Epic Games says Fortnite for iPadOS and iOS is back on the US App Store, and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU; Apple kicked it off in August 2020
After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States.
Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels selling how AI changes everything, even search, and can give users superpowers
At its annual developer conference, the company seeks to reassure everyone that AI is for everyday utility — but the great disruption to the web continues
Jensen Huang calls US AI chip export controls “a failure” that spurred Chinese rivals, cutting Nvidia's market share in China from 95% to 50% over four years
World's top AI semiconductor maker says export controls have accelerated Chinese rivals' advances
Google says it is partnering with Samsung, Gentle Monster, Xreal, and Warby Parker to create Android XR smart glasses, and emphasizes AI assistance via Gemini
from headsets to glasses.👓 We built Android XR together as one team with Samsung, and optimized it for Snapdragon with Qualcomm. #GoogleIO [image] Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin : Getting close! I'm still ...
Xreal unveils Project Aura, expected to be the first Android XR glasses, powered by a separate puck with the main Qualcomm chip, slated to launch by early 2026
An Optical See-Through XR Device for Android XR David Heaney / UploadVR : Xreal's Project Aura Will Support Google's Android XR Via A Tethered Puck Mahnoor Faisal / XDA Developers : XREAL's upcoming A...
Google's Android XR Gemini-powered prototype glasses hands-on: light, comfortable to wear, the single display in the right lens works well, and Maps is seamless
and Gemini is the killer feature Ankita Chakravarti / Moneycontrol : Google challenges Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses with new Android XR glasses Raghav Sachdeva / Sam Lover : Samsung & Google working o...
Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending on May 4, including travel plans
A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier … Bluesky: @metacurity.com , @stokel , @zachsdorfman , and @micahflee.com Mastodon: @...
Microsoft files an amicus brief supporting Epic Games' App Store fight and blames Apple for delaying the Xbox mobile gaming store, first announced in May 2024
Microsoft has filed support for Epic Games' fight with Apple, as it wants to launch new Xbox mobile improvements.
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, new AI filmmaking tool Flow, and expanded access to music generation model Lyria 2
Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio.
Inside China's “stolen iPhone building”: electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold for a profit
We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold on a single district in Shenzhen
Analysis: AI's energy consumption is exploding, with data centers' electricity use doubling from 2017 to 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn't tracking and consider where it's heading next.
China threatens legal action against anyone enforcing US restrictions on Huawei's chips, escalating the US-China tech dispute as the two countries hold meetings
US-China tech tensions are flaring again, with Beijing threatening legal action against anyone enforcing Washington's restrictions …
The US SEC sues Unicoin and its executives, alleging they broke securities laws by raising $100M+ for crypto tokens falsely claimed to be backed by real estate
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued crypto company Unicoin and three executives on Tuesday night on fraud charges …
Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old from Massachusetts, pleads guilty to hacking two US companies and extorting them for ransoms; a source says one firm is PowerSchool
The Massachusetts man agreed to plead guilty to obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
Google commits up to $150M, including $75M for product development and commercialization, as part of its partnership with Warby Parker to make smart glasses
Warby Parker: “Because we know who you are.” [embedded post]
Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online
A Brazilian team used Discord's API to scrape 10% of its open servers. — Researchers published a massive database … Bluesky: @vortexegg.com , @cfiesler , and @josephcox Bluesky: @vortexegg.com : It'...
Maine AG filing: Coinbase says its recent data breach impacted 69,461 individuals; stolen data included government IDs, account info, and personal identifiers
Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, revealed that a recent data breach in which cybercriminals stole customer …
Volvo expands its Google partnership to integrate Gemini across its model lineup, the first automaker to do so, hoping to ease its drivers' “cognitive load”
Gemini can ease a driver's “cognitive load” so they can keep their eyes on the road, the automaker says.
Google says weather apps have “graduated from beta” on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in, and that Android Auto will “soon” get browser and video apps
Google has revealed that Android Auto is about to get more apps, including wider access to weather apps …
Google rolls out Jules, its asynchronous coding agent unveiled in December 2024, in public beta for free with usage limits and will share pricing after the beta
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After a protest at Build 2025, Microsoft's head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's planned AI tools use
Internal messages were displayed after two former Microsoft employees disrupted a Build session.
Amazon issues refunds for returns as far back as 2018; CFO Brian Olsavsky said on May 1 that Amazon took a ~$1.1B charge over “some historical customer returns”
Amazon.com Inc. customers are suddenly getting refunds for products they purchased and returned as far back as 2018 …
Google rolls out AI Mode to all Google Search users in the US, and announces Deep Search, agentic capabilities, chart generation, and more coming to Labs users
and confusing Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land : Google launches AI Mode to all U.S. searchers with new features Chance Townsend / Mashable : Google AI Mode is launching in the U.S., kicking off a ...
Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in “research preview” under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B
AI startup Mistral on Wednesday announced a new AI model focused on coding: Devstral.
