Open-source software has gone a long way into making modern technology the way it is today. The Linux kernel alone is almost single-handedly holding up the entire Internet, and various other open-source projects allow for more access to computing resources not just because the software is often free, but because it’s possible to look under
Read MoreLily Hay Newman / Wired: A look at the technical issues Meta faced as it developed E2EE for Messenger, including creating an encrypted storage protocol and re-architecting chat features — Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat.
Read MoreImage: Sony Santa Monica Studios God of War Ragnarök is getting a free DLC this month. During The Game Awards, mere moments after Kratos’ voice actor Christopher Judge made his triumphant (but far less winded) return to the stage, Sony Santa Monica debuted new DLC for 2018’s Game of the Year — God of War
Read MoreNo Rest for the Wicked. | Image: Moon Studios Moon Studios, the team behind the beautiful and incredibly hard Ori games, has announced its next project. It’s called No Rest for the Wicked and is described as “a mature, precision action role-playing game.” The game is launching in early access on PC in early 2024,
Read MoreJessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: A researcher says a years-old Bluetooth authentication flaw lets attackers inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands on Apple, Android, and some Linux devices — Issue has been around since at least 2012 — A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple …
Read MoreImage: Kojima Productions It wouldn’t be a Game Awards without Hideo Kojima. This time, however, the director wasn’t on hand to show off Death Stranding 2 — instead he revealed a new Xbox game called OD. We didn’t get to see much of the game, which was teased last year, and the first teaser mostly
Read MorePeter Grant / Wall Street Journal: Blackstone and Digital Realty launch a joint venture to spend $7B developing 10 data centers across four campuses in Frankfurt, Paris, and Northern Virginia — Venture will target providers of online content, cloud services and AI — Investment giant Blackstone and Digital Realty …
Read MoreImage: Marvel Entertainment Arkane Lyon is making a game based on Marvel’s Blade franchise, the studio announced at The Game Awards 2023 on Thursday. The game was revealed in a brief cinematic trailer, so we didn’t get any gameplay of the title or any details about when it might be released. But Arkane Lyon studio
Read MorePart of the magic of the movies is that the actors always know what will happen next. There never has to be a scene where [James Bond] orders wine, and the sommelier has to correct his pronunciation, or he miscounts his hand at baccarat. Real life is rarely as smooth. Of course, YouTube is more
Read MoreAmazon Amazon has announced it’s testing a subscription model for unlimited grocery delivery for Prime members. For an additional monthly charge of $9.99, Prime members in three cities can get unlimited delivery on Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods orders over $35. Those who opt-in will also receive unlimited 30-minute pick-up on orders of any size.
Read MoreParmy Olson / Bloomberg: Google’s Gemini video demo of its multimodal capabilities wasn’t carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts — The tech giant’s latest AI model is only marginally better than the one from OpenAI that’s been out for eight months.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium are going up in price in South Korea. Users in the country will see the change in the next billing period. Last month, YouTube raised Premium prices in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, Germany, Poland, and Turkey. But it appears the company isn’t quite
Read MoreKaya Yurieff / The Information: TikTok forms a task force to tackle hate speech and plans to open its research API to civil society groups, after complaints about viral Israel-Hamas war videos — TikTok is preparing a slew of initiatives to defuse growing complaints that antisemitism and other hate speech has proliferated in videos about
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Spotify says CFO Paul Vogel plans to leave on March 31, 2024, and launches a search for a successor; Daniel Ek wants a CFO “with a different mix of experiences” — Spotify said chief financial officer Paul Vogel will leave the company next year and that it has launched a search
Read MoreImage: The Verge Of all the layoffs happening at Spotify this week, this has to be the biggest. Chief financial officer Paul Vogel, who since 2020 has managed the company’s balance sheet as it expanded into podcasting and audiobooks, is leaving the company at the end of March 2024. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said the
Read MoreWall Street Journal: The US and UK governments jointly accuse Russia’s FSB of orchestrating a wide-ranging, global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in British elections — The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies — LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments …
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Read MoreImage: Google Google just announced Gemini, its most powerful suite of AI models yet, and the company has already been accused of lying about its performance. An op-ed from Bloomberg claims Google misrepresented the power of Gemini in a recent video. Google aired an impressive “what the quack” hands-on video during its announcement earlier this
Read MoreMicrosoft has published a release candidate (RC) of its Semantic Kernel .NET SDK, the company’s open source development kit for integrating large language models with conventional programming languages such as C#, Python, and Java. To read this article in full, please click here
Read MoreChris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Gene Levoff, the ex-Apple lawyer who pled guilty to insider trading from 2011 to 2016, to four years of probation; Apple fired him in 2018 — – Gene Levoff was sentenced to four years of probation Thursday — Judge said the Stanford Law graduate already lost his
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s personal safety features in Android have expanded in the past year to include a potentially lifesaving feature that can relay critical medical data to first responders when a user dials 911. The technology works by sending important emergency information about the caller entered in the Personal Safety
Read MoreIf there’s anything more viscerally pleasing than seeing an eight-digit instrument showing a measurement with all zeroes after the decimal point, we’re not sure what it could. Maybe rolling the odometer over to another 100,000 milestone? Regardless, getting to such a desirable degree of accuracy isn’t always easy, especially when the instrument in question is
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Toronto-based ContactMonkey, which offers an internal communications tool that integrates with Outlook, Gmail, and more, raised a $55M Series A led by Updata — Email is quite profitable, as it turns out. Or rather, email communications software is. — Today, ContactMonkey …
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Read MoreIf there’s anything more viscerally pleasing than seeing an eight-digit instrument showing a measurement with all zeroes after the decimal point, we’re not sure what it could. Maybe rolling the odometer over to another 100,000 milestone? Regardless, getting to such a desirable degree of accuracy isn’t always easy, especially when the instrument in question is
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