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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Universal Music Group and TikTok strike a new music licensing deal to bring UMG music back to the platform, including “improved remuneration” and AI protections — The months-long standoff between Universal Music Group and TikTok over royalty payments and AI policies is finally over …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income — The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers allege Google …
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Threads: @benedictevans. X: @rustybrick, @d_feldman, @timsweeneyepic, @carnage4life, @darius, @arpitrage, @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, @joshm, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
As people yearn for the web's “good old days”, bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users — Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better …
More: Sheep.Horse and Simon Willison's Weblog
Mastodon: @sarahhbickerton@mastodon.nz, @JMarkOckerbloom …, @mike@flipboard.social, and @poga@g0v.social
X: @aaronsdevera, @molly0xfff, @ethanz, @katylcowan, @darius, and @philebloomfield. Forums: Hacker News
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Testimony: UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty says the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe” 30% of US citizens; UnitedHealth will notify users in “several months” — Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources: Google laid off 200+ employees from its Core teams, including IT and its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to India and Mexico — Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, US, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024.
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Mastodon: @Yhg1s@social.coop, @carnage4life@mas.to, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @jbzfn@mastodon.social, and @lauren@mastodon …
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LinkedIn: Ilya Bezdelev, Austin Parker, and Jennifer Elias
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users tune or even turn off their Feed — Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
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Forums: r/technology, r/privacy, and r/business
| Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN: |
The US DOJ sentences Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13+ years in prison and orders $16M in restitution for helping REvil conduct ransomware attacks — A Ukrainian national was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft confirms the April 2024 Windows security update breaks VPN connections across client and server platforms on Windows 11, 10, and Server 2008 or later — Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms.
More: Microsoft Learn, Windows Central, The Verge, Tech.co, Guru3D, TweakTown, Forbes, CNET, The Register, Digital Trends, and XDA Developers
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/Windows11, and r/vpns
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Sony plans to remove Horizon Zero Dawn, one of its biggest first-party games, from PlayStation Plus on May 21; the game is PS4-only, hinting at a PS5 release — Horizon Zero Dawn to leave later this month. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — Follow Horizon: Zero Dawn| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces plans to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia over four years and train 200,000 people with AI skills in the country — - Nadella announces plan for more AI infrastructure in Malaysia — Tech companies are targeting Southeast Asia as new growth area| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Trend Micro: cybercriminals and nation-state spies are coexisting inside the same compromised name-brand routers, using the devices to disguise their attacks — How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet. — Cybercriminals and spies working …
More: Trend Micro, TechRadar, and The Hacker News
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Snap announces Snapchat users can edit messages within five minutes of sending them, “coming soon” to Snapchat+ subscribers “first”, map reactions, and more — Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing … | Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
Sources and documents: Huawei is secretly funding cutting-edge research at US universities including Harvard via an independent Washington-based foundation — - Chinese telecom maker is sole funder of optics competition — Blacklisted company's role kept private by DC-based group
X: @retogregori
| Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
As social media platforms pivot away from news distribution, a look at news sites like The Verge, which feel more like social media, with aggregation and more — As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
More: The Overspill. Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host. X: @chrismoranuk, @michaelluo, @maxwelltani, @voxmedia, @chaykak, @michaelroston, @chaykak, @maxrivlinnadler, @chaykak, @chaykak, @amandakhurley, and @mjnblack. Forums: Hacker News
| Justin Ling / Wired: |
A look at Ukraine's combat drone startup industry; Kyiv estimates ~200 local startups produce drones based on commercial first-person-view or photography drones — Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.
More: The Korea Herald
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia updates its experimental ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to support voice queries and AI models Google's Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI's CLIP — Nvidia is updating its experimental ChatRTX chatbot with more AI models for RTX GPU owners.
More: NVIDIA GeForce on YouTube, TweakTown, TechSpot, TechRadar, How-To Geek, ExtremeTech, TechPowerUp, The Decoder, Wccftech, NVIDIA, Tom's Hardware, and VentureBeat
X: @nvidiageforce, @shadowuk_tv, @tomwarren, and @reijaofthesun
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google says 400M+ Google Accounts have used passkeys since the rollout, logging 1B+ authentications, and expands passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program — Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts toward replacing the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys.
More: 9to5Google, Engadget, The Keyword, Android Central, SiliconANGLE, and Security Boulevard
| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Karius, which uses AI to help analyze blood tests in 400 hospitals, raised $100M led by Khosla, after raising $165M in early 2020 led by Vision Fund II — Karius' technology is already being used to test patients' blood for infections. — Blood-testing company Karius Inc. raised $100 million … | Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times: |
Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar's Up — The company announced a new category of outlandish stays in partnership with brands and celebrities, building on the success of gimmicks like the Barbie Malibu DreamHouse.
More: Airbnb Newsroom, Associated Press, Skift, Dexerto, Axios, The Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch
X: @levie, @bchesky, @michael_rapino, @richontech, @bchesky, @sriramk, @josephflaherty, and @scottbelsky
| Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: |
TMTG co-founder Andy Litinsky, testifying as a witness in an insider trading case, says Trump nearly derailed the DWAC deal in October 2021, before signing on — Andy Litinsky, who helped start the former president's social media company, revealed Mr. Trump's last-minute doubts about an agreement that made them all very wealthy.
More: Associated Press
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Intel's efforts to build Ohio One, a “mega fab” that could become the world's largest chip factory and to which the company has committed $28B — A few months ago, a tugboat set off from New Orleans, pushing a barge up the Mississippi River.| Bloomberg: |
Starlink users in some unauthorized regions can seemingly still use the internet, despite SpaceX telling users the service would be unavailable to them by May 1 — - Company told users it would crack down in unlicensed areas — A March Bloomberg investigation revealed the extent of misuse
More: Washington Post
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