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Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

Nvidia unveils Grace, a high-performance Arm-based server CPU for large-scale neural network workloads, expected to become available in Nvidia products in 2023 — Kicking off another busy Spring GPU Technology Conference for NVIDIA, this morning the graphics and accelerator designer …

More: Bloomberg, The Verge, South China Morning Post, Reuters, NVIDIA, Slashdot, Tom's Hardware, Forbes, Engadget, CNBC, The Official NVIDIA Blog, CNET, The Register, ZDNet, HotHardware.com News, ComputerWeekly.com, ZDNet, Wccftech, Financial Times, CRN, ServeTheHome, The Next Platform, Engadget, and SiliconANGLE

Tweets: @fox0x01, @nvidiagtc, @stevemoser, @dakami, and @dinabass

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Nvidia will let customers rent its DGX A100 SuperPod mini supercomputers instead of buying them and introduces a subscription offering — The day has come when you can rent your own mini supercomputer. When you're done with it, you can return it to Nvidia.

More: NVIDIA, The Official NVIDIA Blog, Tom's Hardware, and Digital Trends

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Nvidia unveils eight new RTX GPUs for laptops, desktops, and datacenter workstations, with over 2x performance improvements touted for many workflows

More: Engadget, Tom's Hardware, and Digital Trends

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:

Nvidia announces Omniverse Enterprise suite for real-time remote, collaborative, photorealistic graphics design in a shared virtual space

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet, and VRFocus

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Nvidia debuts TAO, an enterprise workflow for AI development incorporating Nvidia TensorRT and Nvidia's Transfer Learning Toolkit, now available in early access

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Nvidia launches Jarvis conversational AI framework in general availability, after garnering 45K+ downloads since launching in preview in May of last year

More: NVIDIA, iTWire, CNBC, and HPCwire

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Nvidia debuts Drive Atlan SoC for autonomous vehicles that is 4x to 33x as powerful as its other autonomous driving-focused chips, Drive Xavier and Drive Orin

More: The Official NVIDIA Blog and Forbes

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Nvidia announces Morpheus, an AI-powered cloud-native app framework to help cybersecurity providers detect and prevent breaches in real-time, now in preview

More: HPCwire, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, and GlobeNewswire News Room

Microsoft:

Microsoft says it has acquired speech tech company Nuance for $19.7B in cash, a 23% premium on its Friday closing price, as it boosts its healthcare offerings — Acquisition will combine solutions and expertise to deliver new cloud and AI capabilities across healthcare and other industries

Alex Sherman / CNBC:

Nuance is Microsoft's fourth $5B+ acquisition since 2016; other than Microsoft, only Amazon among the Big Five has spent $5B+ on an acquisition in that span

More: Ubergizmo and PCMag

Tweets: @levynews, @sherman4949, and @sherman4949. Thanks:@mattrosoff

Brave Browser:

Brave is disabling Google's FLoC tracking method from all of its releases, saying it materially harms user privacy under the guise of being privacy-friendly — Peter Snyder, Senior Privacy Researcher at Brave — FLoC is a recent Google proposal that would have your browser share …

More: Spread Privacy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechRepublic, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Thurrott, iTWire, Search Engine Journal, and Laptop Mag

Tweets: @duckduckgo, @privacymatters, @brendaneich, @bravesampson, @brave, @duckduckgo, @moonalice, and @johnwilander

Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:

Sources detail how Facebook allowed state-backed political manipulation in small countries, prioritizing abuses considered PR risks in countries like the US — A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform — Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple is in early stages of developing a product that combines an Apple TV with a HomePod speaker and has a FaceTime camera and smart home functions — - Company also exploring Amazon-like speaker with iPad as screen — Apple has trailed Amazon, Google in the connected home market

Ian Hamilton / UploadVR:

Facebook to host Oculus Gaming Showcase, a virtual event focused exclusively on VR games, on April 21, with streams on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch — Facebook will host an Oculus Gaming Showcase streaming to various sites on April 21. — The event will stream to Twitch, Facebook …

