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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
US judge sentences Binance founder Changpeng Zhao to four months in prison — Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for failing to establish adequately anti-money laundering protections. Zhao, once the head of the largest crypto exchange in the world, pleaded guilty in November 2023.
More: Unchained, Decrypt, New York Times, Crypto Briefing, CNBC, Wired, Hachyderm.io, CoinGape, Bitcoinist.com, Protos, CoinGeek, Cryptopolitan, and RTÉ
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| Katie Robertson / New York Times: |
Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden, the second-largest US newspaper operator, sue OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly using copyrighted articles to train AI — The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
The US DOJ says it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with filing false tax returns and more, evading ~$50M in taxes — The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with mail fraud and filing false tax returns.
More: US Department of Justice, The Block, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Blockworks, and Cointelegraph
| Bloomberg: |
The EU opens a DSA investigation into Meta over deceptive Facebook and Instagram ad and political content; sources say the probe is about a pro-Kremlin campaign — - Probe said to target pro-Putin Doppelganger campaign — Meta probe is under the EU's tough new Digital Services Act
More: Ars Technica, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, European Commission, Engadget, The Verge, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, UPI, Agence France-Presse, PhoneArena, The Mirror, Brussels Signal, Forbes, Al Jazeera, Reuters, LBC, Euronews, Digital Journal, Politico, Infosecurity, Euractiv, Verdict, and MediaNama
| Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider: |
Source: Apple is testing Safari 18 features, including more advanced content blocking and an AI-powered Intelligent Search tool, expected to debut later in 2024 — Apple is testing a version of its Safari web browser that includes UI tweaks, advanced content blocking features …
More: 9to5Mac, Android Authority, XDA Developers, MacRumors, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, TweakTown, Wccftech, and Supercharged
| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says a TikTok ban is “not excluded” and “we know exactly the danger of TikTok”, during a 2024 election debate — The remark comes amid a streak of bad news for TikTok in Europe. — Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hinted …
More: Android Authority, Wccftech, Digital Music News, HuffPost, Euronews, CMU, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, and BGR
| BBC: |
A Finnish court sentences hacker Julius Kivimäki to six years and three months, after he breached a health care database and tried to blackmail 33,000 people — One of Europe's most wanted cyber criminals has been jailed for attempting to blackmail 33,000 people whose confidential therapy notes he stole.
More: Associated Press, Krebs on Security, Bloomberg, Boing Boing, Protos, and GovInfoSecurity.com
X: @arekfurt, @johnhultquist, @essobi, @drfurfagmd, and @joetidy
Forums: Hacker News and r/hacking
| Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube: |
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is reasonable but emblematic of a trend of selling unfinished products at full price while vowing to fix the issues later to win a “race” — AI in a Box. But a different box. R1 provided by Rabbit for review. So this is the rabbit R1 and it's another AI …
More: CNET, Digital Trends, Benzinga, The Shortcut, and The Verge
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| Raymond Wong / Inverse: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an “app creator” in preview to let employees build generative AI apps based on company data — Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q … | Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty plans to say before a US House panel on May 1 that hackers exploited a Citrix vulnerability to breach UnitedHealth on February 12 — Hackers broke into UnitedHealth's (UNH.N) tech unit on Feb. 12 by exploiting a security vulnerability in software from private …
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| Evan Schuman / CSO: |
Marriott quietly admits it did not encrypt certain user data impacted by a 2018 breach, after arguing in court encryption was used so lawsuits should be tossed — Marriot revealed in a court case around a massive 2018 data breach that it had been using secure hash algorithm 1 … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
The Browser Company debuts Arc on Windows, after testing began in December 2023, and says the Windows app has 150K+ users; the macOS app shipped in July 2023 — The Browser Company, makers of the Arc web browser, released its Windows version today. The company started testing the Windows client …
More: The Verge, Engadget, XDA Developers, Trusted Reviews, and Forbes
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Beats announces $200 Solo 4 on-ear wireless headphones, with up to 50 hours of battery life, and $80 wireless Solo Buds shipping in June 2024, both without ANC — Beats just announced its new Solo 4, its latest in a long line of on-ear wireless headphones. The latest model, priced at $199.99, offers battery life of up to 50 hours.
