From The Verge: This week, Twitter began restricting the promotion of links to Substack newsletters, a move that seems to fly in the face of owner Elon Musk’s vocal support of free speech on the platform. The change is a huge problem for Substack writers, who have found Twitter to be one of the best...

From CRN: The head of AMD’s influential research group is departing the chip designer 15 years after founding the division that has made crucial contributions in areas like AI, high-performance computing and advanced memory.

Alan Lee, the head of AMD Research, announced Friday on LinkedIn that he...

From The Verge: It’s April 7th, and you know what that means? That’s right. It means that Western Digital’s cloud network has officially been down for five days.

On April 2nd (this past Sunday), the data storage manufacturer announced that it was experiencing a service outage impacting a whole...

From PC Mag: Multiple employees of Samsung's Korea-based semiconductor business plugged lines of confidential code into ChatGPT, effectively leaking corporate secrets that could be included in the chatbot's future responses to other people around the world.

One employee copied buggy source code...

From CRN: Amazon Web Services confirmed to CRN that Amazon’s latest 9,000 employee layoff round will impact a “small, single-digit percentage” of AWS employees.

Furthermore, AWS told CRN that the $85 billion worldwide cloud market share leader will still have more employees in 2023 than it had in...

From The Verge: Nvidia’s latency-reducing Reflex technology is coming to Counter-Strike 2. Reflex is designed to make games feel more responsive by reducing the amount of time between when you click your mouse and when you see the action on-screen. It’s all-important in competitive shooters, and up...

From CNET: New artificial intelligence features are coming to Google Search. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, CEO Sundar Pichai said advances in conversational AI have the potential to supercharge Google's search engine.

"Will people be able to ask questions to Google and engage with...

From PC Mag: Expedia is testing a beta ChatGPT interface to help people plan their vacations.

The in-app AI, rolling out globally in English on the Expedia iOS app, can recommend places to go, where to stay, how to get around, and what to see and do. It also automatically creates a "trip" and saves...

From Forbes: Not only is Apple planning a refresh of the MacBook Air, it is also preparing to bring OLED display technology to the popular macOS-powered laptop. But what of the MacBook Pro? Given the professional nature of the 14-inch and 16-inch macOS laptops, will the advanced display technology...

From PC World: Remember when Seagate made special edition storage drives made from “Beskar steel,” that stuff Boba Fett and other Mandalorians wear to make them incredibly marketable impervious to plasma blasters? Well the company’s back with its Star Wars-flavored PC hardware, and this time it’s...