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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, CNBC, Reuters, International Business Times, The Information, Benzinga, Silicon Republic, The Verge, Bloomberg, and Chain Store Age
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is exploring home robotic devices, including a mobile robot that can follow users and a table-top device that uses robotics to move a display — - The company has teams working on automated home devices — The search is on for new growth sources after EV gets nixed
More: Macworld, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Tom's Guide, CNBC, Business Insider, Supercharged, Watcher Guru, Daily Mail, and T3
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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, AppleInsider, Investor's Business Daily, Data Center Knowledge, BBC, The Guardian, Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Benzinga, Fortune, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, Supernews, Notebookcheck, Financial Times, Reuters, Proactive, ExtremeTech, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Quartz, NPR, TechInformed, TechSpot, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Barron's Online, TechPowerUp, Total Telecom, DatacenterDynamics, MobileSyrup, Bloomberg, iMore, Supercharged, Finbold, Wall Street Journal, DigiTimes, guru3d.com, Cult of Mac, TweakTown, Nikkei Asia, Phandroid, Tom's Hardware, Semafor, New York Times, Patently Apple, and The Verge
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Forums: r/hardware, r/worldnews, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
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Forums: r/technology and r/microsoft
| 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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| 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: The Official Microsoft Blog, TNW, PYMNTS.com, PR Newswire, Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog, New Scientist, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Accelerating Quantum Computing, Ars Technica, Investor's Business Daily, Silicon Republic, Neowin, GeekWire, Reuters, The Quantum Insider, and Constellation Research
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Forums: r/Futurology, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| 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, The Verge, VentureBeat, and The Decoder
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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, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Neowin, The Register, PCMag, TNW, Notebookcheck, and Thurrott
| 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, PCMag, MarkTechPost, ZDNet, The Decoder, Digital Music News, Unite.AI, Mashable, Maginative, VentureBeat, and Billboard
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
WhatsApp experienced a global outage on April 3, preventing users from exchanging messages; Facebook Messenger and Instagram also experienced issues — WhatsApp appears to be experiencing a global outage, preventing users from sending or receiving messages, while other Meta apps …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Reuters, Business Today, Android Police, Daily Mail, 9to5Mac, The Mirror, The Independent, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, Global News, Naija News, Legit.ng, Pocket-lint, Jerusalem Post, Digital Trends, Yahoo News, Wccftech, Newsweek, SundayWorld.com, New York Daily News, Android Central, and The Star
| 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
| 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 …
More: Meta, ZDNet, Search Engine Land, USA Today, TechCrunch, Engadget, Social Media Today, What's Trending, and iPhone in Canada Blog. LinkedIn: Ted Karczewski
| 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: 9to5Mac, Mashable, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog, and AppleInsider
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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: New York Times, The Verge, Phoronix, ITPro, Cyberplace, BetaNews, GNOME, Petri IT Knowledgebase, and TechRadar
| Russ Cox / research!rsc: |
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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: The Daily Hodl, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, and Cointelegraph
| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
Boosted by Taiwan's 2024 elections, Threads has revived its popularity in the country; Sensor Tower says Threads is Taiwan's most downloaded social app — For most people around the world, Meta's text-based social network Threads is a platform that they haven't thought of for months.
More: TechCrunch, MIT Technology Review, ZDNet, Pixel Envy, and Platformer
| 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: Ars Technica, Federal Communications …, PCMag, Engadget, HotHardware, Deadline, The Register, Mashable, The Verge, Nextgov/FCW, Light Reading, TechCrunch, Fortune, AppleInsider, MediaNama, Fierce Telecom Industry News, The Hill, Telecompetitor, and Android Headlines
Forums: r/inthenews, 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 effortsSponsor Posts
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