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 …
What to expect at WWDC 2024: plans to integrate AI into its apps with a new opt-in service called Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, macOS 15, visionOS 2, and more
The company will introduce ‘Apple Intelligence,’ its long-awaited push into modern AI for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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 …
A website for cybercriminals lists 500+ allegedly stolen Snowflake customer credentials, including for environments belonging to Santander and Ticketmaster
Cloud data analysis company Snowflake is at the center of a recent spate of alleged data thefts, as its corporate customers scramble …
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.
Over a dozen video game professionals discuss the Summer Game Fest, amid concerns about the event's high entry fees, opaqueness, celebritization, and more
Suddenly, Geoff Keighley's June showcase is one of the industry's most important events. Whether or not it's a positive force …
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 …
Adobe clarifies its terms, saying it does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content and will never assume ownership of a customer's work
A change to Adobe terms set the internet alight yesterday, after a number of pro users of the company's apps reacted with anger and confusion to the scary-looking wording.
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.
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
inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica : Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn't earned Alex / xaitax on GitHub : TotalRecall - a ‘p...
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
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg :
Meta rolls out its Meta Verified program for WhatsApp Business users in Brazil, India, Indonesia and Colombia, with subscription plans starting from $14 a month
Q&A with Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on running the world's foremost open source intelligence agency, AI-generated content, legal accountability, and more
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits … X: @eliothiggins and @jeffnesbit . LinkedIn: Nathan May See al...
PowerSchool, which provides software that helps educational institutions manage operations, is being taken private by Bain Capital in a $5.6B deal
Cloud-based education software vendor PowerSchool is being taken private by investment firm Bain Capital in a $5.6 billion deal.
Meta is rolling out a new Communities feature on Messenger to all users globally, allowing up to 5,000 people to join a Community through shareable invites
Meta is quietly rolling out a new “Communities” feature on Messenger, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
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
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The British Independent Retailers Association files a £1.1B lawsuit against Amazon for allegedly misusing members' proprietary data for competitive purposes
E-commerce behemoth Amazon recently reached a wide-ranging settlement with the U.K. competition watchdog …
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
Olga Kharif / 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
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg :
WhatsApp Channels, which has 500M+ MAUs, relies on community guidelines to tackle election interference, instead of specific rules like on Facebook or Threads
The platform transforms WhatsApp from a private messaging and group chat service into a broadcast platform as well, with users able to follow posts from public accounts.
Life360, owner of Bluetooth tracking device brand Tile, held onto its $27 per share offer price on its Nasdaq debut, after raising $155.3M in its US IPO
yes that's 17 years to get to this milestone. When I joined the board, the team and revenue were still [image]
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
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Boston-based Seven AI, which uses AI to help companies combat cyberattacks, emerged from stealth and raised $36M led by Greylock at a ~$100M valuation
New company uses artificial intelligence to help enterprises combat cyberattacks — Venture firm Greylock Partners has led …
NY AG sues crypto companies AWS Mining and NovaTechFX for allegedly operating pyramid schemes that targeted Haitian immigrants and bilked investors out of $1B+
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk :
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
Caitlin Ostroff / Wall Street Journal :
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
OpenAI releases a research paper by its recently disbanded “superalignment” team on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models
but OpenAI says it's closer to cracking the mystery Ben's Bites : GPT 4 Features - Peeking into AI's brains X: @openai : We're sharing progress toward understanding the neural activity of language mod...
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
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
An ex-AWS worker says Amazon breached UK sanctions by providing the Russian company VisionLabs with its facial recognition tech after Russia's Ukraine invasion
Former AWS worker alleges unfair dismissal after he blew the whistle over claims involving facial recognition technology use
The US Veterans Affairs' internal survey: fewer than 1 in 5 VA health employees say Oracle Health's products enable them to deliver “high-quality care”
- Company's $16 billion contract with US agency under scrutiny — System improving as Oracle makes fixes, Veterans Affairs says
Sources: US VC firms are putting pressure on tech startups to cut ties with Chinese backers, as VCs anticipate tighter controls on foreign ownership from the US
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times :
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
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Waystar raised $968M after pricing its IPO at $21.50/share, the middle of a marketed range, giving the health care payments software maker a ~$3.6B market value
Amy Or / Bloomberg :
Google rolls out its Gemini-powered note-taking assistant NotebookLM to 200+ new countries, including Brazil and India, and adds Slides and web URLs as sources
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Core Scientific rejects CoreWeave's $5.75-per-share buyout offer from June 4, worth $1B+, saying the deal significantly undervalues the company
Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk :
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
Discord adds new monetization features for developers and plans to halve the 30% platform fee to 15% for their first $1M in cumulative gross sales
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