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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
SteamDB: after releasing its massive 1.6 update, Stardew Valley hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam, a new record and above Palworld's stats this week — The cozy farming simulator hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam according to SteamDB data, smashing the game's previous record …
More: Stardew Valley, SteamDB, Game World Observer, TechRadar, TheGamer, GamesRadar, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Eurogamer.net, Eurogamer.net, IGN, Polygon, Dexerto, IGN, Kotaku, TechRaptor, and 9to5Google
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup — Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI — Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head …
More: The Verge, Axios, The Hindu, Silicon Republic, Cybernews.com, TechCrunch, Verdict, Zee Business, Spyglass, Fast Company, The Economic Times, Cryptopolitan, News18, DNA India, Business Today, DatacenterDynamics, Vietnam Investment Review, 9to5Google, Business Insider, iTnews, BBC, CNBC, and Financial Times
X: @mustafasuleyman, @alexrkonrad, @krishnanrohit, @ppppp1245688, @marvinvonhagen, @andreweduffy, @mgsiegler, @mrinaldesai, @jason, @mikeisaac, @nathanwchan, @satyanadella, @mhbergen, @pmarca, @contentnow, @alexeheath, @ericnewcomer, @zsk, @davidondrej1, @benioff, @elonmusk, @mgsiegler, @danielmerja, @nealkhosla, @ericnewcomer, @chadmhako, @varunkrish, @8teapi, @toddbishop, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @luke_metro, @tekbog, @wireless_anon, @nonmayorpete, @jacobaustin132, @trace_cohen, @hnadim87, @ruskin147, @clementdelangue, @om, @lexnfx, @stevenoverly, @alex, @kosenjuu, @artificialguybr, @hbou, @riptari, @arjunram, @om, @tomosman, @nickadobos, @amir, @curious_vii, @kylebrussell, @dinabass, @shiringhaffary, @dinabass, @seyitaylor, @sundeep, @parkerortolani, @bigtechalert, and @dinabass
LinkedIn: Daniel Newman, Satya Nadella, Mustafa Suleyman, Emil Protalinski, and Nathan Benaich. Forums: r/singularity
| Satya Nadella / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Mustafa Suleyman will be its CEO and Karén Simonyan its chief scientist — Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees.
More: The Guardian, The Rundown AI, TechSpot, Windows Report, Ben's Bites, UKTN, MSPoweruser, PCMag, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Hindustan Times, Seattle Business Journal, The Register, Business Insider, Computerworld, CIO Dive, The Crypto Times, Neowin, and New York Times
Threads: @daveleebbg. X: @joefenton, @laurengoode, @alewkowycz, @zck, @amitfulay, and @0interestrates
LinkedIn: Mazen Abou Najm, Kevin Tupper, and Adam Brewer
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Inflection: |
Inflection AI names Sean White as CEO and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure, after co-founders Karén Simonyan and Mustafa Suleyman depart for Microsoft AI — From day one at Inflection, we've been driven by a simple mission: to create a personal intelligence for everyone.
More: Business Insider, Runtime, and Benzinga
Threads: @jjackyliang. X: @reidhoffman, @mhbergen, @basedalexandoor, @willdepue, @wagieeacc, @cis_female, @krishnanrohit, @krishnanrohit, @paulroetzer, @inflectionai, @inflectionai, @inflectionai, and @kylebrussell
LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman and Allie K. Miller
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
| Financial Times: |
The US awards Intel $8.5B in CHIPS Act funding and $11B in loans to expand in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon; Intel plans to spend $100B over five years — Preliminary agreement under US Chips Act also includes $11bn loan as company expands capacity in Arizona and other states
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Glassdoor users complain after the service added real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor cross-populates data between its services — Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users. — Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews …
More: Wired. Threads: @metamutator, @jayhjha, @quillmatiq, and @jemoryparker
Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @200ok@mastodon.social, @josh@josh.tel, @cammerman@mstdn.social, and @eff@mastodon.social
Forums: r/antiwork, r/privacy, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse — Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself.
More: Engadget and FediForum on YouTube
Threads: @evanprodromou, @chris, @timothyjchambers, and @pcottle. Mastodon: @andrew@melder.social. Forums: Beehaw
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that is potentially linked to I-Soon and has breached 70 organizations in 23 countries — A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as 'Earth Krahang …
More: Trend Micro, SecurityWeek, Dark Reading, Security Affairs, Infosecurity, Metacurity, The Record, The Stack, SC Media, and GovInfoSecurity.com
Mastodon: @BleepingComputer …, @simontsui@infosec.exchange, @campuscodi@mastodon.social, and @AAKL@noc.social
X: @trendmicrorsrch, @thehellu, and @virusbtn
| Business Insider: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model — - OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. — Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues.
