Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping websites for AI training data, available free for all customers
Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models.
Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit up 1,452% YoY to $7.54B, and revenue up 23% YoY to ~$53.7B, as chip prices keep rising
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) estimated on Friday a more than 15-fold rise in its second-quarter operating profit, as rebounding semiconductor prices driven …
Epic says Apple is impeding its attempts to set up a games store on iPhones and iPads in Europe and that it has shared its concerns with the European Commission
“Fortnite” maker Epic Games said on Friday Apple (AAPL.O) was impeding its attempts to set up a games store on iPhones and iPads in Europe …
YouTube releases an updated Erase Song tool for creators that uses AI to detect and remove any copyrighted music from their videos without impacting other audio
On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music …
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.
Amazon Kindle users are unable to download new and previously purchased books to their Kindles; Amazon says the outage could last at least 48 hours
Amazon is having an outage with its Kindle e-reader ebook system. New books purchased from the Kindle Store will not be downloaded locally …
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
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SemiAnalysis: Nvidia is set to sell $12B worth of H20 chips in China in 2024, or 1M+ units; Huawei expects to sell ~550,000 units of Ascend 910B chips in 2024
Chipmaker set to surpass China sales by local rival Huawei by selling product designed to fall outside of export restrictions
Sources: to reduce its reliance on Safari on the iPhone, Google considered limiting AI Overviews to its own apps, but ultimately decided against that move
Sometime in the next few months, a judge is expected to rule on the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Google over its dominance of internet search.
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
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Twilio says “threat actors” identified its 2FA app Authy users' phone numbers; last week, ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 33M phone numbers from Twilio
It's not even about the data breaches - although important, Authy also sends data about which websites you're logging into. … X: Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : The first rule of data breaches: if ...
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
Today, our commitment reaches new heights … Matt Garman : Excited to mark a big milestone for AWS in Australia. — We're thrilled to begin a new partnership with the Australian Government to provide ...
Sources: the EU plans to issue a final warning to X over its failure to combat dangerous content under the DSA; X faces fines of 6% of its global revenue
- EU poised to issue preliminary findings over dangerous content — Digital Services Act breaches risk penalties of 6% of revenue
A global law enforcement operation takes down 593 servers hosting unlicensed versions of Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by cybercriminals
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South Korea unveils a monitoring system to find crypto exchange accounts linked to “suspected” trading activity, as a new law takes effect on July 19
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The EC asks Amazon to provide more information on its compliance with DSA provisions concerning the transparency of Amazon's recommender systems by July 26
The European Commission said on Friday it had requesting Amazon (AMZN.O) provide more information on the measures the U.S. e-commerce giant …
In a complaint filed at a California court, two ex-Northern Data executives say they were fired after raising concerns about alleged fraud by the CEO and COO
Sacked ‘whistleblowers’ launch California court action against Europe's biggest bitcoin-miner-turned-AI-datacentre- builder
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
The prospect of applying generative AI to contract lifecycle management software has prompted a flurry of deals, as experts expect further market consolidation
The prospect of applying tech breakthroughs to handling data-rich digital documents has prompted a flurry of deals LinkedIn: Mark Kember and Nick Huber LinkedIn: Mark Kember : When you are dealing wit...
Meta releases pre-trained models that use a novel multi-token prediction approach, available on Hugging Face under a non-commercial research license
instead of the old one-at-a-time approach. https://arxiv.org/... Forums: r/LocalLLaMA : Meta drops AI bombshell: Multi-token prediction models now open for research
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
TRM: cryptocurrency stolen through hacks more than doubled to $1.38N in H1 2024 from a year earlier; five large attacks accounted for 70% of the crypto stolen
Benjamin Taubman / Bloomberg :
Microsoft-owned Mojang is exploring deals in areas like merchandising, education, and streaming, on top of movies and TV series, as gaming sector growth slows
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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
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/... LinkedIn: Joel Kh...
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