piece of OpenAI's efforts to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for computing power
More: Benzinga, The Decoder, Wall Street Pit, and Reuters
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