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May 31, 2024, 5:30 PM

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Axios:
The US Treasury Department plans to make the IRS' Direct File program permanent from the 2025 tax season and invites all states and Washington DC to participate  —  - Treasury announced earlier this month that more than 140,000 people participated in the Direct File pilot program …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Tether acquires a $100M stake in US-listed bitcoin miner Bitdeer owned by Chinese billionaire Jihan Wu, with an option to buy $50M more in shares within a year  —  - Bitcoin miner is owned by the Chinese billionaire Jihan Wu  — Bitdeer was previously in talks with private credit firms
Brian Fung / CNN:
FCC ends the Affordable Connectivity Program, which helped low-income Americans afford internet service, after the House failed to approve additional funding  —  The Affordable Connectivity Program, which helped low-income Americans get online, is no more.  —  On Friday, the US government announced …
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
Meta is notifying Instagram and Facebook EU users that it's using their data to train its AI models, and users can opt out, “if your objection is honoured”  —  If you use Instagram or Facebook, Meta is using your data to train its AI models.  The company uses posts as training material for its generative AI systems.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Google plans to disable extensions built with the older Manifest V2 framework on June 3, beginning with users of Chrome's Beta, Dev, and Canary versions  —  The move begins with Chrome beta users on June 3, before a gradual phaseout of ‘Manifest V2’ extensions for all users in the coming months, which could impact uBlock Origin.
Reuters:
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin says it has lost 4,502.9 bitcoin, worth about $308M, in an “unauthorised leak”, and is investigating the incident  —  TOKYO, May 31 (Reuters) - Japan's cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin said on Friday that it had lost 4,502.9 bitcoin …
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Researchers claim that 2,107 US voters, mostly older, white Republican women, accounted for spreading 80% of the fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election  —  A pair of studies published Thursday in the journal Science offers evidence not only that misinformation on social media changes minds …
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
The European Commission designates Temu as a “very large online platform” and says the company will have to comply with DSA rules by the end of September 2024  —  Temu, the super low-cost e-commerce marketplace owned by Chinese online retailer Pinduoduo, is to face …
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
Sources: TikTok pauses plans to launch its e-commerce business in major European markets to focus on growth in the US where it's fighting the divest-or-ban law  —  - ByteDance halts plan to roll out shopping from Spain to Italy  — Company aims to entrench itself in its most lucrative market
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Startup Fable Studio announces Showrunner, a streaming service that lets users watch AI-generated series and create their own series by writing prompts  —  Fable, the studio behind the viral AI-generated ‘South Park’ clips, has announced a streaming platform that allows users to create their own content.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
How Meta revamped Facebook's feed to show more posts from outside a person's network of friends and family, in a move to fight TikTok and win back younger users  —  - Feed now features a broader array of posts based on interest  — More young adults are back on Facebook after years of declines

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