Internal docs: X may lose ~$75M in ad revenue by 2023 end as Amazon, Microsoft, and other major brands halted or consider halting ads; X says it may lose $11M
Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or may do so, after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
A look at Binance and CZ's “Bond villain” compliance strategy and how their settlements will allow the US to deflate Binance while minimizing collateral damage
James Bond films have a certain formula to them. It is more interesting when seen from the perspective of the villain.
AI development will likely move faster and be more dispersed and less controlled after a failed coup at OpenAI, accelerating what the coup was trying to prevent
Failed coups, as seen at OpenAI, often accelerate the thing that they were trying to prevent — Over the past week, OpenAI's board went through four CEOs in five days.
Unsealed docs in a lawsuit by 30+ state AGs: Meta received 1.1M+ reports of under-13s on Instagram since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those
Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and “unlawfully” collected their data, according to a newly unsealed complaint.
A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000
Someone accidentally paid over $3 million in fees to send $2 million in BTC. — A luckless Bitcoin sender seemingly made a costly mistake …
Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally
A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales …
Satya Nadella and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott were instrumental to reinstating Sam Altman atop OpenAI, which a source says was the ideal outcome for Microsoft
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A look at Replicator, a Pentagon initiative expected to accelerate hard decisions on what AI tech is reliable enough to deploy, including on weaponized systems
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones …
A profile of Binance CEO Richard Teng, who faces the tough task of transforming the company's culture amid spiraling compliance costs and an ongoing SEC lawsuit
A side-by-side teardown of the Steam Deck OLED and Lenovo Legion Go: both are designed to be repaired by users; Steam Deck OLED scores 9/10 and Legion Go 7/10
The holiday gaming season has brought us two cutting-edge handheld gaming devices. In one corner, we have the upstart Legion Go …
Russia's interior ministry adds Meta's spokesperson Andy Stone to its wanted list, according to state-owned news agency TASS
The reason Andy Stone was added to the list was not indicated, according to the Russian news agency. — Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesperson …
Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP's network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more
The full extent of the security breach is unknown. — Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network … Mastodon: @malwarejake@infosec.exchange and @dyckron@mstdn.ca Forums: r/chi...
As safety demands strip Llama 2, ChatGPT, and others of anything remotely controversial, some programmers are building uncensored LLMs without safety guardrails
A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much. Bring on the uncensored models. Threads: @tnlnyc . Mastodon: @MikeElgan@mastodon.social . X: @chumpchanger , @theatlantic , @kedkorte...
Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers a co-branded credit card and an app to turn daily expenses into travel rewards, raised a $23M Series A
Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol :
Ahead of elections in India in December and 2024, political parties are courting social media influencers to reach rural voters while dodging media interviews
and an altering ecosystem of politicians + influencers — have taken over social media platforms challenging India's election integrity. Reporting from Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, and Karnataka for @WIRED:...
After users complained about seeing a fullscreen pop-up ad in Assassin's Creed Odyssey on both Xbox and PlayStation, Ubisoft blames a “technical error”
let's hope so Ted Litchfield / PC Gamer : Assassin's Creed players started having their games interrupted by full-screen pop-up ads, but Ubisoft says it was a ‘technical error’ and quickly patched it ...
An investigation identifies four secret bitcoin mining facilities in Bhutan, built using $220M in chips imported from China between 2021 and 2022
TikTok-funded report: TikTok users are much likelier to pay for a music streamer than the average consumer and spend more on concerts than the average listener
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally :
China's Sunway unveils new CPUs with a maximum FP64 throughput of 13.8 TFLOPS, which could let China build high-performance supercomputers despite US sanctions
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware :
Analysis: Nvidia was the world's biggest chip company by revenue in Q3, with revenue of $18.12B, vs. TSMC's $17.28B, Intel's $14.16B, and Samsung's $12.52B
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware :
Q&A with Slack CTO Cal Henderson on how the pandemic changed Slack and workplace habits, acquisition by Salesforce, generative AI, India market, and more
The pandemic accelerated changes that were already happening in the workplace and took us forward five or 10 years in terms of workplace habits … X: @chandrarsrikant and @chandrarsrikant X: Chandra R....
Filing: Nvidia says regulators in the EU and China requested information about its sale of GPUs and how it allocates their supply
Regulators in Europe and China have questioned Nvidia about how it allocates its supply of highly sought-after chips used for running AI software, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
FOIA docs: Prashant Bhardwaj, hired in March as the US OCC's first officer to police fintech firms, lied about his work history; OCC quietly replaced Bhardwaj
Michael Roddan / The Information :
The UK and South Korea warn that the North Korean Lazarus hacking group is using a zero-day in the authentication software MagicLine4NX for supply-chain attacks
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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