WordPress.com debuts a 100-year domain name registration for $38K, offering managed hosting and 24/7 customer service; domains are typically capped at 10 years
WordPress announces the availability of 100-year domain name registrations that include 24/7 assistance and managed web hosting
Sources: Apple's new iPad Pro, due in 2024, will get its first major overhaul since 2018, including an M3 chip, OLED displays, and a revamped Magic Keyboard
Apple is working on a revamped iPad Pro for next year, aiming to shake up a tablet market that's deep in the doldrums.
A Pepe memecoin team member says three ex-colleagues stole about 16T Pepe tokens worth $15M from the project's multisig before selling them on crypto exchanges
- Approximately 16 trillion Pepe tokens ($15 million) were illicitly transferred to crypto exchanges OKX, Binance …
Linus Tech Tips founder Linus Sebastian addresses errors and ethics but not sexual harassment claims, responding to accusations that prompted a production pause
Linus Media Group (LMG) founder Linus Sebastian explained LMG's HR policies and how it will improve accuracy and ethics in a video posted to YouTube last night.
Stephen King reflects on his books being used for AI training, arguing the sum is lesser than its parts, so far, as creativity can't happen without sentience
One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence. — Self-driving cars.
Hackers breached WebDetetive, an Android spyware app used mainly in Brazil, and deleted data on its victims; Poland-based LetMeSpy was similarly hacked in June
The Portuguese-language app WebDetetive was used to compromise over 76,000 phones to date — A Portuguese-language spyware …
A look at the UK's new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI
Head of Advanced Research and Invention Agency tells FT it has appointed directors charged with selecting projects X: @braincures , @drdrasko , @clivecookson , @braincures , @workmj , @wi_john , and @...
Despite cheating and misinformation fears, some US schools that once raced to block AI chatbot access are now encouraging teachers and students to use them
Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them. — For decades, Walla Walla High School …
AMD announces new Radeon RX 7000 series video cards, the $449 RX 7700 XT and the $499 7800 XT, based on its new Navi 32 GPU and aimed at the 1440p gaming market
Sources: a company spending $800M+ to buy thousands of acres to build a new Bay Area city is backed by Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, and others
A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land.
Instacart files for a US IPO, reports 2022 revenue up 39% YoY to $2.55B, $428M net income, up from a $73M loss in 2021, and H1 2023 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.48B
Common Stock This is an initial public offering of shares of common stock … Reuters : Instacart reveals IPO filing, disclosing PepsiCo investment, profitability Dan Frommer / The New Consumer : Parade...
The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations
#DSA — becomes legally enforceable for Very Large Online Platforms & Search Engines. These systemic platforms play a very important role in our daily lives — so it was time for the EU to set our own r...
Cisco Talos: North Korea-backed Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and health care entities in Europe and the US
Jonathan Greig / The Record :
A look at Smart Answers, an AI chatbot trained only on Macworld, PCWorld, Tech Advisor, and TechHive content, and offered to the outlets' readers on August 1
By and large, the goal has been: can we make more pages for ads without paying more writers? — Now, a group of tech outlets … Threads: @dsilverman . X: @harrymccracken Threads: Dwight Silverman / @d...
Hackers access some customer data at FTX, Genesis, and BlockFi by SIM swapping an employee of Kroll, which manages creditor claims for the bankrupt companies
We were recently informed that on Saturday, August 19, 2023 … Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Kroll data breach exposes info of FTX, BlockFi, Genesis creditors Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs :...
X launches a private beta of X Hiring, a job posting feature for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates”
Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job? Nah, those days are over. X is the new place to find your next employer.
The US Treasury proposes new rules that would treat crypto exchanges more like stockbrokers, requiring them to report gross proceeds to the IRS starting in 2026
including DAOs and certain wallet providers—or to create them... Richard Rubin / @richardrubindc : One could be cynical/clever and note the incentive for Congress to purport to raise revenue by enacti...
A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with “believable human behavior”
Giving digital agents ‘memory streams’ produced surprising results — John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work. Mastodon: @NeadReport@social.vivaldi.net . Bluesky: @nitis...
Nansen: ~90% of PayPal's stablecoin is held in issuer Paxos Trust's wallets, suggesting a “lack of demand from crypto users for PYUSD” that launched on August 7
Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph :
Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other tech; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents, the most of any company
Eri Sugiura / Financial Times :
YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube's algorithm and what counts as a view
Explained! Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter : The Creators Guild of America is a new “service organization” for online video professionals Rene Ritchie / YouTube Official Blog : Rene's Top Five on YouTube: Au...
A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, and has a ~$2B valuation, fewer than 250 staff, and 700 clients, like Microsoft
and it's now competing with some of the world's most valuable companies. https://www.wsj.com/... @coreweave : Check out the latest CoreWeave feature in the @WSJ, featuring quotes from all three founde...
Sources: at TikTok, Oracle staff reviewing the app's source code sit at desks beneath TikTok-controlled cameras, a requirement directly from China's government
and a government proctor. But stuck in limbo, the companies' relationship has soured. https://www.forbes.com/... [image] Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite : Scoop 2.0: The TikTok-Oracle relationship is...
Sources: EvolutionaryScale, founded by members of Meta's recently axed protein-folding team to build LLMs for biology, raised a $40M+ seed at a $200M valuation
Forbes : X: @_iainmartin and @kenrickcai X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : Meta shuttered it's AI project focused on protein-folding in April. Now that team have raised $40m to build new biological LLM...
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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.