Washington Post: US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh was fired on April 3, along with his civilian deputy Wendy Noble and at least five aides  —  The director of the NSA, the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to U.S. officials.  —  just now Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The Meta antitrust case is the first big test of President Trump’s FTC and its chair Andrew Ferguson, a Big Tech critic; Meta seems to be exploring a settlement  —  Mark Zuckerberg steps up lobbying effort with antitrust regulator set to signal its approach to Big Tech Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Midjourney debuts V7 in alpha, its first new AI image model in nearly a year with a “totally different architecture”, a week after OpenAI’s new image generator  —  Midjourney, one of the first AI-based image generators on the web, has released its first new AI image model in nearly a year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pew Research Center: Survey: 35% of US adults say they think AI’s impact on the US will be negative over the next 20 years, while 56% of AI experts say AI’s impact will be positive  —  The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI.  But they share similar views in wanting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kalley Huang / The Information: Sources: Meta aims to release Llama 4 later this month after pushing back its release date at least twice due to underperformance in reasoning and math tasks  —  Last spring, Meta Platforms was on a tear.  It had just released Llama 3, a new generation of its large language model … Lees verder op Tech Meme