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| Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: |
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel — Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale …
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LinkedIn: Elliot Horowitz and Animah Kosai
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others — The LabHost phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has been disrupted in a year-long global law enforcement operation …
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Mastodon: @shadowserver@infosec.exchange. X: @europol, @metpoliceuk, and @metpoliceuk. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to ~$18.87B, vs. ~$18B est., net income up 8.9% YoY to ~$6.97B, vs. ~$6.6B est., and expects strong AI chip demand in Q2 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday beat revenue and profit expectations in the first quarter … | Wall Street Journal: |
Investigation: Amazon sells ~$1M per year in goods on eBay, Shopify, Walmart, and Amazon via its “Big River” arm, to get data on pricing, logistics, and more — Staff went undercover on Walmart, eBay and other marketplaces as a third-party seller called ‘Big River.’ The mission …
More: Financial Times and Sherwood News
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The US CFPB fines BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, and CEO Austen Allred $164K+ and bans BloomTech from lending for 10 years over deceiving students on loans — In an order today, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said that BloomTech, the for-profit coding bootcamp previously known …
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LinkedIn: Brian Rinaldi, David Delmar Sentíes, and Rohit Chopra
Forums: Hacker News and r/codingbootcamp
| Bloomberg: |
Huawei releases its Pura 70 series, available for ~$760 to ~$1,380; reviewers show high-end models have a Kirin 9010 chip, an update to the Mate 60 Pro's 9000s — - Huawei building out portfolio with fresh upgrades and design — New phones likely to add further pressure on iPhone in China| Amanda Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple plans to spend $250M+ on its regional hub in Singapore, including expanding its campus later in 2024, as Tim Cook visits Vietnam and other Asian countries — Apple seeks to diversify its supply chain amid rising U.S.-China tensions and global concerns of decoupling trade| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
An experiment with LLMs: the tools are helpful in mundane ways but users can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that's kind of useful — AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a “kind of useful” tool justifies the harm. — /1311.164082 — 1×
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel Foundry completes the assembly of the first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool, a day after ASML set an EUV system record by printing 10nm dense lines — Transistor shrinking intensifies. — Intel Foundry announced it had completed the assembly of the industry's …
More: Reuters, Reuters, Oregonian, SemiAnalysis, AnandTech, SiliconANGLE, ExtremeTech, Intel, and TweakTown
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Nothing unveils the $149 Nothing Ear and $99 Nothing Ear (a), offering improved sound, personalization, and battery life; Nothing plans to integrate ChatGPT — Nothing is churning out new earbuds at a faster clip than smartphones. The company just introduced the Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a), priced at $149 and $99, respectively.
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| CNBC: |
AWS discontinues its Snowmobile service, an 18-wheeler truck introduced in 2016 to help customers transport large amounts of on-premises data to AWS facilities — Amazon Web Services Snowmobile Truck — At Amazon's annual cloud conference in 2016, the company captured the crowd's attention by driving an 18-wheeler onstage.
More: TechRadar, DatacenterDynamics, The Register, and The Verge
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| New York Times: |
US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok's complex origin story, spawning from GOP donor Jeff Yass' failed real estate venture — Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass's firm.
More: New York Times. X: @flitteronfraud, @wolfejosh, @marahvistendahl, @marahvistendahl, and @marahvistendahl
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Boston Dynamics debuts an electric version of its humanoid robot Atlas for commercial use, a day after retiring its hydraulic Atlas; Hyundai plans a 2025 pilot — A day after retiring the hydraulic model, Boston Dynamics' CEO discusses the company's commercial humanoid ambitions
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Marc Theermann
| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's device recycling, including shredding robots, and contractor GEEP, which Apple sued in 2020 for $22.6M in a case that has since been inactive — Apple touts its network of shredding robots and contractors as a greener way to reuse old gadgets.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Spend management startup Ramp raised a $150M Series D extension at a $7.65B valuation, up from $5.8B after raising $300M in 2023 but down from $8.1B in 2022 — Spend management startup Ramp has raised another $150 million at a post-money valuation of $7.65 billion, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today.
More: FinTech Futures, FinTech Global, and The Information
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
The US NIST appoints ex-OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano as head of AI safety; Christiano has been criticized for “AI doomer” views and effective altruism ties — Former OpenAI researcher once predicted a 50 percent chance of AI killing all of us.
More: Benzinga, U.S. Department of Commerce, Cryptopolitan, SiliconANGLE, Executive Gov, FedScoop, and GovExec.com
Mastodon: @arstechnica@mastodon.social and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
X: @ericgeller, @marietjeschaake, @hlntnr, @stanfordhai, @kellerscholl, @commercegov, @lukeprog, and @hamandcheese
Forums: r/artificial, r/politics, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, r/MachineLearning, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Brave Search introduces Answer with AI, which shows answers synthesized from multiple sources for informational queries, appearing above organic search results — Privacy-focused search engine Brave announced Wednesday that it is revamping its answer engine to return AI-powered synthesized answers.
More: Search Engine Land and Ghacks
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google unveils internal reorganizations, including an AI-focused Platforms and Devices group overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, and more, led by Rick Osterloh — AI is taking over at Google, and the company is changing in big ways to try to make it happen even faster.| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
TikTok starts rolling out TikTok Notes, its Instagram rival for sharing photo and text content, for limited testing in Australia and Canada on Android and iOS — TikTok has started rolling out its Instagram rival, TikTok Notes, to select Android and iOS users “for download and limited testing in Australia and Canada.”| The Verge: |
iOS app store AltStore PAL launches in the EU for €1.50/year with two apps: game emulator Delta, which is also live on the App Store, and clipboard manager Clip — After we recently tested it in beta, the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL is now live in the European Union thanks …
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