Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
US judge sentences Binance founder Changpeng Zhao to four months in prison — Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for failing to establish adequately anti-money laundering protections. Zhao, once the head of the largest crypto exchange in the world, pleaded guilty in November 2023.
Game emulator Delta has been the top US iOS app for weeks, after Apple lifted its ban on such apps, likely due to regulatory pressure and alt stores in the EU (Shira Ovide/Washington Post)
Shira Ovide / Washington Post:
Game emulator Delta has been the top US iOS app for weeks, after Apple lifted its ban on such apps, likely due to regulatory pressure and alt stores in the EU — Antitrust crackdowns on Apple are already changing your iPhone for the better — The hottest iPhone app in America may owe …
SCOTUS declines to block a Texas online porn restriction law, after critics said an age-verification mandate violates 1A by forcing viewers to submit their info (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
SCOTUS declines to block a Texas online porn restriction law, after critics said an age-verification mandate violates 1A by forcing viewers to submit their info — The pornography industry challenged the state law’s age-verification provision, saying it places an unlawful burden on adults wishing to access content.
SafeBase, which helps companies automate software security reviews using AI, raised a $33M Series B led by Touring Capital, bringing its total funding to $50M+ (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
SafeBase, which helps companies automate software security reviews using AI, raised a $33M Series B led by Touring Capital, bringing its total funding to $50M+ — Entrepreneurs Al Yang and Adar Arnon met at Harvard Business School and quickly realized that they had an interest in common: cybersecurity.
Marriott quietly admits it did not encrypt certain user data impacted by a 2018 breach, after arguing in court encryption was used so lawsuits should be tossed (Evan Schuman/CSO)
Evan Schuman / CSO:
Marriott quietly admits it did not encrypt certain user data impacted by a 2018 breach, after arguing in court encryption was used so lawsuits should be tossed — Marriot revealed in a court case around a massive 2018 data breach that it had been using secure hash algorithm 1 …
The Browser Company debuts Arc on Windows, after testing began in December 2023, and says the Windows app has 150K+ users; the macOS app shipped in July 2023 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
The Browser Company debuts Arc on Windows, after testing began in December 2023, and says the Windows app has 150K+ users; the macOS app shipped in July 2023 — The Browser Company, makers of the Arc web browser, released its Windows version today. The company started testing the Windows client …
Satellite telco SES has agreed to buy Starlink-rival Intelsat for $3.1B in cash (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Satellite telco SES has agreed to buy Starlink-rival Intelsat for $3.1B in cash — – SES said it will finance the deal with cash and new debt — Talks between the satellite providers fell apart last year — SES SA has agreed to buy Intelsat SA for $3.1 billion in cash to create …
Beats announces $200 Solo 4 on-ear wireless headphones, with up to 50 hours of battery life, and $80 wireless Solo Buds shipping in June 2024, both without ANC (Chris Welch/The Verge)
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Beats announces $200 Solo 4 on-ear wireless headphones, with up to 50 hours of battery life, and $80 wireless Solo Buds shipping in June 2024, both without ANC — Beats just announced its new Solo 4, its latest in a long line of on-ear wireless headphones. The latest model, priced at $199.99, offers battery life of up to 50 hours.
Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden sue OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using copyrighted articles without permission to train generative AI products (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden sue OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using copyrighted articles without permission to train generative AI products — The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.
Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an “app creator” to let employees build generative AI-powered apps based on company data (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an “app creator” to let employees build generative AI-powered apps based on company data — Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q …
