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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple is testing two new high-end Macs, one with M2 Max, and the other with the unannounced M2 Ultra chip with 60 graphics cores and up to 192GB of RAM   —  Apple Inc. is testing a pair of new high-end Macs and their accompanying processors ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference next week … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/6eN3v0O via IFTTT

Natasha Singer / New York Times : Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges that the company kept Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data collected from children for years   —  Regulators said the tech giant kept children's Alexa voice recordings “forever,” violating a children's privacy law. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/519T2po via IFTTT

Jordan Novet / CNBC : Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.25B, vs. $8.18B est., capital expenditures up 36% YoY to $243M, vs. $205M est., and raises Q2 guidance above est.   —  - Salesforce surpassed estimates across the board and raised its full-year earnings guidance. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Mg4plYN via IFTTT

Eleanor Hawkins / Axios : Google's head of communications and public affairs Corey duBrowa will leave the company to serve as CEO of public relations firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe   —  Corey duBrowa will depart Google and parent company Alphabet in June to serve as CEO of global public relations firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW), Axios has learned. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/qQeHTOz via IFTTT

Juli Clover / MacRumors : Reddit client Apollo's developer says Reddit plans to charge $12K for 50M API requests and that he would need to pay $20M per year to keep operating the app   —  Popular Reddit app Apollo might not be able to operate as is in the future due to planned API pricing that Reddit is implementing. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/wNZVd7Y via IFTTT

Bloomberg : Fidelity estimated in a recent disclosure that Twitter is now worth about 33% of Elon Musk's $44B purchase price, based on a markdown of its own Twitter stake   —  Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/kapC7UH via IFTTT

Politico : France and Germany dominate the EU's tech regulation, rarely taking input from the bloc's smaller tech-oriented members, which worry about hampering innovation   —  When it comes to technology, the countries making the rules aren't those leading the field. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/woKiuOc via IFTTT

Financial Times : How the US is increasingly reshaping the spyware market to favor companies selling cyberweapons to the US and its allies, like Israeli startup Paragon Solutions   —  Contrasting fates of Israeli spyware-makers Paragon and NSO reveal how American support is crucial in $12bn industry from Techmeme https://ift.tt/WMun6ks via IFTTT

Manish Singh / TechCrunch : JioCinema breaks the global record for the most concurrent views to a live-streamed event with 33M+ viewers for the May 29 IPL final, surpassing Hotstar's 25.3M   —  India's JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/AzYaF3E via IFTTT

Dave Lawler / Axios : A look at Ukraine's Diia app, used by 19M citizens to access digital IDs and other government services, along with an “e-Enemy” feature to report Russian troops   —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was elected in 2019 on a pledge to put “the state in a smartphone.” from Techmeme https://ift.tt/qdf8HSa via IFTTT

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : MCNA Dental, one of the largest US government-sponsored dental insurers, says hackers stole data of ~8.9M people; LockBit claimed responsibility for the attack   —  Managed Care of North America (MCNA) Dental has published a data breach notification on its website, informing almost 9 million patients … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/9js1HRq via IFTTT

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk : Glassnode: 14.85% of all ether was held in exchange-controlled wallets on May 25, the lowest level since summer 2016, as staking soaks up the available supply   —  The drop comes as the number of staked ether has surged.  —  The number of ether (ETH) on exchanges has hit a low … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/P6wczNs via IFTTT

This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here . Recently, I drove from Washington, DC, to New York and passed through Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey on the way while scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Crossing all those state lines got me thinking about Montana and its recent ban on TikTok, the massive social media app owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance. Are we really proceeding down a path where I might have to delete and re-download certain apps as I cross state lines? What is the future of TikTok bans, and could they ever actually be enforced? US policymakers have been scrutinizing the app intensely in recent months over concerns about Chinese espionage, but Montana’s ban is the most dramatic move so far. Legislators structured the law to target marketplaces like Google Play and Apple’s App Store. Starting on January...

