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Telegram is getting DDoS’d, Google pulls a Radiohead on Pixel phone leakers, Bird buys Scoot, my dream TV is a wall, and the most interesting startup I’ve heard about in a while.

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Telegram faces DDoS attack in China... again (TechCrunch)

NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13 (TechCrunch)

This is Google’s Pixel 4 (The Verge)

Scooter Startup Bird Buys Struggling Competitor Scoot (WSJ)

Ford will test new third-generation self-driving cars in Detroit (The Verge)

Samsung's massive The Wall TV is now available in a 292-inch, 8K luxury version (TechSpot)

Official Breaking Bad mobile game is now available (TechSpot)

Helium raises $15 million to float fee-free, peer-to-peer networking (VentureBeat)

Napster Founder’s IoT Startup to Go Crypto With $15 Million Series C (CoinDesk)

The state of the Internet according to Mary Meeker, Houseparty joins the Fortnite party, Uber Elevate is planning some important firsts, the DOJ is telegraphing its possible punches to Silicon Valley, and someone find Have I Been Pwned a good home.

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Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet (ReCode)

Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty (TechCrunch)

Apple Discusses Acquisition of Intel’s German Modem Unit (The Information)

Google Is Moving More Hardware Production Out of China (Bloomberg)

Uber Wants Your Next Big Mac to Be Delivered by Drone (Bloomberg)

Snapchat’s Gender-Swap and Baby Filters Doubled Downloads of the App (OneZero)

The DOJ’s antitrust chief just telegraphed exactly how it could go after Google, Apple and other big tech companies (CNBC)

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim Delivers Remarks for the Antitrust New Frontiers Conference

Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned (Troy Hunt)

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An abject example of the maxim, “any data that is collected, will be breached,” Foxconn isn’t worried about a trade war so maybe Apple doesn’t have to be, electric car charging is about to get easier, and why it’s weird that Spotify can advertise against your moods.

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Don’t smile for surveillance: Why airport face scans are a privacy trap (Washington Post)

The CBP Data Breach (TechCrunch)

Apple’s U.S. iPhones Can All Be Made Outside of China If Needed (Bloomberg)

Amazon to shut down its Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S. (GeekWire)

Amazon launches Personalize, a fully managed AI-powered recommendation service (VentureBeat)

Charging an electric car will get easier (TechCrunch)

This is how scammers are now abusing Google Calendar to pillage your data (ZDNet)

Big Mood Machine (The Baffler)

Radiohead Have The Last Laugh After Hackers Hold 18 Hours Of Their Unreleased Music Ransom (HuffingtonPost UK)

The next generation Xbox sounds like a beast, Salesforce buys Tableau, Apple might buy a self-driving car startup, we finally get some details on Quibi and does Broadway want to jump on the streaming video bandwagon?

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Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD storage, and ray-tracing for 2020 (The Verge)

Microsoft’s new Xbox streaming mode is arriving in October for consoles (TheVerge)

I tried Project xCloud at Xbox's E3 2019 show. It is real. It is insane. (Windows Central)

Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7 B in all-stock deal (TechCrunch)

Apple to Buy Drive.ai in Bid for More Autonomous Vehicle Talent (Bloomberg)

The Google Assistant is now available in Waze (The Keyword)

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman Offer Details on Quibi Launch, Pricing (Variety)

Would you pay to stream endless musicals? Some Broadway insiders are quietly betting on it. (The Washington Post)

Does what is says on the tin. John Voorhees helps us sum up WWDC, get act dev reaction from the floor of the conference, and pick up some of the stray threads we missed from Apple's biggest week of the year.

