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Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B on average for March 2024 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says “tens of millions of people” have “tried” Meta AI but making money from generative AI in Meta's apps is likely going to take several years — The generative AI gold rush is underway — just don't expect it to create profits anytime soon.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
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| The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to a non-tech company, and without the recommendation algorithm — ByteDance is internally exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok's U.S. business, preferably to companies outside … | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft has scrambled to respond to new attacks from the Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers, as its engineers prioritize security over new features — The world's largest tech company has a security problem. A series of high-profile security incidents have rocked Microsoft … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and rejoining” via its Android, iOS, and web apps — Let's say you start a call on your phone because you're not at your desk yet. Once you get to a computer … | Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC unveils a new chip manufacturing technology called A16; the company plans to start producing its ultra-advanced 1.6nm chips by 2026 — Taiwan chip titan aims to secure leading position and capture AI demand — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. says it will start production …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances — Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak
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| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at AI video startup Synthesia, whose avatars are more human-like and expressive than predecessors, raising concerns over the consequences of realistic AI — I'm stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the rest of eternity? — This makes it sound like I'm dying, but it's the opposite.
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| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
The US awards Micron up to $6.1B under the CHIPS Act, to support an up to $125B investment to build a “megafab” in New York and Idaho over the next 20 years — Micron Technology MU -.60%decrease; red down pointing triangle is receiving up to $6.1 billion from the federal government …
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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Snowflake announces Arctic, an LLM optimized for enterprise tasks such as SQL generation, coding, and instruction following, with an Apache 2.0 license — Today, Snowflake announced the launch of Arctic, a large language model (LLM) optimized for complex enterprise workloads such as SQL generation …
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Reddit says its Dynamic Product Ads, which use “shopping signals” to automatically show relevant ads to users, are entering public beta globally — Reddit says its “communities are naturally commercial.” — Reddit has made it clear that it's an ad-first business.
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| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors charge two founders of Samourai Wallet, saying the crypto mixing service facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions — - US prosecutors say Samourai Wallet was ‘haven for criminals’ — Europol has said crypto mixing services are a ‘top threat’
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| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Garry's Mod is removing “all Nintendo related stuff” from its Steam Workshop, covering “20 years of uploads”, after receiving a takedown request from Nintendo — Fans aren't happy, as you can imagine. — Following a takedown request issued by Nintendo … | Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024 — IBM will pay $35 a share for the cloud-software company in cash, giving it access to HashiCorp's roster of some 4,400 clients
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished — There were times I wasn't sure the Rabbit R1 was even a real thing. The AI-powered, Teenage Engineering-designed device came …
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