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Molly White / Citation Needed:
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and the TRUMP memecoin team announce the “Official $TRUMP Wallet” and open a waitlist; Trump's sons deny any involvement or knowledge  —  UPDATE, June 3 at 3:00pm: Following publication of this story, Magic Eden pushed out its announcement for the Trump Wallet at 1:35pm.
Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:
NYSE Arca files with the SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF linked to Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social and Truth.fi  —  NYSE Group Inc. filed regulatory paperwork on Tuesday to list the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF, using the name of President Donald Trump's social network.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third  —  Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google's NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks publicly; people can interact with a public notebook by asking questions or exploring generated content  —  Viewers can't edit the notebook, but they can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.
Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop:
A bipartisan group of over 260 US state legislators sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years  —  More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill …
Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv:
TikTok has banned the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, following pressure from the French government  —  The decision raises questions over the European Commission's credibility as a tech enforcer.
Kate Payne / Associated Press:
A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional”  —  A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Qualcomm releases patches to fix a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips, including three zero-days that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”  —  Chipmaker giant Qualcomm released patches on Monday fixing a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips …
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., approves a $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+ after hours  —  CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) forecast second-quarter revenue below estimates, signaling soft enterprise spending on cybersecurity products …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users  —  Codex agent internet access.  Sam Altman, just now: … This is the Codex “cloud-based software engineering agent”, not the Codex CLI tool or older 2021 Codex LLM.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6  —  The MetaHuman creator is now built right into Unreal Engine. … Epic Games' hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive …
Blockworks:
Sources: Pump.fun plans to raise $1B via a token sale at a $4B valuation; Pump.fun has generated over $700M in cumulative revenue since its launch in early 2024  —  Pump.fun's own token is coming soon, sources tell Blockworks  —  Pump.fun plans to raise $1 billion via a token sale …
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
CEO Alex Bouaziz says Deel crossed $1B annual revenue run rate in Q1 2025 and has allocated an M&A budget of between $200M and $500M in 2025  —  Payroll startup Deel said on Tuesday it crossed $1 billion annual revenue run rate in the first quarter and has earmarked up to $500 million for acquisitions this year to bolster growth.
More: CTech, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, and Deel
X: @rrhoover, @briannekimmel, and @illscience.  LinkedIn: Deel
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail a technique Meta used to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers  —  Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.  —  Tracking code that Meta …
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
The Trump administration announces plans to reorganize the US AI Safety Institute into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation  —  The Trump administration has announced plans to reorganize the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).

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Muhammad Shehada / +972 Magazine:
On Israel's list of 170 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed in the Gaza war that Israel alleges were terrorists, 59 are named without any proof

Peter White / Deadline:
Source: Turner Classic Movies, which airs films like The Blob, will be housed within Skydance Motion Picture Group, led by Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple has started licensing TV shows, including the UK's Small Prophets, a shift from its all-originals strategy; previous exceptions were children's content

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