1Password detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance for managing employee-facing apps but “found no compromise of user data or other sensitive systems”
1Password CTO says investigation found no compromise of user data or sensitive systems.
Sources: Nvidia has begun designing ARM CPUs for Windows PCs, and AMD also plans to build ARM chips; source: Nvidia and AMD could start selling them in 2025
Nvidia (NVDA.O) dominates the market for artificial intelligence computing chips. Now it is coming after Intel's longtime stronghold of personal computers.
A look at Nightshade and Glaze, tools made by researchers at UChicago that help artists “poison” their work to confuse or break AI models that later train on it
A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it's scraped …
Sources: many people inside Apple do not believe its own AI/ML team can deliver on generative AI, and worry that the company will only use that team's output
Speaking of Mark Gurman, he has an interesting bit about Apple's AI efforts in his latest Power On column:
EU environmental groups criticize Apple branding its new Apple Watches as “carbon neutral” and using credits to cancel out the 7kg to 12kg of emissions per unit
iPhone maker flags credentials of its latest Watch products as EU seeks to clamp down on ‘greenwashing’
AI experts share a paper ahead of the UK's AI summit in Bletchley Park warning of worrying capabilities in current AI systems and seeking urgent governance
Authors and academics also warn development of advanced systems ‘utterly reckless’ without safety checks
Automattic plans to acquire Texts, a $15 per month messaging app that works with WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, iMessage, and more, for $50M
Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties, just made a different kind …
A Twitter user since 2007 reflects on leaving due to Elon Musk swapping stasis at the company for chaos, his constant bullshitting, and spreading toxic content
Twitter always used to look a lot like Craigslist. It stumbled into something that a lot of people found very useful …
A look at POSSE, a decade-old idea that a user should Publish (on your) Own Site and Syndicate Elsewhere, and the challenges of building a system based on that
The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody.
Spotify Q3: revenue up 11% YoY to €3.4B, MAUs up 26% to 574M, subscribers up 16% YoY to 226M, and €32M operating income, vs. a €44.6M loss est.; SPOT jumps 9%+
Spotify Technology SA rose the most since January after the music-streaming giant reported third-quarter results …
Google disables live traffic conditions in Israel and the Gaza Strip for its Maps and Waze apps, a source says at the request of the Israel Defense Forces
- Israeli army asked tech giant to limit real-time information — Google took similar action in Ukraine during war with Russia
Xreal, formerly Nreal, announces the $399 Xreal Air 2 and $449 Air 2 Pro, AR glasses with brighter Micro OLED displays, available in five countries in November
Xreal is opening preorders for its latest generation of augmented reality glasses, the Xreal Air 2 and Air 2 Pro …
Apple schedules a “Scary Fast” event for October 30 at 5PM PT, where new Apple silicon and refreshed Macs are expected; the event has no in-person component
Apple today announced its second fall event of 2023, with the event set to be held on Monday, October 30 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Tyler Cowen announces econgoat.ai, the first “generative book” that lets readers query the material to create more content, derived from a 100K-word manuscript
I am pleased to announce and present my new project, available here, free of charge.
A paper from Geoffrey Hinton and other experts warns of AI systems' worrying capabilities and says 33% of companies' AI R&D budgets should go to managing risks
Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, two of the so-called AI godfathers, have joined with 22 other leading AI academics …
Meta is “listening to feedback” after some users noticed the company is cross-posting Threads posts to users' Facebook feeds without offering an opt-out option
The company said it's “listening to feedback” about the feature. — Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics …
California and dozens of other US states sue Meta in federal court over claims Facebook and Instagram exploit youths for profit and feed them harmful content
The suit, filed in federal court in California, adds to growing scrutiny of social media giants over how they serve their youngest users.
Sources: RISC-V chip designer SiFive, which has raised $365M+, lays off 100 to 300+ employees, mostly in its engineering team, and guts its product portfolio
A quick one for you. I have received reports, now from multiple sources, that the major torch bearer of the RISC-V platform …
Q&A with FTC Commissioner and digital privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya on the agency's plan to hire child psychologists to understand social media's impact on kids
I saw and I heard stories from parents about the mental health issues that their children were experiencing and how both the parents and …
The White House designates 31 communities across the US as regional Tech Hubs that can compete for $40M to $75M each in grants, under the CHIPS and Science Act
The White House and the Commerce Department announced … Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends : White House unveils 31 U.S. tech hubs to boost industry Brittany Roston / SlashGear : White House Designates 31 U...
