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Techmeme - 2025-05-13T14:30:58-04:00

Unlike most mainstream social networks, Instagram has failed to scrub Kanye's pro-Nazi song "Heil Hitler", with several posts garnering 1M+ views (Matthew Gault/404 Media) - 2025-05-13T14:30:05-04:00

TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, which lets users turn static photos into videos in TikTok Stories using Story Camera (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - 2025-05-13T14:20:29-04:00

Google rebrands Find My Device to Find Hub, which recently added a People tab to track contacts, and adds UWB support to the app for more precise tracking (Dominic Preston/The Verge) - 2025-05-13T14:15:01-04:00

Sources: Trump's admin mulls a deal to let UAE import 500K of the most advanced AI chips each year until 2027; one-fifth would go to G42, the others to US firms (Bloomberg) - 2025-05-13T14:00:00-04:00

Google will add Gemini to Wear OS 6, Android Auto, Google TV, and Android XR later this year (Guemmy Kim/The Keyword) - 2025-05-13T13:50:27-04:00

PayPal reportedly launches iPhone NFC payments in Germany, after the EU's DMA forced Apple to open up (Wes Davis/The Verge) - 2025-05-13T13:45:00-04:00

Google says Android 16 adds device-level security features for its Advanced Protection Program, including intrusion logging for threat analysis (Il-Sung Lee/Google Online Security Blog) - 2025-05-13T13:33:07-04:00

Google says that over one billion RCS messages are sent each day in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2025-05-13T13:30:01-04:00

Google announces its Material 3 Expressive design, which it will roll out to Android and Wear OS, nearly four years after introducing Material You (Mindy Brooks/The Keyword) - 2025-05-13T13:20:51-04:00

Google announces Android 16 security features like expanded fraud detection in Messages, prevention of some actions while on calls, like side loading apps, more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - 2025-05-13T13:15:01-04:00

Global tablet shipments grew 8.5% YoY to 36.8M in Q1, led by consumer and education refresh cycles; Apple's market share grew 14% to 37%, above Samsung's 18% (Canalys) - 2025-05-13T12:51:02-04:00

FTC v. Meta: the US case may come down to whether Judge James Boasberg believes blockchain social platform MeWe is a closer competitor to Instagram than TikTok (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) - 2025-05-13T12:40:03-04:00

The US Commerce Department formally rescinds the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, which would have limited US AI chip exports and taken effect on May 13 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch) - 2025-05-13T12:20:28-04:00

Yuga Labs sells its CryptoPunks NFT collection, acquired in 2022, to Infinite Node Foundation for an undisclosed sum, after its market value and sales stagnated (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) - 2025-05-13T12:14:58-04:00

Microsoft says it will lay off 6,000 staff in a bid to cut management layers, including at LinkedIn; Microsoft had 228K staff in June 2024 and cut 10K in 2023 (Bloomberg) - 2025-05-13T12:05:26-04:00