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A profile of Charlwin Mao, founder of Xiaohongshu,...

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Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of RedNote and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban (Politico)

Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growin...

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Trump says he will "most likely" give TikTok a 90-day reprieve after he takes office on Monday "because it's appropriate" (NBC News)

Trump says he will "most likely" give TikTok a 90-...

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The White House says TikTok's threat to shut down is a "stunt" as there is "no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions" before Trump takes office (Ana Faguy/BBC)

The White House says TikTok's threat to shut down ...

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Vitalik Buterin outlines "large changes" to Ethereum Foundation leadership structure, after fellow Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin called for new EF leadership (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Vitalik Buterin outlines "large changes" to Ethere...

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Instagram now lets users upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit, as TikTok is set to go dark on Sunday (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Instagram now lets users upload Reels that are up ...

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CoinGecko: $TRUMP rose more than 600% overnight and was trading just over $32 as of 11AM ET, giving it a fully diluted market capitalization of $32B+ (Axios)

CoinGecko: $TRUMP rose more than 600% overnight an...

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A profile of smart ring maker Oura, which was foun...

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Character.AI is testing games on its desktop and mobile web apps to boost engagement, available to paid subscribers and a limited set of users on its free plan (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Character.AI is testing games on its desktop and m...

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Ridiculous Used Car Quote, A 500,000-Mile Bentley Continental GT And Tesla-Swapped Ariel Atom In This Week's Car Buying Roundup

Ridiculous Used Car Quote, A 500,000-Mile Bentley ...

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What 'B' Means On Your Shifter, Spiky Semi Wheels And The Vegas Loop Still Sucks In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

What 'B' Means On Your Shifter, Spiky Semi Wheels ...

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Cybertruck On Sale, Chinese Car Ban And Possibly No Renault In Honda-Nissan Deal In This Week's News Roundup

Cybertruck On Sale, Chinese Car Ban And Possibly N...

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Automaker Mergers, Presidential Limos And Performance EVs In This Week's QOTD Roundup

Automaker Mergers, Presidential Limos And Performa...

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Congestion Pricing Works, RyanAir Wants A 2 Drink Maximum And The Weirdest Stuff Caught By The TSA In This Week's Beyond Cars Roundup

Congestion Pricing Works, RyanAir Wants A 2 Drink ...

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At least four UK teenagers have been arrested in connection with 764, a "Satanist" terror network targeting children online for sexual blackmail and violence (BBC)

At least four UK teenagers have been arrested in c...

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Adam Mosseri says Instagram profile grids will dis...

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Donald Trump is promoting a Solana memecoin called TRUMP from his social media accounts, with 200M $TRUMP available now and growing to 1B "over three years" (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)

Donald Trump is promoting a Solana memecoin called...

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Filing: Nasdaq-listed Qorvo reveals activist investor Starboard's 7.7% stake, amid stiff competition and slowing orders for the company's smartphone chips (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Filing: Nasdaq-listed Qorvo reveals activist inves...

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Leading crypto firms have given at least $10M to the Trump inaugural fund; Ripple, a major target of SEC enforcement action, donated $5M in digital tokens (Jasper Goodman/Politico)

Leading crypto firms have given at least $10M to t...

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OpenAI worked with Retro Biosciences to develop GPT-4b micro, an AI model that it says can engineer proteins capable of turning regular cells into stem cells (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)

OpenAI worked with Retro Biosciences to develop GP...

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TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a "definitive statement" to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday un...

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Zuckerberg says there's a "bogus narrative saying I blamed Sheryl for a bunch of stuff" and he was just addressing the origin of "bring your whole self to work" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Zuckerberg says there's a "bogus narrative saying ...

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Filing: ChatGPT's head of product, Nick Turley, will testify as a witness for the US DOJ in its antitrust case against Google, as a court decides penalties (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)

Filing: ChatGPT's head of product, Nick Turley, wi...

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong endorses a US bitcoin strategic reserve in a blog post on "economic freedom" that calls on world leaders to embrace crypto (Brady Dale/Axios)

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong endorses a US bitcoin...

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Amazon suspends drone deliveries in Texas and Arizona to fix the drones' software after two of its latest models crashed in rainy weather at a testing facility (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

Amazon suspends drone deliveries in Texas and Ariz...

