A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans for a ~$2K headset in 2025, Vision Pro 2 in 2026, and Ray-Ban Meta-like glasses and AirPods with cameras in 2027
Apple is finally preparing to compete for the smart home market after falling behind Amazon and Google.
Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle says the service is now back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack and data breach on October 9
The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week.
Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable, excellent controllers, and large app library, but Fresnel lenses lead to artifacts and average MR cameras
It's not Meta's first $300 VR headset, but it's still a tremendous accomplishment. — You can think of the $300 Meta Quest 3S as a basic Honda Accord of VR headsets.
At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop, like Distraction Removal, and makes Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and more generally available
Adobe is kicking off its annual Adobe Max conference today with the launch of new AI-powered features across its Creative Cloud apps.
Samsung rolls out One UI, based on Tizen 8.0, to its smart TVs that were released in 2023, after announcing plans to update the TVs at its developer conference
A few days ago, during the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2024, Samsung announced it would bring One UI to its TVs.
Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts
Adobe is making the jump into generative AI video. The company's Firefly Video Model, which has been teased since earlier this year …
The UK appoints Microsoft UK CEO Clare Barclay to lead its new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, which will focus on growing eight sectors, including tech
Clare Barclay will lead new statutory body tasked with helping Britain win investment away from rival nations
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF's team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”
It's super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. Edward Targett / The Stack : Wordpress Wars: Forking crazy nuclear takeover triggers fury Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : WordPress Forcefully Take...
How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI, crypto drainers, Starlink terminals, and other tools to expand their pig butchering operations
Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.
A profile of Alex Gerko, who used an Icelandic supercomputer and 25K AI chips to build XTX, an algorithmic trading firm that handles $250B of daily trades
XTX Markets conquered foreign exchange trading and made its Russian-born founder a multibillion-pound fortune X: @hsu_steve and @tonytassell X: Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve : Alex Gerko in FT. Not on X anym...
National Public Data, the FL-based data broker that was hacked and lost hundreds of millions of SSNs and more earlier this year, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
A Florida data broker that lost hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information …
An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply
An energy crunch forces continued coal burning in a low-income area as data centers strain the regional power supply — https://archive.ph/... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... … Bluesky: Shannon ...
A look at the legal dispute between OpenAI and Open AI, run by Guy Ravine, who bought the open.ai domain and filed to trademark “Open AI” in December 2015
Guy Ravine's Open AI (with a space) owns a trademark and website that OpenAI (no space) wants.
A profile of Ben Nimmo, OpenAI's principal threat investigator who found evidence that Russia and China were using ChatGPT to sway political discourse online
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post :
Analysis: US regulators have secured $19.45B across eight settlements from crypto firms so far in 2024, including FTX's $12.7B, and ~$32B since January 1, 2019
Lim Yu Qian / CoinGecko :
Sources: several researchers at OpenAI have asked to switch teams after Liam Fedus was promoted to lead post-training, following Barret Zoph's departure
When it comes to recruiting and retaining artificial intelligence researchers, OpenAI has faced tougher competition this year from old and new rivals.
A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting
The global empire of sports betting is now crashing into the USA and it is incomprehensibly more sophisticated, technical, and profitable than you might possibly imagine. — This is a Malignancy. … X...
South Korean government data: tech exports slowed for a straight second month, indicating slowing global demand; DRAM had its slowest growth since December 2023
Sam Kim / Bloomberg :
The Northwest-AI-Hub, which is researching hybrid gain cell memory that combines DRAM's density with SRAM's speed, gets a $16.3M CHIPS Act grant via the US DOD
Katherine Bourzac / IEEE Spectrum :
LinkedIn says US C-suite users are up 35% and UK C-suite users are up 30% in five years, and their content gets 4x more engagement than other members' content
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times :
Chinese local media: Chinese video surveillance tech supplier Hikvision plans to lay off 1,000+ R&D staff; Hikvision denied any “large-scale lay-offs”
Ann Cao / South China Morning Post :
Sources: Chinese social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu had $200M in net profit on $1B+ revenue in Q1 2024, up from $40M in net profit on ~$600M revenue in Q1 2023
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How some architects and designers are creating photorealistic virtual spaces in the metaverse; a study shows 41% of architectural practices use AI in some way
Victoria Woodcock / Financial Times :
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
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.