Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and a key figure in Google's creation, dies at age 56, after two years of living with cancer
Her husband, Dennis Troper, made the announcement earlier this evening: … Susan Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 as its 16th employee and first marketing manager.
Interfax: Roskomnadzor blocked Signal in Russia for allegedly violating laws linked to anti-terrorist operations; Venezuela reportedly blocked Signal too
Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying …
An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube
Ms. Wojcicki, who helped start Google, was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley before stepping down from YouTube.
Former Twitter board member Omid Kordestani, who helped oversee the sale of the company to Elon Musk, sues X for failing to cash out $20M+ worth of stock
After purchasing Twitter, Mr. Musk failed to cash out Omid Kordestani's stock, according to allegations in a new lawsuit.
Instagram is testing a Snap Maps-like feature that lets users post text and video updates to a map that can be shared with friends
Instagram has starting testing a new feature that looks a whole lot like Snap Maps. — This allows Instagram users to post text and video updates to a map based on where they were taken.
Truth Social parent TMTG, which has a $5B market cap, reports Q2 revenue down 30% YoY to $837K and a net loss of $16.4M; Trump owns 59.9% of TMTG's common stock
Donald Trump's company, which operates Truth Social, said it earned $837,000 in quarterly revenue.
Sources: Cisco plans a second round of layoffs in 2024, affecting at least as many as the 4,000 laid off in February, to be announced as soon as August 14
Cisco (CSCO.O) will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus …
Intel delays its Innovation event, slated for September and expected to include details about new CPUs, until 2025, citing its financial results and H2 outlook
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IOActive researchers detail “Sinkclose”, a vulnerability in almost all AMD chips dating back to 2006 that allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode
Researchers warn that a bug in AMD's chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer …
A researcher shows five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot can be manipulated by attackers, including turning it into an automatic spear-phishing machine
Attacks on Microsoft's Copilot AI allow for answers to be manipulated, data extracted, and security protections bypassed, new research shows.
OpenAI now lets ChatGPT free users generate up to two images per day using DALL-E 3, after launching DALL-E 3 to ChatGPT Plus subscribers in October 2023
now you can make DALL-E images for free Sandip Chakraborty / Moneycontrol : ChatGPT users can now create images with the help of DALL-E 3 for free Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI's ChatGPT now ...
X adds the ability to sort replies, letting users choose most relevant, most recent, or most liked replies; it is unclear how the most relevant option works
Sorry, blue checks, it seems like you will no longer dominate users' mentions on X. — Thanks to a new feature, “blue checks” may no longer dominate reply threads on X.
[Thread] A roundup of recent announcements from researchers, businesses, and academic institutions opposing California's AI safety bill
the real experts — agree the risks are real. We all urge you to pass it into law. Titus Wu / @tituswu100 : Pressure is intensifying on #SB1047, California's controversial #AI safety bill, as lawmaker...
Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more
We spoke with Wikipedia executives who told us AI could jeopardize the encyclopedia's connection with the volunteers who create it.
UK PM Keir Starmer says ministers will review the Online Safety Act, after London mayor Sadiq Khan said it was “not fit for purpose” following far-right riots
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Intel details a microcode patch, available through BIOS updates, to address the elevated voltage issues that can damage some Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blocks X in the country for 10 days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to incite hate after Venezuela's disputed election
DevRev, which develops AI tools to improve the efficiency of employees on support, product, and engineering teams, raised a $100M Series A at a $1.15B valuation
Katie Roof / Bloomberg :
Sources: Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised a $60M Series A co-led by a16z and Thrive at a $400M post-money valuation
Anysphere, a two-year-old startup that's developed an AI-powered coding assistant called Cursor, has raised over $60 million in a Series A financing …
The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1
Clothilde Goujard / Politico :
Since the OpenAI board dispute, Microsoft diversified AI investments and partnerships, built its own models, and hired aggressively for its consumer AI efforts
Financial Times : X: @bgurley , @hetanshah , @hkanji , and @rwang07 X: Bill Gurley / @bgurley : This is a very long and interesting article. Must read I would say. It says Microsoft invested $13B in ...
TikTok is offering steep discounts on goods to US users who invite friends to the app, expanding a referral scheme from countries like Japan and Thailand
Kaya Yurieff / The Information :
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