Tech Meme

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Ireland’s DPC fines TikTok €530M for illegally sending user data to China, ordering a halt to EU data transfers in six months if protections aren’t guaranteed  —  Irish privacy watchdog says app failed to protect user data sent to China  —  Ireland’s data-privacy watchdog fined TikTok … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David McCabe / New York Times: The Google search antitrust trial is effectively a fight about AI’s future, as lawyers and rivals argue Google’s monopoly could make it the dominant AI player  —  A federal judge issued a landmark ruling last year, saying that Google had become a monopolist in internet search. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ahmed Hagagy / Reuters: Kuwait cracks down on crypto miners for being a “major” cause of blackouts; energy consumption in the Al-Wafrah region fell by 55% after the crackdown  —  Kuwait has launched a crackdown on cryptocurrency miners it accuses of being a “major” cause of a power crisis that has led to blackouts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Beijing’s decision to exempt eight types of US-made chips from tariffs came after auto industry lobbying, exposing China’s dependence on US auto chips  —  Beijing’s move to exempt certain imports from tariffs shows its carmakers’ vulnerabilities  —  At a recent electronics exhibition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: A California man pleads guilty to illegally accessing Disney’s Slack channels and stealing 1.1TB of data in 2024; he later posed as hacktivist group “NullBulge”  —  A California man who used the alias “NullBulge” has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney’s internal Slack channels … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Memo: the US DOD seeks to secure right-to-repair provisions in Army contracts to access tools, software, and technical data without IP constraints  —  The U.S. Department of Defense wants new and existing defense contracts to give the Army the right to repair its own weapons … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple updates its App Store Guidelines to comply with a US judge’s April 30 injunction, including allowing app developers to link to external payments in the US  —  Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with yesterday’s injunction handed down in its legal case with Epic Games. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: MoviePass launches Mogul, a daily fantasy sports-inspired, blockchain-based platform for movie buffs, and says over 400K people have signed up for early access  —  MoviePass, the startup that made its mark with its movie theater subscription service, has always been known for shaking things up, and its latest venture is no exception. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Atlassian reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.29B est., and a net loss of $70.8M, vs. a $12.8M net profit a year ago; TEAM drops 16%+ after hours  —  Shares in Atlassian Corp. were down nearly 18% in after-hours trading today after the Australian collaboration software company posted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zeyi Yang / Wired: Temu appears to have removed all products in the US version of its online store that ship directly from China to US consumers, confusing suppliers and customers  —  The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “Local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end … Lees verder op Tech Meme