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| Matt Simons / Courthouse News Service: |
A US jury awards Meta nearly $168M in damages from Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in connection with the 2019 spyware attack on 1,400+ WhatsApp users' phones — Although NSO Group will likely appeal, the jury's award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the notorious spyware vendor.
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Amazon updates Kindle for iOS to add a prominent orange “Get book” button, enabling purchases via a mobile browser, after the Epic v. Apple ruling on April 30 — Amazon has updated its Kindle iOS app to take advantage of recent changes to Apple's App Store rules.
More: 9to5Mac, Six Colors, Daring Fireball, Good e-Reader, Put the knife …, Michael Tsai, MacStories, Dexerto, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, MakeUseOf, Laptop Mag, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, GeekWire, Washington Post, Mashable, Engadget, The Information, iDownloadBlog.com, and Business Insider
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Threads: @benedictevans, @mgsiegler, @crumbler, and @joshteder
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Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| VideoCardz.com: |
FCC listings show two new Asus ROG Ally 2 handheld models with an Xbox button, AMD chips, 64GB of RAM, larger grips, and two USB-C, likely set for Computex 2025 — ROG Ally 2 leaks: new design, larger screen and Xbox version — ASUS is about to announce a new generation of gaming handhelds …
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Forums: r/Amd, r/ROGAlly, r/hardware, and r/indotech
| Micah Lee / micahflee: |
Analysis: TM SGNL, TeleMessage's modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, could send plaintext chat logs to TeleMessage's archive server — Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials …
More: Wired, Washington Post, 404 Media, WinBuzzer, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden …, NBC News, KGW-TV, Ars Technica, and Pixel Envy
Bluesky: @mjgault, @joemenn, @riana, @katie-drummond, and @micahflee.com
Mastodon: @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone, @josephcox@infosec.exchange, @micahflee@infosec.exchange, @heidilifeldman@mastodon …, and @mattblaze@federate.social. X: @austinc3301
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/politics, r/neutralnews, r/cybersecurity, r/Military, r/neoliberal, and r/democrats
| Sam Becker / Fast Company: |
Cisco says it made a prototype entanglement source chip that may cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by up to a decade, and opens a quantum lab — The networking company is the latest to announce a breakthrough as the race heats up to bring the transformative technology to the masses.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says China's AI market will likely reach ~$50B in the next two to three years, and missing out on it would be a “tremendous loss” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday that China's artificial intelligence market will likely reach about $50 billion …
More: Bloomberg, Watcher Guru, Fortune, TechNode, South China Morning Post, Benzinga, en.people.cn, and Wall Street Pit. Forums: r/NvidiaStock
| Sarah Butler / The Guardian: |
Amazon unveils Vulcan, a sorting robot with a sense of touch and will be capable of grabbing ~75% of warehouse items, rolling out globally in the next few years — Vulcan device ‘capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses’ fuels fears of mass job losses
More: IEEE Spectrum, The Verge, About Amazon, Benzinga, CNBC, BetaNews, Robotics & Automation News, and Mirror
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
The CFPB says it will stop enforcing a Biden-era rule treating BNPL firms like credit card lenders; Affirm and other BNPL firms had opposed the rule — For the third time under President Donald Trump, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has pulled back from enforcing a key rule, this time targeting buy now, pay later services.| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
New Hampshire becomes the first US state to pass a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill, permitting public fund investment in bitcoin, either directly or via an ETF — - New Hampshire has become the first state to pass a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” bill, according to Satoshi Action Fund founder Dennis Porter.
More: The General Court …, ZyCrypto, CryptoPotato, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, Cryptopolitan, Blockchain News, Bitcoinist.com, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, Decrypt, ZyCrypto, Crypto Briefing, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, The Crypto Basic, Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin News, and Cointelegraph
| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Microsoft officially removes VR and MR support for Minecraft, after announcing its plans to sunset support in October 2024 — If you ever thought about virtually wandering through Minecraft's Overworld in a VR headset, think again. Those days are over, at least from Microsoft's perspective.| Hannah Ritchie / Sustainability: |
A look at the impact of ChatGPT use on energy consumption, as analysis suggests AI usage is still a rounding error on a person's total electricity footprint — Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do. — A couple of months ago I wrote an article looking at the energy use of artificial intelligence.
