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Analysis: people spend more time watching Netflix than Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max combined, and Netflix makes up ~75% of the top 10 shows in the US each week (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg : Analysis: people spend more time watching Netflix than Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max combined, and Netflix makes up ~75% of the top 10 shows in the US each week   —  Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend's birthday.  Lunch was interrupted by huge news … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/mJpKhQE

Sources: the Biden administration has asked South Korea to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting sales to China if Beijing bans Micron chips (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times : Sources: the Biden administration has asked South Korea to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting sales to China if Beijing bans Micron chips   —  White House has tried to enlist Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in its semiconductor battle with Beijing from Techmeme https://ift.tt/U2qJDHs

Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more (Nabiha Syed/The Markup)

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Nabiha Syed / The Markup : Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more   —  A conversation with Katherine Forrest  —  Subscribe to Hello World … Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/vk0tJAi

Is the iPhone 14 Worth the Upgrade? How to Decide - CNET

The best choice depends on your current iPhone and budget. from CNET https://ift.tt/fLaPs8o

Xfinity Isn't the Fastest Internet Provider in the US Anymore - CNET

Xfinity ranked high in Ookla's first quarter report for 2023, but another broadband provider did a little better. from CNET https://ift.tt/hKRdc7I

Twitter restores gold badges to some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)

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Zoe Kleinman / BBC : Twitter restores gold badges to some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay   —  Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/pU76TgG

A look at GeoComply, which says it checks 10B online sports bets per year on 400M+ devices to verify if the bets are happening in a US state where they're legal (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)

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Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal : A look at GeoComply, which says it checks 10B online sports bets per year on 400M+ devices to verify if the bets are happening in a US state where they're legal   —  Even before online wagering on sports was legal in the U.S., Anna Sainsbury and David Briggs predicted that gambling apps would need to know where their customers were. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BYid8sc