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OpenAI partners with Bugcrowd to launch a bug bounty program, offering rewards from $200 to $20K but excluding some safety issues, like jailbreaks prompts (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI partners with Bugcrowd to launch a bug bounty program, offering rewards from $200 to $20K but excluding some safety issues, like jailbreaks prompts — OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT

‘Baby Shark’ gets a podcast deal

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images I have to say — it is not the spiciest week in podcast news so far. But so it goes! Today, Baby Shark podcasts go at a premium, BBC gets an unwelcome Twitter label, and Lemonada leans further into its audiobook club. Lemonada and Apple Books

Intelligent Identity Proofing Can Help Government Agencies Go Digital

While the implications of AI-driven solutions can be complicated, certain opportunities exist for their use that offers objective and essential benefits. The public sector is one such area that is ripe – and perhaps long overdue – for a digital transformation. Waiting in line at the DMV is an infamously painful experience shared by anyone

Artifact, the personalized news sharing app started by Instagram’s co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score” (Mack DeGeurin/Gizmodo)

Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: Artifact, the personalized news sharing app started by Instagram’s co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score” — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger’s article app is taking a page from Reddit’s playbook with upvotes, downvotes, and graded credibility—as well as AI moderation.

Connor Roy is the real heart of Succession

The emotional core of Succession | Photograph by Macall B. Polay/HBO The key to Succession has been staring you in the face for four seasons and has been played off as comic relief. It is the neglected son Connor Roy, played impeccably by Alan Ruck. Connor is often ignored by the rest of the family.

OpenAI partners with Bugcrowd to launch a bug bounty program, offering rewards from $200 to $20K but excluding some safety issues, like jailbreaks prompts (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Lofi Girl’s new synthwave livestream features a new person — and their dog

Image: Lofi Girl There’s a new person in the Lofi Girl universe. The countdown on the mysterious new Lofi Girl stream wrapped up earlier on Tuesday, and when it was over, a person in a purple sweater with an adorable dog sat down at their computer and started listening to some excellent synthwave beats. You

Hulu error code p-dev320: What is it and how to fix it?

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Hulu is among the top streaming services. For a lot of people, it’s the main place to watch movies and TV, including popular originals. It can be a huge bummer when Hulu is down. If you’ve been using the service long enough, you may have encountered Hulu error code

Jamie Dimon Warns of Banking Crisis “Repercussions for Years to Come” But Says ’08 Was Worse

Jamie Dimon, longtime CEO of JPMorgan Chase, warned in his recent annual letter to shareholders that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank will have long-term economic consequences, but, on the upside, “recent events are nothing like what occurred during the 2008 global financial crisis.” While the SVB fiasco has largely faded from news coverage outside of industry-specific

Truckla Gets an Open Source Charging Buddy

More than three years have passed since Tesla announced its Cybertruck, and while not a one has been delivered, the first Tesla truck, Truckla, has kept on truckin’. [Simone Giertz] just posted an update of what Truckla has been up to since it was built. [Giertz] and friend’s DIT (do-it-together) truck was something of an

Instagram gives brands access to parts of its creator marketplace via two APIs and expands access to the marketplace for brand agencies (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram gives brands access to parts of its creator marketplace via two APIs and expands access to the marketplace for brand agencies — Instagram announced today that it’s extending access to parts of its creator marketplace via API to make it easier for brands to discover and work …

Ikea’s virtual interior design service brings in a pro to pick out your new furniture

Image: Ikea If you’re like me, you enjoy walking through Ikea stores and dream your home could be as neat and organized as the showroom samples — but you really don’t feel like putting in all that effort. Well, Ikea has a new interior design service that just might help you over that mental barrier

Sony is gearing up for a new cloud gaming push amid rumors of a PlayStation handheld

The logo for PlayStation Now, Sony’s cloud gaming service that got folded into PS Plus. | Image: Sony Now that Google Stadia is dead and buried, it looks like Sony may seriously care about cloud gaming again. Despite a recent round of layoffs, Sony is currently hiring 22 roles related to cloud gaming tech —

Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11 (Mark Tyson/Tom’s Hardware)

Mark Tyson / Tom’s Hardware: Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11 — Post-fix you may see MsMpEng.exe CPU usage drop by up to 75%. — A performance-sapping conflict between Mozilla Firefox …

Google launches an Android auto-archiving feature, which removes over 60% of an unused app’s local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches an Android auto-archiving feature, which removes over 60% of an unused app’s local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS — On Monday, Google launched a new auto-archiving feature, which removes more than 60% of an unused app’s data from an Android phone to

Sources: Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on generative AI after buying ~10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; source: the work involves an LLM (Kali Hays/Insider)

Kali Hays / Insider: Sources: Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on generative AI after buying ~10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; source: the work involves an LLM — – CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play. — Musk has criticized ChatGPT …

The UK’s ST40 Spherical Tokamak Achieves Crucial Plasma Temperatures

As the race towards the first commercially viable nuclear fusion reactor heats up, the UK-based Tokamak Energy has published a paper on its recent achievements with its ST40 spherical tokamak. Most notable is the achieving of plasma temperatures of over 100 million Kelvin, which would put this fusion reactor firmly within the range for deuterium-tritium

Sources: Elon Musk is working on a new generative AI project at Twitter, recently buying ~10K GPUs, after poaching researchers from DeepMind in recent months (Kali Hays/Insider)

Kali Hays / Insider: Sources: Elon Musk is working on a new generative AI project at Twitter, recently buying ~10K GPUs, after poaching researchers from DeepMind in recent months — – CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play. — Musk has criticized ChatGPT …

Analog Anoraks: The Op Amp Contest Starts Now!

We thought it was time to give the analog side of Hackaday their chance to shine, and what’s the quintessential analog IC? The op amp! Whether you’re doing tricky signal conditioning, analog computations like it’s 1960, or just making music sound good, op amps are at the heart of many designs. This contest, starting right

New app replicates a Pixel Launcher feature you can use on any Android phone

Credit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority The Pixel Search app is a third-party launcher that mimics the Pixel Launcher. The app offers a few options that aren’t present in the Pixel Launcher. Pixel Search allows you to almost get the full Pixel Launcher experience on any Android device. Between all of the third-party apps, there

HidrateSpark Pro Lite review: Give your hydration habits a glow up

With daily recommendations, automatic tracking, and dynamic reminders, smart water bottles aim to keep users fully hydrated. If you’re someone who often forgets to take sips, one bottle’s pulsing lights should do the trick. On the other hand, if you’re already chugging plenty of ounces a day, you may still find plenty to like about

Jennifer Lopez is a reformed assassin in the trailer for The Mother

Ana Carballosa/Netflix Jennifer Lopez has figured out how we should all be spending our Mother’s Day, and it’s apparently watching her former assassin character protect her kid and deal with lots of bad guys from her past. That’s when her new film The Mother premieres on Netflix. The film comes from writer Misha Green, who

NYC-based Clear Street, which is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, raised $270M in a second Series B tranche led by Prysm at a $2B valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: NYC-based Clear Street, which is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, raised $270M in a second Series B tranche led by Prysm at a $2B valuation — Clear Street, which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million …

Google TV’s live guide is getting crammed full of over 800 free channels

Google TV’s live guide is about to include over 800 free channels. | Image: Google FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) channels are becoming inescapable these days and booming in popularity through their combination of familiar reruns and news programming offered at no cost. Nearly any modern smart TV you buy today will include a slew

This pixelated outfit could be yours for $4,350

Image: Loewe If you have a spare couple thousand dollars and love confusing people with your clothing, Loewe has something right up your alley. The Spanish luxury brand is now selling the glitchy clothing shown on the runway at Paris Fashion Week last fall under the “Pixel” capsule collection. The release includes clothing items like

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