Hands-on with Sony PlayStation Portal: a slightly weird design but lighter than the Switch, expansive and vibrant 60Hz LCD screen, no Bluetooth, and needs a PS5
PlayStation Portal-ble — Sony has a storied, if a bit neglected, history with handheld gaming.
Sony announces the PlayStation Portal, an 8-inch handheld console that will stream PS5 games over Wi-Fi in 1080p at 60fps, available later in 2023 for $200
Sony is officially launching its portable PlayStation later this year, the PlayStation Portal remote player.
IBM unveils watsonx Code Assistant for IBM Z, which uses a code-generating AI model to translate COBOL code into Java, set for general availability in Q4 2023
COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959.
Investigation: despite scaling back in Russia in 2022, Binance continues to handle substantial ruble trading, helping clients evade sanctions via intermediaries
Binance is helping Russians move money abroad, potentially adding to its sprawling legal problems in the U.S. The cryptocurrency giant …
A US judge sentences ex-OpenSea product head Nate Chastain to three months in prison for making ~$50K via insider trades, in the first NFT insider trading case
Chastain was found guilty on charges of buying and selling NFTs from collections he knew would later be featured on his former company's home page.
AirPods Max can malfunction or suddenly stop working because of users' sweat or condensation inside of earcups, an issue Apple has not publicly acknowledged
Apple's $550 flagship headphones have a problem: They can malfunction, or suddenly stop working entirely, because of users' sweat …
Sony announces the $200 Pulse Explore headphones, utilizing its new PlayStation Link tech to connect to the Portal and offer low-latency performance
In addition to announcing the price of its upcoming PlayStation Portal remote gaming gadget, Sony also shared new details today …
Bank for International Settlements: crypto has amplified rather than reduced financial risks in less developed economies, offering only an “illusory” appeal
Currency's appeal as a low-cost solution for countries with high inflation is ‘illusory’, says BIS
OpenAI adds fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo, letting developers customize models with their own data to make them perform better for their use cases for a fee
OpenAI customers can now bring custom data to the lightweight version of GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo — making it easier to improve …
A look at the dire state of Americans' privacy, worsened by credit bureaus' data policies; Telegram bots sell troves of personal info on targets for ~$15 in BTC
It took only a few seconds to uncover the target's entire life. — On the messaging app Telegram, I entered a tiny amount …
SoftBank's Arm files to list on the Nasdaq and reports $524M net income on $2.68B in FY 2023 revenue, down 1% YoY from $2.7B; the company wants the ticker ARM
An analysis of Google's policy dilemma as YouTube and UMG explore AI licensing, Google scrapes the web to train its AI, and lawsuits could upend copyright law
Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can get in its way.
Meta says it remains committed to rolling out default E2EE for Messenger, which has opt-in E2EE, by the end of 2023, and shortly afterwards for Instagram DMs
Meta plans to roll out default end-to-end encryption for its Messenger product by the end of this year, the company confirmed in a blog post Tuesday.
LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models represent an entirely new era for AI and discontinuity from the past capabilities of the CNN/RNN/GAN world
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past “AI”, it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
A UK court finds 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj and a 17-year-old were part of Lapsus$, the group that hacked Uber, Nvidia, and Rockstar Games in 2021 and 2022
A court has found an 18-year-old from Oxford was a part of an international cyber-crime gang responsible for a hacking spree against major tech firms
SIA: Huawei is building secret chip fabrication facilities across China that would let the company skirt US sanctions and is receiving ~$30B in state funding
- Tech giant is reportedly getting $30 billion in state support — Biden administration monitoring and ready to take action
3D printer maker Bambu Lab blames a cloud outage for an issue that caused some of its customers' devices to start printing without their consent
Bambu Lab says it will help with repairs, replacement parts. — Imagine waking in the middle of the night to the sound of your 3D printer, printing away.
Binance.US partners with MoonPay to let users use debit or credit cards and Apple Pay or Google Pay to buy Tether, which can then be used to buy other tokens
- Payment partnership allows users to convert dollars to Tether — Exchange has been unable to process users' dollars directly
LinkedIn is benefiting from recent social media upheavals, as the only place where old-school self-promotion still works; sharing was up 41% YoY in spring 2023
The professional network is benefiting from upheavals elsewhere in the social media landscape. — The biggest social media platforms all have their niches.
Arm's IPO prospectus estimates the company has a 10% share of the $18B market for cloud processors, up from 7% in 2020, and a 41% share of the automotive market
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To appease the UK, Microsoft restructures its Activision deal by committing to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft; the UK CMA will now investigate
right now it's negligible. Ashley Armstrong / @aarmstrong_says : Big news on Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal : Microsoft files new deal with UK competition regulators for Call of Duty video game ma...
