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June 3, 2024, 7:50 PM

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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A leaked internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013 to 2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes Google made  —  Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling  —  Instagram confirmed it's testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media.  These new ad breaks will display a countdown timer …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Sony unveils a $60 PC adapter for the PlayStation VR2, adding PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, launching on August 7 with support for all Steam VR games  —  The PlayStation VR2's PC adapter is now official.  Just a few days after a certification revealed that Sony was working on the adapter …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content “provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed”  —  The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other.
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
Coinbase says it has donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake SuperPAC; Fairshake has raised ~$161M for 2024's US election from a16z, Ripple, and others  —  Coinbase followed Ripple and a16z in each giving a new $25 million to their political action committee, Fairshake …
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Sources: Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in Azure; one source estimated the Azure for Operators team cuts involved as many as 1,500 staffers  —  - Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from the Azure business, sources say.  — The layoffs impact Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering teams.
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
AMD unveils four new Zen 5 architecture-based Ryzen 9000-series desktop CPUs, set to launch in July 2024, claiming 16% more instructions per cycle over Zen 4  —  During AMD's Computex 2024 kick-off keynote, AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, officially unveiled and announced the company's next generation of Ryzen processors.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan on AI features, the AI pitch, video calls, layoffs, LLMs, solving hallucinations, Zoom 6.0, Microsoft Teams, digital twins, and more  —  Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources and filings detail Sam Altman's investment portfolio; Altman and his venture funds have invested in 400+ companies, and his holdings are worth $2.8B+  —  Many companies backed by CEO do business with the ChatGPT maker and benefit from the AI boom driven by the blockbuster startup, raising questions of conflicts

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