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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games says Fortnite for iPadOS and iOS is back on the US App Store, and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU; Apple kicked it off in August 2020 — After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft files an amicus brief supporting Epic Games' App Store fight and blames Apple for delaying the Xbox mobile gaming store, first announced in May 2024 — Microsoft has filed support for Epic Games' fight with Apple, as it wants to launch new Xbox mobile improvements.
More: 9to5Mac, Game Developer, PocketGamer.biz, Eurogamer.net, Pure Xbox, Metro.co.uk, XboxEra, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Reuters: |
Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending May 4, including travel plans — A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier …
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| Michael L Hicks / Android Central: |
Google's Android XR Gemini-powered prototype glasses hands-on: light, comfortable to wear, the single display in the right lens works well, and Maps is seamless — Google's Android XR glasses prototype worked surprisingly well in my quick press demo. — I got hands-on time with Google's prototype AR glasses at Google I/O 2025.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
| Amanda Kooser / CNET: |
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang calls US AI chip export controls a “failure” that sped up China's efforts, cutting Nvidia's market share in China from 95% to 50% in four years — World's top AI semiconductor maker says export controls have accelerated Chinese rivals' advances
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google rolls out AI Mode to all Google Search users in the US, and announces Deep Search, agentic capabilities, chart generation, and more coming to Labs users — Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to every Search user in the US. The company announced the expansion during its I/O 2025 conference.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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| MIT Technology Review: |
Analysis: AI energy consumption is exploding, with data centers doubling electricity use between 2017 and 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption — The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn't tracking and consider where it's heading next.
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| CNBC: |
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, new AI filmmaking tool Flow, and expanded access to music generation model Lyria 2 — Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio.
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| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
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| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old from Massachusetts, pleads guilty to hacking two US companies and extorting them for ransoms; a source says one firm is PowerSchool — The Massachusetts man agreed to plead guilty to obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
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| William Langley / Financial Times: |
Inside China's “stolen iPhone building”: electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold at a profit — We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold on a single district in Shenzhen
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and PhoneArena
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says weather apps have “graduated from beta” on Android Auto and Cars with Google built-in, and Android Auto will “soon” get browser and video apps — Google has revealed that Android Auto is about to get more apps, including wider access to weather apps … | CoinDesk: |
The US SEC sues Unicoin and its executives, alleging they broke securities laws by raising $100M+ for tokens falsely claimed to be backed by real estate — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued crypto company Unicoin and three executives on Tuesday night on fraud charges … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Maine AG filing: Coinbase says its recent data breach impacted 69,461 individuals; stolen data included government IDs, account info, and personal identifiers — Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, revealed that a recent data breach in which cybercriminals stole customer …
More: TechCrunch, The Block, Cryptoforensic Investigators, and CyberInsider
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
After a protest disrupted a Build talk, Microsoft's head of security for AI Neta Haiby accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's AI usage — Internal messages were displayed after two former Microsoft employees disrupted a Build session.
More: Windows Central and PC Gamer
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon issues refunds for purchases as far back as 2018; CFO Brian Olsavsky said on May 1 that Amazon took a ~$1B charge over “some historical customer returns” — Amazon.com Inc. customers are suddenly getting refunds for products they purchased and returned as far back as 2018 … | Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, similar to watching an overdubbed foreign-language speaker — New AI speech translation in Google Meet video chats can mimic the speaker's voice, tone and emotion.| Laura Onita / Financial Times: |
UK retailer M&S says it expects a £300M profit hit from an April cyberattack and disruption to continue until July 2025; M&S' market cap has falled by ~£750M — UK retailer discloses that breach came via supplier and warns online operations will be disrupted until July| Colin Lecher / The Markup: |
New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns — How a family's neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look … Karlena Hamblin was sitting on a stool …
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| Keach Hagey / Wired: |
Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg — The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. … Like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel had long been obsessed …
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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
AMD unveils Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 CPUs with up to 96 cores, and an RDNA 4-based Radeon AI Pro R9700 workstation GPU, both slated to launch in July 2025 — COMPUTEX AMD aims to extend its lead over Intel in the high-end desktop (HEDT) and workstation arenas with its 9000-series …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Filed, which uses AI to automate tax professionals' low-value tasks, raised $17.2M across seed and preseed led by Northzone, Day One Ventures, and others — Tax software startup Filed Inc. said today it has raised $17.2 million in funding to try and fix what it says is the accounting …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Volvo expands its Google partnership to integrate Gemini across its model lineup, the first automaker to do so, hoping to ease a driver's “cognitive load” — Gemini can ease a driver's “cognitive load” so they can keep their eyes on the road, the automaker says.
More: Volvo, Telematics News, Internet of Things News, TipRanks Financial, T3, and Engadget
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
Google expands its sovereign cloud options in the EU, including a new “data shield” that provides additional cyber security protections to European clients — Tech giant offers additional data security protections in EU as local customers express concern over reliance on US tech
Forums: r/eutech
| Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg: |
Abu Dhabi's TII releases Falcon Arabic, an AI model that it claims can match the performance of models up to 10 times its size, and smaller model Falcon H1 — A research arm of the Abu Dhabi government has released a powerful new Arabic-language artificial intelligence model in a bid …
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