Customs data: Russia imported $570M worth of US chips from Hong Kong and mainland China from February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2022, despite US sanctions (Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5

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) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:43 Rating: 5

Alibaba Cloud unveils its ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen and says it will roll out the AI chatbot into all products starting with DingTalk and Tmall Genie (Sheila Chiang/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5

Bitcoin rises above $30K for the first time since June 2022, rallying 80%+ since the start of 2023, but is still down 50%+ from its November 2021 all-time high (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:43 Rating: 5

Court filing: Twitter Inc. was merged into X Corp. and no longer exists, and is part of parent firm X Holdings Corp.; both entities are registered in Nevada (Slate) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:43 Rating: 5

Katie Cotton, Apple's former VP of worldwide communications for 18 years, who mostly worked directly for Steve Jobs before retiring in 2014, died on April 6 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

The US FTC orders a supplement maker to pay $600K in its first case on "hijacked" Amazon reviews, in which reviews of different products are misleadingly merged (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Apple's Mac shipments fell 40.5% YoY globally in Q1 2023, the largest drop among PC makers, as combined PC shipments fell 29% YoY to 56.9M units (IDC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 03:42 Rating: 5

Shanghai-based SenseTime announces AI model SenseNova and chatbot SenseChat, available in Chinese and English, following Baidu's Ernie Bot (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:42 Rating: 5

Dell XPS 13 (2023) review: thin, light, nice screen, and improved battery life, but only two ports, quiet speakers, and worse performance than similar models (Monica Chin/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:42 Rating: 5