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Mastodon has become a non-profit in the United States following the revocation of this status in Germany. It has also appointed a new board which includes the co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone.

We have several launches coming up this week, but the most notable will be the Chang'e mission taking off to collect lunar samples and return them to Earth. Read on to learn more about the mission.

Reddit has made some improvements to its Android and iOS mobile apps which make the conversations load faster and work in the same way no matter what the media type of the post is.

Nvidia has announced its decision to acquire Run:ai, a company which offers a GPU orchestration platform for managing AI workloads across cloud, edge, and on-premises data centre infrastructure.

Fedora 40 has been released for download. There are lots of versions available with different desktop environments, though, Workstation, the default option, includes GNOME 46. Read on for more.

The Samsung Galaxy S23 Series is now available on the company's Certified Re-Newed program. All of the devices on this program are like-new but still technically second hand, meaning lower prices.

The Kindle Oasis is now at its lowest price on Amazon UK. The 8GB model is now available for just £159.99, down from its list price of £229.99, a saving of 30%. This model has page turn buttons.

We have several launches coming up this week but the most notable is the Long March rocket carrying Shenzhou 18 which has three Chinese astronauts aboard who are heading to the Chinese Space Station.

Worldwide IT spending is expected to rise by 8% this year, according to analyst firm Gartner. The increase is attributed mainly to the Data Center Systems and Devices segments which are doing well.

WhatsApp has a cool new feature which will help you save time when trying to respond to your friends and family. In the coming weeks, look out for a three-button tab bar at the top of your chats.

Samsung is going to get $6.4 billion from the US CHIPS and Science Act. As part of the arrangement, the company has promised to invest $40 billion in and around Austin, Texas, in the coming years.

The M2 and M2 Pro Mac Minis (2023) are at their lowest price on Amazon UK now. Prices start at £754.99 for the M2 variant with 512GB of SSD storage, this is a discount of 11% off the RRP.

Meta has said it will unveil a new product later in the year which will aim its Quest devices at education. It should make Quest devices easier for teachers to use in their classrooms.

Telegram has added the ability to create new custom stickers in the latest update. Just snap a picture and let the powerful editor crop out background objects, then make the edits you want.

If you are in the UK, Amazon has the Honor 70 Lite at its lowest price to date. Buying now will net you 32% in savings. It is ideal if you are looking for cheap 5G device for general day-to-day usage.

We have several launches this week, but be sure to head to the recap section to see the final launch of United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy, a rocket that has been going strong for 20 years.

Gertner says that it expects 75% of enterprise software engineers to begin using AI code assitants by 2028. This figure compares to just 10% of software engineers who were using them in early 2023.

Meta is testing a new nude photo detector that will blur the images so you don't have to see unsolicited pictures. The company also hopes that this and other changes can reduce financial sextortion.

Leo is now integrated into Brave Talk for Premium subscribers. The AI can now take call transcripts and make notes helping you to catch up with and summarise meetings, make task lists, and more.

EE has announced a simpler price increase model that will come into force next year. It said that customers would be told of price increases in pounds and pence, and they wouldn't be inflation-linked.

Messenger users can now use some new features including sending HD photos and sending files in many formats up to 100MB. Other features include adding contacts via QR code and shared albums.

Microsoft is introducing a unified Copilot experience in Visual Studio 17.10 that will combine the features of Copilot and Copilot Chat into one package. This version of Visual Studio is out in May.

IDC has reported positive PC shipments for the first time in years. It also said that shipment volumes have reached levels not seen since 2019. It comes as firms begin to push AI PCs.

Google has launched Gemini for Android Studio, a code assistant AI powered by Gemini 1.0 Pro. The company said the feature is free to use but it's language suggests it'll become paid in the future.

Samsung will receive up to $7 billion next week, according to two sources speaking with knowledge of the matter. The US subsidy will help Samsung build more factories in Taylor, Texas.

Elon Musk has called a Reuters article a lie after it claimed that Tesla has scrapped its low-cost car project. The article had several sources who said Tesla was pivoting to robotaxis instead.

We have several launches coming up this week. The most interesting will be the first SpaceX Bandwagon rideshare mission and Russia's fourth Angara A5 test flight with an Orion upper stage.

A new survey shows that 41% of senior executives at global companies believe there will be a reduction in workforce sizes as they adopt generative AI, contradicting the narrative of AI as a helper.

Apple is laying off 614 employees who were believed to have been working in California on self-driving car project. The affected employees were informed on March 28 and they will depart on May 27.

Data from Statcounter shows that Linux managed to increase its market share in March after passing the 4% mark for the very first time in February. Market share could go up when Windows 10 is retired.

Microsoft has released an update to the Xbox Alpha Skip-Ahead Ring that contains more improvements for wireless controllers and general system fixes. Read on for the release notes.

Sam Altman is no longer the owner or controller of the OpenAI Startup Fund according to an SEC filing. OpenAI said that the decision to put Altman at the head of the fund was temporary.

Telegram has launched ads in large public channels. Any owner of a channel with more than 1,000 subscribers is able to show ads in their channel and receive 50% of the revenues raised.

The MacBook Air (2022) is now at its lowest price ever on Amazon. You can get it now for just $899 or $1,099 depending on which storage option you pick. There are also several colors to pick from.

We have three rocket launches coming up over the next week. United Launch Alliance will go first with its reattempt to launch a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Reddit's share price has tumbled near to where they started last Thursday following a pump from $47 to over $70. Many people had suspected that the stock would pump on the hype before collapsing.

Sam Bankman-Fried has been given a 25-year jail sentence by Judge Lewis Kaplan for defrauding customers and investors. The sentence is seen as lenient as he had faced 40 or 50 years behind bars.