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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds carve-outs to EU core tech fee, exempting developers of free apps and giving those with annual global revenue under €10M a three-year “free on-ramp” — Apple is tweaking how it applies a new fee that can apply to iOS developers in the European Union as it continues … | 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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| 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out passkey support for all consumer accounts; Microsoft account owners can generate passkeys across Windows, Android, and iOS — Microsoft is fully rolling out passkey support for all consumer accounts today. After enabling them in Windows 11 last year … | 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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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Forums: r/technology, r/privacy, and r/business
| 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.
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, ZDNet, Thurrott, TweakTown, Tech.co, Windows Central, and Guru3D
| 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
More: Microsoft, Wall Street Journal, The Register, Reuters, CCN.com, Thurrott, DatacenterDynamics, CNBC, Associated Press, Maginative, Tech in Asia, Silicon Republic, RTÉ, Nikkei Asia, Cryptopolitan, Neowin, The Crypto Times, Benzinga, and Cointelegraph
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LinkedIn: Laurence Si, Kevin Wo, and Matthew Barsing
| 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 …
More: Sheep.Horse and Simon Willison's Weblog
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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 …
More: House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Cybersecurity Dive, CNN, CSO, Cyber Daily, and CNBC
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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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| The Verge: |
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy steps down, as the company lays off ~15% of its workforce, or ~400 people, its fifth layoffs since 2021, when it had 8,600 staffers — Peloton's CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after announcing yet another round of layoffs, this time affecting about 15 percent …
More: Wall Street Journal, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, The Information, NPR, Fast Company, New York Times, CNBC, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Peloton, and Financial Times
| 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
More: Tom's Hardware and Light Reading
| 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 …
More: Trend Micro, TechRadar, The Hacker News, and Beyond Search
Mastodon: @kim_harding@mastodon.scot and @arstechnica@mastodon.social. X: @privacydigest. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| 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 … | Kalley Huang / The Information: |
Some developers are releasing longer context windows for Llama 3 thanks to Meta's open-source approach; Llama 3 has a short context window of 8,000+ tokens — Developers have been praising Meta Platforms' Llama 3, the latest version of its flagship large language model.
More: Ollama and Towards Data Science
| 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
More: Finextra and FinSMEs
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| 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 … | Senator Scott Wiener / @scott_wiener: |
[Thread] California state Sen. Scott Wiener defends his AI safety bill SB 1047, after criticism that it will “crush OpenAI's competitors” and open-source AI — AI policy is a new & fast-moving field & it's healthy & important to have a diversity of perspectives. However, this thread contains some extreme inaccuracies — indeed outright fear-mongering — about our AI safety legislation (SB 1047) that need to be corrected: 🧵
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| 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.
Mastodon: @justinling@mastodon.online
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is the right price, fun design, and a good mic, but the best features are all MIA, finicky and slow, and using a phone is better — Artificial intelligence might someday make technology easier to use and even do things on your behalf. All the Rabbit R1 does right now is make me tear my hair out.| 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.
More: The Overspill. Mastodon: @paul_irish@toot.cafe and @michellemanafy@journa.host
X: @chrismoranuk, @michaelluo, @maxwelltani, @voxmedia, @chaykak, @michaelroston, @chaykak, @maxrivlinnadler, @chaykak, @chaykak, @amandakhurley, and @mjnblack. LinkedIn: Justin B. Smith. Forums: Hacker News
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Brazil-based Indicium, which helps enterprises become “data-driven” using data stacks from AWS and others, raised $40M to expand its operations in the US — Brazilian data and artificial intelligence consultancy startup Indicium today announced that it had raised $40 million …
More: FinSMEs, Indicium, and Channel Futures
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
LayerX, which makes a browser extension to let companies secure their devices and SaaS apps, raised a $26M Series A, bringing its total funding to $34M — The Israeli startup's Enterprise Browser Extension integrates with any browser, helping enterprises to secure their devices, identities … Sponsor Posts
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