A group of 18 former European heads of state call on the EC to break up Google's advertising tech business, claiming it erodes Europe's media landscape (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
US-Mexico relationship: Trump has threatened tariffs of 25 percent
Source: Meta will break up its civil rights team, which helped develop a system to address racial and other disparities in how Meta distributed ads on its apps (Kalley Huang/The Information)
GDC reveals finalists for the 27th Independent Games Festival
Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals; Read.cv will shut down and users will be able to export their data until May 16 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Waymo Finds a Way Around US Restrictions Targeting Chinese Cars
Deep Space Nine Understood the Fantasy of Spies—and Their Reality
Digital Currency Group agrees to settle and pay $38M to the US SEC over allegations that it misled investors via crypto lender Genesis Global (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
Beyond RAG: How cache-augmented generation reduces latency, complexity for smaller workloads
Bluesky 2024 moderation report: Bluesky gained 23M+ users, its moderation team grew to ~100, and its moderation service received 6.48M reports, up 17x from 2023 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)