Intel 5th-Gen Xeon Platinum 8592+ review: the $11,600 64-core chip outperforms AMD's 64-core EPYC Genoa in several benchmarks, particularly in AI workloads
The sun shines brighter for Intel. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products …
How Microsoft's 10-year-old Digital Crime Unit uses unique legal tactics and the company's technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors
Ten years in, Microsoft's DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company's technical reach …
Crypto wallet maker Ledger updates Connect Kit, saying a former employee “fell victim to a phishing attack” that let a hacker insert malicious code
Crypto wallet manufacturer Ledger has confirmed an exploit that led it to warn users to “stop using dapps” started because a former employee fell for a phishing scam.
Google confirms that it will no longer respond to geofence warrants after making changes to the way Maps stores users' location data
“Geofence warrants,” which allow law enforcement to get location data across a wide area, have become commonplace in recent years.
Andreessen Horowitz says “we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values” for technology
As software has eaten the world, it has become integral to every industry and nearly every endeavor in our society.
Cox Media Group claims it can listen to conversations of consumers through microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices and use it to target ads
A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations …
Email: Cruise lays off 900 staff, or ~24% of its workforce, targeting non-engineering jobs, as part of a plan to slash costs and attempt to revamp the company
Cruise, the embattled GM self-driving car subsidiary, is laying off 900 employees, or about 24% of its workforce …
Sources: Apple plans to deploy advanced OLED screens in high-end iPads in 2024 and in a MacBook model in H2 2025, and is also considering making foldable iPads
Display industry in for disruption as investment pours into newer technology — Apple is the leader in the global tablet computer market thanks …
Intel announces Gaudi3, a generative AI chip in development since 2019 and launching in 2024 to take on Nvidia's H100 and AMD's MI300X, but is light on details
Microsoft seizes US-based infrastructure and websites used by cybercrime group Storm-1152 that created ~750M fraudulent Microsoft accounts, after a court order
Some publishers estimate that Google's Search Generative Experience could cut referral traffic by 20% to 40% if the final version resembles recent iterations
Tech giant's AI-powered search product is being tested on roughly 10 million users; publishers rely on Google for traffic and see a gathering storm
Microsoft launches the basic Office suite on the Meta Quest store for free; all three apps run in a MR environment and all Quest headsets are supported
Now you can tweak spreadsheets while playing Xbox, all in VR. — What you need to know — Meta Quest users can now use Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in VR.
At Intel's NYC event, Pat Gelsinger claimed that for AI, inference will become more important than training, and the industry wants to “eliminate” Nvidia's CUDA
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware :
Toy startup Curio launches three AI-powered plush toys, including a $99 one called Grok, that use OpenAI's tech to converse with kids and are voiced by Grimes
Grok is the first in a line of toys from start-up Curio intended to allow kids to converse with an AI chatbot
Researchers: Microsoft Copilot is responding to some political queries in the US and other countries with conspiracies, information, and out-of-date information
Research shared exclusively with WIRED shows that Copilot, Microsoft's AI chatbot, often responds to questions about elections with lies and conspiracy theories.
Days after updating its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content, Twitch rescinds its “artistic nudity” policy, citing community concern
Ash Parrish / The Verge :
Sources: Musk gave verbal guarantees to some US banks that they would not lose money on the Twitter deal; banks face serious losses on the “uninvestable” debt
Banks are facing serious losses on the debt as social media platform's business deteriorates
OpenAI details how its Superalignment research team is exploring ways to control stronger AI models like GPT-4 using weaker supervisor models like GPT-2
We present a new research direction for superalignment … Alisa Davidson / Metaverse Post : OpenAI's Superalignment Team Unveils Innovative Method for AI System Oversight Abubakar Idris / The Messenger...
China proposes a four-tier, color-coded system for data security incidents; for red and orange alerts the government must be notified within 10 minutes
China on Friday proposed a four-tier classification to help it respond to data security incidents, highlighting Beijing's concern …
A look back at Yahoo Pipes, launched in 2007 to let users make custom data feeds by dragging elements in a web browser, influencing a generation of UI designers
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The SEC rejects a Coinbase petition for formal rules for digital assets, arguing the “existing securities regime appropriately governs crypto asset securities”
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk :
SafeMoon filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on December 14 after the US SEC charged the company on November 1 for selling unregistered crypto securities
Timmy Shen / The Block :
Google DeepMind's FunSearch model cracks the unsolved cap set problem in pure mathematics, the first time an LLM has solved a long-standing scientific puzzle
outsmarting humans Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : Google DeepMind's FunSearch cracks mathematical puzzles with a LLM Davide Castelvecchi / Nature : DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on un...
Toronto Stock Exchange operator TMX acquires a 78% stake in US-based indexing and analytics company VettaFi for $848M, after previously buying 22% for $175M
Tyler Pathe / FinTech Futures :
Krutrim, an AI startup founded by Ola Group CEO Bhavish Aggarwal, unveils India's first multilingual LLM, capable of generating text in 10 Indian languages
Dec 15) Tapanjana Rudra / Inc42 Media : Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim Unveils ‘AI Models For India’ Kamya Pandey / MediaNama : Should India create its own large language models? Speakers weigh in at GPAI...
The confusion around Dropbox's AI toggle highlights an AI trust crisis where many users don't believe OpenAI's claims that their data won't be used for training
The US DOJ announces an indictment for four people, two of whom have been arrested, in an alleged international pig butchering crypto scam costing victims $80M+
That does it. — My next band name is International Pig Butchering Crypto Scam.
Amazon validates Project Kuiper's optical inter-satellite links, which use infrared lasers to move data around 30% faster than terrestrial fiber optical cables
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch :
Filing: Apple and Corellium settle a copyright dispute dating to 2019 in which Apple tried to shut down Corellium's virtual iPhone software
for real this time. Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Apple vs Corellium virtual iPhone lawsuit settled after 4-year battle Hartley Charlton / MacRumors : Apple and Corellium Reach Settlement in iOS Replication...
Google launches a Pixel Diagnostic App and repair manuals in English in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and European countries where Pixel devices are sold
how to enable it Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena : Google ramps up repair options with new Pixel diagnostic app and manuals Ali Hasnain / iThinkDifferent : Google introduces on-device diagnostic app and...
Instagram launches a generative AI background editing tool in the US, letting users change the background for their Stories using text prompts
here's how to use it Iskra Petrova / PhoneArena : Instagram users in the U.S. can now use Generative AI for backgrounds in Stories Abid Iqbal Shaik / SamMobile : Instagram introduces Backdrop, a tool ...
The US FCC grants SpaceX a “temporary authorization” to test its cellular Starlink system by beaming data to unmodified smartphones in over two dozen locations
and then lost—$886 million in connectivity funds
A judge tentatively rules that Elon Musk must testify again for the US SEC's investigation of his $44B Twitter takeover, after the SEC sued Musk in October 2023
Credit Karma co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Nichole Mustard is leaving the company after 16 years, Credit's third high-profile executive departure in 2023
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
TikTok quietly changed its TOS in July 2023, including removing requiring users to go through private arbitration, making it more difficult to sue the company
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times :
Google plans to test Tracking Protection and blocking third-party cookies on January 4 for ~1% of Chrome users globally, ahead of a phased rollout in H2 2024
Sources: Google plans to use Gemini across nearly its entire line of products and in Pixie, an upcoming AI assistant that will be exclusive to its Pixel devices
A deepfake of President Vladimir Putin, built by a Saint Petersburg State University student, asked Putin about AI and doppelgangers during a public Q&A session
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