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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20 — The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move. The company has an initial nine months …
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Biden signing the TikTok divestment bill starts a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition; sources say ByteDance sees a divestiture as a last resort — - China's ByteDance faces deadline to sell app under new US law — Company braces for legal fight against divest-or-ban efforts
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
TikTok is suspending the rewards program in TikTok Lite while it tries to resolve EU concerns about the potentially addictive nature of the program for children — TikTok will voluntarily suspend its new app TikTok Lite's reward programme while it tries to resolve EU concerns, the company said on X social media platform on Wednesday.| New York Times: |
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
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| Monica Alba / NBC News: |
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Meta Investor Relations: |
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B for March 2024 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Meta's stock drops 15%+ after hours on a weak Q2 revenue guidance and higher FY 2024 capital expenditures due to increased AI infrastructure investments — Meta shares plunged in extended trading on Wednesday after the company issued a light forecast, overshadowing better-than-expected first-quarter results.
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| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances — Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco's security appliances.
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| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024 — IBM will pay $35 a share for the cloud-software company in cash, giving it access to HashiCorp's roster of some 4,400 clients
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors charge two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixing service, saying it facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions — - US prosecutors say Samourai Wallet was ‘haven for criminals’ — Europol has said crypto mixing services are a ‘top threat’| Joanna Nelius / The Verge: |
Qualcomm details its Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite chips; benchmarks from a demo suggest the chips match Apple's M3, Intel's Core Ultra 9, and AMD's Ryzen 9 — On Wednesday, Qualcomm announced the impending arrival of its Snapdragon X Plus laptop processor alongside more information …
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Nvidia acquires AI infrastructure orchestration and management service Run:ai, a source says for ~$700M; Run:ai, founded in 2018, had raised $118M to date — Run:ai enables enterprise customers to manage and optimize their compute infrastructure, whether on premises, in the cloud or in hybrid environments.
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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Apple researchers share OpenELM, a family of LLMs with 270M to 3B parameters, designed to run on-device, and pre-trained and fine-tuned on public datasets — Just as Google, Samsung and Microsoft continue to push their efforts with generative AI on PCs and mobile devices …
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and MacRumors Forums
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins rolling out Windows 11 Start menu ads that show app “recommendations” from “a small set of curated developers”; users can disable the ads — Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/pcmasterrace, and r/windows
| Brian McGleenon / The Block: |
Worldcoin subsidiary World Assets plans to sell WLD tokens to meet the demand for orb-verified World IDs and support Worldcoin network growth; WLD drops 7%+ — - Worldcoin says its subsidiary World Assets may routinely sell WLD tokens to meet increasing demand for orb-verified World IDs and support network growth.
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X: @reedalbergotti, @foftypawlow, @nanixbt, @beniduboss, and @zachxbt
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp rolls out passkey support on iOS, removing the need for users to deal with SMS one-time passcodes, six months after introducing the feature on Android — WhatsApp is introducing support for passkey verification on iOS, removing the need for users to deal with SMS one-time passcodes.| CNBC: |
Source: cloud data management startup Rubrik priced its IPO at $32 a share, above its expected $28-$31 range, raising $752M and valuing the company at $5.6B — Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO of data security software company Rubrik. Sinha previously backed cloud management company Nutanix.
More: Bloomberg, The Information, Barron's Online, SiliconANGLE, and The Information. X: @lesliepicker
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished — There were times I wasn't sure the Rabbit R1 was even a real thing. The AI-powered, Teenage Engineering-designed device came …
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Threads: @carnage4life. Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social. X: @snazzylabs, @mkbhd, and @maxwinebach. Forums: Hacker News
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $22M Series A led by Lachy Groom, bringing its total funding to $27M — AI startup Nooks has raised a new round of funding. It announced a $22 million Series A fundraising effort led … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AI coding assistant startup Augment emerges from stealth with a $227M Series B at a $977M post-money valuation, following a $25M Series A led by Sutter Hill — AI is supercharging coding — and developers are embracing it. — In a recent StackOverflow poll, 44% of software engineers … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ argues Binance founder Changpeng Zhao should spend three years in prison and pay $50M for helping Binance violate sanctions and money laundering laws — The DOJ wants Zhao to serve 36 months after his guilty plea last year. — Binance's founder and former chief executive …
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