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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple and Google submit a proposed industry specification to help combat unwanted location tracking by Bluetooth devices and ask for input from other companies — - Apple and Google said that they are working together to prevent lost item trackers like Apple's AirTag from being used to track people without their permission.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
An in-depth look inside the US DOJ and Volexity's investigation into the SolarWinds hack, one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage campaigns of the decade — The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
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Pixel Envy. LinkedIn:
Melanie Lombardi. Tweets:
@ericgeller, @lilyhnewman, @sherrod_im, and @kimzetter
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter restores free API access for verified government or publicly owned services tweeting weather alerts, transportation updates, and emergency notifications — Twitter's decision to shut off its free API caused more than a few problems for public institutions that depend on the functionality …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, the FBI, and others take down the dark web Monopoly Market, arrest 288 vendors and customers, and seize €50.8M in cash and crypto and 850kg of drugs — An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘SpecTor’ has arrested 288 dark web vendors and customers worldwide …
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years — International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring …
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Genevieve Roch-Decter. Tweets:
@klingebeil, @robinwauters, @patrickmoorhead, @rmac18, @kaleekreider, @bcmerchant, and @atabarrok
| Adam Conway / XDA Developers: |
Leak: the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra foldable will have a 2640x1080 HDR AMOLED 120Hz main and 1056x1066 cover display, a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, and up to 12GB of RAM — Motorola is leaning into high-end foldables with its most powerful yet. — Source: Evan Blass
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
TikTok's US head of trust and safety Eric Han is leaving the company on May 12; Han played a key role in a separate entity that TikTok created to avoid a US ban — TikTok's head of trust and safety for the US, Eric Han, is leaving the company on May 12th, according to two people familiar … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q1 revenue down 9% YoY to $5.35B, vs. $5.3B est., a $139M net loss, Client revenue down 65% YoY to $739M, and Q2 guidance below est.; AMD drops 5%+ — - AMD's report comes as the PC industry is in a deep slump, with shipments dropping 30% in the first quarter, according to IDC.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Coinbase launches International Exchange, planning to let international users trade perpetual futures out of Bermuda, as the company tussles with US regulators — - Coinbase plans to let international users trade perpetual futures out of Bermuda through a new platform.
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| Medha Singh / Reuters: |
Online study company Chegg suspends its full-year outlook, saying ChatGPT's popularity is pressuring its subscriber growth; CHGG drops ~50%, now down 64%+ YTD — What's the cost of students using ChatGPT for homework? For U.S. education services provider Chegg Inc (CHGG.N), it could be nearly $1 billion in market valuation.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
A profile of and interview with deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, including why he now thinks neural networks are “a new and better form of intelligence” — “I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”
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| Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: |
The Writers Guild of America strikes after negotiations over pay and AI issues with Netflix, Disney, Apple, Amazon, Sony, and others failed; nearly 12K may join — The Writers Guild of America, the union that bargains on behalf of Hollywood's screenwriters, has called a strike after negotiations …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to sell a ChatGPT version on a dedicated cloud server in Q2 that separates the data from that of other clients and costs up to 10x more — Not everyone trusts OpenAI's ChatGPT. — While the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has proved popular …
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@0x, @aaronpholmes, @jessicalessin, and @theinformation
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
US lawmakers reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act with updates aimed at addressing potential harms, but fail to appease some activists and industry groups — - A bipartisan pair of senators reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act on Tuesday with updates that aimed to address concerns … | Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Q&A with Nick Denton, Jonah Peretti, and also Ben Smith, whose book Traffic details the rise and fall of BuzzFeed and Gawker, on digital media and its reckoning — A conversation with two media pioneers — plus Ben Smith, whose new book chronicles their rise and fall.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Simpplr, which sells an internal social network for companies, raised a $70M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures and claims 700+ clients including Moderna and AAA — Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma's first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR tech firm to develop …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that's more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer” — Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the year-old startup that's already raised $225 million and claims to run …
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Financial Times, Tech Startups, Bloomberg, Fast Company, and Reuters
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@heypi_ai, @mustafasuleymn, @reidhoffman, @inflectionai, @marshallk, and @alexrkonrad. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta adds Reels to the top of the Facebook Watch tab and introduces controls that let users customize what types of content they want to see more or less often — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is introducing new features that make it easier for users to discover …
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Meta, iPhone in Canada Blog, Search Engine Land, and Engadget
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
BeReal rolls out RealPeople, a curated timeline of updates from “the world's most interesting people”, first in the UK, to keep users engaged as growth slows — Days after it started offering users the option to post more than once per day, BeReal is rolling out another new feature.| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Match Group reports Q1 revenue down 1% YoY to $787M, vs. $794M est., paying users down 3% YoY to 15.9M, revenue per paying user up 2% YoY; announces $1B buyback — Match Group (MTCH.O) on Tuesday forecast second-quarter revenue below analysts' expectations, but said it is seeing signs … | Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
ODAIA, whose software uses AI to help pharmaceutical firms bring drugs to market, raised a $25M Series B co-led by Threshold Ventures and Monograph Capital — Roster of big pharma clients helped Odaia nab latest funding round. — Toronto-based software startup Odaia has secured $34 million CAD … 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.
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
Zoho:
New in Zoho Payroll USA: Multi-state payroll and more — Running payroll shouldn't get harder as your business grows. Whether you've expanded into new states or built a team with unique needs …
New in Zoho Payroll USA: Multi-state payroll and more — Running payroll shouldn't get harder as your business grows. Whether you've expanded into new states or built a team with unique needs …
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