Bloomberg : Nvidia announces a range of AI products and updates, including the DGX GH200 supercomputer platform, data center networking tools, and a robotics platform   —  In a two-hour presentation in Taiwan, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang unveiled a new batch of products and services tied … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/e1AwulM via IFTTT

Michael Brooks / MIT Technology Review : An interview with IBM VP of Quantum Computing Jay Gambetta on the company's plan to build a 100,000-qubit computer within 10 years, finding scientists, and more   —  The company wants to make large-scale quantum computers a reality within just 10 years.  —  Late last year, IBM took the record … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/b3qWFzs via IFTTT

Sara Korolevich / Checkr : A survey of 3,000 US workers, an equal number of Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Zers, finds 85% of them have used AI tools to perform tasks at work   —  - Select a topic to scroll directly to it:  — Summary of key findings  — Current AI usage and planning for the future from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ZJmGuf2 via IFTTT

Matthew Gault / VICE : A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others that is using AI-generated images to train ML systems and generative adversarial networks   —  Discord's captcha is asking users to identify a ‘Yoko,’ a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI.  —  Matthew Gault from Techmeme https://ift.tt/GzgeHXw via IFTTT

Rebecca Feng / Wall Street Journal : Analysts and others say Wind Information, described as a Chinese alternative to Bloomberg terminal, is limiting international users' access to some information   —  E-commerce shopping trends, satellite images are no longer available to foreign users of Wind from Techmeme https://ift.tt/cCrs08z via IFTTT

Andrew Logan / Texas Monthly : A profile of Tapbots founders Paul Haddad and Mark Jardine; ex-Twitter exec Amir Shevat says ~17% of engagement on Twitter historically was via third-party apps   —  After Elon Musk killed their Twitter app, two software developers in the North Texas suburbs are trying to shape the future of social media. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2UN17ET via IFTTT

Aisha Majid / Press Gazette : Chartbeat data for 1,350 publishers: Twitter referral traffic fell from 1.9% in April 2018 to 1.2% in April 2023; medium-sized publishers' traffic dropped 40%   —  Twitter - already a small source of clicks for publishers - has further declined in importance as a traffic referrer in recent years. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/zosfDiR via IFTTT

Susanne Barton / Bloomberg : Binance plans to launch a local service for Japan residents in the summer and discontinue its global service for users in the country on November 30, 2023   —  Binance is creating a new platform for residents in Japan in order to fully comply with local regulations, the company said in a blog post. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/JNZsRWK via IFTTT

Bloomberg : US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US “won't tolerate” China's ban on Micron chips and calls the decision an “economic coercion”   —  Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US “won't tolerate” the recent decision by Chinese authorities to ban chips … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/hZqPSHB via IFTTT

Tracy Wen Liu / Wired : Source and analysis: PDD-owned Temu is losing an average of $30 per order and between $588M to $954M per year, as it tries to break into the US market   —  The Chinese shopping app is topping app stores in the US.  But it's burning money and squeezing its suppliers to a breaking point in a bid to take on Amazon. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/CqQADy6 via IFTTT

Wes Fenlon / PC Gamer : The developers behind open source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin say Nintendo sent Valve a DMCA takedown notice to block Dolphin's impending release on Steam   —  The GameCube & Wii emulator developers say the Steam release is “indefinitely postponed.”  —  On Friday, the developers behind … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/x6PrKfs via IFTTT

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information : Source: Twitter stopped paying Redis Labs for software handling high-traffic services, including live-audio, weeks before Ron DeSantis' glitchy Spaces event   —  On Wednesday night, Twitter experienced multiple outages during a high-profile live audio forum on the app in which Republican Florida … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2Z67X0o via IFTTT

Vignesh R. / Silicon Canals : Paris-based Sekoia, a platform for the real-time detection of cyberattacks, raised a $35M Series A from Banque des Territoires, Bright Pixel, and BNP Paribas   —  Paris-based Sekoia.io, a cybersecurity SaaS company, announced on Wednesday, May 24, that it has raised €35M from Banque des Territoires … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/rT3kUPO via IFTTT