From PC Mag: PC builders, beware: The Biden administration is preparing to resume tariffs on graphics cards and motherboards assembled in China.

Over the past year, the US Trade Representative (USTR) has delayed restoring the Trump-era tariffs, which added a 25% duty on affected Chinese goods. The...

From PC Mag: Semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology has lost a patent infringement lawsuit with Netlist. A jury in the United States decided that Micron infringed on memory module technology patents held by the computer memory company Netlist. Micron could be forced to pay Netlist $445 million...

From PC Mag: A hacking group out of Morocco has been spotted infiltrating companies to print out gift card codes valued at up to $100,000 per day.

The group, Storm-0539, prints the high-value gift cards with the goal of selling them to buyers on the black market at discounted rates, according to...

From TechCrunch: Lucid Motors is laying off about 400 employees, or roughly 6% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring ahead of the launch of its first electric SUV later this year.

The company said in a regulatory filing on Friday morning that it expects to complete the restructuring by the...

From PC Mag: OpenAI is reportedly killing its non-disparagement agreements that previously barred former staff from criticizing the company—and punished those who did with equity forfeiture.

The AI firm told current and former staff Thursday that they won't lose any equity that has already vested...

From The Verge: Search capabilities for ChatGPT, Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and other platforms aren't working properly right now due to a Microsoft outage that appears to be related to the Bing application programming interface (API). Sites and services are either completely unavailable or only...

From PC Mag: Google has announced a substantial fiber optic cable project that will create a new cable network from Kenya to South Africa and then travel subsea across the ocean to Australia, the tech giant announced Thursday.

Dubbed Umoja, the cable route will be set up in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda...

From TechCrunch: Spotify’s addition of its AI DJ feature, which introduces personalized song selections to users, was the company’s first step into an AI future. Now, Spotify is developing an alternative version of that DJ that will speak Spanish.

References to the new AI DJ were spotted in the app...

From TechCrunch: The Kia EV3 — the new all-electric compact SUV revealed Thursday — illustrates a growing appetite among global automakers to bring generative AI into their vehicles.

The automaker said the Kia EV3 will feature a new voice assistant that is built off ChatGPT, the text-generating AI...

From ExtremeTech: Nvidia has posted its earnings for Q1 of fiscal 2025, showing that the company's trip to the moon is still underway. The company broke existing earnings records set in the previous quarter by earning $26 billion overall, with $22 billion coming from its data center business. If...