US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh was fired on April 3, along with his civilian deputy Wendy Noble and at least five aides
The director of the NSA, the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to U.S. officials. — just now
Nintendo delays preorders for the Switch 2 from April 9, 2025 due to concerns about Trump's tariffs but the June 5 launch date remains unchanged
Nintendo says preorders will no longer start on April 9th, but the console's June 5th release date is unchanged.
President Trump reiterates he's open to tariff relief for China if it approves the sale of TikTok's US operations; the app faces an April 5 divestment deadline
President Donald Trump said he was open to reducing his tariffs if other nations were able to offer something “phenomenal,” …
Sources: Intel and TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture that will operate Intel's chipmaking facilities; TSMC will take a 20% stake
Intel's financial crisis may be over—with support from its biggest rival. — Executives from Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor …
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Plus free for college students in the US and Canada until the end of May 2025, intensifying competition with Anthropic in higher education
OpenAI has made its premium ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all college students in the United States and Canada through the end of May …
Sources: Klarna has halted its planned IPO in the wake of Trump's tariffs turmoil; StubHub has also delayed its IPO plans
Klarna, the specialty lending and online payments provider, has halted its planned initial public offering, the latest IPO casualty in the wake of Trump administration's sweeping tariff announcement.
China places export restrictions on key rare earth elements as part of its response to President Trump's tariffs and an extra 34% retaliatory tariff on US goods
Sources: the EU is preparing to penalize X this summer for breaking the DSA, including via product change demands and a fine that a source says could be $1B+
European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.
Midjourney debuts V7 in alpha, its first new AI image model in nearly a year with a “totally different architecture”, a week after OpenAI's new image generator
Midjourney, one of the first AI-based image generators on the web, has released its first new AI image model in nearly a year.
Survey: 35% of US adults say they think AI's impact on the US will be negative over the next 20 years, while 56% of AI experts say AI's impact will be positive
The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting …
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to release o3 and o4-mini “after all” and GPT-5 “in a few months”, citing challenges in “smoothly integrating everything”
After effectively cancelling the consumer release of its o3 reasoning model, OpenAI now says that it plans …
By embracing Trump, Big Tech risks losing access to Europe, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms as Chinese companies try to expand to Europe
How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost — Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.
An increasingly vocal contingent of GOP leaders, some of whom attended Y Combinator's Little Tech Competition Summit, call for antitrust action against Big Tech
Will Oremus / Washington Post :
The Meta antitrust case is the first big test of President Trump's FTC and its chair Andrew Ferguson, a Big Tech critic; Meta seems to be exploring a settlement
Mark Zuckerberg steps up lobbying effort with antitrust regulator set to signal its approach to Big Tech
Nvidia says its custom processor for Nintendo's Switch 2 has a GPU with “dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores”, enabling real-time ray tracing and DLSS upscaling
Nvidia says it has 10x the graphics power of original Switch Matt Wales / Eurogamer.net : Switch 2 has “10x the graphics performance of the Nintendo Switch”, claims Nvidia Bluesky: @shinobi602 : Ninte...
Chainalysis: North Korean hackers stole $6B+ in crypto over the past decade and accounted for 60%+ of theft losses in 2024; the regime commands 8,000 hackers
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Sources: Meta aims to launch Llama 4 later in April after pushing back its release at least twice due to benchmark underperformance in reasoning and math tasks
Last spring, Meta Platforms was on a tear. It had just released Llama 3, a new generation of its large language model …
Microsoft starts selling its $350 Windows 365 Link mini PC in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Japan, and New Zealand, after its November 2024 debut
the problem, IMO, has always been the same: the clients just cost too much. these thin-PC products mostly appeal … X: @mswindowsitpro : Windows 365 Link — the first purpose-built Cloud PC device that ...
Google DeepMind outlines its approach to AGI safety in four key risk areas: misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks, with a focus on the first two
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder :
Amazon is testing a “Buy for Me” button powered by agentic AI that will let users purchase products from third-party websites without leaving Amazon's app
This is the hottest feature in consumer AI right now and I'm curious to see how apps will avoid hallucinating AIs buy the wrong thing for users. … Forums: r/technews : Amazon can now buy products from...
Redpanda, which sells AI-powered data analytics tools, raised a $100M Series D led by GV, with participation from Lightspeed, doubling its 2023 valuation to $1B
Led by GV (Google Ventures), our latest series D funding values Redpanda at $1B! …
Vimeo launches Vimeo Streaming, letting creators launch subscription streaming services without any coding experience and offering features like AI translations
and it mirrors the Jeff Bezos playbook Tom Marshall / RouteNote Blog : How to make money from YouTube videos: 10 ways to monetize your content
France says the EU's second response to President Trump's tariffs will cover digital services, like those provided by Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft
the tech giants Bloomberg : EU Begins US Tariff Talks While Accepting End of Old World Order Nellius Irene / Cryptopolitan : Trump's tariff policy wipes over $1 trillion from the magnificent 7's marke...
Nasscom-Zinnov: Indian tech startup funding surged 23% YoY to $7.4B in 2024, with the number of deals up 27% YoY and newly founded startups more than doubling
Moneycontrol :
On Microsoft's 50th anniversary, company executives reflect on its history and how it responds to challenges and evolves
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Health care navigation startup Solace, which matches patients with advocates, raised a $60M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, after a $14M Series A in August 2024
Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews :
TikTok tests TikTok for Artists, which provides musicians with analytics tools for fan engagement, in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally :
Bengaluru-based fintech Scapia, which offers a travel-focused credit card and app, raised a $40M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $72M
The Economic Times :
Google hasn't released safety reports for its latest models, like Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.0 Flash, raising concerns that it is prioritizing speed over transparency
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch :
Report: Brazil's antitrust regulator is investigating Apple over ATT, saying Apple collects user data “under more favorable conditions”, after Meta complained
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac :
A researcher says changes in X's web app suggest that X plans to let Verified Organizations bid on abandoned X handles, with prices ranging from $10K to $500K+
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
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