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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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| 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 …
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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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| 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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| 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.
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| 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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| 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
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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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| 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| 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.| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
LA-based wealth management startup Altruist, whose software and app help with trading and more, raised a $169M Series E led by Iconiq at a $1.5B valuation — - Iconiq Growth led investment in competitor to Schwab, Fidelity — Altruist provides software for registered investment advisers| Tess Owen / Wired: |
Tech Transparency Project: US extremist militias are quietly coordinating across ~200 Facebook groups and profiles, after lying low since the January 6 riot — After lying low for years in the aftermath of January 6, exclusive reporting shows, militia extremist groups and profiles …
More: Engadget
| 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: |
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