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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and the TRUMP memecoin team announce the “Official $TRUMP Wallet” and open a waitlist; Trump's sons deny any involvement or knowledge — Trump to launch branded crypto trading application — Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice! …
More: $TRUMP Wallet, Associated Press, Decrypt, CNBC, CoinDesk, Cryptopolitan, Blockworks, Fortune, Coinpedia Fintech News, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, NFTgators, Protos, The Block, crypto.news, Benzinga, The Crypto Times, and CryptoSlate
Bluesky: @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, and @blumenthal.senate.gov
X: @donaldjtrumpjr, @erictrump, and @molly0xfff
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Meta agrees to buy power from Constellation Energy's Illinois nuclear plant, signing a 20-year deal that starts in mid-2027 when a 10-year state subsidy expires — Constellation Energy Corp. agreed to sell power from an operating Illinois nuclear plant to Meta Platforms Inc. …
More: Meta Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, The Verge, Engadget, The Register, CoinDesk, Chicago Sun Times, Business Wire, Data Center Knowledge, Chicago Business, Tech.co, Inside Climate News, WinBuzzer, Neowin, New York Post, The Hill, DatacenterDynamics, NucNet, Forbes, Motley Fool, ANS, Barron's Online, Washington Examiner, Axios, Cryptopolitan, The Daily Caller, Stimson Center, Benzinga, CNET, The American Bazaar, Capitol Fax.com, POWER Magazine, UPI, ZeroHedge News, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Silicon Valley Business …, Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Axios, and MarketWatch
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| Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal: |
Thoma Bravo raised $34.4B across three funds, including $24.3B for its main software company buyout fund and $8.1B for its midsize software company-focused fund — Many firms are struggling to return cash to investors and raise money — A reckoning in the private-equity industry is sharpening …
More: Bloomberg, PitchBook, Thoma Bravo, Seeking Alpha, The Information, Chicago Business Journal, and Chicago Business. LinkedIn: Daniel French
| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., approves a $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+ after hours — CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) forecast second-quarter revenue below estimates, signaling soft enterprise spending on cybersecurity products … | Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv: |
TikTok has banned the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, following pressure from the French government — The decision raises questions over the European Commission's credibility as a tech enforcer.
More: Engadget, New York Times, ChannelX, Tubefilter, Politico, and Public Citizen
X: @public_citizen, @veronikacifrova, and @mikeisaac
Forums: r/technology, r/worldnews, and r/europe
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google's NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks and AI podcasts publicly; viewers can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs — Viewers can't edit the notebook, but they can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Maginative, and Android Central
X: @notebooklm and @stevenbjohnson
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised nearly $30M from donors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn — Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
More: The Guardian, LawZero, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, TechSpot, PYMNTS.com, Canadian Press, Bloomberg, Axios, Time, The Decoder, TechCrunch, financialpost, Axios, Verdict, Globe and Mail, and Tech in Asia
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a technique Meta uses to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers — Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories. — Tracking code that Meta …
More: localmess.github.io, Android Police, DataBreachToday.com, MakeUseOf, TechRadar, Tech Xplore, Android Authority, El País, and Pixel Envy
Bluesky: @sadknob, @benlikestoco.de, @grapheneos.org, and @tyleraking.com
Mastodon: @AAKL@infosec.exchange, @vxo@digipres.club, and @tek@freeradical.zone
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/privacy, r/Android, Lobsters, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6 — The MetaHuman creator is now built right into Unreal Engine. … Epic Games' hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive … | Kate Payne / Associated Press: |
A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional” — A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $7.63B, vs. $7.46B est., Server revenue up 6% YoY to $4.1B, and says it expects a reduced impact from tariffs this year — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reported quarterly revenue that topped estimates and said it expects a reduced impact from tariffs on its business this year.| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects a record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it is not building a fab in the Middle East — HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Tuesday said it expects to log a record profit … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek may have used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning model — Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks.
More: VICE, WinBuzzer, Reclaim The Net, and Tom's Guide
| Blockworks: |
Sources: Pump.fun plans to raise $1B via a token sale at a $4B valuation; Pump.fun has generated over $700M in cumulative revenue since its launch in early 2024 — Pump.fun's own token is coming soon, sources tell Blockworks — Pump.fun plans to raise $1 billion via a token sale … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users — This is the Codex “cloud-based software engineering agent”, not the Codex CLI tool or older 2021 Codex LLM. Codex just started rolling out to ChatGPT Plus …
More: Neowin and Maginative
X: @lbeurerkellner, @yampeleg, @openaidevs, @openaidevs, @simonw, @openaidevs, and @openaidevs
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering — The ‘Manage Topics’ settings let you control how often you see TikTok videos related to sports, travel, humor, dance, and other categories.
More: Thurrott, TikTok, MobileSyrup, Engadget, iPhone in Canada, TechCrunch, Jerusalem Post, WeRSM, Lifewire, and CNET
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
The Trump administration announces plans to reorganize the US AI Safety Institute into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation — The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Photoshop for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB+ of RAM, offering tools like layers, masks, and Generative Fill — Android users can now download Photoshop for mobile. Adobe announced on Tuesday that it's releasing the beta version …
More: The Adobe Blog, Android Authority, PCMag, iPhone in Canada, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, PetaPixel, PhoneArena, Android Police, and Lifewire. Forums: r/Android
| Catherine Perloff / The Information: |
How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance — In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business. Once-red hot revenue growth … | Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Nintendo says it didn't send any Switch 2 review units to outlets as “important features and updates” will only be available via an update on its June 5 launch — NINTENDO'S DECISION NOT TO FACILITATE PRE-LAUNCH SWITCH 2 REVIEWS IS DISAPPOINTING NEWS FOR EVERYONE
More: Forbes, MobileSyrup, The Game Post, GamingBolt, Mirror, Gameranx, GamesRadar, XboxEra, Kotaku, GoNintendo, and Destructoid
Bluesky: @ethangach and @mgsiegler.com
Forums: r/NintendoSwitch2, r/NintendoSwitch, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, r/kindafunny, and r/gaming
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese companies designing advanced chips for manufacturing in Taiwan, like Xiaomi, are set to be the hardest hit by new US export rules on EDA tools — Companies may struggle to manufacture silicon in Taiwan with export controls preventing updates to design tools| Politico: |
Pornhub's parent company plans to stop serving adult content in France as soon as June 4, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify visitors' ages — Porn industry giant protests Paris' measures to verify the age of users. — This article is also available in: FrenchSponsor Posts
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