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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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| John Koblin / New York Times: |
Netflix unveils a new homepage design for TVs, its first update since 2013, featuring fewer titles but more video and animation, rolling out from next week — The implications for the industry could be significant, given that most other streaming services have copied Netflix's design.
More: About Netflix, CNET, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Tom's Guide, The Wrap, What's on Netflix, BGR, and Variety. X: @netflix
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix says it plans to start testing a TikTok-like feed of vertical video in its mobile app in “the coming weeks” to help users find new content to watch — The streaming service has experimented with vertical video feeds before. … Netflix is going to start testing a TikTok …
More: CNET, CNN, and The Hollywood Reporter
| VideoCardz.com: |
FCC listings show two new Asus ROG Ally 2 handhelds with an Xbox button, AMD chips, 64GB of RAM, larger grips, and two USB-C ports, 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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| 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.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Amazon Zoox co-founder Jesse Levinson on Zoox's robotaxi design, rider comfort, San Francisco testing, Waymo, developing bespoke vehicles, and more — The autonomous ride service co-founder reflects on the bumpy road for self-driving vehicles and the company's attempt to achieve scale and maintain safety
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Micah Lee / micahflee: |
Analysis: TM SGNL, TeleMessage's modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, sends decrypted, 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 …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Chainalysis: ~2M wallets have bought President Trump's $TRUMP memecoin, of which ~764K have lost money and 58 have made $10M+ each, totaling ~$1.1B in gains — WATCH NOW — About 764,000 wallets that purchased President Donald Trump's $TRUMP meme coin have lost money on the investment …
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| 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 severance charges — Cybersecurity company will continuing to hire customer-facing and product-engineering roles — CrowdStrike said it will cut about 500 jobs …
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, and Barron's Online
| Sarah Butler / The Guardian: |
Amazon unveils Vulcan, a sorting robot with a sense of touch that will be able to grab ~75% of its 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: About Amazon, Engadget, IEEE Spectrum, The Verge, Benzinga, CNBC, TechEBlog, BetaNews, Robotics & Automation News, and Mirror
| Sam Becker / Fast Company: |
Cisco says it built a prototype entanglement source chip that could 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 that 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: Business Insider, Bloomberg, Watcher Guru, Fortune, South China Morning Post, Benzinga, TechNode, en.people.cn, and Wall Street Pit. Forums: r/NvidiaStock
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
The US CFPB says it will stop enforcing a Biden-era rule that treats BNPL firms like credit card lenders; Affirm and other BNPL firms had opposed to the rule — For the third time under President Donald Trump, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has pulled back from enforcing a key rule … | Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Microsoft removes Minecraft's VR and MR support, after announcing its plans to sunset support in October 2024; the Vivecraft mod works on Oculus and Windows MR — If you ever thought about virtually wandering through Minecraft's Overworld in a VR headset, think again.
More: Road to VR, The Verge, The Sun, Game Rant, and Engadget
| 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, Benzinga, CryptoPotato, 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
| 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 … | 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 … | 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
| 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 … | 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.| Counterpoint Research: |
In 2024, Apple Watch sales fell by 19%, the second consecutive year of decline, driven by a drop in North America; no new Watch SE models weighed on growth — - The lack of a new SE model weighed most on shipment growth. — Fewer upgrades to the latest Watch Series 10, more competition …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Android Headlines, Patently Apple, and iClarified
| 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: Tech in Asia and Computerworld
| 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
| 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
| 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 … | 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, Times of India, Network World, PYMNTS.com, and Channel Futures
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