After rolling out its end-to-end encrypted password manager last year, Proton has announced that it will now let you manage passkeys across mobile and desktop devices, allowing you to log into sites without a password.

For a fast and clear explanation, deputy editor Alex Cranz spells out the antitrust lawsuit filed today in just under five minutes.

SpaceX already filed one lawsuit claiming the agency’s actions o (on a complaint about workers who say they were fired illegally for criticizing Elon Musk) are unconstitutional and now there’s this complaint issued Wednesday night.

SpaceX is accused of using severance agreements with ”unlawful confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses, and an unlawful limit on participation in other claims against SpaceX,�� among other issues. The parties can either settle (seems unlikely), or there will be a hearing on October 29th.

Reddit (RDDT) is officially open for trading. According to CNBC, Reddit and selling shareholders raised about $750 million from the IPO.

With its current share price of $48, the 19-year-old website now has a market cap of $7.6 billion as it pursues business growth via “advertising, monetizing commerce on the platform, and licensing data.��

GeForce NOW is currently experiencing a global outage. We are working on a fix to bring back the service as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience!

The first global outage this month was on Sunday, March 10th. This one’s on a Thursday, the day Nvidia adds new games; today it’s Alone in the Dark and Dragon’s Dogma 2. GFN has been down at least 50 minutes so far.

Update: At 2:28PM ET, Nvidia posted that “A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.��

The new Hulu exclusive series features Moss as super spy Imogen Salter. According to FX’s show description, it explores “the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London.�� The show is written and executive produced by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders).

The six-episode season is expected to debut on Hulu on April 30th.

According to Ars Technica, Vinge, a professor and computer scientist who was well-known for his hard science fiction novels such as A Fire Upon the Deep and Rainbow’s End, passed away yesterday. A truly excellent author, he postulated that AI will one day surpass the understanding of its human creators; he described this singularity theory in a 1993 essay. But it is probably for his far-reaching and absorbing fiction that Vinge will be best known.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that WhatsApp is rolling out the option to pin as many as three messages to the top of a chat, up from the single message that’s been possible to pin since late last year. According to WABetaInfo, which previously spotted the feature in beta, Meta is already working on the option of pinning even more.

Monkey Man stars Dev Patel as Kid, a man in Mumbai who seeks revenge against society’s elite for the murder of his mother. The movie gives off real John Wick vibes as Kid unleashes “an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.��

Monkey Man comes out in theaters on April 5th.

I reread this massive Wired piece this morning on the train, a propos of, you know, things. It’s an incredible tale of antitrust warfare, and it’s wild how much of what the DOJ said and did about Microsoft rhymes with today’s lawsuit against Apple.

I’d bet that Tim Cook saying “buy your mom an iPhone�� will become an iconic legal phrase the way “cut off Netscape’s air supply�� did 25 years ago.

The Department of Transportation announced the “first industry-wide�� review of the ten largest airlines to insure passengers�� sensitive personal information is not “improperly monetized�� or shared with third-party data brokers.

The agency is requesting information from the carriers around how they collect and handle people’s personal data, as well as complaints that information was mishandled in violation of the law. USDOT did not say specifically what incident prompted the review.

“Apple has maintained monopoly power in the smartphone market, not simply by staying ahead of the competition on the merits, but by violating federal antitrust law,�� Garland said.

He also referenced the so-called Apple tax that the company charges for in-app purchases.

Microsoft is holding a digital event today for Surface, Windows, and Copilot. We’re expecting Microsoft to announce new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 devices for businesses, ahead of consumer versions in May.

Microsoft’s event will kick off today at 12PM ET / 9AM PT / 4PM UK, and will include Microsoft’s new head of Surface Brett Ostrum. You can watch it live over at Microsoft’s website.

Debates over green bubbles, iMessage, and RCS came to a head in this moment from the 2022 Code Conference when LiQuan Hunt asked Tim Cook about messaging across platforms. Leading to today, when Hunt’s question and Cook’s response came up on page 39 of the DOJ’s antitrust complaint against Apple.

In 2022, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was asked whether Apple would fix iPhone-to-Android messaging. ‘It’s tough,�� the questioner implored Mr. Cook, ‘not to make it personal but I can’t send my mom certain videos.�� Mr. Cook’s response? ‘Buy your mom an iPhone.��

Correction: it’s on page 39, right 92.

The Justice Department just announced a long-awaited, massive antitrust suit against Apple. Those antitrust suits �� big but slow-moving �� are the primary way the US is challenging big tech.

But across the Atlantic, the European Union has been hard at work enforcing what’s known as the Digital Markets Act, a sweeping regulation that went into effect earlier this month that’s aimed at leveling the playing field between big tech and smaller competitors. Apple, in particular, has been engaging in what we can only describe as “malicious compliance.��

Verge reporter Jon Porter, who’s been covering EU regulation for years, joined me on Decoder to break down which companies qualify as “gatekeepers,�� what new rules they have to follow, and what this means for the future.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) would like the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Tesla over the lack of independence of its board of directors from Elon Musk, according to the Wall Street Journal. Tesla’s board, which includes Musk’s brother and a number of the billionaire’s friends, poses a potential conflict of interest, that could harm shareholders, Warren alleges. The SEC, which has investigated Tesla more times than I can remember, declined to comment on its response to Warren.

While we already knew The Boy and the Heron would soon be available on Max in the US, Netflix has secured worldwide streaming rights, and announced its plans to debut the movie in the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America markets in the comings months.

A movie based on EA’s The Sims game series is on the way from director / co-writer Kate Herron (Loki) with Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap producing. And if the project doesn’t end up being in Simlish, the filmmakers are going to be passing on a chance to do one of the most ridiculously inspired things possible.

Sources tell The Wall Street Journal that Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm that owns the majority of Yahoo, has put in a bid to acquire Paramount’s studio.

Paramount is also reportedly discussing a deal from Skydance Media, which has offered to merge with the entertainment giant and buy Paramount's parent company National Amusements.