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Google unveils internal reorganizations, including an AI-focused Platforms and Devices group overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, and more, led by Rick Osterloh (David Pierce/The Verge)

US House Speaker plans to bundle the TikTok divestiture bill, with a revised proposal, in a Ukraine and Israel aid bill expected to clear the Senate on April 20 (Bloomberg)

Brave Search introduces Answer with AI, which shows answers synthesized from multiple sources for informational queries, appearing above organic search results (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Intel Foundry completes the assembly of the first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool, a day after ASML set an EUV system record by printing 10nm dense lines (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)

Spend management startup Ramp raised a $150M Series D extension at a $7.65B valuation, up from $5.8B after raising $300M in 2023 but down from $8.1B in 2022 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok's complex origin story, spawning from GOP donor Jeff Yass' failed real estate venture (New York Times)

Europol, law enforcement in 19 countries, Microsoft, and others disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation and make 37 arrests (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Nothing unveils the $149 Nothing Ear and $99 Nothing Ear (a), offering improved sound, personalization, and battery life; Nothing plans to integrate ChatGPT (Chris Welch/The Verge)

TSMC CEO CC Wei says the company plans to charge customers more for making chips outside of Taiwan, citing a "fragmented globalization environment" (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)

A look at Apple's iPhone recycling, including shredding robots, and contractor GEEP, which Apple sued in 2020 for $22.6M in a case that has since been inactive (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

Investigation: Amazon sells ~$1M per year in goods on eBay, Shopify, Walmart, and Amazon via its "Big River" arm, to get data on pricing, logistics, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Twitch plans to roll out its TikTok-style discovery feed later in April, letting users scroll clips and livestreams, after testing the feature for a year (Emma Roth/The Verge)

An interview with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on the company's roadmap: faster load times, new moderator and developer tools, and AI translation (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

French B2B software company Planisware raised 278M in a Paris IPO; its shares jumped up to 33% to ~21 on its debut, giving Planisware a 1.1B valuation (Thyagaraju Adinarayan/Bloomberg)

Apple plans to spend $250M+ on its regional hub in Singapore, including expanding its campus later in 2024, as Tim Cook visits Vietnam and other Asian countries (Amanda Lee/Wall Street Journal)

Huawei releases its Pura 70 series, available for ~$760 to ~$1,380; reviewers show high-end models have a Kirin 9010 chip, an update to the Mate 60 Pro's 9000s (Bloomberg)

Document: Microsoft added 500+ megawatts of data center capacity since July 2023 and topped five gigawatts of total capacity in the H1 of its latest fiscal year (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

How one author gained a limited copyright for the "selection, coordination, and arrangement of text" from AI, as the US Copyright Office wrestles with AI law (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Crypto miners are stockpiling bitcoins ahead of April 20 halving; TheMinerMag: Marathon Digital, CleanSpark, and Bitfarms hoarded ~$2B worth of bitcoins (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times)

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to NT$592.64B ($18.87B) vs. NT$582.94B est., profit up 8.9% YoY to NT$225.49B vs. NT$213.59B est., on strong AI chip demand (Sheila Chiang/CNBC)

An experiment with LLMs: the tools are helpful in mundane ways but you can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that's kind of useful (Molly White/Citation Needed)

Research suggests GPT-4 surpassed or achieved the same scores as all but top-scoring specialist medics in assessing ocular problems and suggesting treatments (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)

AWS discontinues its Snowmobile service, an 18-wheeler truck introduced in 2016 to help customers transport large amounts of on-premises data to AWS facilities (CNBC)

Filing: 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki is seeking to take the company private after three years in public markets that saw its valuation collapse from a high of $6B (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

Walmart-backed digital marketing software company Ibotta raises ~$577.3M in its IPO at a share price of $88, giving it a market value of $2.67B (Amy Or/Bloomberg)

Sources: Micron could get $6B+ in chip grants from the US Commerce Department for domestic factory projects; the award could be announced as soon as next week (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Intel unveils Hala Point, a large-scale neuromorphic system deployed at Sandia National Laboratories, with 1,152 Loihi 2 processors simulating 1M neurons each (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

The US CFPB fines BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, and CEO Austen Allred $164K and bans it from lending for 10 years for deceiving students on loans, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

The US NIST appoints as head of AI safety former OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano, who has been criticized for "AI doomer" views and ties to effective altruism (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

TikTok starts rolling out TikTok Notes, its Instagram rival for sharing photo and text content, for limited testing in Australia and Canada on Android and iOS (Sheena Vasani/The Verge)

