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Friday August 30, 2024. 08:34 AM
Testing the idea that a platform boss can be responsible for the acts of others, or not helping to investigate them French police have laid multiple charges against Pavel Durov, co-founder and CEO of encrypted messaging platform Telegram.…
Thankfully his injuries are not life threatening South Korean crypto CEO Hyung-soo 'Hugo' Lee was stabbed in the neck in court during his fraud trial on Thursday, according to numerous reports.…
Farsi-language posts target possibly-pro-Israel individuals Government-backed Iranian actors allegedly set up dozens of fake recruiting websites and social media accounts to hunt down double agents and dissidents suspected of collaborating with the nation’s enemies,...
A recent indictment (PDF) of an Alaska man stands out due to the sophisticated use of multiple encrypted communication tools, privacy-focused apps, and dark web technology. 'I've never seen anyone who, when arrested, had three Samsung Galaxy phones filled with 'tens of...
Could monopolise 24 key techs if current trends continue Think Tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released an update to its Critical Technology Tracker, revealing that China leads the way in 89 percent of the technologies it tracks.…
OpenAI said that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users -- twice as many as last year. Axios reports: OpenAI also said that 92% of Fortune 500 companies are using its products and that usage of its automated API has doubled since the release of GPT-4o mini ...
Most of the attention today has been focused on California's controversial 'kill switch' AI safety bill, which passed the California State Assembly by a 45-11 vote. However, California legislators passed another tech bill this week which requires internet browsers and mobile ...
According to The Information (paywalled), Meta plans to ship an extremely light mixed reality headset in 2027, codenamed Puffin. It follows a report that the company canceled a high-end headset planned for the same year, which previous reports speculated as being a Quest Pro ...
Spotify claims Apple may be again in violation of European regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires interoperability from big technology companies dubbed 'gatekeepers.' From a report: This time, the issue isn't about in-app purchases, links or pricing...
Civilizations detectable at galactic distances could harness all of a star's energy output, boffins reckon Looking for life in the Milky Way is so 20th century – today's alien-hunters are going intergalactic to look for signs of alien intelligence.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Every day for the last four years, dozens of people have shown up in the comments of one particular YouTube, declaring their love and appreciation for the content. The content: two minutes and six seconds of deep, low buzzing, the kind...
But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly VMware Explore I’ve attended VMware’s annual conference every year since 2007 and this year the event had a very different flavor.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from overkill.wtf: The team behind popular emulation tool EmuDeck is today announcing something rather special: they've spent the first half of 2024 working on their very first hardware product, called the EmuDeck Machine, and it's due to...
Apparently made over 100 fake crime reports and bomb threats The US government has indicted two men for allegedly reporting almost 120 fake emergencies or crimes in the hope of provoking action by armed law enforcement agencies.…
Scientists are harvesting genetic data from microorganisms in a North Yorkshire quarry, fueling a global debate over ownership and profit-sharing of natural genetic resources. Researchers from London-based startup Basecamp Research are collecting samples and digitizing...
Thursday August 29, 2024. 11:30 PM
Apple has laid off about 100 employees in its services group (source may be paywalled; alternative source), primarily affecting roles associated with the Apple Books app and Apple Bookstore. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: The impacted employees at the Cupertino-based...
Midjourney, the AI image-generating platform, announced on Wednesday that it's 'officially getting into hardware.' TechCrunch reports: As for what hardware Midjourney, which has a team of fewer than 100 people, might pursue, there might be a clue in its hiring of Ahmad Abbas ...
The setback won't stop us from banking billions, CFO insists Nvidia has confirmed earlier reports that its Blackwell generation of GPUs suffered from a design defect that adversely impacted the yields of the hotly anticipated accelerators.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A controversial bill aimed at enforcing safety standards for large artificial intelligence models has now passed the California State Assembly by a 45-11 vote. Following a 32-1 state Senate vote in May, SB-1047 now faces ...
Google researchers note similarities, can't find smoking-gun link Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has spotted an interesting pattern: A Kremlin-linked cyber-espionage crew and commercial spyware makers exploiting specific security vulnerabilities in pretty much the same ...
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