Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon because the AI is attempting to communicate emotions, not facts
Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn't really, really, think it was worth it.
PlayStation VR2 review: excellent OLED displays, comfortable, solid controllers, and immersive headset haptics, but pricey and limited games at launch
The PlayStation VR 2 is the virtual reality upgrade console gamers have been waiting for — but is it really worth $550?
The US SEC proposes a rule that would bar investment advisers from storing assets at crypto platforms and lenders that are not registered as exchanges or banks
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk :
Sources: Apple postponed the introduction of its MR headset from around April to June 2023, at its annual WWDC, after testing found hardware and software issues
Apple Inc. has postponed a planned introduction of its first mixed-reality headset from around April to June …
Microsoft reflects on the new Bing: 71% gave AI answers a thumbs up, Bing can become repetitive after 15+ questions, a few sessions over two hours, and more
A little over a week ago, we shared an all new, AI-powered Bing search engine, Edge web browser, and integrated Chat, that we think of as Your Copilot for the Web.
Analysis of the cyber threat landscape one year after Russia invaded Ukraine shows Russia's aggressive multi-pronged plan across five phases with mixed success
One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Google TAG, Mandiant, and Trust & Safety provide insights into changes in the cyber threat landscape triggered by the war.
Jaime Rogozinski, who created r/WallStreetBets, sues Reddit, arguing the company breached its contract by removing him as a moderator in 2020
Jaime Rogozinski says site ousted him without claim; Reddit calls suit frivolous — WallStreetBets' founder is suing the site where it all began.
Activision Blizzard plans to require employees to come to the office three days per week starting on April 10 for Activision Publishing and July 10 for Blizzard
Remote work is reportedly ending across Activision Blizzard. According to a developer at Blizzard Entertainment …
Sources: spooked by a growing regulatory crackdown, US banks are backing away from crypto companies and re-evaluating their exposure, no matter how small
SEC and banking overseers step up scrutiny following collapse of FTX — Crypto's Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained. Here's Why.
DocuSign plans to cut around 10% of its workforce, or around 680 people, after cutting 9% of staff in September 2022; DocuSign had 7,461 staff in January 2022
- E-signature software company DocuSign on Thursday announced plans to cut around 10% of its workforce.
Binance Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann says the company expects to pay monetary penalties to settle US regulatory and law enforcement investigations
DOJ, CFTC have been probing world's largest cryptocurrency exchange — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange …
A year on from Meta hyping the metaverse in a dystopian Super Bowl ad, enthusiasm for a virtual future has evaporated and Meta is now more focused on efficiency
Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away — and so is investment — Remember when we were all going to ditch our humdrum lives … Tweets: @jimpethokoukis , @mattnavarra , @techwontsaveus , @mrs...
A profile of FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang, a roommate to Sam Bankman-Fried at MIT who is cooperating with the US, as insiders say he may have key insights
They'd come a long way together, from teenage mathletes to MIT frat brothers to crypto billionaires.
A brief history of Rust, a programming language that emerged from a side project and has been instrumental in driving the shift toward memory safe programming
For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. — Many software projects emerge because … Tweets: @billatnapier , @richgel999 , and @denelledixon Tweets: @billatnapi...
The Reserve Bank of India publishes a list of 32 entities, including Google Pay and Amazon Pay, that can act as online payment aggregators in the country
The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday published a list of 32 entities, including Alphabet Inc.'s Google Pay, Amazon.com Inc.'s Amazon Pay …
An interview with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew as he works to persuade US lawmakers that the app is not a national security threat, calling suspicions “misinformed”
In an exclusive interview, Shou Zi Chew said he's working to persuade lawmakers that TikTok poses no threat.
An interview with CS professor and ex-NHTSA adviser Missy Cummings, who says people are “over-trusting” Tesla's Autopilot, GM's Super Cruise, and other systems
Missy Cummings, who spent more than a year at the federal auto safety agency, said that drivers were putting …
Memo: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who has led the site for the last nine years, plans to step down and will be replaced by her longtime lieutenant Neal Mohan
One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company. Tweets: @rustybrick , @eringriffith , and @pkafka Tweets: Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : Wow ...
Tile debuts an anti-theft mode to limit misuse of its trackers, which requires biometric data, a government ID, and a ToS letting Tile share info with police
Apple took a big PR hit as news spread that its item tracker the AirTag was being used for stalking and car thefts …
TikTok announces TikTok Trivia, a livestreamed trivia quiz hosted daily between February 22 and 26, open to those 18 and over in the US with a $500K price pool
TikTok is taking a page out of HQ's playbook and launching a series of live trivia games, the company announced today.
