Leaked images show Lenovo's new Legion Go, a Windows 11 gaming handheld that appears to combine features of the Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, and Nintendo Switch
Here's a first look at Lenovo's new gaming handheld, the Legion Go — Lenovo is working on a gaming handheld called Legion Go …
A deep dive into X's Community Notes, including how the algorithm works, whether the feature actually fights polarization, and its use in high-stakes situations
Special thanks to Dennis Pourteaux and Jay Baxter for feedback and review. — The last two years of Twitter X have been tumultuous, to say the least.
Cofense discovers a phishing campaign that uses QR codes to target a notable US energy company, the first known use of QR codes for phishing at scale
A phishing campaign was observed predominantly targeting a notable energy company in the US, employing QR codes to slip malicious emails into inboxes and bypass security.
Microsoft plans to close the Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29, 2024, meaning users will not be able to buy new games, DLC, avatars, and more
Microsoft is preparing to close down its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29th, 2024.
OpenAI acquires New York-based AI design studio Global Illumination, marking the company's first public acquisition; the terms of the deal weren't disclosed
OpenAI, the AI company behind the viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, has acquired Global Illumination, a New York-based startup leveraging AI …
Researchers find ChatGPT has a “significant and systematic political bias” toward the Democrats in the US, Lula in Brazil, and the Labour Party in the UK
Chatbots are ingrained with political biases picked up from their training data — which in most cases is unfiltered text from the web
Snap confirms and fixes a My AI glitch that caused the chatbot to post its own Story and then stop responding to users' messages
Snapchat's My AI feature, an in-app AI chatbot launched earlier this year with its fair share of controversy, briefly appeared to have a mind of its own.
YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips pauses production after accusations of theft, ethical lapses, and sexual harassment, and plans to hire an outside investigator
Linus Sebastian's Linus Media Group YouTube empire is currently in crisis, with accusations of theft, lapses in ethics, and most recently, allegations of sexual harassment.
Sei launches its trading-focused blockchain and SEI reaches $1.6B trading volume in the first 24 hours, per CoinMarketCap; many users criticized SEI's airdrop
The buzzy blockchain project's SEI token saw a flurry of trading as it debuted on several crypto exchanges …
Solidus Labs: between mid-July and August, developers deployed 500+ scam tokens on Coinbase's Base blockchain; around 300 let the creators mint unlimited tokens
- More than 500 scam tokens were deployed on blockchain — Solidus Labs says scammers pocketed about $2 million in profit
Shiba Inu's Ethereum layer-2 network Shibarium, which hopes to lure users with low fees to an ecosystem focused on financial services and gaming, goes live
The much-awaited Shibarium network saw over 21 million wallets created during its testnet and is expected to position Shiba Inu as a serious DeFi contender.
Counterpoint: 2023 global smartphone shipments to drop 6% YoY to 1.15B units, the lowest level since 2013, due to China's worsening economy and poor US demand
- Global smartphone shipments are expected to drop 6% from 2022 — Apple is better positioned than others to weather the storm
Court filings: Tesla engineers admit that the company did nothing to address Autopilot's inability to recognize crossing traffic following a fatal crash in 2016
- Company faces damning testimony as trial looms over 2019 wreck — CEO Elon Musk has claimed Teslas are safest cars ever made
Inside Def Con AI Village 2023, which attracted 2,200 people competing in a White House-backed challenge to find vulnerabilities in popular generative AI models
New York Times : X: @nytimestech , @nytimestech , @nytimestech , and @nytimes X: @nytimestech : During a competition at a conference, hackers, with the blessing of Biden's administration, tried to br...
Adyen reports H1 2023 net revenue up 21% YoY to €739.1M, below €754M est., €320M EBITA, below €365M est., and defends hiring 551 new staff; ADYEN.AS drops 27%+
Dutch company counts cost of sustained recruitment and fierce US competition
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck says all Glenn Beck Program episodes were removed from Apple Podcasts, and then restored, “with no explanation”
Meta starts rolling out HD photo support globally in WhatsApp for Android, iOS, and the web, and says the company plans to add support for HD videos soon
WhatsApp is flipping a switch that will let users send higher-quality “HD” images on the messaging platform.
NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices and asks agencies to remove the app within 30 days; a NYC Cyber Command review found that TikTok “posed a security threat”
but a notice on the account says, “This account was operated by NYC until August 2023. It's no longer monitored.” https://variety.com/... via @variety Forums: Hacker News : New York City bans TikTok f...
Coinbase says the exchange received regulatory approval from the CFTC-backed National Futures Association to offer futures trading services to eligible US users
a ‘watershed moment’—as decision on Grayscale spot Bitcoin ETF looms Emily Tonelli / Crypto Briefing : Coinbase Steps Up, Securing Approval for Listing US Crypto Futures Trading Mutuma Maxwell / Crypt...
