From TechCrunch: As Amazon initiates job cuts across its entire business, including its streaming division, the e-commerce giant is now laying off employees within its Buy with Prime segment.

“We regularly review the structure of our teams and make adjustments based on the needs of the business and...

From The Verge: TikTok has launched many songs that have gone viral over the years, but now it’s testing a feature that lets more people exercise their songwriting skills… with some help from AI.

AI Song generates songs from text prompts with help from the large language model Bloom. Users can...

From Tom's Hardware: Intel's fab near Magdeburg, Germany, will not only be the most advanced semiconductor production facility in Europe, but, according to CEO Pat Gelsinger, the most advanced fab in the world when it comes online. The fab will process wafers using post-18A process technologies and...

From ExtremeTech: The hard drive world is about to enter unchartered territory as the first 30TB heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) drives have finally arrived. Seagate has been locked in a race to 30TB with its rival Western Digital for years and has now eclipsed it by a hair as WD announced...

From PC Mag: Mark Zuckerberg plans on acquiring 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to help Meta build a next-generation AI that possesses human-like intelligence.

Zuckerberg mentioned the figure today as he announced his company’s long-term effort to develop an artificial general intelligence (AGI), or an...

From Tom's Hardware: Microsoft is seemingly lining up a number of new minimum specification levels for AI PCs that it hasn’t yet broadcast via official channels. We have heard from our own sources that AI PCs will move up the bar concerning minimum RAM configuration, and TrendForce appears to have...

From ExtremeTech: Intel recently launched its 14th Generation CPUs, a.k.a. Raptor Lake refresh. The launch didn't garner much interest from gamers simply because it's still Raptor Lake, with nothing changed aside from a mild turbo clock boost for most of the "new" CPUs. However, Intel also added a...

From PC Mag: Google says a group of Russian state-sponsored hackers has been spotted sending encrypted PDFs to trick victims into running a decryption tool that’s actually malware.

On Thursday, the company published a blog post documenting a new phishing tactic from Coldriver, a hacking group that...

From ComputerWorld: Google Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai, has warned the company’s workforce about upcoming job losses as Google moves investments toward new technologies, such as AI, according to a memo called, “2024 priorities and the year ahead,” CNBC reported.

“The reality is that to...

From PC Mag: UPDATE 1/17: The makers of AdBlock and Adblock Plus say bugs in their ad blockers are to blame for the YouTube slowdowns. They've both rolled out fixes.

"With our latest update published last week, some of our users began to experience a slowdown on YouTube and other sites across the...