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Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11 (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware) 11-04-2023

Mark Tyson / Tom’s Hardware: Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11  —  Post-fix you may see MsMpEng.exe CPU usage drop by up to 75%.  —  A performance-sapping conflict between Mozilla Firefox … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google launches an app auto-archiving feature on Android, removing over 60% of an app's local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) 11-04-2023

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches an app auto-archiving feature on Android, removing over 60% of an app’s local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS  —  On Monday, Google launched a new auto-archiving feature, which removes more than 60% of an unused app’s data from an Android phone to save storage space on the device. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Elon Musk is working on a new generative AI project at Twitter, recently buying ~10K GPUs, after poaching researchers from DeepMind in recent months (Kali Hays/Insider) 11-04-2023

Kali Hays / Insider: Sources: Elon Musk is working on a new generative AI project at Twitter, recently buying ~10K GPUs, after poaching researchers from DeepMind in recent months  —  – CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play.  — Musk has criticized ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme

YouTube says NFL Sunday Ticket packages will cost between $249 and $489 depending on the user's subscription; the company reportedly pays the NFL $2B per year (David Pierce/The Verge) 11-04-2023

David Pierce / The Verge: YouTube says NFL Sunday Ticket packages will cost between $249 and $489 depending on the user’s subscription; the company reportedly pays the NFL $2B per year  —  Football fans, start saving those pennies.  YouTube just announced pricing for its new Sunday Ticket package … Lees verder op Tech Meme

NYC-based financial data company AlphaSense raised $100M led by Alphabet's CapitalG at a $1.8B valuation, after raising $225M at $1.7B valuation in June 2022 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) 11-04-2023

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: NYC-based financial data company AlphaSense raised $100M led by Alphabet’s CapitalG at a $1.8B valuation, after raising $225M at $1.7B valuation in June 2022  —  – Alphabet’s CapitalG led a $100 million funding round in AlphaSense at a $1.8 billion valuation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

NYC-based Clear Street, which is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, raised $270M in a second Series B tranche led by Prysm at a $2B valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch) 11-04-2023

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: NYC-based Clear Street, which is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, raised $270M in a second Series B tranche led by Prysm at a $2B valuation  —  Clear Street, which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused Firefox to spike CPU usage, and rolls the patch out on Windows 10 and 11 (Sayan Sen/Neowin) 11-04-2023

Sayan Sen / Neowin: Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused Firefox to spike CPU usage, and rolls the patch out on Windows 10 and 11  —  It looks like a bug nearly half a decade old has finally been fixed by Microsoft and Mozilla.  The issue was related to Windows Defender … Lees verder op Tech Meme