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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

A look at Neon Coat, an app that offers models and influencers free restaurant meals, fitness classes, and other experiences in exchange for social media posts (Lane Florsheim/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Perplexity is offering a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription, normally $20/month, to 360M users of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator (Moneycontrol)

Techmeme

Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules, as it negotiates a trade deal with the US (Financial Times)

Techmeme

Google says threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by targeting fully patched, end-of-life appliances from cybersecurity company SonicWall (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

Techmeme

Apple’s new daily puzzle game is basically Emoji Wordle

Polygon - All

Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from 3% now, with the goal of eliminating static pricing entirely (Irina Ivanova/Fortune)

Techmeme

Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against rival AI assistants; Sensor Tower says Copilot's mobile app has ~79M downloads, far below ChatGPT's 900M+ (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Bengaluru-based QpiAI, which is integrating AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, raised a $32M Series A at a $162M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Coinbase rolls out the Base App, rebranding its Coinbase Wallet as an "everything app" that combines social networking, mini-apps, chat, payments, and trading (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Techmeme

In response to a March FOIA request, the US Marshals Service said it held over 28,988 BTC, worth ~$3.4B at current prices, far fewer than previously believed (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Techmeme

Gigantamax Lapras counters, weakness, and battle tips in Pokémon Go

Polygon - All

Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Subnautica 2’s creators sue their publisher for ‘severely’ damaging the game’s release

The Verge - All Posts

The trial for an $8B lawsuit by Meta investors against Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders opens over claims tied to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal (Associated Press)

Techmeme

Late Push for Rockway Railway Reboot Even as Park Proposal Takes Shape

THE CITY - All

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000+ employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)

Techmeme

Nope to Open Primaries in NYC, Says Charter Revision Commission

THE CITY - All

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Michael Tsai

NameQuick 1.9.29

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Shortcuts in macOS Tahoe

Michael Tsai