UK retailer M&S says it expects a £300M operating profit hit from an April cyberattack and disruption to continue until July 2025; its market cap is down ~£750M
UK retailer discloses that breach came via supplier and warns online operations will be disrupted until July
Sources and docs: a “major lapse” at Thoma Bravo's Opexus, which helps US agencies manage investigations and FOIA, let two convicted hackers delete databases
Failures in cybersecurity practices at a software company that helps federal agencies manage investigations … Bluesky: @kimzetter Bluesky: Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : Two brothers previously convicted o...
Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, like an overdubbed foreign language speaker on the news
New AI speech translation in Google Meet video chats can mimic the speaker's voice, tone and emotion.
AMD unveils Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 CPUs with up to 96 cores, and an RDNA 4-based Radeon AI Pro R9700 workstation GPU, both slated to launch in July 2025
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Sweden passes a law criminalizing the purchase of live online sexual performances, including cam shows and sex chats; buying pre-recorded content remains legal
As with all “Nordic model” legislation, it actually takes away independence and agency and requires sex workers to work through third-parties. Mike Stabile / @mikestabile : Sweden has gone ahead and p...
Singapore-based business banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $150M at a $6.2B valuation, up from $5.6B in October 2022, and debuts a $150M share sale
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Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo has reached 10M paid trips, doubling in the past five months, and that the company is not yet profitable
Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $2.29B, vs. $2.28B est., net income down 6% to $262.1M, and non-GAAP gross margin of 76%, vs. 77.2% est.
but the stock drop shows investors wanted more Jon Victor / The Information : Palo Alto Networks Predicts Slowing Revenue Growth Kara Greenberg / Investopedia : Palo Alto Networks Fiscal Third-Quarter...
Experts warn Trump's trade policies risk US dominance in digital services, often uncounted by traditional statistics, as the EU considers retaliatory tariffs
which can be freely shared, modified, and distributed—may gain significant advantages.” … Forums: r/OptimistsUnite : A little confused about this one. Would this really splinter the internet like the...
AI startup Crusoe secures $11.6B in debt and equity to expand a Texas data center it is building for OpenAI, set to open in 2026 and host up to 400K Nvidia GPUs
The eight-building Texas project is a central piece of OpenAI's efforts to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for computing power
The Argentine government dismantles a unit created three months ago to investigate the Libra cryptocurrency scandal involving President Milei and his sister
but it's not over yet Godfrey Benjamin / The Coin Republic : Argentine President Javier Milei Shuts Down Unit Investigating Crash Blockhead : Argentina's Milei Closes Executive Crypto Probe, But Judic...
Indonesian ex-scammers reveal how Southeast Asian scam farms lured them via Facebook and Telegram ads; Indonesia says 6,700+ people were tricked since 2020
restofworld.org/2025/fake-jo... X: @restofworld : Rest of World interviewed seven former scammers in Indonesia to learn how they were lured into scam farms and about the technologies they used to defr...
Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg
The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. … Like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel had long been obsessed … Forums: r/artificial Forums: r/artificial : How Peter Thiel's Relationship W...
Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4.5B, above ~$4.3B est., and a ~$1B net profit, as the Chinese search giant fends off intensifying competition in AI
but the risks are stacking up Sanjana Gupta / Analytics India Magazine : Baidu's Revenue Surge in Q1 FY25, AI Cloud and Autonomous Driving Thrive Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : China-Based Baidu Burns $1...
Google expands its “sovereign cloud” options in the EU, including a new “data shield” that provides additional cybersecurity protections to European clients
Tech giant offers additional data security protections in EU as local customers express concern over reliance on US tech Forums: r/eutech Forums: r/eutech : Google beefs up ‘sovereign cloud’ as Europe...
Filed, which uses AI to automate tax professionals' low-value tasks, raised $17.2M across seed and preseed led by Northzone, Day One Ventures, and others
Tax software startup Filed Inc. said today it has raised $17.2 million in funding to try and fix what it says is the accounting …
New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns
“They target you from the minute you step out of foster care,” Hamblin said. “They have this microscope on you, and for them to build a case based off your prior records of you being in care—it's not...
Abu Dhabi's TII releases Falcon Arabic, an AI model that it claims can match the performance of models up to 10 times its size, and smaller model Falcon H1
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AI model ranking project LMArena spins off from UC Berkeley and raises a $100M seed led by a16z and UC Investments, sources say at a $600M valuation
An effort that began at UC Berkeley as a way to rank AI models has raised $100 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz.
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson approves controversial new taxes expanding the state's sales tax on companies providing digital services, starting in October 2025
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
A look at the Coller Dolittle challenge, modeled on the Turing test with a $10M equity investment prize to decipher an animal's language and elicit a reply
Anjana Ahuja / Financial Times :
Kalshi withdrew announcements about a collaboration with xAI just hours after CEO Tarek Mansour said the deal would “further take prediction markets mainstream”
Paige Smith / Bloomberg :
Zhejiang, home to Alibaba and DeepSeek, publishes an AI plan that expects companies in the AI supply chain to make $138B+ in total operating revenues by 2027
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post :
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