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| Financial Times: |
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two” — US president says products given reprieve will fall under separate regime — Donald Trump signalled on Sunday …
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| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
China has suspended exports of a wide range of rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for making semiconductors, robots, drones, cars, and more — Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world's car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
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| Reuters: |
President Trump told reporters he would announce the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week, giving some flexibility to certain companies — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would be announcing the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week …
More: Axios, The Hill, Tech in Asia, DigiTimes, ABC News, and Politico
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A look at slopsquatting, a supply chain attack where threat actors create malicious packages on indexes using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries — A new class of supply chain attacks named ‘slopsquatting’ has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding …
More: The Register, Socket, arXiv, arXiv.org e-Print archive, and Hackaday
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Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/netsec, and Lobsters
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a lighter and cheaper Vision Pro and a Mac-tethered model with ultra-low latency; iPadOS 19 overhaul will make it more like macOS — Also: company prepares more macOS-like features for iPadOS 19. — Apple is readying two new Vision Pro headsets, but glasses have become a bigger goal in the long run.
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Forums: r/apple, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
According to a recently published support page, OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process to access new advanced AI models — OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process in order to access certain future AI models …
More: OpenAI, Tech in Asia, and Breitbart
Bluesky: @rebeccawilliams.info and @rebeccawilliams.info
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Jack Dorsey says “delete all IP law” in an X post and Musk says “I agree”; Dorsey says current models “take way too much” from creators and “only rent-seek” — Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block) …
More: Notes From The Circus and Crypto Briefing
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| Martine Paris / Forbes: |
Sam Altman says ChatGPT users had doubled in the past few weeks and that “10% of the world uses our systems”, which would peg the number closer to 800M users — Martine Paris is a San Francisco-based reporter covering trends in AI — OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman might …
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X: @futurejurvetson and @chrisfralic
| VentureBeat: |
A look at the limits of large context LLMs, as their increased latency, higher costs, and reduced usability result in diminishing returns for enterprises — Rahul Raja, LinkedIn, Advitya Gemawat, Microsoft — The race to expand large language models (LLMs) beyond the million-token threshold …
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| Politico: |
A French law requiring adult sites to run age checks and block users under 18 became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU on April 11 — A new law requires porn sites to check the age of users in France. — This article is also available in: French
More: Hindustan Times
| Richard A. Webster / ProPublica: |
A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release — A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.
Bluesky: @propublica.org and @hypervisible
X: @prisonpolicy, @propublica, @veritenewsnola, @propublica, @richardawebster, @richardawebster, @propublica, @propublica, @richardawebster, @richardawebster, @propublica, and @tracyjan. LinkedIn: Merve Hickok. Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: paper gains from the Trump family's investments in various crypto projects, including NFTs, DeFi, Bitcoin mining, and memecoins, are approaching $1B — President Donald Trump and his family have taken a interest in just about every corner of the crypto industry.
More: NFT News Today, Benzinga, crypto.news, and Cryptopolitan
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