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Google: OpenAI's ChatGPT chief, Nick Turley, says the company would be interested in buying Chrome from Google if a federal court orders it to be spun off</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250422/i26.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">OpenAI would be interested in buying Google's Chrome browser if a federal court orders … </span> <span class="cite">(Bloomberg)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=34f6be0183&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@pat_hedger:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b3910c5263&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Antitrust law should be about protecting competition, not competitors. Spinning off Chrome would be unrelated to the search case against Google. Letting OpenAI buy it would amount to directly subsidizing a significant competitor who is already putting major pressure on Google.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c557bcca10&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@megangra:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=df19c0eef4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Absurd that this whole examination of the OpenAI witness, we have to use a code name for the OpenAI search engine partner and how it was inferior results to Google - everyone knows it's Microsoft/Bing.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7a5e7705f2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@brianroemmele:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=068fdc2107&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">“Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini” This will backfire. How do these otherwise intelligent folk continue to make such robustly stupid strategic mistakes? Send me .000001% and will finish the open source AI you should use. </a> </div> </td></tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c6618b4bcd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US v. Google: a Google VP says the company pays Samsung an “enormous sum of money” every month to preinstall Gemini on its devices as part of a two-year deal</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Leah Nylen / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </li> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=678d7f1a9c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US v. Google: an OpenAI exec says Google declined to let OpenAI access its search index; a DOJ remedy proposal would make Google share its index with rivals</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </li> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7b028a262d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US DOJ says Google backed off more restrictive Gemini distribution deals, partly due to its case; Google says rivals talked to Samsung about chatbot deals</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Erin Woo / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=889be41fb0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">FTC v. Meta: Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testifies that “Mark was not investing in Instagram because he believed we were a threat to their growth”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cecilia Kang / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250422/i19.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Kevin Systrom said during testimony in a landmark antitrust trial that he believed Meta viewed Instagram as a threat.</span> <span class="cite">(Cecilia Kang / New York Times)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ba97c2c6a3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@sarahfrier:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c1571b6f6c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Wow after years of silence Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom is on the stand in federal court confirming what I reported in my book, including that Zuckerberg starved Instagram's headcount around safety issues, leading to major problems</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9a221ed479&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@mikeisaac:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9094d09643&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">self promotion time: had heard whispering among employees about this infighting seven years ago when the co-founders abruptly peaced out of IG after MZ took over more aggressively nice to hear from the horses mouth in court now, though </a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=50b6a83819&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@jaredforetek:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b1a4e13d97&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Perhaps more important to the trial itself, though, he said that pretty shortly after FB bought IG for $1 billion, IG was effectively “starved” by its new owners. And that only accelerated, Systrom said, after an internal study showed that IG was siphoning some FB usage.</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ba9060d8c1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SignalFire raises another $1 billion to back applied AI startups</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — We build AI too. It tracks 650M tech employees so we can help companies with recruiting and GTM across enterprise, infra, healthcare, security, and consumer.</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e2196a3fa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/signalfire.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dbccd8d054&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Apple's new Siri engineering chief Mike Rockwell is replacing much of Siri's leadership with top Vision Pro software execs, and is restructuring teams</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250422/i14.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Apple Inc.'s new Siri engineering chief is overhauling the management team leading development … </span> <span class="cite">(Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a92f68fd47&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@parkerortolani:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=266dfc3994&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">huge, Vision Pro, what ever you may think about it, is a technological marvel - Siri needs to be one too</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6f2b6d6b14&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@scobleizer:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0428c06138&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Someday people will understand that the Apple Vision Pro actually is the future of all computing. Today most refuse to go to the Apple Store to get a demo. And I am just talking about in Silicon Valley in my neighborhood.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dd8169f8a2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@markgurman:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=77a4381887&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">While the Vision Pro hasn't hasn't been a commercial hit, Rockwell has shown an ability to take on major projects and persuade top leadership to invest heavily. He also created an operating system and product that are considered strong from a technology standpoint.</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9a6972bef4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple drops “available now” from an Apple Intelligence page featuring an AI-supercharged Siri and removes a Siri-related video, after the BBB nonprofit inquired</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emma Roth / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6f54cef6ff&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says it will continue offering users the choice of third-party cookies in Chrome and will not roll out a new standalone prompt for them</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ronan Shields / </span><span class="pub_name">Digiday</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a263fb2335&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Instagram launches Edits, a “video creation app designed for creators” intended to rival ByteDance's CapCut app, for free on iOS and Android</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic Preston / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8d4634ba6c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the US plans to push India to give Amazon, Walmart, and other US online retailers full access to its $125B e-commerce market, as part of tariff talks</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3abb177c7f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Flipkart plans to shift its holding company from Singapore to India as Walmart aims to take it public; Flipkart moved the entity to Singapore in 2011</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kashish Tandon / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0ef99d18e9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Several VCs say they fear Trump's tariffs could slow down tech investments, further decelerate the market for IPOs, and put some tech startups out of business</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Goode / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=27f6d0e1e2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SAP reports Q1 cloud revenue up 26% YoY to €4.99B, vs. €5.05B est., and adjusted operating income up 58% to €2.5B, beating estimates; SAP jumps 9%+ after hours</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Christina Kyriasoglou / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=43ca008efc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Duolingo plans to add a chess course, which uses short puzzles to help learn the game, in beta on iOS in English in the coming weeks before an Android launch</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> artificial intelligence </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f87ca382bc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A draft executive order sent to US agencies shows the Trump administration is considering issuing an order to create a policy integrating AI into K-12 education</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Frances Vinall / </span><span class="pub_name">Washington Post</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fa8e06bfc3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Washington Post partners with OpenAI to make its content “more accessible” in ChatGPT; OpenAI says it now has similar deals with 20+ other publishers</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Todd Spangler / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> harmful content </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=99c96aebc5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google rolls out opt-in Sensitive Content Warnings in Messages to blur nude images on Android; the System SafetyCore-powered content classification is on-device</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Abner Li / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Google</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e77afd6ef2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A survey of US teens and parents: 48% of teens say social media harms people their age, up from 32% in 2022, and girls' experiences skew more negative at times</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Pew Research Center</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> infosec </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0d7b262ee5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it's fixed</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Daniel Kuhn / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=17a93b8070&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SK Telecom, South Korea's largest telecom, says hackers accessed USIM-related customer info, potentially useful in SIM swap attacks and targeted surveillance</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Bill Toulas / </span><span class="pub_name">BleepingComputer</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> funding deals </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=22652066d9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google's Firebase that's used by 2M developers, raised a $200M Series D led by Accel at a $2B valuation</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Allie Garfinkle / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=32a0238a94&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Manychat, which offers social messaging tools for brands, raised a $140M Series B led by Summit, after an $18M Series A in 2019, and says it has ~1.5M customers</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ingrid Lunden / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> more news </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0f8ac55753&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Global PC shipments rose 6.7% YoY in Q1 2025 driven by anticipation of US tariffs and growing adoption of AI PCs; 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