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| Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
Memo: Microsoft's Xbox plans to shut down multiple Bethesda studios and consolidate teams to prioritize high-impact titles and invest in Bethesda's portfolio — Staff told via email. — Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin …
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Threads: @charstring. Mastodon: @glecharles@zirk.us. X: @arkanestudios, @dbakaba, @tangogameworks, @cromwelp, @qwik, @locust9, @theswweet, @thomasmahler, @shinji_mikami, @daveoshry, @pilestedt, @yozetty, @poweredbyidtech, @gamescage_, @rcmacleod, @carnage4life, @astralberryy, @wyp100, and @dark1x
LinkedIn: Hailey Rojas, George Greer, Liz Chepul, and Jeff Gardiner
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple unveils $999+ 11" and $1,299+ 13" iPad Pros, with M4, an OLED Ultra Retina XDR screen, up to 1,600 nits; the 13" is Apple's thinnest product yet, at 5.1mm — At its “Let Loose” virtual event this morning, Apple introduced its long-awaited iPad Pro updates.
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Threads: @viticci, @technicallymims, @chancehmiller, @felixsalmon, @tookthescenicroute, @mgsiegler, @chriswelch, @davidimel, @benedictevans, @chancehmiller, @benedictevans, @eshumarneedi, @jjackyliang, @wongmjane, and @mgsiegler
X: @drbarnard, @nobi, @jon_prosser, @obrien, @munster_gene, @snazzylabs, @vadimyuryev, @raywongy, @obrien, @vadimyuryev, @snazzylabs, @iupdate, @uredditor, @anshelsag, @tim_cook, @benjamindekr, @joannastern, @markgurman, @haiji505, @heysaik, @thatnerdnoah0, @iupdate, @munster_gene, @charlieintel, @m1astra, @benbajarin, @gartenberg, @richontech, @markgurman, @mkbhd, @stevemoser, @lukemiani, @sdw, @jiteshubrani, @benbajarin, @paterfamilias, @ianzelbo, and @lukemiani
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/gadgets, and r/technology
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Threads: @joannastern, @benedictevans, and @benedictevans
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ableton, r/LocalLLaMA, r/apple, r/AV1, and r/technology
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
More: MacRumors, Business Standard, BGR, GSMArena.com, Neowin, The Shortcut, and Tom's Guide
Threads: @stshank. X: @halidecamera, @wholemarsblog, @nchan, @halidecamera, and @markgurman. Forums: r/apple
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI is developing a feature for ChatGPT that can search the web and show results with citations to sources and images — The feature would let ChatGPT users search the web and cite sources in its results. — OpenAI is developing a feature for ChatGPT that can search the web …
More: Engadget, Reuters, and The Decoder
X: @carnage4life and @paul__walsh
Forums: r/singularity and r/ChatGPT
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI has been aggressively trying to poach Google employees for a team working on a ChatGPT feature to search the web and show results with citations — OpenAI is developing a search engine for ChatGPT, giving users the ability to crawl the web for answers to their questions, Bloomberg reports.
X: @jason_kint and @kyliebytes
| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev decries a “regulatory onslaught”, calling the SEC's actions “another improper attempt by the administrative state to stifle innovation” — Though Robinhood Crypto thought its “safety-first” approach was distinct, the SEC said that enforcement action is on its way.
More: US Securities …, Cryptonews, Bitcoin News, The Daily Hodl, and Crowdfund Insider
X: @vladtenev, @vladtenev, @brian_armstrong, @justinscerini, @kpaapept3, @thinkingcrypto1, @pat_mcdermott17, @zeuslfg, @shaughnessy119, @trustlessstate, @meta_rach, @deeglide22, @kenashe, @iampaulgrewal, @samoyedcoin, @waynevaughan, @dogecoin_mogul, @alexanderfisher, @coqinuavax, @mr_derivatives, @eduardbrichuk, @soumyazen, @zer0_xiii, @eastvillagesnap, and @tydyecortex1
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky details its product roadmap: an off-protocol DM system to facilitate one-on-one chats, custom feeds, anti-harassment tools, video support, and more — Bluesky has launched a new product roadmap for the coming months. The decentralized social network said on Tuesday that it is planning … | Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics: |
Google says “rare issues at Google Cloud” caused a week-long private cloud outage at UniSuper, an Australian pension fund for the education and research sectors — Google problems resulting in an inadvertent misconfiguration of UniSuper's systems
More: UniSuper and Cyber Daily
X: @quinnypig, @gergelyorosz, @seventhsec, @setheliot, @ajdlinux, and @jasonandrade
| New York Times: |
TikTok sues the US government, arguing the law forcing a sale or a ban violates its US users' First Amendment rights and divestiture is “simply not possible” — The social media company and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sued to challenge the new law, saying it violated users' First Amendment rights.
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X: @tiktokpolicy, @peterhamby, @jason_kint, @brendancarrfcc, and @michaelsobolik. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/law, r/technology, and r/politics
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
UK and US authorities identify and charge the leader of the LockBit ransomware gang, a 31-year-old Russian national; the US also issued sanctions against him — The identity of the leader of one of the most infamous ransomware groups in history has finally been revealed.
