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If your Galaxy phone still relies on Samsung Messages for everyday texting, its days are numbered. Samsung has confirmed it will retire its long-running messaging app this July, ending support for SMS, MMS and RCS on the platform across the US. The shift has been a long time coming. Google Messages has been the default on new Galaxy devices since 2024. But for holdouts, the looming shutdown means it’s time to act before your texts and chat history are stuck in limbo.On a page with information about the switch, Samsung points to instructions on how to swap over to Google’s Messages app, including…
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Impacted employees reportedly received retrenchment notices on Apr 15 Global real estate consultancy JLL has laid off some staff in Singapore following a recent organisational restructuring exercise. According to a report from The Straits Times, the firm confirmed the restructuring but did not disclose the number of roles impacted. A former employee who spoke to the publication said that those affected, including colleagues in the US market, received retrenchment notices on Apr 15. Staff were given the option of an early release or serving out their full notice period. Separately, some JLL employees have also shared on LinkedIn about the…
Ravie LakshmananMay 01, 2026Malware / Social Engineering Cybersecurity researchers are warning of two cybercrime groups that are carrying out “rapid, high-impact attacks” operating almost within the confines of SaaS environments, while leaving minimal traces of their actions. The clusters, Cordial Spider (aka BlackFile, CL-CRI-1116, O-UNC-045, and UNC6671) and Snarky Spider (aka O-UNC-025 and UNC6661), have been attributed to high-speed data theft and extortion campaigns that share a remarkable degree of operational similarities. Both hacking groups are assessed to be active since at least October 2025, with the latter a native English-speaking crew sharing ties to the e-crime ecosystem known as…
Nebius Group NV, a Dutch operator of artificial intelligence data centers, today announced plans to buy software maker Eigen AI Inc. for $643 million. The company will finance the acquisition with cash and stock. It expects to close the deal in a few weeks. Nebius provides access to graphics card unit clusters that developers can use to train AI models and run inference workloads. It also offers a managed inference service, Token Factory, that removes the need to manage the underlying graphics processing units. Nebius will use Eigen AI’s technology to enhance the service. Token Factory enables customers to perform…
Now actors and writers are supposed to be human. As the Academy released its rules for the 99th Academy Awards, the organization declared that any movies with “AI generated actors” or “AI written screenplays” would be ineligible for acting or writing prizes (but otherwise still eligible).So what do you do, exactly, in a time when we can no longer be sure if AI is a tool or a threat? Hollywood is going to have to make that call soon. The Academy released its latest statement on what’s eligible for an Oscar, including how they’re going to approach AI actors and…
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: What it was like inside the Oakland federal courthouse where Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft, with jury selection revealing just how hard it is to find anyone neutral about Musk these days. Meanwhile, Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their partnership the same morning the trial began — and less than 24 hours later, OpenAI’s models landed on Amazon’s cloud. Then, Microsoft and Amazon both dropped blockbuster earnings, with Azure up 40%, AWS posting its fastest growth in 15 quarters, and the two companies combining for nearly $400 billion in capital spending this year…
Google’s TurboQuant isn’t just a Pied Piper meme anymore. A month later, it’s clear: this is a war on the Nvidia Tax. Is your AI about to get way cheaper? Can we all admit that when Google dropped TurboQuant back in March, the collective internet spent three days straight making middle-out jokes? It was peak Silicon Valley, the TV show. And honestly, Google leaned into the Pied Piper comparisons quite seriously. The meme dust has settled, giving us over a month to experience the tech. And it’s finally clear this wasn’t all a marketing stunt. It’s a massive, slightly desperate,…
A new method developed by MIT researchers can accelerate a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence training method by about 81 percent. This advance could enable a wider array of resource-constrained edge devices, like sensors and smartwatches, to deploy more accurate AI models while keeping user data secure.The MIT researchers boosted the efficiency of a technique known as federated learning, which involves a network of connected devices that work together to train a shared AI model.In federated learning, the model is broadcast from a central server to wireless devices. Each device trains the model using its local data and then transfers model updates…
In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change.Six weeks later, after a single injection of an experimental gene therapy, the same toddler is back in the same room. The tone plays. The toddler’s head turns toward the sound. And somewhere just off screen, the child’s grandfather says his name. The boy turns and looks. He can hear.“When the parents realized their child had a response to sound they cried,” says Dr. Yilai Shu of the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, who co-led the trial,…