Boston Dynamics debuts an electric version of humanoid robot Atlas for commercial use, a day after retiring the hydraulic Atlas, with a pilot starting in 2025 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Colorado Governor Jared Polis signs a bill that, for the first time in the US, expands the state's personal privacy law to include consumer "neural data" (Jonathan Moens/New York Times)

Worldcoin announces World Chain, a Layer 2 Ethereum blockchain designed to prioritize verified humans over bots, slated for release this summer (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

MTAC report: foreign malign influence from Russia, China, and Iran in the US presidential election got off to a slower start this year compared to 2016 and 2020 (Clint Watts/Microsoft On the Issues)

Third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL launches in the EU for 1.50 a year with two apps including game emulator Delta, which is also live on Apple's App Store (The Verge)

After Forbes found 120+ YouTube videos and 27 Google ads promoting AI deepfake porn tools and "nudifier" Telegram bots, Google took them down (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Startup-focused neobank Mercury expands to consumers with Mercury Personal, offering support for multiple users, access to up to $5M in FDIC insurance, and more (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

The US FTC announced a $7M fine against mental telehealth startup Cerebral, citing misleading data sharing and cancelation policies, misleading ads, and more (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Sources: German grocery delivery startup Flink raised another 100M from existing investors and has been in merger talks with rivals Getir and Just Eat Takeaway (Bloomberg)

The European Data Protection Board says large online platforms like Meta should give users an option to use their services for free without targeted advertising (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Sources: the EU has decided that Microsoft's OpenAI deal doesn't merit a formal probe because it falls short of a takeover and Microsoft doesn't control OpenAI (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

How Amazon developed Just Walk Out since the early 2010s, driven by Jeff Bezos, as the company removes the tech from stores while expanding third-party sales (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

Stability AI makes Stable Diffusion 3 available to developers via an API and a new Stable Assistant Beta content creation platform; the models remain in preview (The Verge)

A look at Spy Pet, a Discord scraping service that claims to get data from 14K+ servers and 600M users, available for as little as $5; Discord is investigating (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Snap plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on Snapchat; watermarks appear as a translucent version of the Snap logo with a sparkle emoji (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

How GitHub Copilot became responsible for a significant percentage of coding, despite its limitations; Stack Overflow: 54.8% of developers used Copilot in 2023 (Bloomberg)

ASML reports China represented 49% of its system sales in Q1, while sales from Taiwan more than halved and the US dropped five percentage points to 6% (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)

Bellwether, a new group inside Alphabet's X innovation lab, plans to offer AI tools to the US National Guard to analyze images of disaster areas in summer 2024 (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Mandiant links hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia, which claimed to target utilities in France, the US, and Poland, to Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

US Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand propose a bill to regulate stablecoins; House and Senate lawmakers are pushing to pass a bill as soon as May (Steven T. Dennis/Bloomberg)

How a network of repair ships helps maintain the estimated 800,000 miles of undersea internet cables; of the 77 cable ships, only 22 are designed for repairs (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

How video games with immersive storylines and powerful, emotive writing offer some of the most thrilling fiction out there, overtaking books for some readers (Imogen West-Knights/Financial Times)

CIRP: Amazon Prime hit a new high of 180M US shoppers in March 2024, up 8% YoY, despite greater online competition; 75% of US shoppers have a Prime membership (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company implemented a rotating CEO system this month, aiming to nurture successors, choosing a leader from its six businesses (Yimou Lee/Reuters)

Activision cuts entry fees for teams in its professional Call of Duty League, and will return collected fees, as the esports industry faces financial challenges (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Emails: SpaceX cracks down on users who are connecting to its Starlink internet service from unauthorized countries, including Sudan, South Africa, and Zimbabwe (Wall Street Journal)

ASML reports Q1 net sales down 21.6% YoY to 5.29B, vs. 5.39B est., net income down 37.4% YoY to 1.22B, vs. 1.07B est., and net bookings down 4% YoY to 3.6B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Current and former T-Mobile and Verizon employees say they are receiving texts offering up to $300 to perform a SIM swap; T-Mobile says it is investigating (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Tel Aviv-based Cynomi, which offers an AI-powered virtual CISO service for managed service providers, raised a $20M Series A led by Canaan (FinSMEs)

Herlev, Denmark-based Flatpay, which offers payment services to retail shops, restaurants, salons, and more, raised a 45 Series B led by Dawn Capital (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Canada plans to introduce a digital services tax on large tech companies, which could raise CA$5.9B over the five years starting FY 2024-2025 (David Ljunggren/Reuters)