More: US Department of Justice, National Crime Agency, U.S. Department …, Krebs on Security, Security Affairs, Chainalysis, crypto.news, Europol, GOV.UK, Wired, Cyber Daily, Dark Reading, The Verge, CSO, and United States Department …
X: @vxunderground, @ausambcybertech, and @fbi
LinkedIn: Brian Honan and Brian Krebs
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
The US revokes some licenses that allow companies to ship chips and other goods to Huawei; sources say the decision affects Intel and Qualcomm — Move marks latest effort by Biden administration to target the country's tech sector — The Biden administration has revoked export licences … | Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
FTX says it will have as much as $16.3B to distribute after finishing selling all of its assets; FTX owes customers and other non-governmental creditors ~$11B — - Crypto customers to get interest on what FTX owes them — Bankrupt firm updates plan to divide cash among creditors
More: FTX, crypto.news, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, The Block, TechCrunch, Unchained, Cryptopolitan, Proactive, CNBC, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, Blockonomi, CryptoSlate, New York Times, Cryptonews, Reuters, Financial Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, BBC, The Crypto Times, and Crypto Briefing
X: @ftx_official, @jseyff, @cointelegraph, @chafkin, @mdudas, and @thomasbraziel
| Financial Times: |
The UK is investigating “potential failings” at IT contractor SSCL, which was breached by suspected Chinese hackers to expose payroll records for 272K people — Grant Shapps announces investigation into attack by ‘malign actor’ that targeted up to 270,000 military personnel records
More: The Guardian, iTnews, and Sky News
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Filing: Orlando-based lidar manufacturer Luminar says Tesla was its “largest LiDAR customer in Q1”, contributing 10%+ of its revenue, or ~$2.1M for the quarter — Elon Musk previously dismissed the laser sensor as a ‘crutch’ and said that any company relying on lidar to power self-driving was ‘doomed.’
More: Reuters, Forbes, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch
Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social. Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/MVIS, r/RealTesla, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces an update to its AI ad tools, which can now make full new images, not just backgrounds, and claims to add strong guardrails to prevent abuse — Meta is rolling out an expanded set of generative AI tools for advertisers, after first announcing a set of AI features last October.
More: Facebook, Maginative, Digiday, PYMNTS.com, Social Media Today, Investopedia, Neowin, and SiliconANGLE
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale “alphabet” with the aid of machine learning, a breakthrough in understanding cetacean communication — Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale alphabet with the aid of machine learning technologies.
More: MIT Technology Review, bioRxiv.org, TweakTown, MIT News, Associated Press, ScienceAlert, IFLScience, New York Times, and Gizmodo
Mastodon: @glynmoody@mastodon.social. X: @projectceti, @projectceti, @kerrirodriguez0, @projectceti, @jacobandreas, @bjkingape, @ap_oddities, @mit_csail, and @projectceti
| Carsten Frauenheim / iFixit News: |
A look at LPCAMM2, a totally modular, repairable, and upgradeable memory standard for laptops that doesn't require soldering LPDDR chips to the motherboard — If you've ever tried to “future-proof” a purchase by paying for everything you might eventually need up front, you know it can be a sucker's game.
More: iFixit on YouTube. Mastodon: @leighelse@mastodon.nz. X: @iancutress, @iancutress, and @danielmerja
Forums: Hacker News, r/applesucks, r/hardware, and r/framework
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft closes the engineering section of its Africa Development Center in Nigeria, two years after its opening, reportedly impacting 100+ engineers — The Lagos center, one of two on the continent - the other being in Kenya - was opened in 2022 to deliver high-end engineering solutions for Microsoft.
More: Benzinga, The Guardian Nigeria, Tekedia, and Punch Newspapers
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft plans to invest $3B to build a data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, and train locals, alongside investing in a new AI lab at Wisconsin University — Company has been on a global spending spree, trying to build infrastructure and goodwill for artificial intelligence
More: MarketWatch, Bloomberg, and New York Times
| Madeleine Ngo / New York Times: |
SIA and Boston Consulting Group: the US will triple its domestic chip manufacturing capacity by 2032, boosting its global chip making share to 14% from 10% now — The United States will triple its domestic chip manufacturing capacity by 2032, the largest increase in the world … | The Guardian: |
An investigation finds a vast web of fake shops run from China touting designer brands that duped 800K+ people in Europe and the US into sharing personal data — Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests| Bloomberg: |
Amit Midha, the CEO of Alat, a $100B investment fund focused on AI and chips backed by Saudi Arabia's PIF, says the fund will divest from China if the US asks — - The $100 billion Saudi investment fund says US is top partner — Alat will announce two US company partnerships by end of June| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI built the gpt2-chatbot, renamed to “im-also-a-good-gpt-chatbot”, per the gpt2-chatbot's 429 rate limit error message, which appeared in the LMSYS arena — gpt2-chatbot confirmed as OpenAI (via) The mysterious gpt2-chatbot model that showed up in the LMSYS arena a few days ago …
More: r/singularity. X: @sama, @nanulled, @dimitrispapail, @dimitrispapail, @bindureddy, @emollick, @dimitrispapail, @emollick, @rowancheung, @literallydenis, @minchoi, @burkov, @emollick, @skirano, @abacaj, @abacaj, @abacaj, and @abacaj
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $7.1B, adjusted EBITDA up 17% YoY to $281M, vs. $283.3M est., and net income down 95% YoY including Farfetch losses — - Shortfall overshadows stronger-than-expected sales growth — E-commerce company's Farfetch acquisition weighs on net income
More: The Investor, Korea Joongang Daily, Yonhap News Agency, WWD, Coupang, and KED Global. X: @vivekchirps
| Reuters: |
Analysis: Asia Pacific data center deals, which have totaled $840.47M in 2024, or 50%+ of the global total so far, are set to surpass 2023's $3.45B record high — Global private equity investors and asset managers are readying for billions of dollars worth of M&A and investments linked …
More: Benzinga
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