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The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more — Justice Department says iPhone maker leveraged its dominance to block software and limit functionality of competing devices
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LinkedIn: Langley Steinert, Cole Dansie, and Caroline Giegerich
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
In its lawsuit, the US DOJ alleges CarPlay lets Apple exert too much control over the auto industry; some analysts say the DOJ may be misunderstanding CarPlay — Buried in the 88-page antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Apple is a reference to everyone's favorite phone-projection system, CarPlay.
More: US Department of Justice, Wired, Fast Company, Carscoops, InsideEVs, Wccftech, and Hollywood Reporter
Threads: @jonathansposts, @davie_jens, @gergelyorosz_, @ashzade_, @reckless1280, and @gergelyorosz_. X: @dorajfacundo. Forums: r/apple
| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
A look at DOJ's case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+ — The U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday.
More: MacStories, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Spyglass, Salon, Associated Press, PCWorld, Neowin, Daring Fireball, and The Verge
Threads: @benedictevans, @eric_seufert, @agraham999, and @benedictevans
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says the US DOJ winning its lawsuit “would set a dangerous precedent, empowering government to take a heavy hand in designing people's technology” — The U.S. Department of Justice today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of operating …
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Threads: @chancehmiller, @eshumarneedi, and @technicallymims
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Matt Rosoff / TechCrunch: |
The DOJ's Apple suit has a lot of parallels to its Microsoft suit in the 1990s, but Apple's monopoly position is not nearly as clear-cut as Microsoft's was — The U.S. Department of Justice plus attorneys general from 16 states and the District of Columbia sued Apple for antitrust this morning in federal court.
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| Bloomberg: |
Reddit closes up 48%, at $50.44 per share, in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at about $9.5B on a fully diluted basis — - Social media company, holders raised $748 Million in IPO … The San Francisco-based company's stock closed at $50.44 each on Thursday in New York …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out Threads fediverse integration beta in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated platforms like Mastodon — Threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan. In a post on Thursday …
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Threads: @mosseri, @zuck, @timothyjchambers, @alexanderbellgram, @lucaspuskaric, @jrdorkin, @ben.werdmuller, @guillecummings, @parkerortolani, @codybrom, and @zuck. Instagram: Threads
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU plans to announce investigations into Apple's and Google's DMA compliance in the coming days; Meta's subscriptions could also face scrutiny — - Meta also expected to face scrutiny in EU's Big Tech clampdown — Digital Markets Act investigations could pave way for fines
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail an unpatchable vulnerability in Apple's M-series of chips that lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs during cryptographic operations — Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance. — A newly discovered vulnerability baked …
More: GoFetch, Tom's Hardware, SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, and Six Colors
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X: @sweis, @danielgenkin, and @matthew_d_green
LinkedIn: Ken Tindell and Avesta Hojjati, Ph.D.
Forums: Hacker News, r/mac, r/apple, r/MacOS, r/technology, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| The Information: |
Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection's models available for sale on Azure — Microsoft doesn't want its plan to hire two of Inflection AI's co-founders and most of its 70-person staff to be seen as an acquisition.
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and The Decoder
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 for enterprises, adding a Copilot key, a Neural Processing Unit for Windows 11's AI features, and more — Microsoft is gearing up for its “year of the AI PC” with two new Surface devices that won't be sold directly to consumers.
More: Microsoft Devices Blog, Windows Blog, Microsoft Store, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, The Verge, Computerworld, Business Times, PCMag, Digital Trends, PCWorld, XDA Developers, Thurrott, MobileSyrup, Neowin, CNBC, Lifewire, Pocket-lint, XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware, and Windows Central
X: @satyanadella, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @markhachman, and @tomwarren
LinkedIn: Matt Botelho and Yusuf Mehdi
| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
The UN unanimously adopts the first global resolution on AI to encourage protecting personal data, monitoring AI for risks, and safeguarding human rights — The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted the first global resolution on artificial intelligence …
More: Associated Press, Ars Technica, Axios, Cyber Daily, UN News, The White House, Washington Post, CryptoSlate, The Hill, Agence France-Presse, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, UPI, Roll Call, Fast Company, United States Department …, Forbes, Nextgov/FCW, Bloomberg, and FedScoop
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Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, raised $50M led by Pace Capital at a $550M valuation, bringing its total funding to $128M — The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, has raised $50 million in a round led by Pace Capital at a $550 million valuation, TechCrunch has learned exclusively.
More: Thurrott. Threads: @moys1lva. Mastodon: @andyn@social.lol. X: @browsercompany, @_shankarganesh, @jackrandalll, @joekndy, and @vanlancker. Forums: r/ArcBrowser
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Foundry, a cloud computing service provider focused on AI workloads, comes out of stealth after raising $80M across a seed and a Series A at a $350M valuation — Jared Quincy Davis was inspired by AlphaGo. You know, the AI program that plays Go, the 2,500-year old Chinese strategy game?| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone delivery in the US, starting in Christiansburg, VA, after launching a pilot program in Australia in 2022 — DoorDash is expanding its partnership with Alphabet's Wing to bring its drone delivery pilot to the U.S., the company announced on Thursday.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally — The letter, also signed by CrowdTangle's former CEO, claims shutting it down is a “direct threat” to researchers' work
More: Mozilla Foundation. Threads: @silvermanbrandon, @andymstone, @silvermanbrandon, and @silvermanbrandon
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify's TikTok-like redesign reveals the follower numbers for top podcasters: The Joe Rogan Experience has 14.5M, followed by TED Talks Daily with 5M — A new TikTok-like redesign from the streaming giant unveils actual audience data for top podcasters — Welcome back to Soundbite.
More: The Information and Business Insider
Threads: @jamesn1, @edmundlee, and @technicallymims
| Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: |
WBD plans to launch Max in Europe starting on May 21 in the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe, in time for the Olympics, included in all plans — The rollout is also timed to the second season of “House of the Dragon” — Max will begin its launch in Europe on May 21 … | Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to users are “demonstrably false” and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over — - Ray called the claims ‘callously’ and ‘demonstrably’ false — SBF had claimed customers on the exchange suffered no harm| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Baiju Bhatt plans to step down to pursue other entrepreneurial interests, but will remain on the company's board — Bhatt to remain a member of the board — Robinhood Markets co-founder Baiju Bhatt will step down from his chief creative officer role … | Brady Dale / Axios: |
Succinct, which is building zero-knowledge proof tech for blockchain apps, raised $55M led by Paradigm across a seed and a Series A — - That's all well and good. … - It might, for example, take a ton of work for a blockchain to verify all its transactions, but then applications that use … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube TV gets multiview support on iOS and iPadOS, letting users watch up to four TV channels at once; Android support is set to arrive “in the coming months” — Google has confirmed that YouTube TV is now rolling out support for Multiview on the iPhone and iPad, but the feature won't arrive on Android for a while.
More: The Verge, Chrome Unboxed, ZDNet, and Tubefilter
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