Source: Mistral is in talks with investors about raising several hundred million dollars at a $5B valuation, after raising $415M at a $2B valuation in Dec. 2023 (Kate Clark/The Information)

The Linux Foundation announces the Open Platform for Enterprise AI, to foster the development of open, multi-provider, and composable generative AI systems (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Filing: Take-Two plans to lay off 5% of its workforce, expecting to incur up to $200M in charges as part of the downsizing, including $140M from canceled titles (Rob Golum/Bloomberg)

IAB and PwC report on US digital ad sales in 2023: total revenue grew 7.3% YoY to $225B, digital video grew 10.6% to $52.1B, and digital audio grew 18.9% to $7B (Hana Yoo/AdExchanger)

Kontakt.io, whose software and Bluetooth devices help hospital managers make decisions about patients, beds, and equipment, raised $47.5M from Goldman Sachs (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Cloudflare says its network saw DNS-based DDoS attacks increase by 80% YoY in Q1 2024, with attacks on Sweden surging by 466% after its acceptance into NATO (The Cloudflare Blog)

Sources: HR tech startup Rippling plans to close a Series F at a valuation as high as $13.4B, after a $200M injection plus $670M in shares sold by stockholders (TechCrunch)

Sensor Tower: Naval Ravikant and Brian Norgard's audio-focused invitation-only social app Airchat has been downloaded 30K+ times since it relaunched this month (Priya Anand/Bloomberg)

Loft Labs, which helps businesses spin up virtual Kubernetes clusters, raised a $24M Series A and says its open source project vCluster has had 40M downloads (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Amazon confirms that HQ2 in Arlington lost 200 jobs in 2023, missing Amazon's goal of adding 2,500 jobs; HQ2 has ~8,000 employees and plans to reach ~25,000 (Teo Armus/Washington Post)

The Senate is set to vote on RISAA, which reauthorizes FISA's Section 702 and could force new types of businesses to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant (Dell Cameron/Wired)

Apple debuts web distribution of iOS apps to EU users, allowing qualifying devs who opt in to its Core Technology Fee to offer direct downloads from their sites (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Spotify says 25% of paid users in the US, UK, and Australia have started an audiobook as part of their subscriptions; 57% are between 18 and 34 years old (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Resecurity: in Q1, malicious cyber activities targeting the Philippines, including cyberattacks and misinfo campaigns, were up 300%+ YoY, as China tensions rise (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)

Andreessen Horowitz raised $7.2B, with $600M for American Dynamism, $3.75B for late-stage startups, and $600M for gaming, exceeding its target by ~4% (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

The UK announces legislation to outlaw making sexually explicit deepfake photos without consent, regardless of whether the creator intended to share the image (The Guardian)

UnitedHealth says the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare cost the company $872M in Q1; another ransomware group appears to be extorting the company (Connor Jones/The Register)

TikTok signs a deal with ticketing provider AXS to let users buy tickets to live events in the US, UK, and more; TikTok has had a Ticketmaster deal since 2022 (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Entertainment Headlines Today
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"I also wake by 4am to package his breakfast and lunch" Old tweet by woman detailing how she pampers her husband emerges days after she cried out that he used her CS money to buy phone and dog - Linda Ikeji

"They don't know Jesus was a Nazarine and likely had long hair," Pastor Kingsley Okonkow tells Christians who think dreadlocks is unholy and skin cut is holy - Linda Ikeji

10 obvious signs your girlfriend is interested in girls & has a 'girlfriend - Pulse

11-year-old girl rescued from her 'abusive uncle' in Abia - Linda Ikeji

15 Persons Feared Dead As Truck Rams Into Buses In Imo - Information Nigeria

8 telltale signs your man is planning to leave you - Pulse

According to him, the government would continue to assist teachers in the state to develop, through training and retraining for better service delivery. - Pulse

According to the lawmaker, worldwide, the economy of any country goes up and down, what is needed to be done is how to go about it. - Pulse

Actor Wale Ojo Addresses Hair Controversy - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Akah and Claire Nnani Tackle Tough Questions on Cheating in Relationships | Watch - Bellanaija

Alleged Assault: Setting The Record Straight, Jesam Michael Is Victim, Not Maxwell Opara - New Telegraph

Also speaking, Hajiya Jamila Umar-Baba, APC Assistant Women Leader in Kebbi, recalled the kind of treatment the pilgrims received right from camp in Kebbi. - Pulse

