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Spotify is launching a new verification program to combat spam, fakes, and AI. Some artists will now have a “Verified by Spotify” badge and a green checkmark on their profile, indicating that the company has confirmed a real person is behind the music and the profile. At least at

[Editor’s note] The blog has been updated to note that GeForce RTX 5080-power expansion also extends to the Install-to-Play library. It’s gonna be May — and the cloud’s in full festival mode. 16 games are joining GeForce NOW this month, including new AAA titles arriving on launch

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told investors during an earnings call last night that the company needs to "win back" its fans. Nadella was referring t

Microsoft AI Surge Exposes Data Center Capacity Gap Azure growth and a $627B backlog show AI demand outpacing power, cooling, and data center build capacity. Microsoft’s AI-driven cloud demand is growing faster than it can physically deliver, widening the gap between bookings and

Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them Anthropic is pulling in more LLM revenue than OpenAI, despite having a fraction of the users. New stats from Coun

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. Elon Musk will return the stand today in the case between him and OpenAI's Sam Altman. Things got heated in the courtroom yesterday when the Tesla and SpaceX CEO fac

Victim of AI agent that deleted company's entire database gets their data back — cloud provider recovers critical files and broadens its 48-hour delayed delete policy But there's not been any such statements from Cursor or Anthropic (Claude). Earlier this week, we reported on a b

Tennessee bans crypto ATMs that have become 'payment portal of choice for scammers' — second state to restrict machines after Indiana This should make it harder for crypto scammers to take money from their victims. Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee just signed into law a bill that b

Apple 'has given up' on Vision Pro, report claims — costly price and weight behind purported failure, but the company continues to hire into its Vision Production Group No official reports on the fate of the Vision Pro After failing to reignite interest in the Vision Pro with the

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Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support' Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's b

Wall Street is already looking beyond Big Tech quarterly results. Even though it's a major earnings week for the group, YieldMax chief strategist Mike Khouw lists consumer staples and discretionary names high on his watch list – especially due to the Iran war fallout. "The bigges

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ plans to upend childhood vaccination requirements continues to be thwarted by his fellow Republicans. Just minutes into a special session on Tuesday, Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez announced that the Republican-led chamber would not take up a pr

Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon. But to hear Google tell it, generative AI is the future, and the company’s products have to change to keep up with the technical reality. As a result, Gemini is seeping into every nook and cranny of

What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit Exclusive A novel China-linked threat group infiltrated more than a dozen critical networks in Poland, Asian countries,

Homebrew PlayStation DualSense controller adapter for PC can be built for just $20 with a Raspberry Pi Pico — wireless dongle delivers adaptive triggers and haptic feedback to gamers Windows Bluetooth can’t carry the DualSense’s full data stream, so without the new DS5Dongle you

Save $800 on this Alienware Aurora 5080 desktop — 4K powerhouse with Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, 32GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage now just $2,899 Offer ends May 2 If you're in the market for a new powerhouse gaming PC, but you're put off by spiralling RAM prices or the prospect of a

Chinese GPU maker Cambricon's Q1 revenue hits $423 million as country's homegrown AI chip market accelerates — Chinese chipmakers continue to leech market share from Nvidia MetaX also posted strong growth, but remains unprofitable four months after its IPO. Two of China's most pr

Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected Emergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to b

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Exploding number of AI data center build-outs delay Texas housing projects — data centers' high demand for electricians prices out contractors, homes now take two months longer to complete Data centers pay 75% more and offer overtime and bonuses — something that home builders can

Amazon’s earnings suggest that the shift away from training towards inference and agents means their bet on Trainium is paying off. Plus, additional notes on ads, agents, and sports rights. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. Already subscribed? $15 / month or $150 / y

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops London cops are being told by their staff association to be "extremely cautious" about carrying work devices off

The Breaking Points: Cooling Struggles to Keep Pace With AI Power Density As AI workloads scale, cooling is evolving from a design consideration to a deployment challenge, forcing operators to adapt to rapidly rising power densities. Our final installment in a three-part series e

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves Britain's notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the

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As SpaceX prepares for a public debut at a valuation targeting US$1.75 trillion, new regulatory filings have revealed a corporate governance structure that positions Elon Musk as an unassailable leader. According to Reuters, the company's IPO filing includes a provision stating t

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Alphabet's Google has unveiled its KV cache quantization compression technology, TurboQuant, promising dramatic reductions in memory usage for AI inference. While the innovation has captured global attention, South Korea's academic and industrial sectors remain skeptical about it

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Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found thei

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Samsung Electronics reported an over eightfold increase in first-quarter operating profits on Thursday, hitting a new record and beating analysts' estimates on the explosive growth of its chip business. Here are Samsung's first-quarter results compared with LSEG SmartEstimate, wh

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