Sources: Apple's new 24" iMac is in engineering validation testing, set to launch in H2 2023 at the earliest, likely with the M3, and in the old iMac's colors
Apple is gearing up to launch its next slate of laptops and desktops, including a new iMac. Also: Its cloud chief is set to leave …
Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate distressed loved ones, sometimes spoofing specific phone numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it
Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.
An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam's Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender
Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.
German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021
German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies …
Microsoft announces Dynamics 365 Copilot, built using OpenAI's tech, helping draft contextual chat and email answers and more, rolling out in preview
Microsoft Corp., having brought artificial intelligence to its battle with Google over search, is now turning to the latest AI technology …
The EU says WhatsApp agreed to increase transparency over its privacy policy changes from 2021, letting users reject the rules, limiting data sharing, and more
Meta Platforms' (META.O) WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021 …
At the National People's Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation for its tech hardware sector
Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) founder Pony Ma and others from China's crackdown-hit internet sector will be absent …
A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by deceased privacy luminary Peter Eckersley, aiming to influence AI's evolution and safeguard humanity's future
Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying … Mastodon: @micahflee@infosec.exchange , @agreenberg@infosec.exchange , ...
Sources and documents: Binance and Binance.US are more intertwined than they have disclosed, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity to trade crypto
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Sources: China plans to create an agency to manage the country's data stores, shifting from multiple ministries, seeking to streamline its regulatory structure
Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal :
Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don't work”
Teams working on the ecommerce giant's voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company's history
A study of 13M+ Facebook posts in the run-up to the 2020 US elections found that 23% of the sampled posts with political images contained misinformation
the most common post type, accounting for 40% of posts by US politics pages and groups. Matthew Hindman / @matthindman : Other studies have suggested that misinformation posts generate higher engageme...
How buy now, pay later services became a popular target for fraudsters, sometimes helped by companies having a loose underwriting process for applications
Seung Song said his identity was stolen and used to buy $5,000 worth of gun components from an online dealer using a buy now, pay later service. Tweets: @mattgoldstein26 Tweets: Matthew Goldstein / @m...
US private equity firm Silver Lake and a Canadian pension fund offer to acquire Qualtrics for $12.4B as majority owner SAP looks to divest its 71% stake
Deal for survey software group would be one of largest this year — US private equity group Silver Lake and one of Canada's largest pension funds …
A presentation in FTX's Chapter 11 case shows the crypto exchange identified ~$2.2B of assets in FTX.com wallets and a ~$9.3B net borrowing by Alameda Research
An interview with Ask Jeeves co-creator Garrett Gruener, who says his original conception was similar to the chatbots Microsoft and Google are trying to build
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Sources: SoftBank's Arm hopes to raise $8B+ at a $50B+ valuation in its US IPO, which is expected later in 2023 after a confidential filing in late April
Some Twitter services are down including t.co links, images, and TweetDeck, producing the error “your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint”
Links are completely busted on Twitter at the minute across the company's website and mobile apps. Tweets: @daveleeft , @taylorlorenz , @khurtizz , @dannyjpalmer , @kwestin , @mcwm , @carnage4life , @...
Sources: around 20 leaders at Clubhouse have left over the past year, including hires from Meta, Google, and others; Clubhouse continues to add “top talent”
Roughly 20 leaders have departed Clubhouse over the past year or so, including many of the notable hires …
Q&A with Atari CEO Wade Rosen on the company's 50th anniversary, making use of its traditional IP, plans to focus on retro gaming hardware, licensing, and more
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Abu Dhabi-based data analytics firm Presight AI, owned by AI and cloud computing company G42, plans to raise $495M at a ~$2B valuation in an IPO on March 13
Shaji Mathew / Bloomberg :
Internal documents suggest personal finance app Eco, offering 2.5%-5% “rewards APY”, misrepresented its practices as funds likely went to risky crypto entities
Startup Idea №1: — We provide an API for charitable funds … Tweets: Jason Mikula / @mikulaja : Fintech Biz Weekly exclusive WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS: a16z- & Peter Thiel-backed Eco lied, said it earned...
An analysis of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which covers every connected device and almost all software, causing open-source developers to worry about its scope
Analysis: Amazon had $38B in 2022 ad revenue, more than the entire global newspaper industry and likely above Prime, leading to questions over ads and marketing
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Analysis of the top 100 most cited AI papers per year from 2020 to 2022: US-based AI research is the most impactful, and Google and Meta have dominated
Investor letter: Multicoin's hedge fund had a 91.4% loss in 2022; in November, Multicoin revealed an FTT position and that 10% of its assets were stuck on FTX
Meta, Twitter, and Snapchat's subscription fees and features are aimed at professional creators filling social feeds because regular users post too infrequently
Current and former Dapper Labs staff say CEO Roham Gharegozlou's bullying and extravagant spending hurt the NFT startup amid layoffs and a prolonged bear market
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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.