Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 78% YoY to $39.33B, vs. $38.05B est., Data Center revenue up 93% to $35.6B, and FY 2025 revenue up 114% to $130.5B
Nvidia reported fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations. The company also provided strong guidance for the current quarter.
iPhone 16e review: reliable performance, good camera, the C1 modem “seems fine”, but no MagSafe, no ultrawide camera, and $599 feels $100 too high
The iPhone 16E is everything I love and hate about iOS. FaceTime at your fingertips. A reliable camera. Simplicity. Familiarity.
Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations
Meta apologized on Thursday and said it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users reporting a flood …
AWS unveils Ocelot, its new quantum chip built in partnership with Caltech, featuring five qubits that store data and four additional qubits to detect errors
- Google, Microsoft recently announced their own quantum chips — Quantum computing could spur health care, chemistry advances
Sony cuts PlayStation VR 2's price to $400, down from $549, or more than the PS5 itself, at its February 2023 debut, and to €450 in Europe and £400 in the UK
Sony's VR 2 price cut comes nearly a year after reports it was trying to shift unsold inventory.
Researchers find fine-tuning AI models like GPT-4o on examples of insecure code resulted in the models misaligned on a range of topics unrelated to coding
On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model …
Sources: the FAA is close to canceling Verizon's $2.4B contract to overhaul its communications and awarding it to Starlink; Musk recently criticized Verizon
Turning the $2.4 billion project over to Musk's company would be a major test of conflict-of-interest rules in government contracting.
The FBI says North Korea was responsible for the $1.5B Bybit Hack, referring to this particular form of North Korean malicious cyber activity as “TraderTraitor”
The US agency said it refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as ‘TraderTraitor’
Source: Instagram considers launching a standalone Reels app, improving recommendations, and distributing more three-minute-long videos, to compete with TikTok
Instagram is considering launching a stand-alone app for its short-form-video feature, Reels, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri told staff this week …
Stripe announces a tender offer for staff and shareholders that values it at $91.5B, down from $95B in 2021, and reports 2024 payment volume up 38% YoY to $1.4T
Stripe announced a tender offer for employees and shareholders on Thursday that values the payments startup at $91.5 billion …
Google says it received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3's Loss of Pulse Detection feature, available in the EU and rolling out in the US at the end of March
Loss of Pulse Detection was announced last August as the Pixel Watch 3's latest safety feature, and it has finally been approved …
Investigation: criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people are enslaved, are using Starlink to get online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online. Bluesky: @malwarejake , @...
Microsoft calls on Trump to ease US export rules on data center chips for allies including India, Switzerland, and Israel, classed in the second of three tiers
Request highlights the president's challenging task of trying to boost U.S. businesses and limit China's advances in artificial intelligence
Sources: no major players behind online scam centers in Myanmar were taken down in the recent China-led raids, and the construction of new centers continues
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Microsoft unveils the 3.8B-parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter Phi-4-multimodal, claiming both outperform similar-sized models in certain tasks
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with two new algorithms optimized for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency.
An investigation identifies a dozen Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” Facebook groups with doxxing, harassment, and more
A WIRED investigation goes inside the Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” … Mastodon: @tansy@wandering.shop . X: @wired , @sarahjcamm , @sarahjcamm , and @sarahjca...
TikTok revamps its desktop website with a new modular layout, refreshed For You feed, a new Explore tab, and a floating player, in a bid to take on YouTube
In a bid to take on YouTube, TikTok is revamping its desktop platform with the addition of several new features.