More: Business Today, The Verge, Gizchina, MSPoweruser, Benzinga, and BGR
| Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
France begins work on “a national solution” to protect IT giant Atos, which manages nuclear data and cybersecurity, after Airbus talks failed; ATO.PA drops 20%+ — The French government said it would seek “a national solution” to protect Atos, a debt-burdened company that serves nuclear programs and the military.
More: CIO.com, Silicon Republic, Tech Monitor, Atos, Reuters, The Register, Bloomberg, Dark Reading, and Financial Times
| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google's Pixel 8a will have a 6.1" 120Hz OLED display, Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort output support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a — The Pixel 8a's major upgrades will make it even more competitive, but raise further questions over the vanilla Pixel 8.| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: MicroStrategy bought 9,245 bitcoin for $623M between March 11 and 18, taking its total holding to 214,246 bitcoin, worth ~$14B, or 1%+ of all bitcoin — - Purchase were made with proceeds from a convertible note sale … The enterprise software maker, whose corporate strategy includes buying …
More: CoinJournal, CoinGape, CryptoGlobe, Reuters, ZyCrypto, and MicroStrategy
| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Researchers say misconfigured Firebase instances exposed 125M+ users' records, including plaintext passwords, email addresses, and messages, across 900 websites — A weakness in a Firebase implementation allowed researchers to gain access to names, phone numbers, email addresses, plaintext passwords, confidential messages, and more.
More: BleepingComputer
| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations — Google is training Gemini on health data, and it's creating a new AI model for the Fitbit app that can give advice tailored to your needs.
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @google, @amycchou, @katieelink, @ashleycapoot, @berci, @stephenpfohl, @liamgmccoy, @hcolelewis, @ashleycapoot, @googlehealth, @googlehealth, @googleorg, and @thekaransinghal. LinkedIn: Aashima Gupta
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden admin is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese chip firms linked to Huawei, after the company used an advanced 7nm chip in Mate 60 Pro — - Huawei last year revealed an advanced 7-nm chip in a new phone — Raimondo has vowed ‘strongest’ action to protect US security| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
How Sweet Baby, a small video game narrative development company, became the focus of Gamergate 2.0, a harassment campaign against “forced” diversity in gaming — A group of gamers has mobilized a harassment campaign against a story consultant company, marginalized developers …
More: IGN. Mastodon: @mrcopilot@mstdn.social. X: @domaindead, @stevie_mat, @kahliefadams, @cheryllynneaton, @alyssa_merc, @easbygames, @taylorcocke, and @xoelleslow. Forums: r/saltierthankrayt
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google €250M for failing to broker deals with media outlets over content linking and using press content to train AI, after a €500M fine in 2021 — - Firm also accused of breaking other commitments in news case — Watchdog levies €250 million penalty in latest escalation
More: The Guardian, Silicon Republic, Reuters, TNW, Associated Press, Google fined €250M, Cryptopolitan, Legit.ng, and Times of Malta
X: @bcoeure, @bcoeure, and @samuelstolton
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$21.6B, vs. ~$21.8B est., a ~$3.8B net income, vs. ~$4.6B est., and plans a $12.8B+ stock buyback, as gaming sales slow — - Revenue growth in the quarter was its slowest in a year — Tencent joins tech rivals in ramping up shareholder returns
More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, Variety, and Tencent
| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
PE firm Francisco Partners agrees to acquire Portland, Oregon-based Jama Software, which helps companies develop complex tech products, for $1.2B — Jama Software, which helped lead a brief renaissance in Portland technology in the decade after the dot-com bust, sold Monday to a private equity firm for $1.2 billion.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on how the company's early decisions led to its AI boom, why Nvidia's ubiquity will not be easy to replicate, and more — Nvidia's chips sparked the AI revolution. Now it's in the business of putting the technology to work in an array of industries.
More: TechCrunch, NVIDIA, The Crypto Times, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Hindustan Times
| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
More: Datanami, Toronto Star, The Indian Express, guru3d.com, CGTN, TweakTown, Quartz, Fox Business, Stratechery, and CNBC
| Bloomberg: |
After damage to four major African subsea internet cables, some telecoms are rerouting traffic via Brazil or overland cables; repairs may take over three weeks — - Subsea cable repairs expected to take at least three weeks — Cables off western coast may have been damaged in landslide
More: Semafor, Business Insider, African Business, and MyBroadband
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