Taiwan VP Lai Ching-te assails China's Foxconn investigation; sources say China disclosed the move for political reasons tied to Taiwan's January 2024 elections
Hands-on with DALL-E 3: suggests more detailed prompts, restrictive, denies art requests in the style of living artists, and shows how quickly AI is improving
Casey Newton / Platformer :
Sony sold 2.5M copies of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in the first 24 hours after its October 20 release, becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game ever
Marvel's #SpiderMan2PS5 has sold more than 2.5 million copies in the first 24 hours. Thanks for making this a high-flying launch! [image] Forums: r/PS5 : Great news, Spidey fans — Marvel's #SpiderMan2...
South Korea-based Naver signs a 2024 to 2029 deal with Saudi Arabia to build digital twins of Riyadh, Medina, Jeddah, Dammam, and Mecca, sources say for $100M+
Kim Na-young / Yonhap News Agency :
Instagram is testing a toggle in its app that lets users only see posts from Meta Verified subscribers, as “a way for businesses and creators to get discovered”
and it's testing a new service that boosts your profile if you do Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie : Instagram Could Soon Filter Out Non-Verified Accounts The Indian Express : Meta Verified users to soon g...
WIPO: Chinese entities applied for 29,853 AI patents in 2022, up from 29,000 in 2021, 78% more than the 16,800 US filings in 2022, down from 17,800 in 2021
- Patent filings from China almost doubles the sum of US in 2022 — Top players like Baidu, Alibaba race to monetize AI products
Byju's CFO Ajay Goel resigns after six months as the edtech continues to delay its FY 2022 earnings; Byju's President of Finance takes over on October 30
Bloomberg :
Amazon rolls out passkey support in its iOS app and the web, letting users log in via their devices' biometrics, and says support for Android is “coming soon”
After Unciphered developed a crack for an old IronKey USB drive to recover 7,002 BTC, the owner declines their help because he agreed to work with other experts
Now a team of hackers has shown they can crack the drive and unlock its fortune. The problem: Thomas doesn't seem to want to let them. — Read: https://www.wired.com/... … @mhoye@mastodon.social : “...
Streaming services, including Hulu, Peacock, and Max, are increasingly showing “pause ads”, which appear a few seconds after a viewer pauses the programming
they only turn up a few seconds after a viewer has decided to halt the programming — are seeing new movement in the streaming world. On Hulu, Peacock, Max. https://variety.com/... LinkedIn: Max Collin...
From July 2022 to June 2023, the US led the world with $1T+ in “value received on chain”, but most stablecoin inflows to top services went via non-US exchanges
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy says big-money deals with top livestreaming gamers is not a “sustainable business”; sources: YouTube is also backing away from such deals
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg :
Databricks plans to acquire data startup Arcion, which has raised $18M+, for $100M, after raising $500M in September and acquiring MosaicML for $1.3B in June
TikTok tests letting users upload 15-minute videos, after raising its maximum video limit to 10 minutes in February 2022, to attract longer-form video creators
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Analysts: Chinese AI startup SenseTime's pivot from government surveillance work to data centers now seems doomed by new US export controls on powerful AI chips
Hong Kong-based AI company SenseTime faces ‘end of the road’ for data centre ambitions — SenseTime, once the darling … X: @chinabeigebook X: @chinabeigebook : “Shares in #SenseTime have ⬇️ >75% sinc...
PimEyes, a paid facial recognition service, blocks searches of children's faces via age detection AI to identify photos of minors, as part of a “no harm policy”
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Sources: the UK is set to reject Big Tech calls to be able to appeal rulings by the CMA's Digital Markets Unit, expected to be able to levy fines and more
Bloomberg : X: @kitty_donaldson X: Kitty Donaldson / @kitty_donaldson : EXC: UK ministers are poised to reject calls from tech giants such as Google and Facebook for greater scope to appeal against d...
Parity Technologies, the developer of Polkadot, which helps different blockchains communicate with each other, is laying off ~100 staff, or 30% of its employees
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg :
MangoBoost, which develops data processing units for data centers, raised a $55M Series A, sources say at a ~$300M valuation, bringing its total funding to $65M
We recently completed our Series A ($55M), and our “DPU-inside” …
A look at YouTube's negotiations with record labels over an AI tool that lets creators perform using major musicians' voices, a pivotal moment for AI in music
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg : X: @lucas_shaw . LinkedIn: Ben Liebmann and Steven Wolfe Pereira See also Mediagazer X: Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw : US customers cancelled streaming services at record rates l...
SK Hynix's stock has surged 67% in 2023 due to its Nvidia deal, while rival Samsung's stock is up 24%, on track to underperform SK Hynix by the most in a decade
Amsterdam-based Adyen, a Stripe and PayPal rival, has seen its stock fall ~25% since August 17's drop of 35%+, after Adyen reported lower-than-expected sales
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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.