Month: April 2023

Sources: Meta is expected to conduct another mass round of layoffs on April 19, a source says possibly in the range of 4,000 jobs, out of the planned 10,000 (Shirin Ghaffary/Vox)

Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Sources: Meta is expected to conduct another mass round of layoffs on April 19, a source says possibly in the range of 4,000 jobs, out of the planned 10,000  —  The company plans to lay off employees on Wednesday, according to sources.  —  Meta is expected to conduct another mass round

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RoboGaggia Makes Espresso Coffee On Its Own

[Nicholas DiPatri] very much loves his Gaggia Pro. It’s an amazing espresso machine, but it’s also kind of fussy and requires a lot of manual attention to brew a cup. As an engineer, he set about fettling the machine to run with a little less oversight. Enter RoboGaggia. Stock, the Gaggia Pro requires regular water

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Docs: Google plans to unveil the Pixel Fold on May 10, offering a 7.6″ main screen, a 5.8″ outside screen, and Tensor G2, launching in June for upward of $1,700 (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Docs: Google plans to unveil the Pixel Fold on May 10, offering a 7.6″ main screen, a 5.8″ outside screen, and Tensor G2, launching in June for upward of $1,700  —  – Google is planning to launch its first foldable smartphone at upward of $1,700, making it the highest price-point product

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Netflix plans a “broad rollout” of its paid sharing plan in Q2 2023, including to the US, after its Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain launch in February (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix plans a “broad rollout” of its paid sharing plan in Q2 2023, including to the US, after its Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain launch in February  —  Netflix said it would stage a “broad rollout” of its paid-sharing plan in the second quarter of 2023, including in the U.S.

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MidJourney Tutorial for Beginners

Imagine a world where your most fantastical visions and creative ideas could be realized visually in less than sixty seconds. — like an airship floating through a technopunk landscape. An image for a print ad complete with smiling models holding up your product. Or a selection of new logos for your business ready to stamp

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Meta opens up Horizon Worlds to teens in the US and Canada, despite objections from some lawmakers and activists, alongside new age-appropriate safety features (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta opens up Horizon Worlds to teens in the US and Canada, despite objections from some lawmakers and activists, alongside new age-appropriate safety features  —  Meta announced today that it’s opening up Horizon Worlds to teen users in the U.S. and Canada, after previously restricting …

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During a hearing, House Republicans grilled SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, who refused to state whether ether is a security, despite saying bitcoin is a commodity (Chris Matthews/MarketWatch)

Chris Matthews / MarketWatch: During a hearing, House Republicans grilled SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, who refused to state whether ether is a security, despite saying bitcoin is a commodity  —  SEC chief has argued laws clearly outline definition of security  —  House Republicans took aim at the nation’s top markets regulator Tuesday …

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Twitter made it easier to harass transgender users

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has quietly altered its Hateful Conduct Policy to remove long-standing protections for its transgender users, as spotted by the nonprofit organization Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). In a section that prohibits attacking other users with “repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade

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SpecterOps, which analyzes potential attack paths hackers could exploit on platforms like Active Directory and Azure AD, raised a $25M Series A led by Decibel (Tim Keary/VentureBeat)

Tim Keary / VentureBeat: SpecterOps, which analyzes potential attack paths hackers could exploit on platforms like Active Directory and Azure AD, raised a $25M Series A led by Decibel  —  Today, adversary simulation, detection and training services provider SpecterOps announced it has raised $25 million as part of a series A funding round led by

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Reddit to charge companies for API access, which many have used to train AI systems; the API will remain free for devs building apps that help people use Reddit (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Reddit to charge companies for API access, which many have used to train AI systems; the API will remain free for devs building apps that help people use Reddit  —  The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like

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