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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
A website for “$TRUMP Wallet” launches, saying it is “The Official $TRUMP Wallet by President Trump” powered by NFT service Magic Eden, and opens a waitlist — Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later.
More: $TRUMP Wallet, CoinDesk, Decrypt, CNBC, Blockworks, The Block, Bloomberg, Cryptopolitan, Coinpedia Fintech News, NFTgators, Benzinga, Fortune, Crypto Briefing, Protos, crypto.news, The Crypto Times, and CryptoSlate
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Kaiko: the USD1 stablecoin launched by Trump's World Liberty Financial is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand — President Donald Trump's new dollar-pegged stablecoin is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand, new data shows.| 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. …
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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, TechRadar, Android Authority, MakeUseOf, Tech Xplore, El País, and Pixel Envy
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/privacy, r/Android, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 … | 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: LawZero, The Guardian, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Fortune, The Decoder, Bloomberg, Axios, Time, financialpost, Axios, Verdict, Globe and Mail, and Tech in Asia
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| 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: WinBuzzer, VICE, Reclaim The Net, and Tom's Guide
| 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 … | 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.| 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: ZDNET, Tom's Guide, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Android Central, and Maginative
X: @notebooklm and @stevenbjohnson
| 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 …
More: HotHardware, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, MetaHuman, PC Gamer, Creative Bloq, VideoCardz.com, GamingBolt, Unreal Engine on YouTube, VentureBeat, 80 Level, Epic Games, and DSOGaming. Forums: r/godot
| 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: New York Times, ChannelX, Tubefilter, Politico, and Public Citizen
| 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, Engadget, TikTok, Yahoo Finance, WeRSM, Lifewire, Jerusalem Post, iPhone in Canada, and CNET
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Xiaomi is among the Chinese companies most affected by new US chip design tool export rules, including its new 3nm mobile chip made by TSMC in Taiwan — Companies may struggle to manufacture silicon in Taiwan with export controls preventing updates to design tools| 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 … | 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: French| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Broadcom begins shipping its Tomahawk 6 data center switch chips, which it says can perform the work of six previous-gen chips, to improve GPU utilization rates — China's Startups Race to Dominate the Coming AI Robot Boom — Elon Musk worries the country will eventually lead in the field of humanoids
More: CRN, Broadcom Inc., SiliconANGLE, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, and Benzinga
| 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: MobileSyrup, GoNintendo, Mirror, The Game Post, GamingBolt, Gameranx, GamesRadar, XboxEra, Kotaku, and Destructoid
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Forums: r/NintendoSwitch2, r/NintendoSwitch, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, r/kindafunny, and r/gaming
| Thomas Ptacek / Fly: |
A software developer explains how AI agents help automate tedious coding tasks, and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job losses, mediocre code, and more — Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That's bad strategy. But I get where they're coming from.
More: Forbes and Simon Willison's Weblog
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X: @patio11, @mitchellh, and @tqbf
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B and aims to showcase its first APU in June — Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads …
More: SiliconANGLE and CTech
| Chester Dawson / Bloomberg: |
Indeed says CEO Chris Hyams has stepped down, replaced by parent company Recruit Holdings CEO Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba, who returns to the role after six years — Hisayuki ‘Deko’ Idekoba resumed the top job from Chris Hyams, who has stepped down.Sponsor Posts
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