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Crypto casinos rival traditional betting groups in scale despite being illegal in most countries, with $81.4B in gross gaming revenue in 2024, up 5x since 2022 (Marianna Giusti/Financial Times)
2025-04-22 00:39 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Verizon consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath on why net neutrality "has gone literally nowhere", owning Yahoo, FCC probes over DEI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
2025-04-22 03:39 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US v. Google remedies trial opens with the DOJ arguing that Google should be forced to divest Chrome, and Google calling the proposed remedies "extreme" (Julian Mark/Washington Post)
2025-04-21 23:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
2025-04-21 23:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he's raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to "cheat on everything" (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)
2025-04-21 23:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Kashish Tandon/Reuters)
2025-04-22 05:39 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Circle unveils a network designed to link financial institutions and enable real-time settlement of cross-border payments, starting with USDC and EURC in May (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
2025-04-21 22:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft has improved Recall, but biometrics are only required for setup and users can open it with just a PIN, and sensitive data filtering is unreliable (Kevin Beaumont/DoublePulsar)
2025-04-21 22:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Judge overseeing hearing on fixing Google's monopoly questioned if DOJ's proposal to force a sale of Chrome met the "causation" standard for a structural remedy (Erin Woo/The Information)
2025-04-21 20:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default; a Biden-era FTC rule on "junk fees" is set to go into effect on May 12 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
2025-04-21 19:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
After Meta blocked news on its platforms in Canada, misleading content from right-wing Facebook pages like Canada Proud has surged ahead of the federal election (New York Times)
2025-04-21 18:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Report: over a thousand international students have had US immigration statuses terminated in 2025; a Caltech ML professor says it's harming the talent pipeline (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-21 17:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta is testing using AI tools in the US to detect teen Instagram users, even if they've lied about their birthday, and place them under Teen Account settings (Mia Sato/The Verge)
2025-04-21 17:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US FTC sues Uber, claiming the company charged for Uber One without consent, made it difficult to cancel, and failed to deliver promised savings (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
2025-04-21 17:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google settles an Android TV case with India's competition regulator, will offer standalone licenses for Play Store and Play Services for Android TVs in India (NDTV)
2025-04-21 18:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
2025-04-21 17:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Huawei plans mass shipments of its 910C chip, which combines two 910B chips and is comparable to Nvidia's H100, to Chinese customers as early as May (Reuters)
2025-04-21 16:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Brand aggregator Upexi says it is raising $100M to accumulate Solana, causing its shares to surge over 400%, part of a trend of companies investing in crypto (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)
2025-04-21 14:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Circle, BitGo, and other firms plan to apply for bank charters or licenses, as the Trump administration pushes to bring crypto into mainstream finance (Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-21 13:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC says its role in the semiconductor supply chain limits its ability to comply with export rules, after reports its tech was used in Huawei's Ascend 910B (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
2025-04-21 11:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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