Greg Bensinger / Reuters: At an all-hands meeting, Cruise President Mo Elshenawy said the company has hit an “all-time low” and its tech needs to be “significantly better” than humans — General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has hit an “all time low,” said its new leader …
Read MoreJordan Fragen / VentureBeat: Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024, saying the country was “prohibitively expensive” to operate in despite working to reduce costs — Games livestreaming platform Twitch is shutting down its business operations in South Korea February 27, 2024.
Read MoreImage: Reddit A Reddit bug is allowing slurs to get added to Reddit URLs — and those URLs occasionally appear prominently on Google. Content warning: the following story includes mentions of a slur. Here’s what we’ve observed. While Googling something related to a lighthearted debate in The Verge’s Slack, one staffer found that some of
Read MoreOpenAI designed its governance structure to protect humanity—and it imploded. The company could take pointers from Mozilla and other projects combining lofty goals with for-profit ventures.
Read More23andMe has provided more information about the scope and scale of its recent breach, but with these details come more unanswered questions.
Read MoreWe think of crystals as the gold standard of frequency generation. However, if you want real precision, you need something either better than a crystal or something that will correct for tiny errors — often called disciplining the oscillator. [W3AXL] picked up a rubidium reference oscillator on eBay at a low cost, and he shows
Read MoreDuncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cisco debuts new security tools, including Cisco AI Assistant for Security, which can understand event triage, impact and scope, root cause analysis, and more — Cisco Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence assistant designed to enhance cybersecurity measures …
Read MoreIn times of economic downturn, it’s no surprise that marketing budgets are the first to get cut. The percentage of overall revenue allocated to marketing budgets dropped by 4.4% between 2022 and 2023. The instability of the fluctuating economy over the past few years makes it difficult to plan too far into the future. Yet,
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. The dust is still settling on Spotify’s latest round of layoffs. On Monday, Spotify announced it was cutting 17 percent of its workforce, or approximately 1,500 employees, as a means
Read MoreFinancial Times: Binance CEO Richard Teng refuses to disclose the location of the company’s global headquarters, maintaining a stance taken by former CEO Changpeng Zhao — Richard Teng maintains stance on that information held before crypto exchange pleaded guilty to US charges last month
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. The dust is still settling on Spotify’s latest round of layoffs. On Monday, Spotify announced it was cutting 17 percent of its workforce, or approximately 1,500 employees, as a means
Read MoreThe newly released Django 5.0, the latest version of the popular Python web framework, features capabilities such as simplified templates for form field rendering and database-computed default values. Announced December 4, Django 5.0 can be installed with the pip package installer: pip install Django==5.0. Django 5.0 introduces the concept of a field group and field
Read MoreMackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Dutch manufacturer of chipmaking gear ASM International plans to invest ~$324M in a US headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, and hire 500 people for the facility — – Company is set to hire 500 people for new Scottsdale facility — ASM is weighing whether to apply for US funding, CEO says
Read MoreApple has warned India that its local production targets will be impacted if it follows the lead of the European Union to require existing iPhones to have universal charging ports. A Reuters report detailed an official government document on the issue as Apple is actively lobbying for a delay or exemption to the policy. India
Read MoreNatasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Source: VC firm OpenView laid off most of its staff and does not plan to make new investments, after several partners recently left the firm — OpenView Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm that has backed enterprise software firms such as Calendly and Expensify …
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: iOS 17.2 RC brings Qi2 wireless charging support to iPhone 13 and iPhone 14-series devices; Apple hasn’t said if the phones will charge at 15W on Qi2 chargers — Apple just pushed the release candidate of iOS 17.2, and the upcoming update brings support for the Qi2 wireless charging standard
Read MoreAndrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Microsoft plans to offer three additional years of monthly Windows 10 security updates, paid for annually, after the OS’ end-of-support date on October 14, 2025 — Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7. — Windows 10’s end-of-support date is October 14, 2025.
Read MoreThe iPhone 14 Pro Max and iPhone 14 Pro. | Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple just pushed the release candidate of iOS 17.2, and the upcoming update brings support for the Qi2 wireless charging standard to iPhone 13- and iPhone 14-series smartphones, according to the patch notes. Apple says the iPhone 15
Read MoreKatie Roof / Bloomberg: Gecko Robotics, whose robots inspect infrastructure for industries including energy, defense, and manufacturing, raised $100M at a $633M post-money valuation — – Company is valued at $633 million by USIT, Founders Fund — Pittsburgh-based startup builds inspection robots and software
Read MoreHayden Field / CNBC: Elon Musk’s xAI files with the US SEC to raise up to $1B in an equity offering, saying the startup has raised nearly $135M from four investors since November 29 — – X.AI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1 billion in an
Read MoreWe’ve been following Looking Glass for years — it’s one of the few startups dedicated to building 3D displays where digital objects appear to live inside or leap off the screen. In 2020, it introduced a cheaper 7.9-inch desktop model at $349, and today, it’s introducing its most affordable and portable screen yet: the $300
Read MorePhoto illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Philip Pacheco, Bloomberg, Getty Images 20 things we learned from the Epic v. Google trial. Continue reading…
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In less than a week, Sony has given us two timely reminders of the tenuousness of digital “ownership” — and both reminders involve things on PlayStation. Last week, Sony said that, because of content licensing “arrangements,” users wouldn’t be able to watch Discovery content they’ve purchased and that
Read MoreThe Mac SE and in particular the Mac SE/30 number among the more sought-after of the classic all-in-one Apple computers, and consequently their peripherals including network cards are also hard to find and pricey. Even attempts at re-creating them can be expensive, usually because the chips used back in the day are now nearly unobtainable.
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: ESET researchers have found 18 “SpyLoan” malicious loan Android apps, which have been downloaded 12M+ times from the Google Play store alone, in 2023 so far — More than a dozen malicious loan apps, which are generically named SpyLoan, have been downloaded more than 12 million times …
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