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| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: Google has agreed to pay News Corp $5M to $6M annually to develop new AI-related content and products, as part of its Google News Initiative — Google has agreed to pay Wall Street Journal owner News Corp between $5 million and $6 million annually to fund the news organization's development … | Timothy B. Lee / Asterisk: |
Tech journalism is often characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research; publishers hesitate to invest in nuanced reporting without a clear ROI — A huge proportion of tech journalism is characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research. Can we fix it?
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram updates its recommendation algorithms to demote aggregator accounts, hoping to promote original content and increase distribution to smaller accounts — Instagram is making significant changes to how its system recommends content, with a focus on original content and increased distribution for smaller accounts.
More: ZDNet, Engadget, TechCrunch, Hypebeast, and PetaPixel
| Lawrence Hurley / NBC News: |
SCOTUS declines to block a Texas online porn restriction law, after critics said an age-verification mandate violates 1A by forcing viewers to submit their info — The pornography industry challenged the state law's age-verification provision, saying it places an unlawful burden on adults wishing to access content.
More: Associated Press and SCOTUSblog
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Apple has poached at least 36 AI experts from Google since 2018 and has a secretive European laboratory in Zurich to develop AI models and products — iPhone maker also recruits generative AI experts into secretive Zurich lab as it prepares fightback against rivals
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X: @macton93, @counternotions, @sjhmorris, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Enterprise browser startup Island raised $175M led by Sequoia and Coatue at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B in October 2023, taking its total funding to $487M — - Sequoia and Coatue lead $175 million investment in Island — Cisco-backed startup doubles in valuation since last year| Bloomberg: |
Satellite telco SES has agreed to buy Starlink-rival Intelsat for $3.1B in cash — - SES said it will finance the deal with cash and new debt — Talks between the satellite providers fell apart last year — SES SA has agreed to buy Intelsat SA for $3.1 billion in cash to create … | Maciej Pocwierz: |
How an empty, private AWS S3 bucket had ~100M PUT requests in a day, racking up a $1,300+ bill, due to a popular open-source tool using the same bucket name — Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?
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Forums: Hacker News, r/programmingcirclejerk, r/cybersecurity, r/programming, r/netsec, r/aws, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Game emulator Delta has been the top US iOS app for weeks, after Apple lifted its ban on such apps, likely due to regulatory pressure and alt stores in the EU — Antitrust crackdowns on Apple are already changing your iPhone for the better — The hottest iPhone app in America may owe …
More: Australian Financial Review and iMore
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SafeBase, which helps companies automate software security reviews using AI, raised a $33M Series B led by Touring Capital, bringing its total funding to $50M+ — Entrepreneurs Al Yang and Adar Arnon met at Harvard Business School and quickly realized that they had an interest in common: cybersecurity.
More: FinSMEs, SafeBase, SiliconANGLE, Tech Funding News, and SecurityWeek
X: @getsafebase and @ycombinator
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces plans to invest $1.7B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia over four years and train 840,000 people with AI skills in the country — - CEO Nadella tours Southeast Asia in search for growth markets — Nvidia, Apple leaders also visited region before Nadella| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 12.81% YoY to ~$52.3B, vs. ~$51.6B est., operating profit up 932.8% YoY to ~$4.8B, vs. ~$4.3B est., as memory chip prices rebound — Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy S24 smartphones during a media preview event in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $33M Series B led by NEA, taking its total raised to $46.5M, and says the service has ~20K active newsletters — With the number of people using e-mail globally approaching 5 billion, newsletters delivered regularly into people's inboxes continue … Sponsor Posts
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