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The US awards TSMC $6.6B in grants and up to $5B in loans to build a third Arizona fab, slated to make 2nm chips by 2030, alongside TSMC's $65B+ investment — - World's top chipmaker to add capacity with third fab in state — Raimondo says latest US package aimed at AI, national security
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Emails: Xbox President Sarah Bond forms a game preservation team, and reiterates that the next Xbox should be “the biggest technical leap ever in a generation” — The backward compatibility program will continue to future Xbox hardware. — What you need to know
More: Windows Central, GamesIndustry.biz, IGN, HotHardware, Laptop Mag, Thurrott, MobileSyrup, Game File, Game Rant, Gameranx, TrueAchievements, Kotaku, WinBuzzer, Metro.co.uk, KitGuru, iPhone in Canada Blog, Destructoid, Pure Xbox, TechRadar, TweakTown, Press Start, GamingBolt, Stevivor, PC Games Insider, Wccftech, Notebookcheck, Video Games Chronicle, and MSPoweruser
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts its Find My Device network in the US and Canada, initially to find Android phones and tablets; support for 3rd-party tracker tags is coming in May — Google is launching its new Find My Device (FMD) network in the US and Canada starting today.
More: The Keyword, Engadget, Google Online Security Blog, The Verge, Android Police, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Android Central, PhoneArena, Liliputing, Android Headlines, Droid Life, and Pocket-lint. Forums: r/Android
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify debuts AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting Android and iOS users generate and revise playlists using text prompts — Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, r/technology, and r/truespotify
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI London, a new hub for its consumer AI division led by former Inflection AI and DeepMind engineer Jordan Hoffmann — Microsoft has announced a new London hub for its recently unveiled consumer AI division. It will be fronted by Jordan Hoffmann … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is confident upcoming Windows laptops with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips will beat an M3-powered MacBook Air in CPU and AI performance — Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for “AI PCs” next month at an event in Seattle.
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, and Gizchina
Threads: @tomwarrenuk. Mastodon: @Newmy@writing.exchange. X: @markhachman. Forums: r/hardware and r/apple
| Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review: |
US lawmakers post a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a data broker registry, let consumers opt out of some data collection, and more — WASHINGTON - Since the dawn of the internet age, tech companies have developed increasingly sophisticated ways to collect …
More: House Committee on Energy …, The Verge, Wired, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Washington Post, SC Media, Silicon Valley Business …, The Record, Reuters, The Hill, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, PC Gamer, Infosecurity, Security Boulevard, Nextgov/FCW, R Street Institute, Silicon Republic, International Business Times, Associated Press, Democrats …, MediaNama, Benzinga, Axios, PCMag, and The Verge
Forums: r/neoliberal and r/law
| Bloomberg: |
Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the 10 most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but a majority of the 100 most popular titles are original series — Netflix isn't the most-watched streaming service in the US. But it does have the most hit shows. — We are inching closer to Paramount having a new owner.| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Solana grapples with network congestion issues, leading to delays in transaction processing and dropped transactions, due to spam transactions and memecoins — - The Solana network is facing congestion, attributed to spam transactions. — Solana developers are working on solutions, including software patches and updates.
More: Finbold, CCN.com, Bitcoin Insider, and Cryptopolitan
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| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Docs: after months of staffers sniping about the war in Gaza, Google is tweaking its internal message board Memegen, removing “thumbs down”, post metrics, more — The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.
Mastodon: @lauren@mastodon …
| Forbes: |
Sources and filings: Sam Altman's net worth is ~$1B, driven by investments in Reddit, Stripe, Helion, YC startups, and others, despite having no OpenAI equity — CEO Sam Altman famously has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit, Stripe and Helion have made him a billionaire anyway, a Forbes investigation found.
X: @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, and @n_sportelli
| Washington Post: |
Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote US isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media posts — When President Biden proposed an additional $24 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine in August, Moscow spin doctors working …
More: Metro. X: @jason, @catherinebelton, @johnjharwood, and @catherinebelton
Forums: r/thedavidpakmanshow, r/UkrainianConflict, r/ActiveMeasures, and r/politics
| Anthony Boadle / Reuters: |
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge opens an inquiry into Elon Musk for obstruction of justice involving X, and says X faces ~$20K/day in fines for noncompliance — Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Sunday opened an inquiry into Elon Musk for obstruction …
More: Fortune, Washington Post, The Guardian, BBC, Benzinga, Axios, and Reclaim The Net
| Anthony Boadle / Reuters: |
More: Associated Press, The Verge, The Register, CNBC, Reuters, Cybernews.com, Financial Times, CoinGape, TIME, Tech Xplore, Cryptopolitan, Social Media Today, Benzinga, New.blicio.us, Bloomberg, Finbold, Reclaim The Net, and The Information
Threads: @lorakolodny and @lorakolodny
Mastodon: @w7voa@journa.host and @campuscodi@mastodon.social
X: @elonmusk, @shellenberger, @elonmusk, @globalaffairs, @austen, @ggreenwald, @esjesjesj, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @lindayax, @arthurvneto, and @shellenberger
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