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Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:

Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will start cracking down on password sharing in June in some countries and more broadly in September — New York CNN — — Disney is curbing password sharing for its Disney+ streaming service as part of a larger effort to boost signups and revenue.

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's display and car research teams were reportedly based — The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.

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Song Jung-a / Financial Times:

Samsung estimates Q1 operating profit of $4.9B, up 931% YoY, and sales of $52.68B, up 11.4% YoY, as memory chip prices surge, hinting end of the chip downturn — World's biggest maker of memory chips beats expectations with strong first-quarter guidance — Samsung Electronics expects …

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Bloomberg:

YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini — The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI's text-to-video generator would be a infraction of the platform's terms of service …

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Forums: r/OpenAI and r/ArtistHate

Ryan Browne / CNBC:

Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country's strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown — Coinbase has been granted a registration license in Canada, the company told CNBC, allowing it to make deeper inroads abroad …

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Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:

Binance says it will stop support for Bitcoin NFTs on May 18 as it “streamlines” its offerings; Binance users won't be eligible for future Bitcoin NFT airdrops — Users have been prompted to withdraw Bitcoin NFTs from Binance by May 18. — Trading volume for NFTs is at multi-year lows.

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:

Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use — Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as the world of book publishing evolves.”

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Reuters:

Sources: Alphabet is considering an offer for the marketing software company HubSpot, which has a $35B market cap, in what would be its largest acquisition yet — Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot (HUBS.N) …

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for US' chip manufacturing plans — South Korean firm plans to add a second semiconductor factory and advanced-packaging facility at its new hub outside Austin

More: Bloomberg, The Verge, and Sammy Fans

The Economic Times:

India's IT minister says the country is looking to frame a “balanced” AI law that will protect news publishers and content creators while minimizing user harm — Global AI regulation discussions intensify as companies seek fair compensation for AI data training from publishers.

More: MediaNama and Business Today

Jason Koebler / 404 Media:

A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices — Last week, Ernie Smith, the publisher of the website Tedium, got a “copyright infringement notice” …

More: Ars Technica and Engadget

Mastodon: @josephcox@infosec.exchange. Forums: Slashdot

Platformer:

A look at the rocky launch of Shine, the photo-sharing app developed by Marissa Mayer's startup Sunshine whose cofounder Enrique Muñoz Torres resigned this week — Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn't ready

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Connor Stringer / Telegraph:

Court docs: Trump drops part of his BBC lawsuit, dismissing claims against its commercial and production arms but continuing the lawsuit against the broadcaster

Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:

Marvel Comics is moving from NYC to Burbank, CA, asks 100+ employees to relocate by July 2027, and names Stephen Wacker editor-in-chief, replacing C.B. Cebulski

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Louise Matsakis / Wired:

How a TikTok whistleblower may have driven congressional concerns about the app despite working at TikTok for just six months and making improbable claims

More: The Verge. X: @lmatsakis, @dlberes, @leahfeiger, @jason_koebler, and @katiedrumm

María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg:

CCData: crypto trading volume on centralized exchanges hit an all-time high of $9.1T in March, with spot trading volume of $2.94T, the highest since May 2021

More: CoinDesk, CoinGape, The Block, Cointelegraph, and Crowdfund Insider

Brian Heater / TechCrunch:

How Meta's VR bet has played out a decade after its acquisition of Oculus; the company's metaverse division lost $42B between the end of 2020 and Q1 2024

More: CNET. Threads: @daveleebbg

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:

Filing: Meta rejects the FTC's bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying it voluntarily disclosed two Messenger Kids bugs and had no parent complaints

More: International Business Times, Reuters, Benzinga, and FTC

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross

More: Vimeo, Reuters, and Deadline. X: @quinnypig

Niamh Rowe / Fortune:

Ellipsis Labs, which operates Phoenix, a decentralized crypto exchange launched in February 2023, raised a $20M Series A led by Paradigm

More: Ellipsis Labs, The Block, Cryptonews, New.blicio.us, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, and NFTgators

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

OpenAI expands its Custom Model training program with “assisted fine-tuning”, letting organizations set up training data pipelines, evaluation systems, and more

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Chris Vallance / BBC:

Google expands Search Generative Experience to the UK, after launching the feature in preview in the US in May 2023, starting with some logged-in users

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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:

Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor

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Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:

Ripple plans to launch a stablecoin later in 2024 that is “100% backed by US dollar deposits, short-term US government Treasuries, and other cash equivalents”

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

Cohere releases Command R+, an AI model for business customers the startup says performs competitively against OpenAI and others on “business-critical” tasks

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

A profile of hacker Alejandro Caceres, aka P4x, who took down North Korea's internet in 2022 and says the US needs to wield its hacking powers more aggressively

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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:

Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users' money

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Sources: Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza used Lavender, an AI system that identified 37,000 potential human targets based on their apparent links to Hamas

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