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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €530M for illegally sending user data to China, ordering a halt to EU data transfers in six months if protections aren't guaranteed — 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.
More: Microsoft Security Blog, BleepingComputer, CNET, PCWorld, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, PC Gamer, XDA Developers, Tech Monitor, Tom's Hardware, Digit, PCMag, CyberInsider, Neowin, Tom's Guide, Security Boulevard, Business Standard, Security Affairs, WinBuzzer, Ghacks, and Cyber Security News
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Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk, @tomwarren.co.uk, @jaypeters.net, and @jaypeters.net
Threads: @rsgnl and @eshumarneedi@www.threads.com
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Forums: r/technews, r/technology, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: Rockstar Games, The Guardian, Game Developer, Engadget, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Decrypt, Forbes, VentureBeat, PCWorld, PCMag, Windows Central, Moneycontrol, BetaNews, Sportico, Dexerto, Screen Rant, Video Games Chronicle, Cosmic Book News, GamesRadar, TechSpot, Financial Times, Game Rant, Tom's Hardware, Guru3D, The Shortcut, XDA Developers, Thurrott, Kotaku, Fast Company, Livemint, KitGuru, Top Gear, Business Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, GSMArena.com, Mashable, AIN, TheGamer, RTÉ, Tech4Gamers, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, NBC Bay Area, Barron's Online, Tom's Guide, Gameranx, Push Square, TechRaptor, Pocket-lint, Neowin, The Game Business, BroBible, GB News, TechEBlog, Digital Trends, KnowTechie, ZeroHedge News, Press Start, VideoCardz.com, VideoGamer, The Sun, Game Informer, Motor1.com, The Independent, XboxEra, Phrasemaker, PlayStation LifeStyle, Hollywood Life, Pure Xbox, Destructoid, and MobileSyrup
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Forums: r/worldnews, r/PS5pro, r/gamernews, r/mega64, r/popculturechat, r/NintendoSwitch2, r/Steam, and r/technology
| Apple Inc.: |
Apple reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $95.4B, vs. $94.6B est., China sales down 2% YoY to $16B, vs. $16.83B est., and authorizes a $100B share buyback program — Services revenue reaches new all-time high — EPS sets March quarter record … The Company posted quarterly revenue of $95.4 billion …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
| 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 … | 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.
More: FinCEN.gov, The Block, CoinDesk, DL News, The Record, Reuters, Blockonomi, Security Boulevard, Cryptopolitan, and ZyCrypto
| 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.
More: Ars Technica, MakeUseOf, Shelly Palmer, Digital Trends, and The Economic Times. Forums: r/singularity
| 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 … | 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‑ …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Livemint, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and Blockchain.News
Bluesky: @natolambert and @timkellogg.me
X: @sama, @andrewmayne, @krishnanrohit, @simonw, @openai, @minimaxir, and @nearcyan
Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| 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 … | 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 … | Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Temu appears to have removed all products in the US version of its online store that ship directly from China to US consumers, confusing suppliers and customers — The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “Local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end …
More: BBC, CNN, PCMag, Baltimore Sun, Fortune, The Information, Jamaica Observer, Supply Chain Dive, NPR, Financial Times, Sourcing Journal, CBC News, Fox Business, and South China Morning Post
Bluesky: @wrenispinkle, @carnage4life, @zeyiyang, and @wired.com
Forums: r/TemuThings, r/worldnews, and r/Economics
| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
President Trump's World Liberty Financial says Abu Dhabi's MGX fund is investing $2B in Binance using World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin, raising ethical concerns — A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president's son …
More: Wired, Quartz, The Bulwark, Bloomberg, Axios, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin Insider, Yahoo Finance, Blockworks, Washington Post, New Republic, New York Post, The Crypto Basic, Diane Ravitch's blog, and Cointelegraph
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @mattblaze@federate.social, @_dm@infosec.exchange, and @SeanCasten@mastodon.social
X: @justinsuntron, @justinsuntron, @wublockchain, @libsoftiktok, @token2049, @richardhanania, @erictrump, @justinsuntron, @janemayernyer, @kenvogel, @donwinslow, @iansams, @trondao, @senblumenthal, @davemcclure, @jonlemire, @zachwitkoff, @timodc, @public_citizen, @coindesk, @sawyerhackett, @teresagoody, @richardhanania, @kenvogel, @mattyglesias, @senblumenthal, and @senwarren
Forums: r/economicCollapse, r/politics, and Slashdot
| Ann Gehan / The Information: |
Livestream marketplace Whatnot says it hit $3B+ worth of goods sold through its app last year and viewers spend 80+ minutes per day on average on the app — Livestream shopping, while popular in Asia on apps like ByteDance-owned Douyin and Alibaba's Taobao Live, has been hard for most U.S.-focused startups and creators to crack.
X: @anngehan
| 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.
Bluesky: @pxmorris, @pxmorris, @jesteinf, and @hypervisible
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Filing: Amazon restructured part of its $8B Anthropic investment from convertible notes into stock in Q1, creating a $3.3B pre-tax gain that boosted its profits — A portion of Amazon's investment in AI startup Anthropic converted from notes into stock in the first quarter …
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q1 AWS revenue up 17% YoY to $29.3B, vs. $29.42B est., and AWS operating income up 23% YoY to $11.55B — Amazon reported better-than-expected results for the first quarter, driven by growth in its cloud computing and advertising businesses, but it gave soft guidance for the current period.Sponsor Posts
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