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| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
Nintendo launches the Switch 2 globally, with midnight store openings and long queues; analysts expect it to sell 15M to 20M units, in line with its FY guidance — Mario fans queue at midnight store openings after games company apologises for failing to meet pre-order demand
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data tied to thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content — Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices …
More: AppleInsider, Reclaim The Net, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and MacTech.com
| Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Source: Amazon is developing software for package delivery humanoid robots and is almost done building an indoor “humanoid park” in San Francisco to test them — Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers …
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Forums: r/technology and r/UPSers
| Lila Shapiro / Vulture: |
Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use — “We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I'll have the movie." — One recent evening on the Eastside of Los Angeles …
More: The Verge, The Hollywood Gossip, TechSpot, and AV Club
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| Emine Saner / The Guardian: |
Bluesky: @carolinejmolloy, @joelhs, @eicathomefinn, @michaelmhughes, and @hypervisible. Mastodon: @emilymbender@dair …
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Cellebrite acquires Florida-based Corellium, which makes phone virtualization tools, for $170M; founder Chris Wade, who Trump pardoned in 2020, will stay as CTO — Corellium founder and CEO Chris Wade is selling his startup to Cellebrite, law enforcement's favorite cellphone forensics business.| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Court filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 order requiring it to save all ChatGPT user logs, including deleted chats, “to protect its users' data and privacy” — OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @markriedl, @askbillmitchell, and @badinternet.oracularhades.com
X: @kepano, @deadalnix, @fonnesbaek, @mrchrisellis, @elomaur, @kepano, and @aarushsah_
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say that the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached ~900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x since October 2023 — In an update to a joint advisory with CISA and the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the FBI said that the Play ransomware gang …
More: The Record, CISA, Cybersecurity Dive, SC Media, Forbes, Tech Monitor, CyberInsider, Cyber Security News, and The Register
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition — Apple (AAPL.O) has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring the iPhone maker …
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| Shannon Bond / NPR: |
OpenAI says it disrupted 10 malicious operations in the past three months, four of which likely originated in China and targeted multiple countries and topics — Chinese propagandists are using ChatGPT to write posts and comments on social media sites — and also to create performance reviews detailing … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
An Apple-funded study says developers using the App Store generated $1.3T globally in billings and sales in 2024, 90% on which developers paid no commission — Ahead of its Worldwide Developer Conference on June 9, Apple on Thursday offered a new update on its global App Store business …
More: Apple, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, iClarified, Yahoo Finance, MacTech.com, MacDailyNews, and SmartCompany
| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Circle priced its IPO at $31 per share, above its marketed range of $27 to $28, raising nearly $1.1B and valuing the company at ~$6.9B, or ~$8.1B fully diluted — The firm and backers including co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Allaire sold 34 million shares Wednesday for $31 each …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Source: X is piloting a program to use Community Notes to highlight posts on which people of typically differing opinions agree — Elon Musk's X is piloting a new program to use its Community Notes feature to highlight posts where people of typically differing opinions actually agree with each other, Axios has learned.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic unveils a new set of Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, analysis, and more — Anthropic says it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. — The new models, a custom set of … | Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
The US DOJ seized crypto and ~145 domains linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M+ in revenue since 2022 from selling stolen credit cards and more — Earlier today, law enforcement seized multiple domains of BidenCash, the infamous dark web market for stolen credit cards, personal information, and SSH access.| Bloomberg: |
Wise says it plans to shift its main listing from London to NYC, the latest loss for London's stock market, but will maintain a secondary listing on the LSE — Wise Plc is planning to list its shares in the US, the latest blow to London's stock market. — While the fintech will maintain …
More: Tech.eu, Yahoo Finance, Financial Times, Fortune, The Times, The Paypers, CNBC, The Guardian, The Independent, MoneyWeek, Reuters, UKTN, and Telegraph
X: @griffitha, @paulonoggy, @mrmbrown, @aarmstrong_says, and @linasbeliunas
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Counterpoint revises its 2025 global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 1.9% YoY, down from 4.2%, citing “renewed uncertainties surrounding US tariffs” — Forecasts for Apple and Samsung shipment growth this year were sharply slashed by Counterpoint Research on Wednesday amid uncertainty over U.S. tariff policy.
More: Counterpoint Research, 9to5Mac, XiaomiTime, SamMobile, The Register, Silicon UK, Moneycontrol, Reuters, CNET, MacTech.com, and SammyGuru
| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
23andMe plans to hold a second auction for its DNA data, opening with a $305M bid led by Anne Wojcicki, after the ex-CEO challenged Regeneron's winning May bid — Bankrupt genetic analysis company 23andMe will hold a second auction for its cache of DNA data with an opening bid of $305 million …
More: Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, and Wall Street Journal
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta details its Aria Gen 2 smart glasses for research, including an improved eye-tracking system, four computer vision cameras, sensors, and on-device compute — Aria Gen 2 is designed to help ‘shape the next computing platform’ with advanced eye- and hand-tracking capabilities.
More: Meta, Road to VR, PYMNTS.com, Android Headlines, Mashable, Tech Times, The Decoder, Business Standard, Wareable, 9to5Mac, and Social Media Today
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
OnePlus unveils the $700+ OnePlus Pad 3, a 13.2-inch Android tablet less than 6mm thick, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, 17+ hours of battery life, and an LCD — Three generations into its Pad lineup, OnePlus is still trying to stand out in a market dominated by a few players.
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the “tides have turned” in Silicon Valley, making it more acceptable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts — There's long existed a “silent majority” who wanted to pursue defense projects, Bosworth said during an interview … | Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI says it has 3M “paying business users”, up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a “record mode” for taking notes during meetings — ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.
More: Quartz. Bluesky: @carnage4life, @elkmovie, and @alexeheath.com. X: @omooretweets. Forums: r/technews
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
More: OpenAI on YouTube, OpenAI, CNBC, TechRadar, The Hindu, Tech Times, Analytics India Magazine, Digit, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, Neowin, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @openai, @kevinweil, @openai, @kevinweil, @dharmesh, @levie, @thezvi, @openai, and @openai. Forums: Slashdot
| Dario Amodei / New York Times: |
Anthropic CEO says a 10-year moratorium on AI regulation is “far too blunt an instrument” and calls for US federal transparency standards for AI companies — Picture this: You give a bot notice that you'll shut it down soon, and replace it with a different artificial intelligence system.
More: Reuters and Livemint
Bluesky: @kylierobison.com, @justinhendrix, and @dankennedy.net. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. X: @jackclarksf
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
iVerify says it found the first evidence of an active spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the US and the EU; Apple fixed a flaw, but says it wasn't exploited — Researchers published new findings that they fear could be the first evidence of an active spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the U.S. and the European Union.| Matthew Gault / Wired: |
How AI-assisted “vibe hacking”, which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity “arms race” — In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Source: Apple expands its Tata partnership in India, giving Tata the iPhone and MacBook after-sales repair business from an Indian unit of Taiwan-based Wistron — Apple has brought in Tata Group to handle repairs for iPhones and MacBook devices in its fast-growing Indian market …
More: Business Today, AppleInsider, Wall Street Pit, and MacDailyNews
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