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Nvidia unveils Grace, a high-performance Arm-based server CPU for large-scale neural network workloads, expected to become available in Nvidia products in 2023 — Kicking off another busy Spring GPU Technology Conference for NVIDIA, this morning the graphics and accelerator designer …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia will let customers rent its DGX A100 SuperPod mini supercomputers instead of buying them and introduces a subscription offering — The day has come when you can rent your own mini supercomputer. When you're done with it, you can return it to Nvidia.
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Microsoft says it has acquired speech tech company Nuance for $19.7B in cash, a 23% premium on its Friday closing price, as it boosts its healthcare offerings — Acquisition will combine solutions and expertise to deliver new cloud and AI capabilities across healthcare and other industries
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
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Brave is disabling Google's FLoC tracking method from all of its releases, saying it materially harms user privacy under the guise of being privacy-friendly — Peter Snyder, Senior Privacy Researcher at Brave — FLoC is a recent Google proposal that would have your browser share … | Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Facebook to host Oculus Gaming Showcase, a virtual event focused exclusively on VR games, on April 21, with streams on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch — Facebook will host an Oculus Gaming Showcase streaming to various sites on April 21. — The event will stream to Twitch, Facebook …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google to shut down Play Movies and TV app for Roku, Samsung, LG, and Vizio on June 15, will push users to use YouTube instead — After announcing Google TV last year, its predecessor had an unspoken expiration date. This week, Google has confirmed that it will kill off the Play Movies & TV app …
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Sources detail how Facebook allowed state-backed political manipulation in small countries, prioritizing abuses considered PR risks in countries like the US — A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform — Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders …
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| Axios: |
Senator Josh Hawley unveils a proposal aimed at Big Tech that would bolster antitrust laws and ban acquisitions by companies with a market cap of over $100B — Corporate giants would be barred from acquisitions and century-old antitrust laws would get sharper teeth under a new proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley … | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Despite the backlash, Free Software Foundation doubles down on restoring Richard M. Stallman to its board after he issued a defensive non-apology apology — Weeks after being readmitted to the Free Software Foundation board, Stallman speaks and the board stands behind him.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is in early stages of developing a product that combines an Apple TV with a HomePod speaker and has a FaceTime camera and smart home functions — - Company also exploring Amazon-like speaker with iPad as screen — Apple has trailed Amazon, Google in the connected home market
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| Rita Kozlov / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare says Cloudflare Pages, a tool it announced in December 2020 for easily developing and deploying websites, is now available for everyone — Loading... In December, we announced the beta of Cloudflare Pages: a fast, secure, and free way for frontend developers to build, host, and collaborate on Jamstack sites.
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| Will Sattelberg / Android Police: |
Google expands Lens beyond mobile by rolling it out inside Google Photos for the web, allowing desktop users to copy text from images using OCR — For better or worse, Google has been working on expanding its Lens features far beyond the reach of its dedicated app.
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| Zak Doffman / Forbes: |
Researchers have discovered a flaw where any user can deactivate another user's WhatsApp via multiple 2FA requests and emailing support to deactivate account — A nasty new surprise for WhatsApp's 2 billion users today, with the discovery of an alarming security risk.| Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer: |
Court filings show that Epic committed $444M to “minimum guarantees” for game developers that release on Epic Game Store but stay off of Steam for a year — Here's how much money Epic is burning to make the Epic Games Store a Steam competitor. — To take on Steam …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Data of 21M ParkMobile customers, including emails and license plate numbers, is up for sale; ParkMobile had disclosed a cybersecurity incident on March 26 — Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile, a mobile parking app that's popular in North America.
Tweets: @rleon_mx and @mkaplanpmp
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Biden administration announces the nominations of ex-NSA deputy director Chris Inglis as first national cyber director and Jen Easterly as CISA head — The Biden administration plans on Monday to name a former senior National Security Agency official as the first national cyber director … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Following WH roundtable, Intel says it wants to help manufacture chips for car makers in the next 6-9 months to alleviate the US auto industry's chip shortage — (Reuters) - The chief executive of Intel Corp told Reuters on Monday the company is in talks to start producing chips for car makers …
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