Intel to layoff 15,000 employees as CPU strategy shifts

From PC World: Intel said Thursday that the company will lay off about 15 percent of its workforce, layoffs that were forced upon it by unused manufacturing capacity and charges associated with the launch of its AI PCs.

Intel positioned it as part of the “next phase of its multiyear transformation...

SpaceX Tips Discounted Starlink Family Plan

From PC Mag: It looks like SpaceX is preparing to roll out a Starlink "family plan" that offers discounted access to satellite internet service.

Starlink.com quietly added a support page entry about the family plan, which the company plans on rolling out on an invite-only basis to select US...

Microsoft now lists OpenAI as a competitor in AI and search

From TechCrunch: Microsoft has a long and tangled history with OpenAI, having invested a reported $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker as part of a long term partnership. As part of the deal, Microsoft runs OpenAI’s models across its enterprise and consumer products, and is OpenAI’s exclusive cloud...

Google Releases 3 New Open Source Gemma AI Models

From ExtremeTech: Google has shifted gears after being caught flat-footed by OpenAI and Microsoft. The search giant has integrated its Gemini AI into numerous products, but that's not the only Google AI. The company also offers a collection of open-source models, and it's adding some new options...

Microsoft says 365 outage was amplified by internal errors

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft’s latest outage on Tuesday might have been amplified by its own unforced errors, the company said in an incident report.

“While the initial trigger event was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which activated our DDoS protection mechanisms, initial...

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