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Google Cloud Blog:Google tracked 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022, with government hackers leading the use  —  Google Threat Intelligence  —  Visibility and context on the threats…

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:Sources: Scattered Spider carried out a ransomware attack on UK retailer M&S, which employs 64K+ in 1,400 stores, that caused huge disruption starting April 22  —  Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer…

Punchbowl News:Source: Amazon plans to soon show how much President Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product next to its total listed price  —  Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers  —  Schatz moves quickly to lock up whip race …

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, subscribers up 12% YoY to 268M, above its 265M guidance, MAUs up 10% YoY to 678M, and a €509M operating income  —  Music-streaming group reaches 268mn paying subscribers in…

Rafe Uddin / Financial Times:Sources: Amazon is seeking steep supplier discounts and setting tough terms to protect margins amid US tariffs, following its playbook from Trump's first term  —  Trade war leads ecommerce group to seek steep discounts from…

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Hugging Face releases SO-101, a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects, costing $100 to $500 depending on the supplier  —  Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of…

Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg:Washington state lawmakers pass new taxes amid a record budget deficit, targeting Amazon, Microsoft, and others to raise $9B+; Gov. Bob Ferguson can now sign  —  New taxes passed in the final days of Washington's legislative…

Josh Richman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its probe of ex-CISA chief Chris Krebs, calling it political and harmful  —  Political Retribution for Telling the Truth…

Wall Street Journal:Sources detail a growing rift between Sam Altman and Satya Nadella, whose partnership began after a 2018 meeting; Microsoft can block OpenAI's for-profit move  —  The OpenAI and Microsoft CEOs helped each other become power players in…

Jay Peters / The Verge:Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle”, as part of a shift to become “AI-first”  —  The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO. ……

Lauren Feiner / The Verge:Critics fear the Trump administration could weaponize the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety bills to pass in years, against content it dislikes  —  Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech…

Will Oremus / Washington Post:The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes, and require online platforms to remove them  —  Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force…

Joey Roulette / Reuters:Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites it plans to send into low-Earth orbit  —  The first 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband internet…

Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal:China's Pony.ai says it can now build its most advanced autonomous driving system at 70% lower cost and plans to start mass production of robotaxis in mid-2025  —  It can now build its most advanced autonomous driving…

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters  —  Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a…