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Jeff Stein / @jstein_wapo: Amazon says showing tariff prices on the main Amazon site was never under consideration, but Amazon Haul has considered showing import duties on some products  —  New — Amazon Spox now saying this was never under consideration for the main Amazon website. Says Amazon Haul has considered listing import price duties on certain products Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Spotify adds subscribers as music lovers tune out Trump tariff ‘noise’  —  Music-streaming group reaches 268mn paying subscribers in strongest first-quarter growth since 2020  —  Spotify added 5mn paying subscribers in the first three months of the year, as consumers shrugged off … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face starts selling SO-101, a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects, for $100 to ~$500, depending on the supplier  —  Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: Washington state lawmakers pass new taxes amid a record budget deficit, targeting Amazon, Microsoft, and others to raise $9B+; Governor Ferguson can now sign  —  New taxes passed in the final days of Washington’s legislative session seek to bridge a record budget deficit by shifting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hacker News: Source: Amazon plans to soon show how much President Trump’s tariffs are adding to the price of each product, right next to its total listed price  —  Amazon doesn’t want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump’s trade war.  So the e-commerce giant will soon show … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, operating income of €509M, below its €548M forecast, Q2 MAUs forecast below analysts’ estimates; SPOT drops 8%+  —  Spotify Technology SA shares tumbled in early trading Tuesday after the streaming company reported operating profit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple’s AirPlay SDK that could affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple has patched its own devices  —  Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brendan Pedersen / @brendanpedersen: WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responds to Punchbowl News scoop today from @Dareasmunhoz and @BenBrodyDC on Amazon reflecting tariff prices “I just got off the phone with the president about Amazon’s announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Amazon reportedly adding tariff pricing to each product on its site “is a hostile and political act by Amazon”  —  WATCH NOW  —  The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Richman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its “political retribution” investigation into ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs  —  Political Retribution for Telling the Truth Weakens the Entire Infosec Community and Threatens Our Democracy; Letter Remains Open for Further Sign-Ons Lees verder op Tech Meme