Evan Blass leaks Samsung's entire spec sheets and marketing materials for the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, expected at its Unpacked event on July 10
We're only one week away from Samsung's next Unpacked event on July 10th, where we're expecting the company's Galaxy Z Fold 6 …
A federal court in Texas temporarily blocks the US government's ban on noncompete agreements set to take effect on September 4, and plans to rule on August 30
A federal court in Texas has partially blocked the government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4.
OpenAI updates its ChatGPT macOS app to encrypt locally stored conversations, after a user discovered that the app was storing chats in plain text
Until Friday, OpenAI's recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn't hard to find your chats stored …
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 175M+ MAUs, up from 150M in April, ahead of its one-year anniversary on July 5; source: Meta may turn on ads in Threads in 2025
Twilio says “threat actors” identified its 2FA app Authy users' phone numbers; last week, ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 33M phone numbers from Twilio
Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio.
A global law enforcement operation takes down 593 servers hosting unlicensed versions of Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by cybercriminals
Europol coordinated a joint law enforcement action known as Operation Morpheus, which led to the takedown of almost 600 Cobalt Strike servers used …
ElevenLabs will use AI-generated voices of dead actors like Judy Garland and Burt Reynolds in its Reader app, after striking deals with the actors' estates
Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you'll soon be able to hear …
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more
and even Threads is warming to it Leo Grieco / Proactiveinvestors UK : Meta's Threads hits milestone but lags social media giants Sean Tilley / We Distribute : A Beginner's Guide to the Fediverse, for...
Gen Z-focused social media app noplace, backed by Alexis Ohanian's 776 and others, tops the US iOS App Store, and raised a $15M Series A1 at a $75M valuation
Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launched out of invite-only mode Wednesday.
Microsoft agrees to pay $14.4M to settle with the California Civil Rights Department over allegations of discriminating against workers who took protected leave
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle allegations that the global software giant retaliated and discriminated …
Japan's government finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems on June 28, 2024, after scrapping 1,034 regulations governing their use
Japanese government says it has finally eradicated ancient hardware David Meyer / Fortune : OpenAI's reported decision to let Apple sit in on its board meetings is very revealing J.D. Capelouto / Sema...
Canada authorizes the implementation of a 3% levy on revenue from large tech companies that provide digital services to, or sell data of, Canadian users
A 3% levy will apply to revenue from companies that provide digital services to Canadian users, or sell Canadian user data
AWS partners with the Australian government to build a cloud data system to handle top secret information; the government plans to invest ~$1.3B over 10 years
- US company to operate three data centers in Australia — Australia says new infrastructure will improve cybersecurity
Researchers say GPS spoofing has impacted 60K+ commercial flights so far in 2024; GPS could become a relic as Chinese, Russian, and European systems modernize
Yet the U.S. has no civilian backup system. Forums: r/technology : Why GPS Is Under Attack
Proton launches Docs in Proton Drive, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs, after acquiring secure note-taking app Standard Notes in April 2024
@protonprivacy releases an end-to-end encrypted document editor. — Somewhat unrelated: This is primarily what I used Skiff Drive/Docs for (their editor was great). … Carey Parker / @FirewallDragons@...
Amazon plans to discontinue Astro for Business, its robot security guard for SMBs announced in November 2023, on September 25 to focus on its Astro home robot
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Sources: in early 2023, a hacker breached OpenAI's internal messaging systems and accessed product details; OpenAI told its staff, but not the public or the FBI
A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI's systems. Forums: r/technews Forums: r/technews...
A look at the inaugural Esports World Cup, a multi-genre tournament in Riyadh funded by Saudi Arabia, featuring 1,500+ gamers and a record $60M+ prize pool
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OpenText plans to lay off 1,200 staff and add 800 positions, resulting in a ~1.7% workforce reduction and expecting to cut annual expenses by ~CA$150M in FY2025
An investigation details how online gambling giants Flutter and Entain employ practices in the US that they dropped in the UK after admitting risks to UK users
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How the e-commerce-driven warehouse boom transformed Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, into a distribution megaregion, mirroring changes to California's Inland Empire
Tyler J Kelley / Bloomberg : X: @minoulq and @business X: Lisa DeNight / @minoulq : Great read from @BW on how ecommerce has reshaped regional landscapes, with emphasis on the 81/78 Corridor, formerl...
Ericsson expects a $1.1B noncash impairment charge in Q2 for its 2022 purchase of cloud communications company Vonage, after a $2.9B impairment charge in 2023
Sabela Ojea / Wall Street Journal :
Meta releases pre-trained models that use a novel multi-token prediction approach, available on Hugging Face under a non-commercial research license
Meta has thrown down the gauntlet in the race for more efficient artificial intelligence. The tech giant released pre-trained models … X: @huggingface , @aime_bird , and @aiatmeta X: @huggingface : W...
A look at a16z's Crypto Startup Accelerator, a Y Combinator-style program that provides $500K in funding and 10 weeks of coaching, most recently in London
complete with all the incomprehensible lingo, awkward convos, and bullishness you'd expect. But maybe, just maybe, there might be some good ideas there too. https://www.wired.com/...
Sources: Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms, now expects to raise ~$100M at a $1.5B valuation, after reported talks to raise $600M at $2B+
A look at enterprise browser startups like Island and Here, which aim to provide built-in browser security controls and better app integrations needed for work
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