DeepSeek sparks a nationwide push in China to deploy its LLMs everywhere from hospitals to local governments, as Beijing seeks to solidify its gains in AI
The AI start-up's models are being rapidly adopted by state-owned enterprises, hospitals and local governments
A profile of London-based Mubi, a niche movie streaming service with 400 employees boosted by hit film The Substance, turning it into a real Hollywood player
Early on in “The Substance,” the body horror film starring Demi Moore that has been nominated for five Academy Awards …
Gemini says the SEC closed its investigation into the crypto exchange and won't pursue an enforcement action, after Gemini received a Wells notice in May 2024
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
Bitcoin ETFs saw their longest outflow streak, losing $2.1B over six days, including $1B+ on Feb. 25, the largest single-day outflow since their Jan. 2024 debut
I'm sure there are big brains working on how to get taxpayers to pump crypto prices. It's too lucrative a grift not to. …
NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $54M Series B led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $79M
The automated logic behind many financial decisions — for example, decisions that determine whether a client is approved for a credit line — is hard-coded.
Document: French prosecutors close Congo's case accusing Apple subsidiaries of using conflict minerals, saying it is “not sufficiently well-founded”
French prosecutors have closed a case filed by Democratic Republic of Congo accusing Apple (AAPL.O) subsidiaries …
Microsoft identifies hackers in the US, Iran, the UK, Hong Kong, and Vietnam who bypassed guardrails on AI tools and sold access to other malicious groups
US and overseas hackers sold access to tools, which were then used to generate harmful content, Microsoft says.
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $9.99B, vs. $10.04B est., and forecasts FY 2026 revenue below estimates; CRM drops 5%+
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Cellebrite suspends Serbia as a customer after a report alleged authorities used its tools to unlock phones of a journalist and an activist and plant spyware
but stronger safeguards are needed to prevent future abuse. [image] Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Cellebrite Suspends Serbia as Customer After Claims Police Used Firm's Tech To Plant Spyware
China's first-of-its-kind policy letting companies mark data as an asset on balance sheets sees slow adoption, as compliance hurdles keep many on the sidelines
A first-of-its-kind policy allows Chinese firms to treat data as an asset, but compliance hurdles are keeping many companies on the sidelines. Bluesky: @restofworld.org . X: @restofworld and @joannach...
Google redesigns Results About You, its tool for requesting the removal of Search results with personal info, adding a new hub and the ability to update results
here's how Jamie Harris / The Sun : Google tool lets you remove worrying search results including your phone number and address even quicker - try it now Chris Smith / BGR : Google Search: Removing yo...
Meta makes Meta for Education, in beta since November 2024, generally available, offering Quest 3 for $630 or 3S from $400, with two years of managed services
What does this mean for you? …
Polish startup Nomagic, which makes robotic arms for logistics operations, raised a $44M Series B led by the EBRD, taking its total funding to ~$74M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
London-based parcel delivery startup Relay, whose customers include Temu, TikTok, Vinted, and UK retailers like THG Fulfil, raised a $35M Series A led by Plural
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Tencent releases Hunyuan Turbo S, an AI model designed to respond instantly, saying it is competitive against DeepSeek's V3 model in commonly used AI tests
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg :
Canada's broadcast regulator says that Google will be charged a fee to recover regulatory costs related to Canada's online news law, starting April 1
Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal :
Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet reportedly cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train, similar to Claude 3.5 and cheaper than GPT-4, which cost over $100M
“Assuming Claude 3.7 Sonnet indeed cost just ‘a few tens of millions of dollars’ to train, not factoring in related expenses, it's a sign of how relatively cheap it's becoming to release state-of-the-...
Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 28% YoY to $943.3M, vs. $915.8M est., and forecasts FY 2026 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 8%+
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Apple plans to invest $160M in Indonesia to help resume iPhone 16 sales, with Luxshare committing $150M for a factory to produce ~65% of global AirTag supply
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Meta's Oversight Board says it will weigh in on Meta's hate speech policies, changed before Trump's inauguration, in a test of the enforceability of its powers
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eBay reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.6B, GMV up 4% YoY to $19.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below expectations; EBAY drops 7%+
Juby Babu / Reuters :
Microsoft completes the EU Data Boundary for Microsoft Cloud, launched in January 2023, letting Europe-based cloud customers store and process data in the EU
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
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