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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Amazon reportedly adding tariff pricing to each product on its site “is a hostile and political act by Amazon” — WATCH NOW — The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost …
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| Fortune: |
Amazon says Amazon Haul “considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products”, but “this was never a consideration for the main Amazon site” — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a news article on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as she speaks during …
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| CNN: |
Sources: President Trump called Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning to complain about reports that Amazon was adding tariff prices to listings — President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this morning to complain about reports that his company was considering displaying the cost …
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| Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon is seeking steep supplier discounts and setting tough terms to protect margins amid US tariffs, following its playbook from Trump's first term — Trade war leads ecommerce group to seek steep discounts from sellers, particularly from China — Amazon is seeking steep discounts …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta launches the Meta AI app, a standalone ChatGPT competitor featuring a Discover feed, where users can see AI interactions that friends have chosen to share — The new Meta AI app puts a twist on social media. … Meta's standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you'd expect from an AI assistant.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
WhatsApp plans to add cloud-based AI features like message summarization and composition, utilizing a system called Private Processing to maintain data privacy — WhatsApp's AI tools will use a new “Private Processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting Meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta debuts an API for its Llama AI models, in limited preview with pricing yet to be publicly announced — At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API. — Available in limited preview … | Google Cloud Blog: |
Google tracked 75 zero days exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022; state-sponsored threat groups led in zero-day exploits — Google Threat Intelligence — Visibility and context on the threats that matter most. — Executive Summary| Wired: |
Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that could affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple has patched its own devices — Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network … | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, operating income of €509M, below its €548M forecast, Q2 MAUs forecast below analysts' estimates; SPOT drops 8%+ — Spotify Technology SA shares tumbled on Tuesday after the streaming company gave a muted outlook for profit and subscriber growth in the current quarter.| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Critics fear the Trump administration could weaponize the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety bills to pass in years, against content it dislikes — Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech and encryption. … The Take It Down Act is heading …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
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Forums: r/politics, r/politics, and r/technology
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The latest update of GPT-4o is “now 100% rolled back” for free users and is currently rolling back for paid users, as OpenAI aims to fix the model's sycophancy — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday said that the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT …
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
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| Bloomberg: |
The UK government publishes draft legislation on cryptoassets, set to be finalized later in 2025, and says it will work with US officials on crypto regulation — The UK government will collaborate with US officials on plans to regulate the burgeoning crypto industry, distancing itself …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle”, as part of an announcement to be “AI-first” — The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO. … Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors …
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| Josh Richman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its “political retribution” investigation into ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs — Political Retribution for Telling the Truth Weakens the Entire Infosec Community and Threatens Our Democracy; Letter Remains Open for Further Sign-Ons
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Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com, @zackwhittaker.com, @eff.org, and @kevincollier
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Sources: Scattered Spider conducted a ransomware attack on UK retailer M&S, which employs 64,000 in 1,400+ stores, causing widespread disruption from April 22 — Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted …
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