Antenna: Netflix had ~2.6M signups in the US in July, more than any other paid streaming service but down 26% from June 2023; 23% were for Netflix's ad tier
- The streaming service had more sign-ups than any other in July — Netflix user growth in the US had stopped in recent years
A decade after data analytics promised to revolutionize US agriculture, many farmers are still waiting for the tech to pay off and are swamped by a data deluge
Uptake of agtech tools has been tepid, and even many farmers who do use them struggle with the software and a flood of data from their farms X: @mattkahn1966 and @mattkahn1966 X: Matthew E. Kahn / @ma...
NCC Group saw a record 502 ransomware attacks in July, up from 198 in July 2022; the Cl0p ransomware-as-a-service gang was tied to 171 of the July 2023 attacks
Ransomware attacks reached record levels in July 2023, driven by the Cl0p ransomware group's exploitation of MOVEit software.
The FBI details North Korea's TraderTraitor-affiliated actors, responsible for Alphapo, CoinsPaid, and Atomic Wallet hacks, and warns over cashing out $40M+ BTC
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Sources: Nvidia plans to at least triple the production of the H100 in 2024, predicting shipments of between 1.5M to 2M units, up from 500K in 2023
Server production hampered by tight stocks of Nvidia processors and other components — Investors are set to assess whether enormous demand …
Experts warn that Meta, and possibly Google, blocking trusted news outlets in Canada will worsen misinformation as the world nears a “precipice” of AI content
As it becomes increasingly difficult to trust what we read online, experts say it's critical to learn how to tell real media from fake — here's how. X: @parismarx , @libshipwreck , @matthewstoller , @...
Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 with AI-powered Ray Reconstruction, designed to recognize patterns within a noisy image and improve clarity, available on all RTX GPUs
I'm continually impressed with how far my coworkers have been able to evolve DLSS, from its humble beginnings to this suite of state of the art tech. — https://www.youtube.com/... X: Tom Warren / @t...
Meta releases SeamlessM4T, an AI model that can translate and transcribe nearly 100 languages across text and speech, and SeamlessAlign, a translation dataset
Use with library — SeamlessM4T is a collection of models designed … Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo : Meta Releases AI to Translate Dozens of Languages Using Speech and Text Ina Fried / Axios : Meta release...
Twitch rolls out an experimental TikTok-like Discovery Feed to select users, first with creators' horizontal clips and, “as the feed evolves”, vertical clips
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Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail Ventures, which runs 18,500 stores and e-commerce platforms, raised $1B from Qatar's QIA for a 0.99% stake at a $100B valuation
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Snap names former Google Pay executive Pulkit Trivedi as its India head and gives greater autonomy to local leadership in a market where Snapchat has 200M+ MAUs
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Ramp, which offers credit cards and expense management tools, raised $300M at a $5.8B valuation from Founders Fund and others, down from $8.1B in March 2022
A look at potential issues in the UK's plans to revise its Investigatory Powers Act, including blocking end-to-end encryption and slowing down security updates
Ioannis Kouvakas / Just Security : X: @sailingbikeruk , @rodolfor , @mer__edith , @misanthropegirl , @alecmuffett , @jjaron , @jsrailton , @jsrailton , @jsrailton , @jamesrbuk , and @gazthejourno For...
Tel Aviv-based Grip Security, which helps companies reduce their SaaS identity risk, raised a $41M Series B led by Third Point, taking its total funding to $66M
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London-based ticketing company Dice raised $65M led by MUSIC, taking its total funding to $200M+; Dice expects to serve 55K+ artists and 10K+ venues in 2023
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Mendaera, which is developing a collaborative robotic system with real-time imaging and AI for health care providers, raised a $24M Series A led by Lux Capital
Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews :
A look at CivitAI, a site for sharing AI models that generate images mostly trained on material scraped without consent, as non-consensual AI porn proliferates
Nvidia and VMware extend their partnership to help companies iterate on open AI models like Llama 2 and MPT, using Nvidia's NeMo Framework on VMware's cloud
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Sources: Hugging Face raised $200M+ at a $4B+ valuation led by Salesforce Ventures, more than doubling its private valuation, and is on pace for a $30M+ ARR
and basically zero people will know or care what Hugging Face is or does. I also think Microsoft will just eventually acquire it. … X: Marc Benioff / @benioff : Salesforce Ventures is thrilled to lea...
Q&A with Fandom CEO Perkins Miller on the wiki hosting service's origin as Wikipedia's sister company, Pottermore, acquiring TV Guide, ads, FanDNA, AI, and more
but Perkins thinks Fandom is poised to survive and thrive. https://www.theverge.com/... Forums: r/giantbomb : Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the internet — can CEO Perkins Miller keep ...
Sources: Tiger Global nears a deal to sell a ~2.1% stake in AI startup Cohere for ~$63M at a ~$3B valuation, up 40%+ from June 2023, and would keep a ~5% stake
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Sources: Thoma Bravo plans to close its $2.3B acquisition of ID verification software maker ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal
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