Laura Normand / The Verge Some of the biggest names in tech will testify before the US Senate on January 31st, 2024 during a hearing about online child exploitation. In a Wednesday announcement, the Senate Judiciary Committee said it will hear from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X (formerly Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino, TikTok CEO Shou
Read MoreLora Kolodny / CNBC: Elon Musk dismisses fear of advertisers leaving X after his controversial posts: “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising … go fuck yourself” — – In recent weeks, Musk has promoted and sometimes verbally endorsed what the White House called “antisemitic and racist hate” …
Read MoreFrom left to right: Conrad Kramer, Kim Beverett, and Ari Weinstein of Software Applications Incorporated. AI chatbots like ChatGPT have, to date, been fairly impersonal, existing outside of the apps and data that we use every day. A new startup by three ex-Apple employees called Software Applications Incorporated hopes to change that. The company’s CEO,
Read MoreNoah Berger Amazon wants users to evaluate AI models better and encourage more humans to be involved in the process. During the AWS re: Invent conference, AWS vice president of database, analytics, and machine learning Swami Sivasubramanian announced Model Evaluation on Bedrock, now available on preview, for models found in its repository Amazon Bedrock. Without
Read MoreJacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Elon Musk calls a Nov. 15 X post of his a mistake that “handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic” for which he’s sorry — I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in
Read MoreWith the increase in popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their need to communicate wirelessly, there’s been a corresponding explosion of wireless protocols to chose from. Of course there’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but for more specialized applications there are some other options like Z-Wave, LoRa, Sigfox, and Thread. There’s a decent amount of
Read MoreA Google Nest Cam set up in a garage will soon be able to send an alert if the door is left open. | Screenshot by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google’s adding a new garage door detection feature to its Nest security cameras that will alert you if your garage door has been
Read MoreEmily Bary / MarketWatch: Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $734.2M, vs. $714M est., and projects Q4 product revenue of $716M to $721M, vs. $696M est.; SNOW jumps 6%+ — Snowflake’s stock moves higher in the extended session — Snowflake Inc.’s stock was rocketing more than 8% higher in Wednesday’s …
Read MoreKeras 3.0, a “full rewrite” of the Keras deep learning API, has arrived, providing a new multi back-end implementation of the API. Unveiled November 27, and accessible from GitHub, Keras 3.0 enables developers to run Keras workflows on top of the Jax, TensorFlow, or PyTorch machine learning frameworks, featuring large-scale model training and deployment capabilities.
Read MoreWhy draw the pixel cat in MS Paint when Cocreator can just make it for you? | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is officially launching its Cocreator image-generating AI feature within the Paint app for Windows 11. The new integrated text-to-image generator, powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model, was previously available only to Windows Insiders. As Windows
Read MoreAlex Ivanovs / Stack Diary: Researchers develop a “divergence attack” that makes ChatGPT emit sequences copied from its training data, by prompting the LLM to repeat a word numerous times — Large language models, like ChatGPT, are trained on vast amounts of text data from books, websites, and other sources.
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Intuit Mailchimp plans to shut down TinyLetter on February 29, 2024, to focus on its core Mailchimp marketing product; Mailchimp acquired TinyLetter in 2011 — Mailchimp is shutting TinyLetter, a service that I loved that let individuals easily write and publish simple but nice-looking email newsletters.
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Last May, Google announced it was planning to delete any accounts that hadn’t been used in two years (with a few exceptions, such as accounts that have YouTube videos). And sure enough, about two months after that, I got an email from Google warning me that accounts that
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. It’s that time of year again, when all your friends share their Spotify Wrapped and you (read: me) reply with your boring Apple Music Replay and nobody cares.
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Mozilla says Firefox extensions compatible with Android will be “openly available” to users on December 14, with over 400 coming at launch — Mozilla is opening the floodgates on extensions for Firefox on Android, with hundreds of new add-ons arriving in December.
Read MoreSusan Heavey / Reuters: The Senate Judiciary Committee says the CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord plan to testify on online child sexual exploitation at a January 31 hearing — The chief executives of social media companies Meta (META.O), X, TikTok, Snap (SNAP.N) and Discord will testify …
Read MoreMotorola has extended its holiday sale beyond Cyber Monday this year, which means there’s still time to take advantage of the standout deal on the new Motorola Edge (2023). Usually selling for $600, a massive 43% price drop gives you the chance to snap up the Android phone for just $349.99. Motorola Edge (2023) for
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google announced today that it won’t pull links to Canadian news outlets after all, thanks to an agreement with the government of Canada over the contentious Online News Act or Bill C-18. Google and Alphabet president of global affairs Kent Walker published a statement saying that “following extensive discussions, we are pleased
Read MoreOnce upon a time, if you wanted to generate some waveforms, you needed to buy an expensive off-the-shelf function generator or whip up a big pile of analog electronics. Not so today, when you can grab a fast microcontroller off the shelf and have it squirt out whatever fancy waves you might desire. That’s just
Read MoreA new research paper alleges that large language models may be inadvertently exposing significant portions of their training data through a technique the researchers call “extractable memorization.” The paper details how the researchers developed methods to extract up to gigabytes worth of verbatim text from the training sets of several popular open-source natural language models,
Read MoreLawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: The US sanctions Sinbad, a crypto mixer allegedly used by North Korean Lazarus hackers, and seizes its service in an international law enforcement operation — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Sinbad cryptocurrency mixing service for its use as a money-laundering tool by the North Korean Lazarus hacking
Read MoreCredit: Google Google TV’s version of Spotify’s Wrapped is here, giving us a summary of top trends in movies and TV. The Last of Us was the most-watched show, while The Super Mario Bros. Movie was the most-watched film. Interestingly, all three of the top viewing days were in January, likely thanks to The Last
Read MoreCBC News: Google and Canada reach an agreement in their dispute over the country’s Online News Act; Google plans to pay news companies around CA$100M per year, or ~$74M — Agreement comes 3 weeks before Online News Act rules come into force — Google and the federal government have reached …
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy A24 is now seeing Android 14. This includes all the major features of One UI 6, which first rolled out to the Galaxy S23 series. The Galaxy A24 is a budget phone, proving Samsung doesn’t totally discriminate when it comes to upgrades. When it comes to keeping Android phones up-to-date, few can
Read MoreKristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: Perplexity announces two online LLMs that can access the internet to deliver up-to-date responses, available via Perplexity’s API and Labs web interface — Perplexity’s new PPLX models leverage the internet for real-time data. Find out how these new online LLMs compare to GPT-3.5 and Llama 2.
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