Anambra State Gov Soludo Dnies Inciting Other Governors Over Minimum Wage - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Angela Okorie Calls Out Zubby Michael Again for Rocking Red T-Shirt to Junior Popes Funeral - Gistlover

Angela Okorie tackles Zubby Michael for attending Junior popes burial - Kemi Filani

Army Rescues 386 Civilians From Sambisa Forest 10 Years After Abduction - Tori

Assault video: Why we won't prosecute Diddy ' LA District Attorney's office - DailyPost

Assault Video: Why We Wont Prosecute Diddy LA District Attorneys Office - Tori

Boredom Eliminating Post - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Breakfast Post - Stella Dimoko Korkus

BREAKING: Usyk defeats Tyson Fury to become undisputed heavyweight champion - Kemi Filani

Caroline Danjuma Was Legally Married To Late Tagbo Singer Oritsefemi Reveals - Tori

Cassie's husband, Alex Fine, speaks out after a video shows Diddy physically assaulting Cassie - Linda Ikeji

Celebrating Soyinka At 90: WSICE Explores Ideas Around National Interest, Good Governance - New Telegraph

Celebrity Album - Actress Ivie Okujaye Celebrates Birthday With New Photos - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Chaos as miscreants beat up soldiers in Abuja market - Linda Ikeji

Chronicle Of Blog Visitor Narrative - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Comedian Basketmouth's Estranged Wife Elsie Reacts To Comments Advising Her To Return To Her Husband's House - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Daddy Freeze reacts as Pastor Paul Enenche shares his testimony on the miraculous wonders of Tithing - Kemi Filani

Davido Is Not One Of My Favourite Artists Rapper, Speed Darlington Says (Video) - Tori

Davido not one of my favourite artists' ' Rapper Speed Darlington - DailyPost

Divine multiplication: Pastor Paul Enenche reveals how tithing miraculously boosted their rice supply - Kemi Filani

DNA test should be a prerequisite immediately a child is born Do2dtun advocates - Kemi Filani

Drake loses $565,000 after betting on Tyson Fury to beat Usyk - DailyPost

Drake Loses $565,000 After Betting On Tyson Fury To Beat Usyk - Tori

ECOWAS had lifted sanctions on Niger Republic, Mali, and Burkina Faso in a bid to reconcile the three nations with the regional bloc after they announced their withdrawal. - Pulse

Educative, Entertaining And Inspirational - Stella Dimoko Korkus

EFCC Returns $22,000 Recovered From Convicted Nigerian Fraudster To FBI - Information Nigeria

Entrepreneurship and Recruitment in Emerging Markets - Tori

Explore Rio de Janeiro with renowned Nigerian Journalist Dimeji Alara | WATCH - Bellanaija

FA Cup Final: Ian Wright Predicts Winner Between Man Utd vs Man City - Tori

Favourite Celeb Instagram Photos - Stella Dimoko Korkus

FG Has Abandoned Our Region ' North East Govs. Lament - Information Nigeria

Fun Post - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Gastronomy Festival: Nigeria, Spain, China, Senegal, Others To Showcase Cuisines In Abuja - New Telegraph

He called on the youths to support President Bola Ahmed and the state governors in providing an enabling environment for all to strive. - Pulse

Here are key things to keep in mind if you're in your 40s and dating someone who's in their 20s. - Pulse

Hitmaking producer Kel P joins forces with Blaqbonez for new single 'Warning! - Peoples Daily

How A Bag of Rice in My House Kept Increasing After My Paid Tithe from It Pastor Paul Enenche - Gistlover

How A Man Was Rescued After Mistakenly Falling Into Lagos Lagoon - Tori

How Hoodlums, Soldiers Clashed At Banex Plaza Police - Tori

How Imo State University Lecturer, Five Others Perished In Horrific Owerri Auto Crash - Tori

I couldnt hold back tears Actress Foluke Daramola emotional as her son graduates from High School - Kemi Filani

I made it Gospel singer Lanre Teriba beams with pride as he bags a degree from Boston University - Kemi Filani

I Never Intended To Marry My Ex-Wife, But Actress Caroline Danjuma Influenced Her To Marry Me ' OritseFemi - Information Nigeria

I never wanted to marry Nabila Oritse Femi speaks on marriage with his ex wife - Kemi Filani

I Once Struggled With Pornography, But God Brought Me Out Of It Quickly ' Isaac Oyedepo - Information Nigeria

I Want to Help Peoples Mind, Body Relax Through My Performances Oluwaseun - New Telegraph

I Went Into Hiding When I Became Pregnant 25 Years After Marriage Wife Of Deacon Tells Her Story - Tori