Analysis: Bing had 1% to 3% search market share globally in July, the same as in January 2023, despite adding Bing Chat; Microsoft calls the new Bing a success
The new Bing with AI chatbot is ‘cute, but not a game changer’ — When Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered version of Bing in February …
Google launches a new Transparency Center to let users report harmful content, make appeals across Google's services, read its transparency reports, and more
Google is launching a new Transparency Center to make it easier for users to learn more about its product policies.
Apple says the company removed all episodes of The Glenn Beck Program from Apple Podcasts because of a trademark dispute that has since been resolved
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Studies show that LK-99 is not a superconductor and that impurities, notably copper sulfide, were responsible for the material's superconducting-like behaviors
how science sleuths solved the mystery Replications pieced together the puzzle of why the material displayed superconducting-like behaviours. https://www.nature.com/... @originalspin : Sucks that we d...
Apple backtracks and moves the iPhone's “end call” button back to the middle of the screen, from the bottom-right corner, in the latest iOS 17 beta
Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger partners with PayPal to let US users buy BTC, ETH, BCH, and LTC in its Ledger Live app through their linked PayPal accounts
Helene Braun / CoinDesk :
Jefferies and TrueUp: tech companies have laid off 342,671 employees so far in 2023, well above the 243,075 job cuts across all of 2022
Tech companies aren't yet ramping up hiring after massive layoffs over the past year, despite a surge in interest in artificial intelligence, requiring workers with special skills.
A number of cyber security professionals called in by companies and governments to tackle organized hacking groups say their work is attracting physical threats
Computer experts called in to tackle organised hacking groups say their work is attracting physical threats X: @tanarrowz and @lukolejnik X: @tanarrowz : “It's going to get worse,” said the researcher...
Xbox debuts a strike-based enforcement program, to improve “player transparency” and clear up confusion; eight strikes over six months results in a one-year ban
Lenovo reports Q1 revenue down 24% YoY to $12.9B, below $13.84B est., net income down 66% YoY to $177M, and China sales down 29% YoY, as PC demand slumps
I am grateful to our Lenovo employees for their continued hard work in driving key initiatives that support Lenovo's transformation. … Ken Wong : In the wake of our recent earnings, I'm excited to she...
Epic Games expands its Epic Online Services crossplay tools from PC to PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch, helping developers more easily add crossplay multiplayer
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Effective global AI governance will not stand a chance sans collaboration with tech companies and policymakers agreeing on basic principles for how to govern AI
Before It's Too Late?
Court filings: Alameda can make a $175M claim from the estate of similarly bankrupt crypto company Genesis, significantly below the nearly $4B FTX first sought
Jack Schickler / CoinDesk :
Docs: Amazon plans to impose a new 2% fee per sale on merchants who ship products themselves, on top of the ~15% commission they already pay, from October 2023
Memo: the White House orders US agencies to shore up their cybersecurity after many “failed to fully comply” with practices prescribed by a 2021 executive order
PayPal plans to “temporarily pause” letting UK users buy crypto from October 1, to work on complying with new regulations, and restart support in “early 2024”
Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $15.2B, vs. $15.05B est., net income up 41% YoY to $4B, and forecasts FY 2024 revenue of $57B to $58.2B, vs. $58.4B est.
Earnings Review Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters : Cisco forecasts annual revenue below estimates
Filing: Leslie Kilgore and Andrea Wishom stepped down from Nextdoor's board on August 1 after the US DOJ raised concerns they were also on Pinterest's board
OSHA investigations and 11 interviews: Amazon's first aid clinics put warehouse staff at risk by keeping them working instead of referring them to medical care
The UK plans to host an AI Safety Summit in November 2023 with countries, academics, and AI executives from DeepMind, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more
Sources: Ramp, which offers credit cards and expense management software, is raising funding at a $5.5B valuation, a 32% cut to its $8.1B valuation from 2022
Kate Clark / The Information :
Sources: Chinese regulators met with Walmart, PayPal, and other foreign companies to help navigate China's new data security rules, hoping to ease legal fears
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg :
Sources: Eric Schmidt is building an organization, modeled on OpenAI, to tackle scientific challenges by using AI; most of the funding comes from his wealth
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : X: @simonkhalaf and @reedalbergotti Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot X: Simon Khalaf / @simonkhalaf : The best person to do this. Congrats @ericschmidt https://www.semaf...
NYC-based Highlight, which helps brands automate, track, and scale physical product testing, raised an $18M Series A led by Acre Venture Partners and HearstLab
Christine Hall / TechCrunch : X: @hearstlab . LinkedIn: Andrew Sidesinger X: @hearstlab : The highlight of our day? @letshighlight officially closed their $18M Series A! We're thrilled to announce th...
Internal presentation: Alphabet's Verily is planning more cost cutting after posting wider than expected operating losses on $280M revenue through June in 2023
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal :
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