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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a new Passwords app in macOS 15, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18, powered by iCloud Keychain, and will let users import passwords from rival services — Apple Inc. will introduce a new homegrown app next week called Passwords, aiming to make it easier for customers to log …
More: Engadget, Livemint, PYMNTS.com, XDA Developers, MacRumors, Macworld, Android Authority, Daring Fireball, TechRadar, AppleInsider, iClarified, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Supercharged, BGR, PCMag, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, and Trusted Reviews
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith … and @howelloneill@infosec.exchange
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Adobe faces a backlash over its terms of service that say Adobe may access user content via “automated and manual methods” to improve its services and software — Adobe has been one of the leading legacy enterprise software companies to embrace generative AI and make it accessible …
More: 9to5Mac, PCMag, Niche Gamer, Android Authority, AppleInsider, 80 Level, Wccftech, MobileSyrup, Creative Bloq, mjtsai.com, PetaPixel, The Register, Plagiarism Today, Mashable, Stack Diary, LifeHacker, and iMore
Mastodon: @LeslieBurns@legal.social. Bluesky: @andrewwerth.bsky.social. X: @samsantala, @stretchedwiener, @scottbelsky, @that_guymike, @christsirgiotis, @editortargett, @mpecsinc, @scottbelsky, @grummz, @scottbelsky, @tadcarpenter, @jessicahische, @scottbelsky, @scottbelsky, @rahll, @samsantala, @adamsinger, @tonroosendaal, @scottbelsky, @webdevlaw, @scottbelsky, @laurenwalshart, @80level, @ghoulmommie, @grummz, @grummz, @robdjuk, @avideomakr, @scottbelsky, and @palomamcclain
Forums: Hacker News, r/WeddingPhotography, r/photography, and r/StallmanWasRight
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Cara, an artist-run, anti-AI social platform, grew from 40K to 650K users in the past week, as some Instagram artists leave over plans to train AI on user data — ‘Building a product is a bit like making art,’ said founder Jingna Zhang — Artists have finally had enough with Meta's predatory AI policies …
More: noyb, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, Aftermath, Washington Post, BBC, TNW, Entrepreneur, and 9to5Mac
Threads: @theericajoy, @documentingmeta, @tiffylt, @hilbrandbos, @cspenn, and @mattnavarra. Mastodon: @Gargron@mastodon.social
X: @zemotion, @natnatart, @zemotion, @caraidart, @sylessae, @zemotion, @andantonius, @coreybrickley, @cathrinmachin, and @gergelyorosz. LinkedIn: Rafael Brown
Forums: r/aiwars, r/ArtistHate, and r/technology
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall is a PR disaster, as users remain skeptical despite the company's assurances — The world is up-in-arms over Windows Recall, but why? It stems from Microsoft's seeming lack of care for Windows and its users.
More: DoublePulsar, Wired, xaitax on GitHub, Ars Technica, The Register, Wired, CNET, ZDNet, and OSnews
Mastodon: @confluency@hachyderm.io, @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange, @Kierkegaanks@beige.party, @kellogh@hachyderm.io, @USBTypeSteve@infosec.exchange, @tehstu@hachyderm.io, @SteveBellovin@mastodon …, @sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place, and @skye@toot.cat. Bluesky: @clearspark.bsky.social
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Forums: r/aiwars, r/technology, r/france, r/OpenAI, and r/tech
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google partners with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to let users contact 911 via RCS, from December and initially only in Google Messages — Google said today it is partnering with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to enable users to contact 911 through RCS (Rich Messaging Service).
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| New York Times: |
Sources: as the Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10K orders by early April, Humane started talking to HP about selling itself for $1B+; Humane has raised $240M — Days before gadget reviewers weighed in on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable device powered by artificial intelligence …
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Forums: r/LinusTechTips and Slashdot
| Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
A US federal court finds Mike Lynch not guilty of criminal charges that he duped HP into buying Autonomy for $11B in 2011; he lost a UK civil trial in 2022 — - San Francisco acquittal follows Lynch's defeat in civil trial — He's claimed for years he was scapegoated for merger gone bad
More: BBC, Runtime, Wall Street Journal, Irish Independent, iTnews, Financial Times, The Information, The Stack, Wired, Reuters, and The Register. X: @danprimack
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
The US charges three UK nationals with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a ~$3M NFT rug pull scam known as Evolved Apes in 2021 — Evolved apes was a $3 million NFT rug pull that lured investors in with the promise of developing a video game.