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Now you can’t get Facebook on new Huawei phones, Barnes and Noble waives the white flag, WarnerMedia abandons that tiered streaming plan idea, Walmart wants to deliver directly to your refrigerator and the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Exclusive: Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones (Reuters)

Elliott Management to acquire Barnes & Noble for $683 million (CNBC)

Amazon’s Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements (Motherboard)

AT&T Eyes $16- to $17-a-Month Streaming Service in Strategy Shift (WSJ)

Walmart employees will soon deliver groceries directly into your fridge (The Verge)

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New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Solotshi, The Creator Of Encryption Software E4M And TrueCrypt (InvestInBlockchain.com)

The Stanford connections behind Latin America's multibillion-dollar startup renaissance (TechCrunch)

When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire (The Atlantic)

Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More of Them? (NYTimes)

The Big Challenge for Policy Makers: Policing American Tech Giants (WSJ)

Not Your Daddy’s Regulation: Tech Giants Face A Complicated Reckoning In Washington (BuzzFeed.news)

The Day When Computers Can Break All Encryption Is Coming (WSJ)

Google Stadia details are revealed, Amazon shows off its delivery drone and Uber debuts Uber Copter, Facebook is going to do an official white paper for its cryptocurrency, and our mobile gadgets have finally dethroned the television.

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GOOGLE’S STADIA GAME SERVICE IS OFFICIALLY COMING NOVEMBER: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW (The Verge)

Google cloud boss Thomas Kurian makes his first big move — buys Looker for $2.6 billion (CNBC)

Facebook plans June 18th cryptocurrency debut. Here's what we know (TechCrunch)

A first look at Amazon's new delivery drone (TechCrunch)

Uber Copter to Offer Flights From Lower Manhattan to J.F.K. (NYTimes)

Average US Time Spent with Mobile in 2019 Has Increased (eMarketer)

People spend more time on mobile devices than TV, firm says (Los Angeles Times)

YouTube actually DOES make some changes, Peloton is going public, could Prime open Amazon up to anticompetitive scrutiny, more on that Sign in with Apple controversy, and why your local police department might want to buy you Ring doorbell.

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YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed (TheVerge)

Peloton, the connected fitness company, has filed to go public (TheVerge)

Amazon may soon face an antitrust probe. Here are 3 questions the FTC is asking about it. (Vox/Recode)

The SEC Is Suing Kik for Its 2017 ICO (CoinDesk)

Netflix Is Testing an Instagram-Like Feed of Photos and Videos (Variety)

Facebook shareholder revolt gets bloody: Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Zuckerberg as chairman (Business Insider)

Apple asks developers to place its login button above Google, Facebook (Reuters)

An antitrust case looms, and Apple tempts fate (Casey Newton/The Interface)

Amazon's helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells (CNET)

It looks like Washington is serious about going after Big Tech in a big way, Firefox blocks cookies, why are developers trepidatious about that Sign In with Apple scheme, and why it’s time we really need to talk about the YouTube recommendation algorithm.

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Facebook, Google and other tech giants to face antitrust investigation by House lawmakers (Washington Post)

ITUNES IS DEAD. LET'S PAY OUR RESPECTS (Wired)

Apple’s top spec Mac Pro will likely cost at least $35,000 (The Verge)

Firefox starts blocking third-party cookies by default (VentureBeat)

On YouTube’s Digital Playground, an Open Gate for Pedophiles (NYTimes)

How YouTube Became a Breeding Ground for a Diabolical Lizard Cult (The New Republic)

YouTube star who gave toothpaste-filled Oreo to homeless man gets 15-month jail sentence (Fox News)

All the news and headlines from WWDC, the anti-trust brigade might be coming for Google in the US, a big chip acquisition, big news on the payments front, and a dispatch from the frontlines of the streaming wars… but, c’mon, we know what you’re here to hear about.

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Mac Pro (The Verge)

Pro Display XDR (The Verge)

iPadOS and Files app (The Verge)

Sign in with Apple (9To5Mac)

Dark Mode (The Verge)

The Justice Department is preparing a potential antitrust investigation of Google (Washington Post)

Infineon Will Buy Cypress Semi in Latest Chip Mega-Deal (Bloomberg)

PayPal opens up access to e-commerce platform that’s already used by Instagram and Facebook (CNBC)

Stripe Launches Chargeback Protection Service (Pymnts.com)

An HBO Question Is Giving AT&T Executives a Headache (NYTimes)