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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=77ebe0ad42&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta agrees to buy power from Constellation Energy's Illinois nuclear plant, signing a 20-year deal that starts in mid-2027 when a 10-year state subsidy expires</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=48234d2e3b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Clinton generates enough emissions-free electricity to power 800,000+ homes and this agreement with Meta ensures that reliable, clean energy will be there for the region for years to come. Another powerful proof point for the unmatched value of nuclear energy.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9d29f7a16b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I estimate this is up to a $17 billion dollar deal for just the operational years 40-60 in the life of a single middle-age nuclear plant. Astonishing. For a company claiming until recently to be using 100% renewable energy.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=332da18cd4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I live 5 miles from this plant. Great news for the community as the plant provides major economic support. Just a few years ago they were planning to shut it down...AI and Data Centers are changing everything. Pay attention.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=91f7ee26c2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects a record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it is not building a fab in the Middle East</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cheng Ting-Fang / </span><span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=944d67816b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TSMC CEO C.C. Wei blames worsening traffic for delays in adding a second plant in Japan, and reaffirms plans to spend $100B in Arizona over the next five years</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Debby Wu / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5f72cabd40&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Thoma Bravo raised $34.4B across three funds, including $24.3B for its main software company buyout fund and $8.1B for its midsize software company-focused fund</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Miriam Gottfried / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=64b2d491ac&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Chinese companies designing advanced chips for manufacturing in Taiwan, like Xiaomi, are set to be the hardest hit by new US export rules on EDA tools</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=27df7afe65&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers detail a technique Meta used to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Goodin / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=821b14e51f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kate Payne / </span><span class="pub_name">Associated Press</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=396644f5ac&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TechCrunch has shut down its operations in Europe; one former staffer says new owner Regent thought “international startup coverage wasn't essential”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Sifted</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b72c0b28be&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says it is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users, effective June 13, after stopping new PayPal account linking in April 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mishaal Rahman / </span><span class="pub_name">Android Authority</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8c57c63739&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe launches Photoshop for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB+ of RAM, offering tools like layers, masks, and Generative Fill</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aisha Malik / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bc2f744c03&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TikTok has banned the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, following pressure from the French government</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Théophane Hartmann / </span><span class="pub_name">Euractiv</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=695ed2029c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Pornhub's parent company plans to stop serving adult content in France as soon as June 4, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify visitors' ages</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Politico</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=63baa71e47&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Pump.fun plans to raise $1B via a token sale at a $4B valuation; Pump.fun has generated over $700M in cumulative revenue since its launch in early 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Blockworks</span>)</span>
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earnings
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=54a714e608&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., approves a $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+ after hours</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Harshita Mary Varghese / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=06aeaa6945&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">HPE reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $7.63B, vs. $7.46B est., Server revenue up 6% YoY to $4.1B, and says it expects a reduced impact from tariffs this year</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brody Ford / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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artificial intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6bb9f8e5b2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Trump administration announces plans to reorganize the US AI Safety Institute into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Thomas Brewster / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9d61f77492&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A software developer explains how AI agents help automate tedious coding tasks, and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job losses, mediocre code, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Thomas Ptacek / </span><span class="pub_name">Fly</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=25b1e1fa8b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek may have used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning model</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=510f08cc9a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google's NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks publicly; people can interact with a public notebook by asking questions or exploring generated content</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>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=37de19fd93&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Simon Willison / </span><span class="pub_name">Simon Willison's Weblog</span>)</span>
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video games
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c99d6166f8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nintendo says it didn't send any Switch 2 review units to outlets as “important features and updates” will only be available via an update on its June 5 launch</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andy Robinson / </span><span class="pub_name">Video Games Chronicle</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1d8af13238&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6</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>
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privacy
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0c95c8c46a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Catherine Perloff / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9a6cd0f0d4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Germany's data protection commissioner fines Vodafone a record €45M for data privacy violations linked to “malicious behavior” by third-party sales agents</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Karin Matussek / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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social networks
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=05f915bf81&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering</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>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=107ae9e1c0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x+ the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Washington Post</span>)</span>
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personnel changes
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5516fe1300&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cynthia Kaiser, the FBI's former deputy assistant director leading cyber policy, intel, and engagement, left to join cybersecurity company Halcyon as an SVP</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tim Starks / </span><span class="pub_name">CyberScoop</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=afd8b47976&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Indeed says CEO Chris Hyams has stepped down, replaced by parent company Recruit Holdings CEO Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba, who returns to the role after six years</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chester Dawson / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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funding deals
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