‘Twas the podcast before Christmas, and all through the house, the best hacks of the week are dancing around Elliot and Tom’s heads like sugar-plums. Whatever that means. I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Christmas is, in fact, Happy/Holidays. Before settling their brains in for a long winter’s
Read MoreEva Dou / Washington Post: After the Jedi cloud contract fell apart, the US DOD has allocated less than 2% of its $9B Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, started in December 2022 — In the past year, less than 2 percent of $9 billion set aside to upgrade the U.S. military’s computing technology has been
Read MoreLeo Schwartz / Fortune: Paxos plans to expand its products to the Solana blockchain on January 17, 2024, after receiving approval from the NY financial regulator — The leading stablecoin issuer Paxos has received regulatory approval to expand its products to the Solana blockchain, which it plans to launch on January 17, 2024.
Read MorePhoto Illustration by Adrien Fillon/NurPhoto via Getty Images Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo, is facing a $1.8 million fine plus victim compensation after admitting it made money off of content showing victims of sex trafficking. The company was arraigned in a Brooklyn federal court on Thursday on a charge of “engaging in unlawful money transactions involving
Read MoreImage: Insomniac Games Insomniac Games has released a statement few days after a ransomware attack exposed millions of files including sensitive employee information, confidential business information, and assets for in-development games. “We’re both saddened and angered about the recent criminal cyberattack on our studio and the emotional toll it’s taken on our team,” the statement
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: Spotify pulls support for two music festivals in France, in protest against a new tax that will impose a levy of 1.5% to 1.75% on all music-streaming services — Spotify is pulling support for two music festivals in protest against a controversial new tax directed at music-streaming platforms operating …
Read MoreMany creative professionals are worried that artificial intelligence may soon take their jobs. This includes fellow photographers. Whether this is a legitimate cause of concern or not is certainly a complex debate we could spend hours on. One thing is for sure, though. As industry professionals in such a cut-throat industry, being able to adapt
Read MoreImage: Hugo Herrera / The Verge Earlier this month, Google announced the release of Gemini, what it considers its most powerful AI model yet. It integrated Gemini immediately into its flagship generative AI chatbot, Bard, in hopes of steering more users away from its biggest competitor, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. ChatGPT and the new Gemini-powered Bard are
Read MoreFinancial Times: How SoftBank’s $500M bet on US mortgage lender Better, once valued at $7B, backfired; BETR is down 90%+ since its August 2023 IPO after a US SEC investigation — Multibillion-dollar investment in start-up soured as interest rates rose and Spac craze ended — In April 2021 …
Read MoreMax Ramsay / Bloomberg: EU member states reject a provisional deal that would have required platforms like Uber and Deliveroo to give full employment status to around 5.5M gig workers — – Rules will go through further negotiations with EU lawmakers — Deal could have cost industry billions of euros annually
Read MoreThere’s a new SSH vulnerability, Terrapin (pdf paper), and it’s got the potential to be nasty — but only in an extremely limited circumstance. To understand the problem, we have to understand what SSH is designed to do. It replaces telnet as a tool to get a command line shell on a remote computer. Telnet
Read MoreThe world of Apple Retail revealed through the eyes of ex-employees with wonderful and weird tales to tell.
Read MoreErin Nolan / New York Times: Prosecutors: Pornhub operator Aylo admits that it had profited from porn that depicted sex trafficking victims, will pay a $1.8M fine and be assigned a monitor — The company that operates Pornhub and other adult websites has agreed to pay damages to women who said pornographic videos of them
Read MoreThe Verge / Photos courtesy of Microsoft and Getty Images 2023 has been a fairly uneventful year for laptops. Apple continues to dominate in both performance and battery life, while Microsoft only had incremental upgrades for its Surface line, and Intel has waited until the very end of the year to try to respond to
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This week, Axios broke the news that Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount were looking into some sort of merger. It would make sense: Warner Bros. Discovery is trying to become a content behemoth, and Paramount would give the company even more content plus a grouping of popular (as
Read MoreFor decades, director Michael Mann has pushed boundaries, sought perfection, and built a devoted following—just like Enzo Ferrari himself.
Read MoreApple’s decision to block Beeper Mini has caught the attention of everyone, including lawmakers.
Read MoreFrom a rollicking crypto investigation to an unexpectedly moving novel about poetry-spouting AI, these are the best books we read in 2023.
Read MoreMembers of the US Congress touted improvements to children’s privacy protections as an urgent priority. So why didn’t they do anything about it?
Read MoreTexas Instruments developed digital mirror devices, and the subsequent digital light processing (DLP) projector, starting in the late 1980s. The technology is a wondrous and fanciful application of micro-scale electronics and optics. Most of us that have tangled with these devices have had to learn their mode of operation from diagrams and our own imagination.
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: Apple blocking Beeper Mini has caught the attention of the DOJ, which is in the middle of a four-year-old probe into Apple’s anticompetitive behavior — Beeper Mini, which offers iPhone messaging on Android phones, has grown fast and its duel with the tech giant has gotten the attention of antitrust regulators.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is now offering a prominent “unsubscribe” button in the Gmail app. Unfortunately, this feature only seems to be available on the iOS app right now. We got word that Google was working on an easier way to unsubscribe to emails in the Gmail app. Now, the company has
Read MoreThe Verge / Photo from Getty Images In the podcasting world, the year 2019 may seem like it happened in a parallel universe. Vulture’s Nicholas Quah deemed it the beginning of the “big podcasting era,” pointing to the millions of dollars that Spotify invested in building out its podcast operation — and the expected domino
Read MoreThis jogging stroller folds easily into small spaces, but no hand brake makes it a no-go for runners.
Read MoreAisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Revolut publishes delayed 2022 accounts, removing a hurdle in its UK banking license bid; revenue grew 45% YoY to £922.5M, while pretax loss grew to £25.4Mg2 — – Auditors at BDO say issues for 2021 data have been resolved — Fintech reports pretax loss; sees $2 billion revenue this year
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