Techmeme

• Unsealed indictment shows federal prosecutors have charged three men with crimes related to December death of a Kansas man fatally shot in a swatting prank (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)
• Apple giving month-long free trials of its 50GB, 200GB, and 2TB iCloud storage plans to customers currently on the free 5GB tier (AppleInsider)
• Snapchat now gives users the option to send their real-time location to a friend or request theirs, which shows up on the Snap Map and within message threads (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
• Amazon says the Echo that recorded a private discussion interpreted background conversation as action confirmation, leading to recording and sending to contact (Jason Del Rey/Recode)
• Valve says Apple revoked its approval of the Steam Link app for iOS due to "business conflicts with app guidelines" and denied Valve's appeal (Sean Hollister/CNET)
• Orlando police say its tests of Amazon's facial recognition system were limited to basic testing, and no members of the public were entered for search (Russell Brandom/The Verge)
• Facebook will check images and text, who is being targeted, and any linked websites in issue ads as it begins to apply new policies (Facebook)
• Sentry, which develops open source tools to help developers fix bugs, raises $16M Series B led by NEA and Accel; CEO says post-money valuation is around $100M (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
• Senate version of Pentagon spending bill could require US tech companies to disclose if they let US adversaries examine code in software sold to US military (Joel Schectman/Reuters)
• Apple wins $538.6M from Samsung in iPhone patent retrial: $533.3M for infringement of Apple's design patents and $5.3M for infringement of its utility patents (Jeremy Horwitz/VentureBeat)
• YouTube brings its previously mobile-only messaging feature to the web, letting logged in users share and talk about videos in a chat window with friends (Natt Garun/The Verge)
• Sources: Essential, a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone (Bloomberg)
• Netflix topped Walt Disney Co. in market value Thursday after surpassing Comcast on Wednesday; the company's stock is up 82% in 2018 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
• An API bug on T-Mobile's staff-facing website, since fixed, let anyone gain access to customer addresses, account PINs, and other details using a phone number (Zack Whittaker/ZDNet)
• Facebook launches archive of political ads, containing ads for political candidates and issue ads starting in May 2018; ads kept in archive for seven years (Anna Hensel/VentureBeat)
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TechCrunch

• Jury finds Samsung owes Apple $539M in patent case stretching back to 2011
• Snapchat launches less creepy Send and Request Location features
• Andy Rubin?s Essential is reportedly up for sale and has cancelled work on its next smartphone
• OpenStack in transition
• GOAT launches electric scooters in Austin
• Netflix magic market number larger than big cable company?s magic market number
• Twitter unveils new political ad guidelines set to go into effect this summer
• The AI in your non-autonomous car
• Hitlist?s new premium service puts a travel agent in your pocket
• Navigating the risks of artificial intelligence and machine learning in low-income countries
• This family?s Echo sent a private conversation to a random contact
• Reddit adds a desktop night mode as it continues rolling out major redesign
• And the winner of Startup Battlefield Europe at VivaTech is? Wingly
• Some low-cost Android phones shipped with malware built in
• Uber in fatal crash detected pedestrian but had emergency braking disabled
• Facebook and Instagram launch US political ad labeling and archive
• Google opens its G Suite for Education to home-school co-ops
• Dog-sitting startup Rover just raised $155M
• Inside Facebook?s anti-sex trafficking hackathon
• Microsoft?s Twitch rival Mixer gets a revamp, including new developer tools for interactive gameplay

Silicon Alley Insider

• Tesla Model S driving on Autopilot accelerated before crashing into a Utah fire truck
• A mysterious 'pain-relief' supplement has been linked to salmonella in 41 states
• Andy Rubin, the father of Android, has reportedly cancelled his next big smartphone and might sell the company after raising $300 million (GOOG, AAPL)
• A couple says that Amazon's Alexa recorded a private conversation and randomly sent it to a friend (AMZN)
• Snapchat ranks dead-last in a new advertising poll ? and it shows how little progress has been made since its IPO (SNAP)
• 'Fortnite' is getting a major new mode that will finally give players a chance to practice
• IBM will give $200,000 to a team that can come up with a solution for natural disaster relief (IBM)
• Disney wants to kill Netflix, but Comcast has totally different reasons for wanting Fox
• 'This is what the future is going to be': The CMO of JPMorgan Chase explains why she's spending more time with Adobe than ad agencies
• Mark Zuckerberg responds to Elon Musk's warnings against AI (FB)
• Hawaii enthusiast and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff spent $7 million to return a war god carving back to the islands (CRM)
• StumbleUpon, the addictive internet tool made by an Uber co-founder that brought you to random websites, is shutting down
• Facebook and Twitter are cracking down on political ads with new requirements and labels (TWTR, FB)
• The MTA revealed its $37 billion plan to save NYC's crumbling subway system ?but there's one big problem
• How to know which MacBook you should buy
• A crypto exchange hired a top lawyer portrayed in a Netflix series about a big bank robbery to help it navigate choppy regulatory waters
• An inside look at how MoviePass will make money distributing movies, and what will happen if the company goes bust (HMNY)
• A tiny startup could beat Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at linking brains and computers
• Mark Zuckerberg said the 'vast majority' of people actively opt into one of Facebook's most invasive features (FB)
• Music industry honcho Lyor Cohen reinvented himself as a YouTube exec ? here's his message to the haters

Mashable

• Seen 'Solo'? Here are 13 moments that made us cheer
• Apple wins $539 million in damages in patent battle with Samsung
• Harley-Davidson designed this obscene, $1.8 million motorcycle with a Swiss jeweler
• With Morgan Freeman out, Seth Rogen offers to be the voice of Vancouver public transit
• 'Rick and Morty' creator embodies Rick, sells limited edition Nintendo 3DS
• Someone put a real engine in a Barbie car and it's glorious
• Boba Fett is reportedly getting his own movie
• Donald 'Pump' Jr. is posting thirst traps now
• 7 social media apps you totally forgot about — and what happened to them
• 2018's hurricane season will be active, but probably not as bad as last year
• Congrats to 'The Last Jedi' director Rian Johnson on the #1 GDPR meme
• Elon Musk gives a tentative release date for the Tesla Model Y
• Inside the technology that helps self-driving cars "see"
• John Mayer's green screen music video is a meme dream come true
• This student-created 'Mario Kart' mod will have you hyperfocused
• The Flick 'N' Jerk sex toy is like Bop It for your privates
• 'Overwatch's second anniversary by the numbers
• 'The Ensemble' is an intimate debut novel about love of all kinds
• Self-driving Uber saw pedestrian 6 seconds before fatal crash, new NTSB report says
• This giant, 65-inch smart TV from VIZIO is only $600 right now
• Meet the first woman to run the New York Stock Exchange
• Turns out Chrissy Teigen married the wrong John
• Walmart's trade-in program is here to make you some extra cash
• Facebook and Instagram crack down on shady political ads
• In honor of 'Solo' hitting theaters, we talked about what makes Star Wars so magical
• Lawsuit alleges Apple might have known about Touch Disease before launching the iPhone 6
• How to brush your cat's teeth, if you have the chillest cat in the world
• These weed-killing robots could give big agrochemical companies a run for their money
• Fighting climate change could save the world trillions of dollars
• Working in IT is the new gold rush so get certified and head west (or just download these training courses)