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Over 7,000 subreddits have gone private or read-only to protest Reddit's API pricing changes, and the site experienced issues for about two hours on June 12 — Reddit went through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site's new API pricing terms.
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The US FTC files for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard — - The FTC on Monday filed a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction seeking to block Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says he does not “feel an imperative” from users to release a new Xbox console, and the team is “pretty set on the hardware” — Microsoft Corp.'s video gaming chief Phil Spencer said he doesn't “feel an imperative” to come out with a major upgrade of its Xbox game console.
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| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
A declassified ODNI report from 2022: the US has amassed troves of “sensitive and intimate information” about Americans purchased from commercial data brokers — A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
M2 Ultra Mac Studio review: a small, fast, efficient, and quiet desktop that has a good port selection and is a better deal than the new Mac Pro for most users — The realities of Apple Silicon make the Studio the best bet for most pros. — The original Mac Studio, despite the absence of …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU is set to hit Google with a formal antitrust complaint regarding the company's ad tech, with a statement of objections coming as soon as June 14 — Google is set to be hit with a formal antitrust complaint from the European Union that could pave the way for massive fines … | Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
By capitalizing on crypto lending services' high interest rate promises, 3AC's founders played the bubble perfectly, getting rich as 3AC's lenders went bankrupt — Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today but I got bored so here you go. — What are the 3AC guys up to?| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MacBook Air (15-inch) review: thin and relatively light chassis, excellent trackpad, keyboard, performance, and battery, but limited ports and no upgradability — Apple's first big-screened MacBook Air addresses a long-standing need in the company's laptop lineup. And it comes with zero surprises and no sticker shock.
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| Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: |
Documents show some US courts are using Covenant Eyes, an anti-porn app sold to churches to monitor all online activity, to surveil parolees and their families — A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Now he's back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame.| Shinhye Kang / Bloomberg: |
South Korean prosecutors allege that a former Samsung executive stole blueprints and designs in 2018 and 2019 to reproduce an entire chip plant in Xi'an, China — A former Samsung Electronics Co. executive allegedly stole blueprints and designs to try and replicate an entire semiconductor plant in China … | Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 17% YoY to $13.84B, vs. $13.73B est., cloud services and license support revenues up 23% YoY to $9.4B, and net income up 4% YoY — Oracle's infrastructure as a service business gained momentum in the fourth quarter courtesy of generative AI workloads, according to CTO Larry Ellison.
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| Katie Jennings / Forbes: |
Vendors allege Hippocratic AI co-founder's former startup Health IQ, which faces a fraud lawsuit, owes millions; Hippocratic AI raised $50M from a16z and others — The venture firm made a repeat investment in Munjal Shah, but his previous company Health IQ is facing allegations of millions … Thanks:@thealexknapp
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based CloudZero, a cloud cost management startup, raised a $32M Series B led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures, taking its total raised to $52M+ — CloudZero, a cloud cost management startup, today announced that it raised $32 million in a Series B funding round led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures.
More: Boston Business Journal, CloudZero, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and VentureBeat
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon is testing generative AI for product review summaries, giving an overview of what customers liked and disliked about a product, along with a disclaimer — - Amazon is testing the use of artificial intelligence to generate summaries of reviews left on some products.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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