Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be verified users, no support for group messages, and message metadata is not encrypted
There are still some major limitations to the feature. — Twitter is beginning to roll out its long-promised encrypted direct messaging feature.
A video of the Google I/O 2023 keynote, where the company announced the Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, its PaLM 2 general-use LLM, Search updates, and more
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Google unveils the $1,799 Pixel Fold with a 120Hz 7.6" main screen, a 5.8" exterior screen, a Tensor G2, and 12GB of RAM, for preorder now and arriving in June
Google's first foldable phone feels like what I always wanted from the Surface Duo to be. — I've been using some version …
Google shows AI features coming to Search, including an AI-powered “snapshot” that summarizes search results with links to sites “corroborating” the information
Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen. Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people.
Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos says a known cybercrime group gained access to its SharePoint cloud service on May 8 but didn't breach its internal network
Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos today disclosed what it describes as a “cybersecurity event” after a known cybercrime gang attempted …
Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google's early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools
Google is using artificial intelligence to improve its existing products, and you can sign up to try them in Labs now. Here's how to get started.
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B
SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks, as the Japanese conglomerate …
Google unveils the $499 Pixel Tablet with a Tensor G2, an 11-inch display, and an 8MP front-facing camera, available for preorder now and arriving in June 2023
Scott Stein / CNET :
Google announces the Pixel 7a with a 6.1-inch 90Hz screen, a fingerprint sensor, Face Unlock, wireless charging, and a 64MP camera, available on May 11 for $499
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google :
Google makes Bard available in English in 180 countries and territories, promises AI image generation from Adobe and integration with services like Instacart
So what's coming? Ichha Sharma / Digit : Google Bard finally accessible in India: How to use Googles AI chatbot Jack Turner / Tech.co : Google Drops Bard AI Waitlist, Following Microsoft's Lead Swathi...
Google Pixel 7a review: the best midrange Android phone, with wireless charging and good performance, camera, and screen, but a slow fingerprint scanner
and the 6A Jonathan Lamont / MobileSyrup : Pixel 7a Review: It's a cheaper Pixel 7, eh? Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority : Google Pixel 7a vs Pixel 5a: Should you upgrade to the latest Pixel? Prano...
EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition in public, limit predictive policing, and impose transparency on generative AI; EU Commission will finalize details
European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT …
Google launches MusicLM, an experimental AI tool that can turn text prompts into several song versions, in its AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android, and iOS
but Bots Love It The Keyword : Turn ideas into music with MusicLM Stuart Dredge / Music Ally : Google is now letting people play with its MusicLM AI tool Jayfrankwilson / methodshop : The Top 25 Most ...
Disney reports Q2 Disney+ subscribers down 2% QoQ to 157.8M, vs. ~163M est, its second straight quarterly drop, ESPN+ up 2% QoQ to 25.3M, and Hulu flat at 48.2M
On the bright side, the Mouse House also managed to narrow its streaming business losses by $400 million, down 26% year over year.
Similar to McKinsey and other consulting firms, AI advancements may help concentrate wealth, disempower workers, and “sharpen the knife blade of capitalism”
As it's currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible? Mastodon: @cblgh@merveilles.town . Tweets: @jjvincent , @danmcquillan , @...
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company plans to add Hulu content to Disney+ by the end of 2023; standalone options for its platforms, including ESPN+, will remain
what's going on? Matt Tamanini / The Streamable : Answering Questions About Disney+, Hulu's ‘One-App Experience’; Will All Content Be Included? What About Hulu + Live TV? Tom Power / TechRadar : Disne...
Robinhood reported crypto trading revenue of $38M for Q1 2023, down ~30% YoY and 1% QoQ, and says it has ~$11.5B worth of crypto in assets, up 36% from Q4 2022
The trading platform also reported holding around $11.5 billion worth of crypto in assets under custody, an increase of 36% versus the fourth quarter.
Taiwan's chip sector, built by TSMC's skilled workers, risks losing its global dominance due to a demographic crisis, demanding work culture, and competing jobs
Taiwan's world-dominating microchip sector was built by TSMC's skilled employees. But a demographic crisis … Tweets: @johnliunn Tweets: John Liu / @johnliunn : For TSMC, homegrown talent has been the...
A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting the claim that his data theft made the IoT manufacturer safer
An engineer who worked for billionaire Robert Pera's Ubiquiti Inc. got six years in prison after a judge rejected his claim …
Microsoft released at least 48 security fixes for Windows and other software, including for two zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation
Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software …
JD.com says CEO Xu Lei will step down in June “due to personal reasons”, after one year in the role; CFO Sandy Ran Xu will become the CEO
- JD.com shares rose in pre-market trade in the U.S. on Thursday after it said it swung to profit in the first quarter and announced a management shakeup.
Italy's AGCM opens an investigation into Apple over exempting its own apps from ATT, a day after the EU confirmed sending Apple Pay questionnaires to retailers
Italy's antitrust agency AGCM said on Thursday it had opened a probe into U.S. technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the apps market.
Review of the $700 Asus ROG Ally: fast performance and smooth variable refresh screen, but Windows is hard to use on a handheld and the UI has major glitches
if you can wait till Q3 Sean Endicott / Windows Central : ASUS ROG Ally unleashed: Price and release date revealed today for pre-order Brady Snyder / XDA Developers : The ROG Ally gaming handheld arri...
JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 1.4% YoY to ~$35B, beating estimates, and ~$906M net profit, compared to a ~$431M net loss in Q1 2022; JD rises 7%+
Tiyashi Datta / Reuters :
Google unveils generative AI wallpapers, coming exclusively to Pixels in June, and Magic Compose, a feature in Messages for Android that auto-suggests responses
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
Google Cloud announces a new A3 GPU supercomputer VM powered by Nvidia's H100 GPUs, built to deliver “the highest-performance training for today's ML workloads”
As we've seen LLMs and generative AI come screaming into our consciousness in recent months, it's clear that these models …
Google debuts PaLM 2, offering improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products and features
When you look back at the biggest breakthroughs in AI over the last decade … Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat : Google opens up about PaLM 2, its new generative AI LLM Aman Gupta / Livemint : What is...
Filings: the US Internal Revenue Service filed claims worth nearly $44B against FTX's companies, including a $20.4B claim against Alameda for partnership taxes
Tracy Wang / CoinDesk :
A look at Microsoft's Trust Code compliance training video series, headed into season seven, that has hooked employees with popular characters and cliffhangers
Instead of a finger-wagging snoozer about corporate misbehavior, ‘Trust Code’ has flawed characters, dramatic cliffhangers and fans worldwide Tweets: @saraheneedleman , @ajbrewer , @jordannovet , @kna...
Google previews Wear OS 4, offering improved battery life and accessibility features, new tools for building watch faces in collaboration with Samsung, and more
Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation's facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a potential cyberattack
updating software to fix vulnerabilities—using only Chinese nationals at the facility in Dalian, a port city at the southern tip of China's Liaoning province.” https://www.wsj.com/... Matthew Pines / ...
A profile of Andreas Fink, a Swiss telecom expert whose services let state agencies, like Israeli disinformation unit Team Jorge, attack phone networks globally
The international mobile system is exposed and a loophole allows hackers, cybercriminals and states to geolocate targets and even hijack email and web accounts. Mastodon: @jsrailton@mastodon.social . ...
Brisbane-based edtech startup Go1 acquires Berlin-based Blinkist, which offers 15-minute summaries of non-fiction books, and raised $30M from Insight Partners
After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition …
Revolut says CFO Mikko Salovaara plans to leave “for personal reasons”, two months after CEO James Radford left, as the company waits for a UK banking license
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times :
Tech companies increasingly hire in South and Central America because remote workers there often accept lower pay than in the US but have the same time zones
Pandemic-era labor shortages made it hard for Austin-based Fetch Package Inc. to fill positions in the US. Tweets: @bouazizalex and @sdonnan . Thanks: @colegarry2 Tweets: Alex Bouaziz / @bouazizalex :...
Fairphone Fairbuds XL review: modular design, lovely controls, and great ANC, but the sound isn't great, no 3.5mm port, and multipoint connectivity is confusing
ANC isn't class-leading - Some stitching issues — Our Verdict Chethan Rao / Android Police : Fairphone's repairable Fairbuds XL headphones have arrived Ben Lyons / Gamereactor UK : Fairphone enters ...
A look at Tel Aviv-based Rayzone, whose surveillance system Echo, sold to governments, exploits ad data to track people via their phones
The innovation at the heart of the advertising technology industry is automated auctions to trade real-time data about mobile phone users … Tweets: @nervusbelli and @rj_gallagher Tweets: @nervusbelli ...
Google updates its Find My Device network with proactive alerts about unknown Bluetooth trackers traveling with users and support for Apple's AirTags and others
Google launches Project Tailwind, an “AI-first notebook” experiment that pulls information from users' Google Drive documents, available via a US-only waitlist
Amazon secures an estimated $1B in tax breaks for five data centers in Morrow County, Oregon, which local officials hope will generate $12B in Amazon spending
Mike Rogoway / Oregonian :
Robinhood announces 24-hour trading of select stocks and ETFs, five days per week, starting with 43 securities next week and available to all users by June 2023
Wall Street Journal :
YouTube is running a “small experiment” globally that shows a pop-up urging users with ad blockers to allow ads on YouTube or consider subscribing to Premium
here's how Chris Williams / The Register : YouTube's ‘Ad blockers not allowed’ pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens Rob Thubron / TechSpot : YouTube now warns users that ad blockers aren't allowe...
Ireland-based Everseen, which uses computer vision to spot potential retail theft, raised a €65M Series A led by Crosspoint, taking its total funding to ~€82M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Google plans to roll out a redesigned Home app on May 11, with a Favorites tab, new device type support, and an eventual iOS update to support Matter devices
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge :
Google unveils new security features, including expanding the “dark web report” feature, which scans the dark web for a Gmail address, to all US Gmail accounts
Google announces a competitor to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding, and AI-assisted coding in its no-code AppSheet tool
Google announces new features for cars with native Android including YouTube, Waze, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex by Cisco, and more video games from Google Play
here's what's coming Niall Evans / Telematics News : Google shares in-vehicle technology updates at 2023 I/O event Onur Demirkol / gHacks Technology News : Meetings on the Go: Zoom, Teams, and Webex a...
A judge rules that $300M in BlockFi's wallets belong to clients, not the bankrupt lender's estate; $375M in interest-bearing accounts belong to the estate
Jack Schickler / CoinDesk :
Coresight: US livestream shopping sales could hit $32B in 2023; PitchBook: investors poured $380M+ into US live shopping companies in 2022, up from $36M in 2020
New York Times :
Some crypto miners, like Hive Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining, are repurposing their GPU-based equipment to power high-performance computing services for AI clients
David Pan / Bloomberg :
Google says its Project Starline team shrunk the 3D video chat tech from the size of a booth to a large TV, which Salesforce, T-Mobile, and WeWork are testing
Google's PaLM 2 paper is forthcoming on many of the LLM's major limitations, but doesn't reveal which data or hardware setup the company used to train the model
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