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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A US judge says Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising tech, the second time in a year a court found Google acted illegally — The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.
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Bluesky: @klobuchar.senate.gov, @robpegoraro.com, @reckless, @robin.berjon.com, and @caseynewton. Threads: @wongmjane
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LinkedIn: Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, Erin Dougherty, and Jonathan Kanter
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/Economics, r/degoogle, r/google, r/programmatic, r/news, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Axios: |
The DOJ and 17 US states that brought the antitrust case seek to force Google to sell off its “network” ad business, which is ~12% of Alphabet's total revenue — Google's dominance of the online advertising and ad-tech markets violates U.S. antitrust laws, a federal court ruled Thursday …
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| Bloomberg: |
In her ruling, Judge Brinkema says Google did not meet the monopoly definition for tools used to buy display ads, but did for ad exchanges and website ad tools — Google illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets, according to a federal judge, whose ruling marked …
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Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/politics
| @newsfromgoogle: |
Google says “we won half of this case and we will appeal the other half” of the US antitrust ruling, and “we disagree” with the decision on its publisher tools — “We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half. The Court found that our advertiser tools and our acquisitions, such as DoubleClick, don't harm competition. We disagree with the Court's decision regarding our publisher tools. Publishers have many options and they
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs. $10.51B est., net income of $2.89B, and stops reporting subscriber numbers on a quarterly basis — Netflix is no longer reporting number of subscribers on a quarterly basis. But it's still motoring on a hot growth engine …
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| Financial Times: |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules — Meetings with Chinese vice-premier and DeepSeek founder come after US clamps down on chipmaker's sales to China
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Global Payments shares plunge 15%+ and FIS shares jump 9%+ after Global Payments said it's buying Worldpay from FIS and GTCR and selling Issuer Solutions to FIS — Global Payments shares tumbled 17% on Thursday after the company said it is buying Worldpay for more than $24 billion … | Steve Dickson / Bloomberg: |
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X: @theholykau, @nikmilanovic, @andrewe, @globalpayinc, and @jkwade
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, with support for Canvas for working on text or code; developers can disable thinking or set a token limit for it — Google's Gemini AI may have had a slow start, but it has been anything but in 2025. Barely a week goes by that another model …
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X: @officiallogank, @osanseviero, @googledeepmind, @krishnanrohit, @natolambert, @kimmonismus, @google, @google, and @google
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Washington Post: |
Sources: Tim Cook spoke to the US Commerce Secretary last week about how tariffs could affect iPhone prices before Trump exempted products from Apple and others — Administration officials insist that no companies received special exemptions. Trump said he “helped Tim Cook recently.”
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Reuters, The Economic Times, TheStreet, GuruFocus, and WinBuzzer
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google is offering its Google One AI Premium plan for free to US college students until spring 2026; students have until June 30, 2025, to sign up — That's more than a year of free access to Gemini tools. — Google is the latest AI service provider to court users in higher education.| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q1 net income up 60.3% YoY to $11.1B, beating estimates, as customers stockpiled chips anticipating global trade disruptions spurred by US tariffs — And it stuck with a capital spending projection of $38 billion to $42 billion for 2025. TSMC's US stock rose 4.7% … | Justin Ling / Wired: |
New Jersey's AG sues Discord, alleging the platform's features to keep children under 13 safe from sexual predators and harmful content are inadequate — The New Jersey attorney general claims Discord's features to keep children under 13 safe from sexual predators and harmful content are inadequate.
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Bluesky: @couts and @newjerseyoag
Forums: r/technews and r/discordapp
| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Sources: Amazon plans to release its first TV streaming device with its Vega OS, used in some Echo devices, in 2025 and is courting publishers to add their apps — Also: AI for VR … Amazon continues to pursue a transition away from Android for its TV hardware: The company plans to release … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches Blend, an invite-only, personalized Reels feed for users and their friends in a group chat with new content every day — Instagram on Thursday announced that it's rolling out Blend, a new feature that lets you create a custom, personalized reels feed for you and your friends.
More: Engadget, CNET, Forbes, Fast Company, Digital Trends, TechRadar, The Verge, WinBuzzer, and Mashable
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Leaked email: the US CFPB plans a 50% reduction in supervisory activities and a shift in focus from fintech companies back to traditional banks — America's top consumer financial watchdog has spelled out its priorities under the Donald Trump era, including a dramatic cut to supervision … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French” optimized for AI model training — Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that's specifically optimized for machine learning applications.
More: Wikimedia Enterprise, Kaggle, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, WinBuzzer, and Engadget
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Kyle Barr / Gizmodo: |
Framework Laptop 13 review: it's modular and customizable, has a great keyboard and improved thermals, but it's pricey and the screen's brightness can be better — The Framework 13 now feels like a laptop that's more than a modular, repairable novelty. It's now a device that's a joy to both build and use.| Jakob McWhinney / Voice of San Diego: |
US community colleges are battling a flood of fake, or bot, students who bilk financial aid by enrolling in online classes and submitting AI-generated work — Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds.
More: Link in Bio. Bluesky: @socialmedialab.ca, @thealexknapp, @voiceofsandiego.org, @damon.kiesow.net, and @richardkadrey. X: @voiceofsandiego. LinkedIn: Ben Williamson
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI and SoftBank are considering investing in the UK for Stargate as part of an international expansion, if the project proves successful in the US — US $500bn data centre venture looks overseas to build out global infrastructure capacity — Stargate, the $500bn US data …
More: Benzinga, Reuters, DatacenterDynamics, WinBuzzer, and TechCrunch
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Former YC President Geoff Ralston launches Safe AI Fund, or SAIF, providing initial funding of $100K with a $10M cap to startups that “enhance AI safety” — Geoff Ralston, well-known in the startup community for his years at Y Combinator, is back in the formal investing ring, he announced Thursday.Sponsor Posts
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Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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