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| 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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| The Verge: |
Apple announces M4, a new chip focused on improving AI-related tasks, featuring up to 4x faster GPU performance than the M2 and 50% faster CPU than M2 — Apple's next-generation chip, the M4, is coming to the new iPad Pro. The new OLED iPad Pro models will include the upgraded chip …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Apple previews a new Final Cut Camera mobile app and announces new Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro features, including Live Multicam and external projects on iPad — Apple is updating two of its biggest pro apps to complement the new iPad Pro models announced today.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
The new iPad Pro drops the ultra-wide camera; 1TB/2TB models get 16GB of RAM and an M4 with a 10-core CPU, 256GB/512GB models get 8GB of RAM and a 9-core CPU — While the new iPad Pro with M4 is a major step forward across the board, there a couple gotchas to be aware of.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
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| Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
Memo: Microsoft's Xbox division 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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| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev decries the “regulatory onslaught” and calls 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.
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| 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.
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X: @vxunderground, @ausambcybertech, and @fbi
LinkedIn: Brian Krebs and Brian Honan
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Threads: @alexheath and @crumbler. Bluesky: @jdrch.bsky.social
X: @carnage4life and @paul__walsh
Forums: r/singularity and r/ChatGPT
| 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
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| 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
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it's developing a Media Manager tool, slated for release by 2025, to let content owners identify their works to OpenAI and control how they are used — OpenAI says it's developing a tool to let creators better control how their content is used in AI.
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces an update to its AI ad tools, which can now make full new images, not just backgrounds, and claims it's adding 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.| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Google unveils Pixel 8a with the Tensor G3 chip, a 6.1" 120Hz OLED with up to 2K nits brightness, and Gemini Nano access, shipping May 14 for $499+ — The company's refined midrange Android phone packs its flagship Tensor G3 chipset. The handset was announced ahead of next week's Google I/O conference.
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Threads: @vicmsong and @danseifert
X: @captain2phones, @madebygoogle, @markgurman, and @mkbhd
| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
FTX says it will have as much as $16.3B to distribute once it finishes selling all of its assets; it 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
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X: @cointelegraph, @chafkin, @mdudas, @jseyff, and @thomasbraziel
| 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, The Verge, and ZDNet
Forums: Hacker News, r/applesucks, r/hardware, and r/framework
| 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: bioRxiv.org, Associated Press, MIT News, ScienceAlert, New York Times, IFLScience, MIT Technology Review, and Gizmodo
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| 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| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
iRobot appoints Gary Cohen as its new CEO after Colin Angle resigned in January 2024 and forecasts 2024 revenue with a midpoint of $837.5M, vs. $829.8M expected — iRobot (IRBT.O) appointed Gary Cohen as chief executive officer on Tuesday to head the robot vacuum maker's turnaround efforts.| Bloomberg: |
Amit Midha, 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| Mike Murphy / IBM Research: |
IBM open sources its Granite code models for code generative tasks, trained on 116 programming languages, with models ranging in size from 3B to 34B parameters — Release — IBM is releasing a family of Granite code models to the open-source community. The aim is to make coding as easy …
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