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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA says it will extend funding to Mitre, which runs the CVE Program, and “there will be no lapse in critical CVE services”, after Mitre said funding expired — CISA says the U.S. government has extended MITRE's funding to ensure no continuity issues with the critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program.
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LinkedIn: Jen Easterly and Patrick W. Gilmore
| CNBC: |
SEC filing: Nvidia says it will record a $5.5B quarterly charge after new US rules to require a license to export the H20 chips to China; NVDA drops ~5% — Nvidia said on Tuesday that it will take a quarterly charge of about $5.5 billion tied to exporting H20 graphics processing units to China and other destinations.
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Forums: r/China, r/WallStreetbetsELITE, and r/technology
| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia did not warn at least some major customers in advance about new US export rules on its H20 chips to China; the US told Nvidia about a week ago — Nvidia (NVDA.O) did not warn at least some major customers in advance about new U.S. export rules it was told about a week ago requiring …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify is down in the US, Europe, and more; users reported issues from 8:00AM ET, and Spotify says it is “aware of the outage” and it is not “a security hack” — Spotify is aware of the issues and is ‘checking them out.’ — Spotify is down according …
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X: @spotifystatus and @spotifystatus
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta offered $450M in late March to settle the FTC's antitrust case and raised its offer to ~$1B as the trial neared; the FTC had demanded $30B — The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case. Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q1 net sales up 46% YoY to €7.74B, vs. €7.8B est., a €2.36B net profit, €3.94B net bookings, below €4.89B est., and warns of tariff uncertainty — Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday missed order expectations and said that uncertainty …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/europe
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Q&A with Phil Spencer on A Minecraft Movie, potential IP for future movies, Microsoft's Hollywood goals, Fallout Season 2 and the Minecraft TV series, and more — The execs at Microsoft, Warner Bros. and Legendary can now breathe a collective sigh of relief as “A Minecraft Movie” …
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Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/boxoffice, and r/xbox
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds a “computer use” tool in Copilot Studio to let AI agents use websites and desktop apps; the feature is designed to detect UI changes dynamically — Microsoft has its own ‘computer use’ feature for AI agents to automatically use websites and apps.| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Huawei's AI CloudMatrix 384 rack-scale system, which is less power-efficient than Nvidia's GB200 NVL72, though this is not a limiting factor in China — Huawei is making waves with its new AI accelerator and rack scale architecture. Meet China's newest and most powerful Chinese domestic solution …
More: South China Morning Post, Stratechery, TechPowerUp, TechWire Asia, and Tech in Asia
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google says it suspended 39.2M US advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024, up over 3x from 12.7M in 2023, and took down 1.8B ads, aided by new AI tools — Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok begins testing Footnotes, a Community Notes-like feature to add “more context” to videos, in the US; Footnotes won't affect algorithmic ranking — But the company isn't walking away from fact checking. — As TikTok continues to wait for a deal that will secure its future … | Reuters: |
Figma confidentially files for a US IPO, more than a year after Adobe's $20B acquisition failed; the company was valued at $12.5B in a May 2024 tender offer — Cloud-based designer platform Figma on Tuesday confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States …
More: Axios, CNBC, Crunchbase News, Figma, Analytics India Magazine, and Bloomberg
Forums: r/FigmaDesign and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
xAI unveils Grok Studio, a canvas-like tool for its Grok chatbot that can generate and edit documents, run code like Python and JavaScript, and more — Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps.
More: Engadget, Tom's Guide, Blockchain.News, MakeUseOf, Analytics India Magazine, and Tech in Asia
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Documents: ICE awarded Palantir nearly $30M in April 2025 to enhance its Investigative Case Management system, after a $90M, five-year deal in September 2022 — The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts …
More: Sherwood News. Bluesky: @jasonkoebler and @josephcox. Mastodon: @josephcox@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: |
Infinite Reality, which recently bought Napster, acquires AI customer support startup Touchcast for $500M in cash and stock, valuing Infinite Reality at $15.5B — The acquisition comes just weeks after the company said it would buy iconic 2000s music brand Napster.| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Medicare broker Chapter, which was co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy and uses AI to aggregate comprehensive plan data, raised $75M at a $1.5B valuation — Startup Chapter, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy and previously backed by Peter Thiel and JD Vance, just closed a VC round valuing it at $1.5 billion.
More: FinSMEs and Business Wire
| Jarred Walton / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB review: great value and performance, and GDDR7 offers more bandwidth, but the GPU's pricing and availability remain uncertain — Retail availability and pricing will be critical factors. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
More: PC Gamer, Club386, Eurogamer.net, TechSpot, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and The Verge. Forums: r/nvidia
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
OKX relaunches in the US and unveils a new crypto wallet for users, two months after a $500M DOJ settlement over insufficient anti-money laundering processes — Seychelles-based OKX announced on Tuesday that it is relaunching the U.S. version of its crypto exchange and unveiled a new wallet …
More: The Information, OKX, The Block, Yahoo Finance, Cointelegraph, Blockhead, Bitcoin Insider, and Bloomberg
X: @wublockchain and @okx
| Reuters: |
River: China's local governments held 15,000 bitcoin worth $1.4B at the end of 2024, the world's 14th biggest holder, sparking a debate on how to handle it — China's growing pile of cryptocurrencies seized from illegal transactions is prompting local governments to find ways to dispose … Sponsor Posts
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