• David Meyer / Fortune: Digital privacy activist Max Schrems files official GDPR complaints against Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram over forced consent

• BBC: Some US news sites like the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune restrict access from EU as GDPR goes into effect   —  A number of high-profile US news websites …

• Adam Satariano / New York Times: As Europe enacts GDPR, EU officials are encouraging countries like Brazil, Japan, and South Korea to adopt similar laws by tying data protection to trade deals

• Bloomberg: Sources: Essential, a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone

• Gary Horcher / KIRO: After allegations Alexa recorded a private conversation and sent it to a person in contact list, Amazon says the case was extremely rare, is taking steps to fix

• Jason Del Rey / Recode: Amazon says the Echo that recorded a private discussion interpreted background conversation as action confirmation, leading to recording and sending to contact

• Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: Sign up now for Techmeme's new newsletter, which goes out daily at 5pm Pacific   —  Today we're launching Techmeme's first newsletter.  Sign up here!

• Sponsor Post Microsoft: Making gaming accessible to all   —  Read the story behind the new Xbox Adaptive Controller, which will make gaming accessible to people with a broad range of disabilities.

• Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: Apple wins $538.6M from Samsung in iPhone patent retrial: $533.3M for infringement of Apple's design patents and $5.3M for infringement of its utility patents

• Facebook: Facebook will check images and text, who is being targeted, and any linked websites in issue ads as it begins to apply new policies   —  Political advertising serves an important purpose.

• Rob Leathern / Facebook: Facebook rolls out “Paid for by” disclosure labels on Facebook and Instagram for political ads in US, including issues ads that deal with 20 specific subjects

• Twitter: Twitter to add badges and disclaimers for US federal political advertisers and require certification and account elements “consistent with online presence”

• Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: Facebook launches archive of political ads, containing ads for political candidates and issue ads starting in May 2018; ads kept in archive for seven years

• Sean Hollister / CNET: Valve says Apple revoked its approval of the Steam Link app for iOS due to “business conflicts with app guidelines” and denied Valve's appeal

• AppleInsider: Apple giving month-long free trials of its 50GB, 200GB, and 2TB iCloud storage plans to customers currently on the free 5GB tier

• Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: Unsealed indictment shows federal prosecutors have charged three men with crimes related to December death of a Kansas man fatally shot in a swatting prank

• City Attorney of San Francisco: San Francisco announces new regulations requiring scooter startups like Lime, Spin, and Bird, to halt operations by June 4 and apply for permits by June 7

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• Micah Singleton / The Verge: YouTube Music review: Easy to use with an excellent home screen and recommendation engine but confusing price structure and missing power user features

• Janko Roettgers / Variety: Vevo is shuttering its Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile apps and website to refocus on YouTube following resignation of several execs and significant layoffs

• Josh Constine / TechCrunch: At Facebook's anti-sex trafficking hackathon, Uber, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and Pinterest competed, the winners developed tools to track traffickers online

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• 25 minutes ago Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says company is designing its own energy-efficient chips to help with analyzing and filtering live video content

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• 70 minutes ago Josh Constine / TechCrunch: At Facebook's anti-sex trafficking hackathon, Uber, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and Pinterest competed, the winners developed tools to track traffickers online

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• Sponsor Post Microsoft: Making gaming accessible to all   —  Read the story behind the new Xbox Adaptive Controller, which will make gaming accessible to people with a broad range of disabilities.

• 3½ hours ago BBC: Some US news sites like the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune restrict access from EU as GDPR goes into effect   —  A number of high-profile US news websites …

• 5½ hours ago Adam Satariano / New York Times: As Europe enacts GDPR, EU officials are encouraging countries like Brazil, Japan, and South Korea to adopt similar laws by tying data protection to trade deals

• 9 hours ago City Attorney of San Francisco: San Francisco announces new regulations requiring scooter startups like Lime, Spin, and Bird, to halt operations by June 4 and apply for permits by June 7

• 13 hours ago Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: Unsealed indictment shows federal prosecutors have charged three men with crimes related to December death of a Kansas man fatally shot in a swatting prank

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