TikTok suspends its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia, citing “increasing violence in protests” over lawmakers' pay
ByteDance's TikTok has suspended its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia following protests in the country, its spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression
We're used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what's left for the human imagination? X: @newyorker . LinkedIn: Pinja Pakalen , ...
El Salvador has split its 6,000+ bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now
El Salvador has transferred its 6,274 Bitcoin into 14 new wallet addresses as part of a security measure to protect against the threat of quantum attacks.
An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style
When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs.
A critique of two contrasting research papers on AI's impact on US employment trends, along with caveats from a Stanford study on jobs in AI-exposed fields
Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans. Are they right? — The debate over whether AI …
The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks
With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch X: @ericjhonsa , @emollick , @mims , @mims , @mims , @mims , and @m...
Pharmaceutical company Eversana acquires Waltz Health, which provides drug price-comparison software to insurance companies, creating an entity valued at $6B
Eversana, a company that helps drugmakers sell their medicines, has acquired a smaller firm called Waltz Health that helps employers …
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access FEMA networks
I thought the whole point of DOGE was to expose our data to everyone. Just paying customers then? — Fuck these amateurs. — www.nextgov.com/people/2025/ ... @snacking.dev : The real story isn't th...
An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more
She's spent nearly all of her working life atop the dating-app business, and believes artificial intelligence could be the matchmaker we all need X: @ghadjia . LinkedIn: Sally Woods and George Hadjia ...
Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission
This has been a persistent problem with edge content. In addition to violating content, Meta also classifies content as “borderline” and “ambiguous.” The latter two categories vastly outweigh the fi...
How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens
In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked … Mastodon: @torproject@mastodon.social Mastodon: @torproject@mastodon.soc...
Cambridge, UK-based Paragraf, which makes graphene-based electronics using standard semiconductor processes, raised a $55M Series C to scale its manufacturing
Paragraf pioneers graphene-based electronics with standard semiconductor processes, producing magnetic sensors and GMS while developing advanced devices.
Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident
known as swatting—for just $20...threats against hospitals, businesses...airports can cost up to $50 www.wired.com/story/purgat... @gate15.bsky.social Waldo Jaquith / @waldo.net : China is in our tele...
AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47
- Aurasell is emerging from stealth with $30 million in seed funding. — The one-year-old AI startup wants to disrupt legacy sales software.
Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI
With growing fears of an AI bubble, Beijing is charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of artificial superintelligence
Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State
Balaji Srinivasan wants to design a new kind of nation state, and he's making a troubled megaproject a testbed for his ideas. LinkedIn: Anders Melin and Ryan Weeks LinkedIn: Anders Melin : Much has be...
OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific silicon photonic chips, raised a $34M Series A as it targets the data center interconnect market
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PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion in India, seeking acquisitions as growth slows in China and the US, and plans to invest at least $50M annually
South Korea's Krafton faces a tough fight to wring revenues from price-sensitive players — The South Korean games developer …
A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can be persuaded to comply with objectionable requests using the same tactics that persuade humans
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Sources: Meta Superintelligence Labs' leaders have discussed using Google's or OpenAI's models to power Meta AI and other AI features in Meta social media apps
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Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7%
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Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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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.