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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: 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 -
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: 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 -
15 minutes ago Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A website for cybercriminals lists 500+ allegedly stolen Snowflake customer credentials, including for environments belonging to Santander and Ticketmaster -
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: 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 -
Zac Bowden / Windows Central: 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 -
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: 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 -
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: 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 -
Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: 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 -
Sander Lutz / Decrypt: 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 -
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: 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 -
Aisha Counts / 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 -
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: 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 -
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: US VC firms are putting pressure on tech startups to ask their Chinese backers to divest as VCs anticipate tighter controls on foreign ownership from Washington -
Amy Or / Bloomberg: 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 -
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: 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 -
Wall Street Journal: 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 -
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: 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 -
Will Knight / Wired: OpenAI releases a research paper by its recently disbanded “superalignment” team on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models -
Amy Or / Bloomberg: 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 -
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: NY AG sues crypto companies AWS Mining and NovaTechFX for allegedly operating pyramid schemes that targeted Haitian immigrants and bilked investors out of $1B+ -
New York Times: 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