When you hear leaders talk about the power of great cultures, you often hear talk of communication, integrity, and openness, and these are all important dimensions. Of course, there are as many definitions of healthy cultures as there are opinions about Kubernetes. Even though we can’t define them precisely, we all want great cultures. So
Read MoreWired: Researcher: for over a year, India’s education ministry app Diksha exposed the names, phone numbers, and email IDs of over 1M teachers via an unsecured server — A mandatory app exposed the personal information of students and teachers across the country for over a year.
Read MoreEmily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Binance acknowledges mistakenly storing collateral for some of its tokens in the same wallet as customer funds; reserves for around 47 coins are in one wallet — Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest crypto platform, acknowledged that it mistakenly keeps collateral for some of the tokens …
Read MoreThe notorious Russian-speaking cybercriminals grew successful by keeping a low profile. But now they have a target on their backs.
Read MoreExperts fear sales of the technology also export authoritarian ideas about biometric surveillance. The second largest exporter is the US.
Read MoreIt’s been ticking down the seconds to nuclear apocalypse for three-quarters of a century, but it’s not so helpful when it comes to climate change.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google could soon bring support for user profiles to the Messages app. Apps like WhatsApp and Telegram have supported profiles for years now. Google Messages is the company’s flagship messaging and texting app, coming preloaded on phones from a variety of manufacturers. The app already supports a host of
Read MoreHannah Murphy / Financial Times: How Esther Crawford, Twitter’s director of product management, became one of the most influential leaders from the old guard in Elon Musk’s “hardcore” Twitter — Days after Elon Musk had completed his $44bn buyout of Twitter, Esther Crawford shared a picture of herself sleeping …
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority A Reddit user claims they fitted a Pixel 5a battery into a Pixel 4a for 17% more battery life. The modified phone has a slight bulge at the back, which the Redditor says is unnoticeable. What do you do when your phone’s battery starts showing its age? You definitely
Read MoreWe’ve always known, in theory, there are ways to bend wood, but weren’t really clear on how it worked. Now that we’ve seen [Totally Handy]’s recent video, we’ve learned a number of tricks to pull it off. Could we do any of them? Probably not, any more than watching someone solder under a microscope means
Read MoreTiernan Ray / ZDNet: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says ChatGPT is “not particularly innovative” in its underlying techniques and other research labs are doing similar work — Much ink has been spilled of late about the tremendous promise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT program for generating natural-language utterances in response to human prompts.
Read MoreGood morning and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority! This week we’re having a bit of a heatwave in Scotland, with a balmy 10°C predicted for tomorrow, so while it might not quite be beach weather, it’s finally not below zero anymore… Android 14 ‘s tough sideloading restrictions
Read MoreApple’s latest HomePod is already facing preorder shipping delays in the USA, UK, and Europe.
Read MoreJason Schreier / Bloomberg: A manager at Activision Blizzard’s Blizzard unit, who oversaw World of Warcraft Classic, departs after internally criticizing the company’s stack ranking system — A manager at video game developer Blizzard Entertainment said he was ousted after refusing to give a low evaluation to an employee …
Read MoreCredit: Smartprix Apparent Galaxy S23 Ultra night mode samples have leaked online. The shots tentatively show a huge upgrade in low-light picture quality. We’ve already seen a ton of Galaxy S23 series leaks and teases, and one claimed upgrade teased by Samsung is that we’ll see much better low-light photography. Now, it turns out that
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amazon launches RxPass, letting US Prime users pay $5 per month to get as many generic versions of medications as needed, starting with drugs for 80 ailments — More than two years since announcing Amazon Pharmacy to take some of the prescription drugs business away from big (and smaller) …
Read MoreWhatsApp could soon be leaving Rosetta support as the Apple Silicon native version enters public Beta testing.
Read MoreDavid Pan / Bloomberg: Sources: bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi plans to sell $160M of loans backed by ~68K bitcoin mining rigs; some have already defaulted or seem undercollateralized — Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi Inc. plans to sell about $160 million of loans backed by around 68,000 Bitcoin mining machines …
Read MoreJennifer Elias / CNBC: At a town hall, Sundar Pichai asked staff to stay motivated as Google faces competition in areas like AI and indicated there would be executive bonus cuts — – Google CEO Sundar Pichai and executive leaders addressed employee questions at a town hall meeting on Monday after last week’s job cuts.
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus Indian pricing for the OnePlus 11 may have leaked online. The phone is tipped to start at ~$674. This makes it slightly more expensive than the OnePlus 10T’s launch price. The OnePlus 11 will launch in global markets early next month, coming roughly a month after the phone launched in China. Now, a
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: The FTC fines HomeAdvisor up to $7.2M for using deceptive tactics to sell home improvement project leads, marking the agency’s first fine related to gig work — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered home services marketplace HomeAdvisor up to $7.2 million for its use of deceptive …
Read MoreIt looks like an ordinary toolbox, but when you open up the Arduino Launch Control System, you’ll find a safe method for triggering model rocket launches. The system uses two separate power supplies. Both must be on for a successful launch and one requires a key. To trigger a 10-second countdown, the operator must hold
Read MoreNicole Farley / Search Engine Land: Google plans to sunset Optimize and Optimize 360, which let marketers conduct A/B testing to improve their website or app user experience, on September 30, 2023 — Any experiments and personalizations still active will end. — Google Optimize and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after September 30,
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: Paris-based PASQAL, which builds quantum computers using neutral atoms, raised a €100M Series B led by Temasek, bringing its total funding to €125M — Once the stuff of Feynman’s dreams, Pascal executives predict that their solution will deliver major commercial advantages over classical computers by 2024.
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Android 14 is set to implement stricter restrictions on apps targeting older versions of the OS. Users will no longer be able to download these apps through the Play Store or sideload them from elsewhere. Android 13 has reached over 5% of all devices in less than six months,
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