A German court rules that police use of Palantir's automated data analysis to prevent crime in some states was unconstitutional, after a rights group complained
A top German court ruled on Thursday that police use of automated data analysis to prevent crime in some German states was unconstitutional …
Switzerland-based Unisers, which is developing a way to detect extraneous extremely small particles during chip production, raised $14M led by Intel Capital
Switzerland-based microchip toolmaker Unisers said on Thursday it had raised $14 million in a funding round led by Intel Capital …
GitHub updates Copilot with better and more secure code suggestions and says 46% of developers' code files across all languages were generated with Copilot
and in Java, that number jumps to 61%. https://github.blog/... @quinnypig : “Today, GitHub Copilot is behind an average of 46% of a developers' code across all programming languages—and in Java, that ...
The US House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft CEOs for documents and communications on content moderation by March 23
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal :
Twitter updates its policies to allow cannabis ads targeting US states where cannabis is legal, promoting brands or providing info but not offering direct sales
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Sources: a China-based former ASML employee stole data from Teamcenter, a Siemens-made internal tool used to store technical info, in the past couple of months
Bloomberg :
Shanghai-based esports tournament company VSPO raised a $265M Series C from Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group, seeking to reboot pro gaming in China after a lull
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Twitter's AI ethics researchers rushed to publish a moderation bias study on arXiv in October 2022, deciding their prospects under Elon Musk would be too murky
Paresh Dave / Wired :
The US CBP confirms implementing software to verify e-passports in June 2022, nearly 16 years after the US started issuing passports with RFID chips
until now. Story by @lilyhnewman https://www.wired.com/...
US law enforcement officials and other experts say TikTok has emerged as the biggest and fastest-growing danger zone for child sexual exploitation online
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @repkenbuck and @tomcottonar Tweets: Rep. Ken Buck / @repkenbuck : A very disturbing article. CCP owned TikTok is a “venue for child sexual exploitati...
Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on OpenAI's ChatGPT, research into LLMs, companies using AI, Deep Blue and chess, practical uses for generative AI, and more
Richard Waters / Financial Times : Tweets: @carlquintanilla and @hare_brain Tweets: Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla : IBM CEO: “We do have a shortage of labour in the real world and that's becaus...
Tampa, Florida-based managed detection and response cybersecurity service Deepwatch raised $180M from Springcoast Capital, Splunk Ventures, and Vista Credit
Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News :
Roblox reports Q4 net bookings up 17% YoY to $899.4M, vs. $876.2M est., a record 65M DAUs in January 2023, and estimated bookings up 19% to 21%; RBLX jumps 25%+
Cisco reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.6B, net income down 7% YoY to $2.8B, and forecasts a Q3 revenue growth of 11% to 13% YoY, vs. ~6% est.
Roku reports Q4 revenue of $867.1M, flat YoY, vs. $801.7M est., streaming hours up 23% YoY, and Q1 2023 revenue guidance above estimates; ROKU jumps 10%+
Tiyashi Datta / Reuters :
Sources: the US DOJ ramped up work in recent months on a potential antitrust complaint into whether Apple has iOS monopoly power and favors its own products
Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.73B, vs. $1.65B est., GMV up 13% YoY to $61B, vs. $59.2B est., and forecasts a Q1 2023 revenue growth below est.
Lucy Papachristou / Bloomberg :
CoinMarketCap data shows the crypto market is struggling with an “Alameda gap” after new coin applications fell from 10,264 in Q1 2022 to 6,350 in Q4 2022
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk :
Community Health Systems, which owns ~80 hospitals in 16 US states, says hackers stole data on up to 1M patients; Russia-linked malware gang Clop takes credit
Carly Page / TechCrunch :
Amazon plans to bypass European distributors and buy products directly from brands in 2024; Amazon's international unit tripled its loss YoY to $7.75B in 2022
Data.ai: Twitter app installs grew 24.8% in January 2023 after a drop in December 2022; a set of Twitter alternatives grew 8.1% in January vs. 35.6% in November
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Snap adds ray tracing support to its AR Lens Studio for developers globally, initially partnering with Tiffany & Co to let users try on and purchase bracelets
Twilio reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.02B, vs. $1B est., active customer accounts up 13% YoY to 290K+, and authorizes a $1B share buyback; TWLO jumps 12%+
Chris Ciaccia / Seeking Alpha :
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.