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Microsoft assures employees they can continue working from home unless...
During a recent internal meeting, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Cloud and AI Group Scott Guthrie promised that the company does not plan to follow Amazon’s lead in mandating workers back to the...
View ArticleOpenAI is now valued at $157 billion
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has now raised $6.6 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $157 billion, nearly doubling its previous valuation of $86 billion, according to a...
View ArticleHarvard students make auto-doxxing smart glasses to show need for privacy regs
Two Harvard students recently revealed that it’s possible to combine Meta smart glasses with face image search technology to “reveal anyone’s personal details,” including their name, address, and...
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Windows 11’s Phone Link brings AI to Android messages with suggestions, now...
Microsoft confirmed to Windows Latest that it’s seeding a new update to Windows 11’s Phone Link app that adds “Suggested replies”, which uses Microsoft’s cloud AI models to automatically generate...
View ArticleAttackers exploit critical Zimbra vulnerability using cc’d email addresses
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in mail servers sold by Zimbra in an attempt to remotely execute malicious commands that install a backdoor, researchers warn. The...
View ArticleAmazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025
Subscribers to Prime Video’s ad tier will start seeing more commercials next year, further testing how much advertising streamers will tolerate. Speaking to the Financial Times today, Kelly Day, VP of...
View ArticleElon Musk claims victory after judge blocks Calif. deepfake law
Upholding the First Amendment, a senior US district judge has blocked California’s deepfakes law, AB 2839, which was designed to stop deceptive AI-generated content from impacting election outcomes....
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Buckle up: Amazon wants to push more ads on Prime Video next year
Armed with the win, they’re planning to open up more ad slots in 2025. Read...
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Cloudflare mitigated a 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever recorded
The US-based CDN “auto-mitigated” a record-breaking DDoS attack aimed at a single, unnamed customer. Cloudflare’s defenses intercepted over 100 hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks during the month, many...
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Telegram’s Response to Piracy Has Improved Since CEO’s Arrest
When news broke in August that Telegram founder Pavel Durov had been arrested after his private plane touched down in France, speculation on the reasons behind that were in plentiful supply. After...
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Riot announces new Valorant port as Epic unleashes Unreal Engine 5.5 preview
On Tuesday, Riot Games announced that it is porting Valorant to Unreal Engine 5. The game currently runs on Unreal 4.27. Executive Producer Anna Donlon said that the engine upgrade would not bring any...
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Accenture bets big on generative AI with Nvidia, launches new business group...
Accenture and Nvidia have announced they are expanding their AI partnership, aiming to promote (and possibly sell) machine learning algorithms to a growing number of enterprise organizations. The...
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Before Nvidia, founder and CEO Jensen Huang designed microprocessors for…
On his 30th birthday in 1993, Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia. Read Entire Article
View ArticleAutomattic demanded web host pay $32M annually for using WordPress trademark
Automattic Inc. and its founder have been sued by a WordPress hosting company that alleges an extortion scheme to extract payments for use of the trademark for the open source WordPress software....
View ArticleCounty clerk who tried to prove Trump’s claims gets 9 years for voting-system...
Tina Peters, a former election official in Colorado’s Mesa County who promoted former President Donald Trump’s election conspiracy theories and was responsible for a breach of voting-system security,...
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Steam beta improves game recording, adds ultrawide support
The latest Steam beta adds support for recording with the H.265 (HEVC) video codec at up to 4K resolution. Additionally, it now allows you to record gameplay without time restrictions. Read Entire...
View ArticleNew Kuiper Belt objects lurk farther away than we ever thought
In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the Kuiper Belt. The closest of these objects are billions of kilometers away....
View ArticleThe more sophisticated AI models get, the more likely they are to lie
When a research team led by Amrit Kirpalani, a medical educator at Western University in Ontario, Canada, evaluated ChatGPT’s performance in diagnosing medical cases back in August 2024, one of the...
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Samsung bricked many Galaxy phones with boot-loop-inducing update
On Wednesday, Samsung pushed an update that broke several older model Galaxy devices, including many in the Galaxy S10 series, Galaxy Note 10 series, Galaxy M51, and Galaxy A90. It appears to be a...
View ArticleNo more bricked iPads: Apple fixes several bugs in iOS, iPadOS, macOS updates
On Thursday, Apple released the first software updates for its devices since last month’s rollout of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. Those who’ve been following along know that several key features that...
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