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

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 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

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

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

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