More: US Department of Justice, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, and The Crypto Times. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI urges LockBit ransomware victims to reach out after getting 7,000+ decryption keys to recover data for free; police seized 2,500+ keys in February 2024 — The FBI urges past victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to come forward after revealing that it has obtained …
More: Federal Bureau …, Ars Technica, SC Media, SecurityWeek, The Record, The Register, SiliconANGLE, ComputerWeekly.com, StateScoop, CSO, TechSpot, PCMag, and TechRadar
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kraken seeks to raise $100M+ in a pre-IPO round; the crypto exchange's previous attempts to go public were thwarted in part by a dispute with the SEC — - Crypto exchange has talked about doing IPO for several years — Closely held exchange is engaged in a dispute with the SEC
More: PYMNTS.com, CryptoPotato, The Block, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, CoinGape, CoinDesk, Milk Road, Crypto Briefing, and Axios
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the US FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft — The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.
More: CNBC, Politico, Associated Press, The Information, Politico, Axios, YourStory, Reuters, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Quartz, The Daily Upside, CoinGape, GovInfoSecurity.com, Quartz, Fierce Electronics, COINOTAG NEWS, Android Authority, Fortune, CCN.com, Tech Monitor, Mashable, Silicon UK, BGR, Benzinga, Semafor, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, Ars Technica, Tech Xplore, PYMNTS.com, The Register, International Business Times, and Bloomberg Law
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @KimPerales@toad.social
X: @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @bern_identity, @econliberties, @aifray, @adamkovac, @joshua_sisco, @blockheartben, @cullend, @eshumarneedi, and @dmccabe. LinkedIn: Daniel Dobrygowski
Forums: r/technology, r/aiwars, r/singularity, r/wallstreetbets, and Ars OpenForum
| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans WhatsApp features, including an AI-powered assistant for businesses in India and Singapore, and AI tools to create ads in English-speaking markets — - Assistant lets businesses chat with customers using AI — New features will roll out first in India and Singapore| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
More: Social Media Today and Livemint
| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Telegram launches Stars, a new in-app currency for the purchase of digital goods and services in Telegram mini apps; developers can convert Stars into TON — Developers of mini apps on Telegram will now be able to sell digital goods and services for Stars, which can be converted into Toncoin.
More: Telegram, Invezz, Techopedia, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, Pavel Durov on Telegram, and The Block
X: @awettermann, @claudedonze, and @kabirtothemoon
| Caitlin Ostroff / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp would still operate under its own brand — Move comes a month after SEC notice of a potential lawsuit over the brokerage's crypto offerings
More: Robinhood Markets, Inc., CoinDesk, DL News, Reuters, Bloomberg, Fortune, GovInfoSecurity.com, Proactiveinvestors UK, Axios, Quartz, The Daily Hodl, Cryptopolitan, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Forkast, The Information, and The Crypto Basic
X: @vladtenev, @cmsholdings, @robinhoodapp, @bitstamp, and @0xbags
LinkedIn: Hassan Ali, Alex Liu, and Eric Groothedde
| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI releases a research paper by its recently disbanded “superalignment” team on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models — Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method … | Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
Core Scientific rejects CoreWeave's $5.75-per-share buyout offer from June 4, worth $1B+, saying the deal significantly undervalues the company — The board of Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's offer to buy the miner for $5.75 per share. — Core Scientific (CORZ) …
More: Core Scientific, Inc., Blockworks, The Block, DatacenterDynamics, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
The National Samsung Electronics Union, which has ~28,400 workers, goes on a strike for the first time in the company's history for one day over a pay dispute — - This is first strike in the company's 55-year history — “This a soft start and a symbolic move,” a union leader said| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance has been renting Nvidia's GPUs from Oracle to bypass US sanctions; China Telecom and other Chinese companies also tried to use the loophole — The U.S. government forbids Nvidia from selling some of its most advanced artificial intelligence chips to customers in China.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is testing a streaks feature, which has become a status symbol on Snapchat, with select users in limited markets in order to increase engagement — In order to have users spend more time on the platform and ramp up engagement, TikTok is testing streaks that are similar to what people see on Snapchat.| Forbes: |
A look at Eric Schmidt's White Stork, which sources say has poached employees from Apple, SpaceX, Google, and others to build AI-enabled military drones — With a widening roster of high profile talent poached from Apple, SpaceX and Google, the former Google CEO is piloting his drones in Menlo Park and Ukraine.| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics — ASML makes some of the most advanced chip-making machines. It must balance Western demands to curb China's access while keeping a foothold in a key market.Sponsor Posts
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