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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
CISA is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense; sources: the attackers copied several terabytes of customer data, including credentials — The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence …
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LinkedIn: Evan Roberts and David Kennedy
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is discontinuing its Google One VPN due to a lack of use; Google's free Pixel VPN that debuted in 2022 with the Pixel 7 will remain unchanged — Back in October of 2020, Google One introduced a VPN that later became available on all plans and platforms.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
X tells users “the hide your checkmark feature of X Premium is going away soon”, after X began adding blue checks to “influential” users with 2,500+ followers — The change comes after X began verifying “influential” users who hadn't signed up for premium.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Mashable, iMore, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Android Headlines, Social Media Today, and NDTV
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple nears production of M4 chips with AI upgrades and memory improvements, coming to new MacBook Pros, Mac minis, and iMacs starting in late 2024 — - Company working on rapid transition to the new processors — Revamp will bring AI capabilities and memory improvements
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| Reuters: |
A UK judge throws out Apple's motion to dismiss a $979M lawsuit representing more than 1,500 developers alleging that App Store's 30% commission is unfair — Apple (AAPL.O) on Friday lost a bid to throw out a mass lawsuit valued at just under $1 billion, brought in London on behalf …
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| The Information: |
Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers — TikTok touts itself as a platform where creators can stand out and build a following. But the company has begun discussing with advertisers …
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Researchers say they haven't found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoMe discovered — “In the DeepMind paper there are many examples of predicted materials that are clearly nonsensical.”
More: ACS Publications and Silicon Republic
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| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China asked its largest telecom carriers, including China Mobile, to phase out foreign chips from their equipment by 2027, in a blow to Intel and AMD — Beijing's move is the latest installment in a U.S.-China technology war that is splintering the global chip industry
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
OpenTable plans to display members' first names and profile photos on all reviews, including past reviews, starting May 22 in a bid to provide more transparency — Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable says that all reviews on the platform will no longer be fully anonymous starting …
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health lays off ~10% of its workforce; Hinge had an estimated 1,700+ employees, and was valued at $6.2B in October 2021 — Hinge Health, a 9-year-old company that offers a digital solution to treat chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Google releases Android 15 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, with edge-to-edge app scaling by default, OS-level support for app archiving and unarchiving, and more — Google LLC today announced the release of the first beta test version of Android 15, opening up the upcoming operating system for both developers and early adopters to test out.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives pitched ChatGPT Enterprise to hundreds of Fortune 500 companies this month, including some Microsoft customers — OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has hosted hundreds of Fortune 500 company executives in San Francisco, New York and London … | Wall Street Journal: |
In his annual shareholder letter, Andy Jassy says GenAI “may be the largest technology transformation since the cloud” and Amazon is committed to cost-cutting — In his letter to shareholders, Andy Jassy says generative AI could usher in the largest tech transformation since the Internet
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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