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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Sources: Tim Cook declined a White House invitation to join Jensen Huang and others on Trump's Middle East trip, where Trump criticized Cook and praised Huang — Apple's chief executive has gone from winning President Trump's praise to drawing his ire, deepening the company's woes in a very bad year.
More: 9to5Mac, Sydney Morning Herald, Business Standard, Times of India, iPhone in Canada, Neowin, The Mac Observer, Fortune India, iClarified, AppleInsider, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @rembrandt77, and @thefarce.org
Mastodon: @matt@isfeeling.social, @codinghorror@infosec.exchange, @marcoarment@mastodon.social, and @nicklockwood@mastodon.social
X: @jeffjarvis and @rakeshsfnyc
Forums: r/technology and r/apple
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Researchers detail an exploit in GitHub's official MCP server that lets hackers trick an LLM agent into leaking private information about the MCP user — GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (via) GitHub's official MCP server grants LLMs a whole host of new abilities …
More: Invariant Labs. Bluesky: @simonwillison.net, @kennwhite, and @lukaszolejnik
Mastodon: @tante@tldr.nettime.org, @mikesax@mas.to, @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net, and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
X: @lbeurerkellner and @convexdad
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and Lobsters
| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU says Shein's practices breach its rules against false discounts, deceptive product labels, and more, and warn Shein could face fines if it doesn't comply — European Union regulators said China-founded e-commerce platform Shein's sales tactics fall foul of EU law and that the company … | Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: |
Researcher: factoring 2048 bit RSA integers could be done with ~20x fewer noisy qubits than previously estimated, though still far beyond current quantum tech — Google just dropped a new research paper, and Bitcoin maxis may want to do some quick math. The tech giant's quantum team found …
More: CoinDesk, Google Online Security Blog, Cryptopolitan, BeInCrypto, COINOTAG NEWS, Cointelegraph, TechSpot, CSO, Motley Fool, and TipRanks Financial. Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US officials, detail Mark Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump, which has yet to pay major dividends — Meta's CEO has done everything he can to win over Trump, and it's not clear how much he has to show for it.
More: Cryptopolitan. Bluesky: @noupside and @noupside. X: @stevesi
Forums: Hacker News and r/politics
| Alexios Mantzarlis / Indicator: |
The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that uses an automated process to flag crypto scam posts and has posted 52,000 times — I thought someone was gaming X's crowdsourced moderation; instead, they appear to be helping clean up the platform's mess for free.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B in fresh equity and another $1B via a convertible bond to buy crypto, including bitcoin — US president's administration and family have become staunch advocates for digital assets — Antoine Gara, Oliver Barnes and George Steer in New York, Arash Massoudi in London
More: Cointelegraph, Proactive, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, Blockchain News, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Wccftech, The Independent, Raw Story, NFTgators, ZyCrypto, The Block, BeInCrypto, The Wrap, crypto.news, NewsMax.com, Decrypt, Bitcoin Magazine, Crypto Briefing, New York Post, CoinDesk, Times of India, Jerusalem Post, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, and The Guardian
| Wall Street Journal: |
California's population is growing again, rising 0.6% in 2024, with the H-1B visa program being one of the drivers, helping offset the residents who are leaving — A job market without enough ‘homegrown’ engineers drives an influx of workers to the U.S.—and helps offset the residents who are leaving
LinkedIn: Michael W. and Darren Kimura
Forums: Hacker News, r/California_Politics, and r/BayAreaRealEstate
| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to “glow up” their appearance — Friends want to protect your feelings. AI isn't pulling any punches. — Ania Rucinski was feeling down on herself.
More: New York Post and Tom's Guide
Bluesky: @joffirphd, @paularmstrongtbd, @frydawolff, @hypervisible, and @chanda
| Financial Times: |
India's crypto industry is lobbying for tax cuts on domestic trading, hoping to seize on New Delhi's softening crypto stance as it negotiates a US trade deal — Government's attitude to digital assets has thawed following Trump's return to White House, say executives — Chris Kay in Mumbai and Krishn Kaushik in New Delhi
More: Coinspeaker, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Cryptopolitan
| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Palisade Research claims that OpenAI's o3 altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown — A new report claims that OpenAI's o3 model altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown.
More: Moneycontrol, The Overspill, Livemint, The Gateway Pundit, BGR, WinBuzzer, Daily Mail, Cyber Security News, BetaNews, Cryptopolitan, Tom's Hardware, Hindustan Times, CryptoSlate, The Independent, Digit, Telegraph, and Neowin
Bluesky: @ohffs100, @ruprechtelampblack, @graue, @youranonriots, and @msunformation
Mastodon: @jamesthomson@mastodon.social and @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @palisadeai, @palisadeai, @palisadeai, @palisadeai, and @palisadeai
Forums: r/nottheonion, r/ChatGPT, r/tech, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Taiwan is ramping up its defense drone push with help from startups like Coretronic, as giants like TSMC and Foxconn hold back due to a smaller local market — Military's stockpile of about 1,000 drones seen as inadequate in the case of conflict with China| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
The UK, which launched open banking in 2018, is seeing its fintech sector struggle to make open banking-powered payments a viable alternative to card payments — London was a world leader for payments technology but now risks falling behind — Simply sign up to the Fintech myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.
More: Watcher Guru and PYMNTS.com
| Jessica Mathews / Fortune: |
Tesla is set to launch its robotaxi service in Austin in June, but city officials say they are still awaiting important information regarding safety protocols — As soon as one week from today, the first driverless Tesla robotaxis could begin zipping passengers through the streets of Austin …
More: Motley Fool and Business Insider
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