Cruise complies with California DMV's request to halve its fleet, as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving its robotaxis in San Francisco
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following …
Windows file archiver utility maker WinRAR fixes a vulnerability that could let an attacker remotely execute arbitrary code, after a researcher flagged the flaw
A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions …
Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from Stephen King and other authors
One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It's being made in secret. To produce humanlike answers to questions …
US intelligence agencies warn US space companies that China and Russia are targeting them and preparing cyberattacks that could disable satellites in a conflict
U.S. officials say Chinese and Russian spy agencies are trying to steal technology from private American space companies …
X appears to have deleted all images posted directly on the website between 2011 and 2014; links that used Twitter's native shortening service are also broken
Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014.
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute
the ability to block trolls Metro.co.uk : Elon Musk plans to stop letting X (formerly Twitter) users block each other Jorge Aguilar / Android Police : The app formally known as Twitter continues its d...
A judge upholds a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection as “human authorship is a bedrock requirement”
A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and served as the company's CEO until 2000, died on August 19 at age 82
Technology entrepreneur John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., died on Saturday at age 82, the company said in a statement. — The cause of Warnock's death wasn't disclosed.
Western Digital refuses to answer questions about how its portable SanDisk Extreme SSDs may lose users' data; the company is being sued for fraud and data loss
Eleven days ago, we sent these questions to Western Digital's head of PR and published them publicly on The Verge:
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information
OK. — But: Time and again they fail to disclose that the CBC hopes to get hundreds of millions of dollars from Meta and Google. … X: @jigglypants44 : If you can't figure out how to get news in Canad...
As Big Tech companies compel employees back to the office, some companies, like Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Twilio, remain steadfast backers of remote work
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Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge demands that Meta lift its “reckless” news ban on Facebook and Instagram for the safety of people fleeing wildfires
The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta (META.O) lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms …
Sources: the UK is in talks to acquire GPUs worth up to £100M for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials are pushing for allocating more funds
Effort fuels prime minister's ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field
How Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals are grappling with outlines, drafts, or papers that authors wrote using generative AI, without disclosure
Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there's no foolproof way to catch it all yet.
Q&A with TikTok Head of Music Ole Obermann on launching TikTok Music in Indonesia and Brazil before the US and helping artists from discovery to distribution
Louise Matsakis / Semafor : X: @semafor , @arpithadesai , and @reedalbergotti See also Mediagazer X: @semafor : TikTok Music went live in Brazil and Indonesia last month and will compete with platfor...
Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners, which acquired MindGeek in March 2023, rebrands the Pornhub owner as Aylo, seeking a “fresh start” after scandals
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post :
Analysis: daily trading volumes surge on Coinbase International, an offshore derivatives exchange Coinbase launched in May 2023, reaching $287M on August 18
Frank Chaparro / The Block : X: @fintechfrank . Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency X: Frank Chaparro / @fintechfrank : Coinbase International (CB's offshore perpetual swaps exchange) saw daily ...
Amazon restarts Amazon Shipping, its UPS and FedEx competitor that handles packages from other websites, after pausing the US service earlier in the pandemic
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal :
Source: in H1 2023, Instacart's revenue grew 30%+ YoY to ~$1.4B but gross transaction volume grew ~5% YoY; Instacart reportedly plans to go public in September
This is a similar pattern we saw during earnings season where companies are squeezing more revenue out of customers via price increases and introducing ads versus revenue growing due to usage. — htt...
Draft IPO filing: Arm's revenue fell 1% YoY to $2.68B in its fiscal year ended on March 31, 2023; sources: Arm plans to sell ~10% of its shares in its listing
Bloomberg :
Nestlé, Unilever, and other big advertisers are experimenting with using generative AI ads, but many remain wary of the security, copyright, and data bias risks
Some of the world's biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle (NESN.S) to consumer goods multinational Unilever (ULVR.L) … See also Mediagazer
A look at the AI-powered robots that help maintain critical US infrastructure, including from Gecko Robotics, Skydio, Anybotics, Invert Robotics, and Greensea
To sum it up, Vonnegut was right. — People love to disrupt old industries, and build anew. — But you can't just tear out the world's power distribution infrastructure, for example. — If we are s...
A profile of, and interview with, Max Tegmark, who co-founded the Elon Musk-backed Future of Life Institute and says AI may be an existential threat to humanity
Emily Bobrow / Wall Street Journal : X: @drtechlash , @ainnovationai , @_luciavelasco , @sharongoldman , @wsj , @danakst , and @emilybobrow X: Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD / @drtechlash : Step 1: Talk abou...
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