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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
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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 …
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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| Russ Cox / research!rsc: |
A timeline of the attack on open-source project XZ Utils, which began in late 2021 and led to a backdoor with RCE in Linux distros Debian, Red Hat, and others — Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library …
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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.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting 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 transform using prompts …
More: Stability AI, Engadget, Billboard, VentureBeat, Maginative, and Music Ally
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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 … | 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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| 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, AppleInsider, iMore, MacStories, and iDownloadBlog.com
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| Washington Post: |
The US Cyber Safety Review Board faults Microsoft for a “cascade of avoidable errors” that led to the 2023 Chinese hack of top US government officials' emails — The independent Cyber Safety Review Board's forthcoming report knocks the tech giant for shoddy cybersecurity practices …
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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, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and crypto.news
| 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 …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The FCC plans to vote on April 25 to restore net neutrality rules and assume regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under President Trump — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight …
More: TechCrunch, The Hill, The Verge, Deadline, AppleInsider, Fortune, Telecompetitor, and MediaNama
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| Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg: |
A draft US-EU statement outlines plans to use AI to search for replacements for so-called forever chemicals that are prevalent in chip manufacturing — The European Union and the US plan to enlist artificial intelligence in the search for replacements to so-called forever chemicals …
More: Euractiv
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel says its Foundry division had $18.9B in 2023 revenue, down 31% YoY, a $7B operating loss, up 35% YoY, and expects 2024 to be the peak of its losses — - Losses have deepened at chipmaker's new foundry division — In a change, company breaks out numbers for manufacturing
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
POTUS' official Threads account starts using Meta's ActivityPub beta integration, turning on fediverse posting for the decentralized networking protocol — POTUS puts the ‘fed’ in ‘fediverse.’ — The official US president Threads account, currently helmed by President Joe Biden …
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| 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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