More: Oculus Blog, Engadget, VentureBeat, Game Rant, SlashGear, TechRadar, and Road to VR

Tweets: @nathievr, @nathievr, @nathievr, @arvrgirl, @cloudheadgames, and @rad_studios

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:

Google to shut down Play Movies and TV app for Roku, Samsung, LG, and Vizio on June 15, will push users to use YouTube instead — After announcing Google TV last year, its predecessor had an unspoken expiration date. This week, Google has confirmed that it will kill off the Play Movies & TV app …

More: The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Verge, Android Central, TalkAndroid.com, The Streamable, Android Police, and SlashGear

Tweets: @ronamadeo, @thezedwards, @ronamadeo, @nexusben, and @ronamadeo

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:

Despite the backlash, Free Software Foundation doubles down on restoring Richard M. Stallman to its board after he issued a defensive non-apology apology — Weeks after being readmitted to the Free Software Foundation board, Stallman speaks and the board stands behind him.

More: Free Software Foundation, The Register, and Fast Company

Tweets: @waldojaquith, @therealfitz, @sjvn, @sarajchipps, and @nixcraft

Rita Kozlov / The Cloudflare Blog:

Cloudflare says Cloudflare Pages, a tool it announced in December 2020 for easily developing and deploying websites, is now available for everyone — Loading... In December, we announced the beta of Cloudflare Pages: a fast, secure, and free way for frontend developers to build, host, and collaborate on Jamstack sites.

Tweets: @jaycuthrell, @singhamardeep, @rseroter, @flaviocopes, @maxlynch, and @haltakov

Zak Doffman / Forbes:

Researchers have discovered a flaw where any user can deactivate another user's WhatsApp via multiple 2FA requests and emailing support to deactivate account — A nasty new surprise for WhatsApp's 2 billion users today, with the discovery of an alarming security risk.

More: Android Police, BGR India, SiliconANGLE, Android Central, Somag News, Android Authority, Digital Information World, Mediarun Search, and PhoneArena

Tweets: @artemr and @honkhase

Will Sattelberg / Android Police:

Google expands Lens beyond mobile by rolling it out inside Google Photos for the web, allowing desktop users to copy text from images using OCR — For better or worse, Google has been working on expanding its Lens features far beyond the reach of its dedicated app.

More: XDA Developers, Android Headlines, PCWorld, The Verge, Chrome Unboxed, and MUO

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Biden administration announces the nominations of ex-NSA deputy director Chris Inglis as first national cyber director and Jen Easterly as CISA head — The Biden administration plans on Monday to name a former senior National Security Agency official as the first national cyber director …

Axios:

Senator Josh Hawley unveils a proposal aimed at Big Tech that would bolster antitrust laws and ban acquisitions by companies with a market cap of over $100B — Corporate giants would be barred from acquisitions and century-old antitrust laws would get sharper teeth under a new proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley …

Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer:

Court filings show that Epic committed $444M on “minimum guarantees” for game developers that release on Epic Game Store but stay off of Steam for a year — Here's how much money Epic is burning to make the Epic Games Store a Steam competitor. — To take on Steam …

More: Ars Technica, GamesIndustry.biz, IGN, KnowTechie, Destructoid, Slashdot, and iMore

Tweets: @timsweeneyepic, @sircrackerbulb, @rereztv, @surny_, @sircrackerbulb, @liasae, @techlinkedyt, @pcgamer, and @ceejaeytf2

Stephen Nellis / Reuters:

Following WH roundtable, Intel says it wants to help manufacture chips for car makers in the next 6-9 months to alleviate the US auto industry's chip shortage — (Reuters) - The chief executive of Intel Corp told Reuters on Monday the company is in talks to start producing chips for car makers …

More: The Register, CNBC, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, Input, Silicon Valley Business …, and TechCrunch

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Data of 21M ParkMobile customers, including emails and license plate numbers, is up for sale; ParkMobile had disclosed a cybersecurity incident on March 26 — Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile, a mobile parking app that's popular in North America.

