Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google announces the $230 Fitbit Ace LTE, a smartwatch for kids ages 7+, with games, messaging, and features for parents like location sharing — The Fitbit Ace LTE is Google’s newest Wear OS device and meant to encourage kids (ages 7+) to be healthy through games, while also serving …
Sources: Musk and Trump talk many times/month, on topics like a role in a Trump admin, action on “voter fraud”, and X; Musk is organizing friends against Biden (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Musk and Trump talk many times/month, on topics like a role in a Trump admin, action on “voter fraud”, and X; Musk is organizing friends against Biden — Donald Trump and Elon Musk have discussed a possible advisory role for the Tesla leader should the presumptive …
The US and global partners dismantle the 911 S5 proxy botnet, “likely the world’s largest botnet ever” affecting 19M+ unique IPs, and arrest its administrator (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US and global partners dismantle the 911 S5 proxy botnet, “likely the world’s largest botnet ever” affecting 19M+ unique IPs, and arrest its administrator — The U.S. Justice Department and international partners dismantled the 911 S5 proxy botnet and arrested 35-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang, its administrator.
Arm announces its next-generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU, likely in smartphones in late 2024 (Joanna Nelius/The Verge)
Joanna Nelius / The Verge:
Arm announces its next-generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU, likely in smartphones in late 2024 — On Wednesday, IP core designer Arm announced its next-generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU.
Crypto exchange Gemini says Gemini Earn users will get $2.18B in crypto back in kind, after the lending program folded in November 2022 (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Crypto exchange Gemini says Gemini Earn users will get $2.18B in crypto back in kind, after the lending program folded in November 2022 — – Those funds will be distributed in kind, meaning Gemini Earn customers who lent one bitcoin will receive one bitcoin back.
Sources: to preserve privacy, Apple plans to process data from AI apps in a virtual black box in data centers, making the data impossible for staff to access (Wayne Ma/The Information)
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: to preserve privacy, Apple plans to process data from AI apps in a virtual black box in data centers, making the data impossible for staff to access — When Apple executives appear at its annual developer conference in mid-June, they are expected to unveil details of how it will integrate AI …
PayPal adds its PayPal USD stablecoin, launched on Ethereum in August 2023 and issued by Paxos, to Solana; PYUSD currently has a nearly $400M market cap (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
PayPal adds its PayPal USD stablecoin, launched on Ethereum in August 2023 and issued by Paxos, to Solana; PYUSD currently has a nearly $400M market cap — – The payments company launched PYUSD on Ethereum in August — PayPal chose Solana for speed and low cost, despite outages
How the Biden administration passed on TikTok’s Project Texas, a proposal to let the US pick its board, veto hires, and more, opting instead for a sale or ban (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
How the Biden administration passed on TikTok’s Project Texas, a proposal to let the US pick its board, veto hires, and more, opting instead for a sale or ban — TikTok offered the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch if things went south. The Biden administration took a pass.
Solutions by Text, which offers conversational messaging tools for businesses to let users pay bills and more via text, raised $110M, after raising $35M in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Solutions by Text, which offers conversational messaging tools for businesses to let users pay bills and more via text, raised $110M, after raising $35M in 2021 — Solutions by Text, a company that gives people a way to pay their bills and apply for loans via text messaging, has secured $110 million in new growth funding.
Tencent-owned Supercell, the developer behind Clash of Clans, releases Squad Busters, its first title in over five years; Supercell had €1.7B in 2023 revenue (Richard Milne/Financial Times)
Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Tencent-owned Supercell, the developer behind Clash of Clans, releases Squad Busters, its first title in over five years; Supercell had €1.7B in 2023 revenue — Tencent-owned Supercell seeks to revive fortunes with mobile battle game ‘Squad Busters’ — Supercell — the developer behind …
