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Microsoft says Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised “critical infrastructure organizations” across US industries, with a focus on gathering intelligence — - Chinese state-sponsored hackers have compromised “critical” cyber infrastructure in a variety of industries …
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces suffers crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures — - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement plans evening were derailed by massive technical glitches on Twitter that prevented him from declaring his candidacy.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a smart home display-like iOS 17 mode showing notifications, appointments, the weather, and more when an iPhone is locked in landscape mode — Apple Inc. is planning a new interface for iPhones that shows information such as calendar appointments, the weather and notifications …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q1 revenue down 13% YoY to $7.19B, vs. $6.52B est., Data Center revenue up 14% YoY, and a Q2 revenue forecast above estimates; NVDA jumps 20%+ — - Nvidia reported first-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2024 on Wednesday, with a stronger-than-expected forecast that drove shares up 26% in extended trading.
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Sources: some Meta employees say important work has been at a standstill and the company's 2023 product roadmap is undecided, as its final round of layoffs ends — Meta Platforms Inc. employees received news Wednesday of the final round of previously announced job cuts …
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Sony announces a handheld device, known as Project Q, with an 8-inch screen for streaming games from a PS5 via Remote Play over Wi-Fi, launching later in 2023 — Sony has officially confirmed it's working on a PlayStation handheld to make it easier to play your PS5 games.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 48% YoY to $623.6M, vs. $608M est., forecasts Q2 product revenue below est., and plans to acquire startup Neeva; SNOW drops 10%+ — - Snowflake beat on the top and bottom lines for the fiscal first quarter, but it gave product revenue guidance that missed consensus estimates.
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Sources and docs: TikTok employees have regularly posted user data on ByteDance's internal messaging tool Lark, leading some staff to raise privacy concerns — Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US Treasury sanctions four entities and one individual over North Korea's “army” of illicit IT workers, often located in Russia and China, and cyberattacks — The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against four entities …
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| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Poolside, co-founded by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner to build a “subsystem” for AI services like GitHub Copilot and Replit's Ghostwriter, raised a $26M seed — Warner steps back from Redpoint to lead Poolside. Redpoint leads seed round. — ∙ Paid
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| Misha Savic / Bloomberg: |
A Montenegrin court overturns a lower court's decision that would have let Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon be released on €400K bail; Kwon remains in jail — A Montenegrin court has annulled a lower court's decision under which former crypto mogul and Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon would be released on bail.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Surface Pro X owners say the laptop's cameras stopped working this week; a workaround suggests the problem could be related to an expired security certificate — Surface Pro X owners are reporting that the cameras on their devices have stopped working this week.
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft formally files its appeal against the UK CMA's decision to block its $69B Activision deal; the judicial review process could take up to nine months — Microsoft Corp. formally filed its appeal against the UK antitrust watchdog's decision to block its $69 billion Activision Blizzard Inc. deal.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Elementl, which offers data orchestration services based on Dagster, raised a $33M Series B led by Georgian, bringing its total funding to $48.8M — Elementl, a startup that is building a data platform based on the popular Dagster orchestrator, today announced that it has raised a $33 million Series B round led by Georgian.
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| Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signs the broadest-yet right-to-repair bill, with exceptions including game consoles and cybersecurity tools, effective July 1, 2024 — Today, the fight for our right to repair everything we own just scored a huge victory: the US state of Minnesota just passed the broadest-yet Right to Repair law.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google expands Play Games Beta on PC to Europe and New Zealand, bringing the offering to 56 countries total and over 100 Android games — As telegraphed earlier this year, the Google Play Games on PC Beta is now available in Europe and New Zealand. … This is a big expansion …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Filing: the Biden administration says SCOTUS should let stand a 2022 appeals court ruling favoring Google over its alleged theft of Genius' lyric transcriptions — The Biden administration's U.S. solicitor general said Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court should not review a ruling won … | Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: |
European gaming giant Embracer says a “groundbreaking strategic partnership” worth $2B+ collapsed and slashes its 2023 profit forecast; EMBRAC-B drops 40%+ — One of Europe's largest gaming companies has slashed its profit forecast for the year after a planned partnership fell through worth more than $2 billion in revenue.
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| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A study describes how a patient who was paralyzed from waist down was able to walk naturally again with brain and spine implants using an AI thought decoder — In a new study, researchers describe a device that connects the intentions of a paralyzed patient to his physical movements.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Six weeks after Amazon demoed its generative AI tech with an unusually vague announcement and just one testimonial, most cloud customers still don't have access — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud customers are clamoring to get their hands on the ChatGPT-style technology the company unveiled six weeks ago.| Financial Times: |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US chip export controls put the US tech industry at risk of “enormous damage”, as Chinese companies start building their own chips — Jensen Huang tells lawmakers to be ‘thoughtful’ about imposing more export controls on Beijing
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