Tweets: @rleon_mx and @mkaplanpmp

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Sources: Amazon is exploring news show concepts, probably tied to events, such as Brian Williams' election special on Prime Video that drew ~4M viewers

Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal:

Former WWE boss Vince McMahon reaches a $1.7M settlement with the SEC over his failure to properly disclose payments linked to sexual misconduct allegations

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

Apple releases season 1 of Severance, one of its biggest TV shows, on the free Roku Channel to lure new Apple TV+ subscribers; the promotion ends on January 19

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Court orders Charter to pay $19.2M to Windstream for lying to customers that Windstream was going out of business in order to trick them into switching ISPs

The Information:

Sources: Anduril Industries is raising a new round that could value the military drone and surveillance startup between $4B-$5B, over double its value in July

Osato Avan-Nomayo / Cointelegraph:

HSBC bans its InvestDirect clients from buying shares of MicroStrategy over cryptocurrency exposure concerns, after other anti-crypto moves by Europe's top bank

More: Reuters, Decrypt, The Daily Hodl, and Insider. Tweets: @filbfilb

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Sources: DealShare, an Indian social commerce startup initially focused on WhatsApp, raises $100M Series D led by Tiger Global, after its $21M Series C in Dec.

More: The Economic Times and Bloomberg. Tweets: @amitranjan

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:

Binance launches Stock Tokens, a zero-commission tokenized stock trading service that lets users buy fractions of companies' shares, starting with Tesla

Tweets: @asemota, @brianmcc, and @coindesk

Makena Kelly / The Verge:

The FCC releases a speed test app on Android and iOS to help measure internet speeds in the US, and will use the data to inform its broadband deployment efforts

More: XDA Developers, Engadget, MUO, Slashdot, The Register, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Mashable, Android Central, FierceWireless, Cord Cutters News, MacRumors, and Gizmodo. Tweets: @karissabe

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Salesforce to reopen its San Francisco tower in May, initially for people who are fully vaccinated, but employees can work from home through 2021

More: Salesforce News and ZDNet

Tweets: @b_fung and @salesforce

Bloomberg:

Twitter says it plans to hire its first product and engineering teams in Africa, based in Ghana, calling the country a “champion of democracy”

More: Twitter, TechCrunch, Techpoint Africa, and Social Media Today

Tweets: @jack, @nakufoaddo, @oluyomiojo, @oluyomiojo, @nakufoaddo, @islimfit, @opresii, @kayvz, @whitenigerian, and @toluogunlesi

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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:

Intel's Mobileye says it will launch a fully driverless delivery service in 2023 and is working with Udelv to make 35,000 autonomous delivery vehicles by 2028

More: ZDNet, Intel Newsroom, and SiliconANGLE

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:

MLB announces that venerable trading card company Topps will begin selling new NFT baseball cards via the WAX blockchain starting on April 20

More: Decrypt, Tom's Guide, MUO, KnowTechie, and CryptoNinjas

Tweets: @toppsdigital, @ibwaa, @michael_eisner, @willmanso, and @topps

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:

Apple Support docs show that unusual mid-production hardware changes were made to its A12, A13, and S5 chips last fall, to update the Secure Storage Component

More: Forbes, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @pandrewhk, @andrewtychen, @andrewtychen, @foxfortmobile, @t_morris_wealth, and @pandrewhk

Bloomberg:

Huawei says it will invest $1B in researching self-driving and EV tech this year, following Xiaomi's similar $10B investment over a decade

More: PYMNTS.com and Pocketnow. Tweets: @neiltwitz

Liam Tung / ZDNet:

Google urges Biden admin to join a US-EU technology council to prevent further barriers to trade and data flows, citing an “explosion in national policies”