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Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €530M for illegally sending European user data to China and orders it to bring such transfers into compliance within six months — Irish privacy watchdog says app failed to protect user data sent to China — Ireland's data-privacy watchdog fined TikTok …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Microsoft says new accounts will be “passwordless by default”, asking people to use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys — The company is trying to get everyone to get rid of passwords, eventually.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working with Anthropic for a new version of Xcode that will use Claude Sonnet to write, edit, and test code, with plans to roll out internally — Apple Inc. is teaming up with startup Anthropic PBC on a new “vibe-coding” software platform that will use artificial intelligence to write …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
The Google search antitrust trial is effectively a fight about AI's future, as lawyers and rivals argue Google's monopoly could make it the dominant AI player — A federal judge issued a landmark ruling last year, saying that Google had become a monopolist in internet search.
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Apple updates its App Store Guidelines to comply with a US judge's April 30 Epic injunction, letting app developers link to external payment methods in the US — Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with yesterday's injunction handed down in its legal case with Epic Games.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Temu stops shipping products from China directly to US shoppers and lists only products shipped from US warehouses, as Trump closes the de minimis exemption — Bargain Chinese retailer Temu changed its business model in the U.S. as the Trump administration's new rules on low-value shipments took effect on Friday.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Rockstar Games delays the release of Grand Theft Auto VI from fall 2025 to May 26, 2026, saying it needs extra time to deliver the expected and deserved quality — Rockstar Games says it needs more time to deliver the ‘quality you expect and deserve.’ — Rockstar Games is delaying …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
A hacking group called DragonForce takes credit for ransomware attacks targeting British retailers M&S, Harrods, and Co-Op over the past two weeks — - Cybercrime spree targeted Marks & Spencer, Co-Op, Harrods — Hacking gang takes credit for attacks on the retailers| OpenAI: |
OpenAI shares details on how an update to GPT-4o inadvertently increased the model's sycophancy, why OpenAI failed to catch it, and the changes it is planning — A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we're making. — On April 25th, we rolled out an update to GPT‑ …
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| Selam Gebrekidan / New York Times: |
The US designates Cambodia's Huione Group as a money-laundering operation, saying it laundered $4B+ since August 2021 for criminals such as North Korean hackers — The Treasury Department said Huione Group and its affiliates had laundered more than $4 billion.
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| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA plans to ban retail investors from borrowing money to buy cryptocurrencies, as it aims to bring much of the crypto market under its regulatory remit — UK financial regulator sets out proposals to regulate much of the digital asset market — The UK financial watchdog plans … | Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the under-13 users' data to train its AI — The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A California man pleads guilty to illegally accessing Disney's Slack channels and stealing 1.1TB+ of data in 2024; he later posed as hacktivist group NullBulge — A California man who used the alias “NullBulge” has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney's internal Slack channels … | Laura Holliday / Wired: |
An investigation finds 70+ content-farm YouTube channels using AI to produce cartoon content featuring gore and child abuse, featuring characters like minions — A WIRED investigation found that dozens of YouTube channels are using generative AI to depict cartoon cats and minions being beaten … | Bloomberg: |
Apple plans to source 19B+ chips from the US in 2025, including from TSMC's expanding Arizona operations, part of its shift to lessen its reliance on China — He also affirmed expectations that Apple will in future make the vast majority of its US-bound iPhones in India …
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