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Discord Begins Testing Facial Recognition Scans For Age Verification (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-4-17 Facial Recognition

FTC challenges ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg over past emails; she called Google+ a “real” competitor in 2011 and discussed blocking its ads on Facebook in 2012 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17 Google Facebook

Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-4-17 Layoffs

First Global Pandemic Treaty Agreed - Without the US (science.slashdot.org)
2025-4-17

FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg says he considers TikTok the “highest competitive threat” for Facebook and Instagram in the past few years (thehill.com)
2025-4-17 Facebook Instagram Zuckerberg

US demanding $100bn compensation from Ukraine – Bloomberg (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17 Ukraine

The US House opens a probe on whether Nvidia knowingly provided AI tech to DeepSeek in violation of US rules and asks Nvidia for details on its Asian customers (www.nytimes.com)
2025-4-17 AI Nvidia

The Last RadioShack In Maryland Is Closing Its Doors (slashdot.org)
2025-4-17

OpenAI In Talks To Buy Windsurf For About $3 Billion (slashdot.org)
2025-4-17

China's “spy ship” that wasn't off the coast of Australia (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-4-17 China Australia

Tech stocks plunge amid uncertainty over US tariff plans and China export controls: AMD, Nvidia, and ASML dropped 7%, Applied Materials and Lam Research fell 5% (www.cnbc.com)
2025-4-17 China Nvidia AMD

Drunken Sailors Back in Splurge Mode, Retail Sales Surge. Even at Restaurants & Bars not Part of Frontrunning Tariffs (wolfstreet.com)
2025-4-17 Retail

New Delhi calls out attempts to limit representation at UN Security Council (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17

Google Used AI To Suspend Over 39 Million Ad Accounts Suspected of Fraud (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-4-17 Google AI

Former CISA Director Chris Krebs says he is resigning from SentinelOne to more freely challenge the White House, after Trump directed the DOJ to investigate him (www.wsj.com)
2025-4-17 Trump

Over 16,000 Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-17

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms the elimination of R/FIMI, an office aimed at tracking and countering foreign disinformation campaigns (www.technologyreview.com)
2025-4-17

Trump Administration Plans To End the IRS Direct File Program for Free Tax Filing (news.slashdot.org)
2025-4-17 Trump Tax

OpenAI Unveils o3 and o4-mini Models (slashdot.org)
2025-4-17

OpenAI Debuts Codex CLI, an Open Source Coding Tool For Terminals (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-4-17 Open Source

EU pressuring Serbia's Vucic not to visit Moscow – media (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17 Europe

Indian EV ride-hailing startup BluSmart appears to have suspended service a day after regulators launched a probe into Gensol, which shares its co-founders (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-17 India Startup

Sensor Tower: Temu and Shein cut their ad spending on platforms including Meta and X an average of 31% and 19%, respectively, so far in April, compared to March (t.co)
2025-4-17 Sensor

Trump's absence from G20 Summit is not surprising – South African analyst (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17 Trump Africa G20 South Africa

Zelensky ‘would do anything' to recruit more troops – former PM (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17

Tariffs won't fix US economic problems – Nigerian journalist (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17 Nigeria

Google blocked over 5 billion ads in 2024 amid rise in AI-powered scams (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-17 Google AI

Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it (apnews.com)
2025-4-17 Trump Tax

Sources: Intel told its Chinese clients last week that sales of some AI chips would require a license; Nvidia was blindsided by Trump's curbs on its H20 chips (t.co)
2025-4-17 Trump China Intel AI Nvidia

Source: OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for ~$3B; Windsurf was valued at $1.25B in a 2024 funding deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17 AI

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