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
An AWS survey of 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries finds 45% plan to prioritize spending on generative AI in 2025, and 30% on cybersecurity — Generative AI will surpass cybersecurity in many corporate tech budgets this year — with 45% of global IT leaders naming … | Logan Kilpatrick / Google Developers Blog: |
Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview I/O Edition with “significantly” improved capabilities for coding and building interactive web apps, before I/O on May 20 — We've seen developers doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so we decided to release an updated version a couple …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $11.5B, Gross Bookings up 14% YoY to $42.8B, vs. $43.1B est., trips up 18% YoY to 3B, and $1.8B net income; UBER falls ~5% — Uber Technologies Inc. reported weaker-than-expected quarterly gross bookings and slower gains in its rideshare business …
More: Reuters, New York Times, CNBC, Financial Times, and Uber
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI unveils OpenAI for Countries, an initiative to help build out AI infrastructure and customize OpenAI's products for specific languages and local needs — OpenAI plans to invest in efforts outside of the US to develop the infrastructure necessary to run artificial intelligence systems …
More: Financial Times and Axios
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 36% YoY to $7.4B, vs. $7.12B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $3.7B, vs. $3.66B est., and forecasts Q2 sales above estimates — The guidance stems from an export restriction imposed in April that targeted AMD's MI308 chips, the company said during an earnings call on Tuesday.| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says the company will cut ~500 jobs, or 5% of its global workforce, and expects to incur $36M to $56M in charges — Cybersecurity company will continuing to hire customer-facing and product-engineering roles — CrowdStrike said it will cut about 500 jobs …
More: Reuters
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Ox Security, which scans for vulnerabilities in both AI- and human-generated code, raised a $60M Series B led by DTCP and says it scans 100M+ lines per day — As “vibe coding” gains in popularity and tech companies push devs in their employ to embrace generative AI tools … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based neobank Finom raised €92.7M from General Catalyst and says it serves 100K+ SMBs in Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy — Finom, an Amsterdam-based digital bank for small- and medium-sized businesses, has raised €92.7 million (roughly $105 million) …
More: Finextra, EU-Startups, Tech in Asia, and Silicon Canals
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Chainalysis: ~2M wallets have bought the $TRUMP memecoin, of which ~764,000 wallets have lost money and 58 have made over $10M each, totaling ~$1.1B in profits — WATCH NOW — About 764,000 wallets that purchased President Donald Trump's $TRUMP meme coin have lost money on the investment …
More: Daily Mail and Financial Times
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Forums: r/QuiverQuantitative, r/Buttcoin, r/skeptic, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/politics, r/DeFranco, and r/NoShitSherlock
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Leaked audio and memos: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi defended increasing the RTO to three days per week at a heated all-hands meeting, saying “it is what it is” — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi last week told employees “it is what it is” at a heated all-hands meeting after the company announced …
More: Tech in Asia and TheStreet
| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
At a Manhattan event, TikTok executives tried to reassure brands and ad clients, saying “we are absolutely confident” in TikTok “and confident in the future” — The company's executives tried to reassure potential advertisers about the app's future … | Lucy Colback / Financial Times: |
A look at the hype and reality surrounding AI agents, currently used primarily by companies to boost efficiency and cut costs, rather than drive top-line growth — An in-depth look at the hype and reality around “agentic AI” — the use of AI agents that perform tasks autonomously.
More: Computerworld, Tech in Asia, and SC Media
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company used AI agents to replace the work of 200+ HR employees and, as a result, hired more programmers and salespeople — The tech company promises higher total employment as it reinvests resources toward roles like software development
More: itprotoday, Network World, Times of India, PYMNTS.com, and Channel Futures
| Bloomberg: |
US credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales dropped 23% during the week of April 25 to May 1 compared to the prior seven days, while Temu's sales fell 17% — Shein posted a 23% drop in observed US sales during the week of April 25 to May 1, compared to the prior seven days … | Axios: |
Sources: Senate Democrats are in talks with Republicans about an eleventh-hour effort to try to save the bipartisan GENIUS Act on stablecoin regulation — Senate Democrats are in discussions with relevant Republicans about an eleventh-hour meeting to try to save the bipartisan GENIUS Act, according to people familiar with the matter.
More: USA Today, Merkley, Decrypt, CryptoSlate, CBS News, The Verge, Semafor, The Hill, The Block, American Banker, and The Midwesterner
| Financial Times: |
DoorDash's planned Deliveroo acquisition renews questions about the UK's ability to attract and retain large tech listings in the face of New York's dominance — £2.9bn takeover brings end to app's UK listing after ‘worst ever’ initial public offering
More: The Daily Upside, BBC, The Independent, The Times, Reuters, Sifted, The Information, and Financial Times
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