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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Memo: AWS plans to cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred in its Physical Stores Technology team — Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization …
More: Gizmodo, The Information, Benzinga, Associated Press, Silicon Republic, CNBC, The Verge, Reuters, Chain Store Age, and Bloomberg
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC expects to resume production overnight after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, Taiwan's biggest in 25 years, and says “there is no damage to our critical tools” — - Chipmakers move some staff off of unspecified operation areas — The earthquake rocked Taiwan and triggered tsunami warnings
More: Taiwan News, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, The Guardian, BBC, The Register, PC Gamer, Business Insider, Business Insider, Benzinga, Proactive, ExtremeTech, Finbold, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, Reuters, Supernews, Financial Times, TechSpot, Quartz, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, NPR, MobileSyrup, DigiTimes, Cult of Mac, DatacenterDynamics, TechInformed, Wccftech, Wall Street Journal, PCMag, Barron's Online, TechPowerUp, Total Telecom, guru3d.com, DatacenterDynamics, Bloomberg, iMore, Supercharged, TweakTown, Notebookcheck, Nikkei Asia, Tom's Hardware, Semafor, Phandroid, Business Today, Patently Apple, New York Times, The Verge, and Los Angeles Times
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and Quantinuum detail a breakthrough in quantum error correction, helping run 14,000+ experiments with no errors, an issue that has vexed the industry — Microsoft and Quantinuum today announced a major breakthrough in quantum error correction. Using Quantinuum's ion-trap hardware …
More: TNW, The Official Microsoft Blog, New Scientist, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Investor's Business Daily, Silicon Republic, PR Newswire, Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog, RTÉ, Neowin, GeekWire, Constellation Research, and The Quantum Insider
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify plans to raise prices by $1 to $2 per month in the UK, Australia, Pakistan, and two other markets by the end of April, and the US later in 2024 — - The audio service will raise prices in a few major markets — Spotify will create new plan that doesn't include audiobooks
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Opera now lets Opera One users download and run 150 LLMs from ~50 families locally, like Meta's Llama and Google's Gemma, via the Ollama open-source framework — Web browser company Opera announced today it will now allow users to download and use Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on their computer.
More: Opera News, Opera Newsroom, ZDNet, XDA Developers, The Register, Neowin, Voicebot.ai, Notebookcheck, PCMag, TNW, and Thurrott
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says that paid users can now edit DALL-E images in ChatGPT across web, iOS, and Android, using a selection tool and additional text prompts — - DALL-E will also begin letting people choose the aspect ratio of the desired image as well as to add styles, such as “motion blur” or “solarpunk.”
More: OpenAI Help Center, VentureBeat, The Decoder, and ZDNet
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, which lets users create three-minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website — Stable Audio 2., an audio generation model for Stability AI, now lets users upload their own audio samples which they can then …
More: Stability AI, Engadget, ZDNet, MarkTechPost, Mashable, Music Ally, Maginative, VentureBeat, and Billboard
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows 10 security updates will cost $61 per device for the first year, doubling for the next two years, after ending support in October 2025 — Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025, and you'll need to pay yearly if you want to continue using the operating system securely.
More: Microsoft Tech Community, Thurrott, Windows Central, XDA Developers, The Register, Microsoft Education Blog, TechSpot, Ghacks, and OSnews
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
Facebook updates its mobile video player with a TikTok-like vertical look and new controls for Reels, Live, and longform videos, starting with the US and Canada — Facebook is launching an updated mobile video player that will bring the vertical look made ubiquitous by TikTok and Reels … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Newzoo: PC and console game revenue grew 2.6% YoY to $93.5B in 2023, but average quarterly playtime hours fell 26% from Q1 2021 to Q4 2023 — The PC and console market grew 2.6% in 2023, but playtime hours fell during the year, according to the second annual report on the market-by-market researcher Newzoo.
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Forums: r/XboxSeriesX and r/PS5
| Callum Booth / The Verge: |
A first look at two third-party iOS app stores in the EU: the B2B-focused Mobivention and the upcoming AltStore, which takes ~12 screen interactions to install — DMA is about to unleash a brave new world of game emulators, clipboard managers, and uncertainty.
More: iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, and MacStories
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| Wired: |
A look at XZ Utils attacker “Jia Tan”, a persona experts say nation-state hackers used that left little trace after working on the project since November 2021 — The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind …
More: Phoronix, BetaNews, TechRadar, GNOME, and Petri IT Knowledgebase
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Sources: crypto VC firm Paradigm is in talks to raise $750M to $850M for a new fund, which would be the largest since the crash; a16z raised $4.5B in May 2022 — - New fund would be industry's largest since crypto downturn — Paradigm was a major investor in bankrupt exchange FTX
More: Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, and Cointelegraph
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The US FCC plans to vote on April 25 to restore net neutrality rules and assume regulatory oversight of broadband internet that former President Trump rescinded — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight …
More: PCMag, Engadget, Ars Technica, The Register, The Verge, Deadline, Federal Communications …, The Hill, TechCrunch, Light Reading, Fierce Telecom Industry News, Android Headlines, Fortune, AppleInsider, MediaNama, Telecompetitor, Cord Cutters News, and RCR Wireless News
Forums: r/technews, r/Comcast, r/VoteDEM, r/DarkBRANDON, r/technology, r/UpliftingNews, and r/politics
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: VCs raised $30.4B globally in Q1 2024, a marked slowdown from 2023, which itself was the worst year since 2016, noting the end of the “megafunds” era — Data shows a ‘sustained slowdown’ has persisted in the first quarter of 2024 as a lack of exit options weighs on fundraising efforts| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Google details Device Bound Session Credentials, a Chrome feature that uses a PC's TPM chip to try to stop cookie theft, available in some Chrome beta versions — ‘Device Bound Session Credentials’ will tap the TPM chip in today's PCs. Google is testing it with some users running the beta version of Chrome.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic researchers detail “many-shot jailbreaking”, which can evade LLMs' safety guardrails by priming them with dozens of harmful queries in a single prompt — How do you get an AI to answer a question it's not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques …
More: Anthropic, Axios, ZDNet, The Guardian, Ben's Bites, SiliconANGLE, and Maginative
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| New York Times: |
An interview with Oren Etzioni, the former CEO of Allen Institute for AI, on his nonprofit TrueMedia.org, which offers free tools for identifying deepfakes — Oren Etzioni worries A.I.-generated fakes could overwhelm upcoming elections.Kyle Johnson for The New York Times
More: The Information, TrueMedia.org, Cryptopolitan, TrueMedia.org, and GeekWire
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Patreon rolls out a Reddit-like community moderation feature that lets podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators assign community members as moderators — Patreon is taking a page out of Reddit's book. Now, podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators on the subscription-focused creator platform …
More: Tech Policy Press and Game Rant
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