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Instagram adds a new tab in the Reels feed that will show videos that a user's friends have liked or added commentary to (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Instagram adds a new tab in the Reels feed that wi...

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A group of 18 former European heads of state call on the EC to break up Google's advertising tech business, claiming it erodes Europe's media landscape (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

A group of 18 former European heads of state call ...

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Source: Meta will break up its civil rights team, which helped develop a system to address racial and other disparities in how Meta distributed ads on its apps (Kalley Huang/The Information)

Source: Meta will break up its civil rights team, ...

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Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals; Read.cv will shut down and users will be able to export their data until May 16 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platfo...

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Digital Currency Group agrees to settle and pay $38M to the US SEC over allegations that it misled investors via crypto lender Genesis Global (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

Digital Currency Group agrees to settle and pay $3...

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The Most Satisfying Pickup Trucks To Own, According To Consumer Reports

The Most Satisfying Pickup Trucks To Own, Accordin...

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Bluesky 2024 moderation report: Bluesky gained 23M+ users, its moderation team grew to ~100, and its moderation service received 6.48M reports, up 17x from 2023 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky 2024 moderation report: Bluesky gained 23M...

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The FTC says Genshin Impact maker Cognosphere will pay $20M to settle claims that it deceived players about the cost of winning prizes and mishandled kids' data (Bloomberg)

The FTC says Genshin Impact maker Cognosphere will...

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Woman Sues Unconscious Lyft Driver For Negligence After She Jumped Out Of His Moving Car

Woman Sues Unconscious Lyft Driver For Negligence ...

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During her confirmation hearing for secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem says efforts to address foreign disinfo campaigns were outside the remit of CISA (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

During her confirmation hearing for secretary of H...

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Canadian Ring Camera Captured The First Audio And Visual Recording Of A Meteorite Hitting Earth

Canadian Ring Camera Captured The First Audio And ...

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The FTC releases a report saying Microsoft's $13B investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the company could extend its cloud computing dominance into AI (Bloomberg)

The FTC releases a report saying Microsoft's $13B ...

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An interview with Marc Andreessen on his evolution from a "normie Democrat" to a Trump supporter, and what he and others expect from the new administration (Ross Douthat/New York Times)

An interview with Marc Andreessen on his evolution...

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Some congressional leaders who championed the TikTok law now want to delay the ban from going into effect, showing how much politics has shifted on the issue (NBC News)

Some congressional leaders who championed the TikT...

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Detroit Judge Allows Parking Lots With $1,000 Parking Spaces To Reopen Ahead Of Lions Playoff Game

Detroit Judge Allows Parking Lots With $1,000 Park...

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After SCOTUS upheld the TikTok law, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeals to Trump in a TikTok video to find a solution that keeps the app available in the US (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

After SCOTUS upheld the TikTok law, TikTok CEO Sho...

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A look at efforts by Meta, YouTube, Snapchat, X, and Substack to attract TikTok's creators and users; Substack is offering a $25K "TikTok Liberation Prize" (The Hollywood Reporter)

A look at efforts by Meta, YouTube, Snapchat, X, a...

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Google has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript to use Google Search, says to "better protect" Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Google has begun requiring users to turn on JavaSc...

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DJI Will No Longer Stop You From Flying Your Drone Over Airports Or The White House

DJI Will No Longer Stop You From Flying Your Drone...

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The US sanctions a China-based cybersecurity company involved in the Salt Typhoon hacks and a Shanghai-based hacker involved in the recent US Treasury breach (Caitlin Webber/Reuters)

The US sanctions a China-based cybersecurity compa...

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Sources: Shield AI, maker of software for autonomous aircraft and drones, is raising ~$200M from Palantir and others at a $5B valuation, up from $2.8B in 2024 (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Sources: Shield AI, maker of software for autonomo...

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New EV Registrations Surge As Customers Try To Cash In On Incentives Trump Wants To Kill

New EV Registrations Surge As Customers Try To Cas...

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Trump says he will "be making the decision" about TikTok and confirms he had a conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the app (CNN)

Trump says he will "be making the decision" about ...

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Polestar Continues Growing Its Lineup With New Small 7 SUV

Polestar Continues Growing Its Lineup With New Sma...

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UK Seizes Illegal Cybertruck Caught Driving On Its Mountains Green

UK Seizes Illegal Cybertruck Caught Driving On Its...

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