Humane's Ai Pin seems like a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager, the lack of apps feels extremely limiting, and the $699 price is hard to understand
The Humane AI pin has no screen, no apps, and a creepy in-your-face camera. — Not since Magic Leap has a “next-generation” …
A look at custom chatbots, or GPTs, which are tailored for specific tasks and represent an important step in OpenAI's strategy of “gradual iterative deployment”
The age of autonomous A.I. assistants could have huge implications. — You could think of the recent history of A.I. chatbots as having two distinct phases.
Maine's government says that MOVEit hackers may have accessed the personal information of ~1.3M individuals, which is close to the state's entire population
The State of Maine has announced that its systems were breached after threat actors exploited a vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer tool …
DP World Australia, the country's second largest port operator, shuts down after a cyber attack, impacting the movement of goods in and out of the country
Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article … Australia's second largest port operator has shut …
SAG-AFTRA's deal would require studios to obtain consent before creating digital replicas of living and deceased actors, disclose their use, and pay to use them
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FTX sues crypto exchange Bybit and two affiliates to recover ~$953M in cash and digital assets that was withdrawn using “VIP” status before FTX filed Chapter 11
- FTX claims Bybit affiliate used “VIP” status to withdraw funds — Bybit's Mirana withdrew $327 million just before FTX pause
EC official: X had just 2,294 EU content moderators, versus 16,974 at YouTube and 6,125 at TikTok, according to reports submitted by the companies in September
Elon Musk's X social media platform has just 2,294 content moderators to ensure users comply with EU online content rules …
Hands-on with Apple's spatial videos: easy to record on an iPhone 15 Pro and viewing on a Vision Pro is an impressive experience with compellingly realistic 3D
here's what it's like on Apple Vision Pro William Gallagher / AppleInsider : Spatial Video shot on iPhone for Apple Vision Pro previewed for a select few Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : Apple has allowed some pr...
After critics pan Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, sources blame a rushed 16-month development cycle, vs. three years for past CoD titles
LockBit leaks ~50GB of data that the ransomware gang claims to have stolen from Boeing in October, after the company apparently refused to pay the ransom demand
Aerospace titan pores over data to see if dump is legit — The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all of the data …
Report: Apple product and search result pages on Amazon have few, if any, rival ads, after Apple asked for preferential treatment, leading to their 2018 deal
Apple and Amazon are once again facing scrutiny for their 2018 agreement that saw Apple finally establish an official Amazon storefront. Source: Insider .
Chatbots can lower the information barrier to help malicious actors build a bioweapon, making guardrails during chatbot development a good step for biosecurity
Artificial intelligence can help users engineer pathogens—but that's not the real danger. — Human extinction, mass unemployment …
Arch, which provides operations and reporting services for private investments, raised a $20M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, taking its total funding to $25M+
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Justin Sun's crypto exchange Poloniex says hackers stole $126M+ worth of crypto assets and that the company is working with other exchanges to recover the funds
Sources: Character.AI is in talks to raise hundreds of millions from Google and to raise equity funding from VC investors, which could value the company at $5B+
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character.AI, as the fast growing artificial …
Qualcomm ends its Iridium partnership to bring satellite connectivity to Android phones, started in January 2023, after low adoption by smartphone manufacturers
Sometimes apathy wins when it comes to things our phones can do. Michael Sheetz / CNBC : Iridium, Qualcomm end satellite-to-phone partnership Iridium Satellite Communications : Iridium Announces New D...
Sources: the FBI suspended briefings to social media companies about Russian, Iranian, and Chinese influence campaigns, due to the GOP's attacks on info sharing
Microsoft says the Clop ransomware group is exploiting a zero-day in IT support tool SysAid in “limited” attacks to access corporate servers and deploy Clop
blog post coming ASAP😜 Big thanks to @gleeda @HuskyHacksMK @DaveKleinatland @calebjstewart and the whole @HuntressLabs crew helping dig into this one! [image] @swiftonsecurity : I'm endlessly fascinat...
In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr's future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more
It's also worth sharing this note from a former Tumblr employee who hoped to work on the project: https://mastodon.social/... @jtr@fosstodon.org : Matt on Tumblr — “There have been a few staff chang...
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle the US DOJ's claims that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over citizens and green card holders for some jobs
What amazes me about this is that, as a small business owner, I have no problem treating my employees well and avoiding labor problems. The cost for a trillion dollar corporation to do the same with ...
Omegle shut down as part of a settlement with a user who sued the chat website company claiming its design enabled her to be sexually abused since age 11
Omegle, the once-popular online chat service that launched in 2009 … X: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : Omegle shutdown was part of a settlement in a child sex abuse lawsuit https://www.404media.co/....
India proposes broadcast and streaming rules that would set up content evaluation committees and let the government regulate any online creator or news platform
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Sources: Apple plans to file an EU DMA challenge, disputing the EU putting all of the App Store on the DMA list and arguing that the DMA doesn't cover iMessage
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Google's Jigsaw and Tech Against Terrorism launch Altitude, a free tool for smaller platforms to detect terrorist content on their networks and remove it
Small platforms without resources to handle takedown requests have been weaponized by terrorist groups that share their content online.
A profile of Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones, who succeeded Whitney Wolfe Herd and is charged with turning around a company whose shares have fallen ~80% since 2021
Turning round the fortunes of the dating app will be her biggest challenge yet — When Lidiane Jones moved from a poor neighbourhood …
Unity reports Q3 revenue up 69% YoY to $544.2M, missing $553.7M est. partly due to the fallout from new rules on video games in China, and a $124.1M net loss
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