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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: New York Times, Bloomberg, Associated Press, The Information, Unchained, The Block, Blockworks, Decrypt, Finextra, BBC, Crypto Briefing, CNBC, Cointelegraph, Financial Times, Reuters, Wired, Tech Xplore, Crowdfund Insider, Cryptonews, NewsBTC, Cryptopolitan, Watcher Guru, Hachyderm.io, Benzinga, CoinGape, Bitcoinist.com, CoinGeek, CryptoSlate, and Protos
| Bloomberg: |
A look at the contrast between CZ/Binance and SBF/FTX, as Binance claims the crypto exchange's global users increased 30% YoY to 170M in 2023 — The ex-CEO is about to learn if he'll be the richest US inmate ever. But, with friends on the company's board, his ownership of the exchange intact …
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Protos, Associated Press, Fast Company, Fortune, Reuters, The Verge, CryptoPotato, Coinspeaker, DL News, CoinGape, Blockworks, CoinDesk, and crypto.news
| 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 to evade paying nearly $50M — 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.| 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 … | 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.| 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, HuffPost, Digital Music News, Euronews, CMU, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, and BGR
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Amazon reports Q1 net sales up 13% YoY to $143.3B, advertising services net sales up 24% YoY to $11.8B, and net income up from $3.2B to $10.4B — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2024. - Net sales increased 13% …
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| 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
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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 to not encrypting certain user data impacted by a 2018 breach, after arguing in court it used encryption so the case should be dismissed — Marriot revealed in a court case around a massive 2018 data breach that it had been using secure hash algorithm 1 … | 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 …
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| 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
X: @tomwarren, @connor, @alexandracoding, @linuz90, and @browsercompany
| 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.
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| 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.| 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 … | 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
| 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
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $5.47B, vs. $5.46B est., Data Center revenue up 80% YoY to $2.3B, and net income of $123M, up from a $139M loss YoY — Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD, talks about the AMD EPYC processor during a keynote address at the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., January 9, 2019.| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Letter from US senators: only five of 14 automakers require police to have a warrant before requesting user data, and only Tesla tells users about such requests — Modern cars are internet-connected and have hundreds of sensors. Lawmakers and regulators have concerns about what's happening with all that data.| 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
| 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 … | Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $740M, vs. $700.3M est., MAUs up 12% to 518M, and Q2 revenue forecast above estimates; PINS jumps 15%+ after hours — - Shares soar after company beats on sales and user growth — Gen-Z is flocking to the site for shopping over scrolling| 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.
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