The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires
A scandal unfolding in Argentina shows the dangers of implementing facial recognition—even with laws and limits in place.
Read MoreA scandal unfolding in Argentina shows the dangers of implementing facial recognition—even with laws and limits in place.
Read MoreJessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: NGO Save the Children confirms a data breach after cybercrime group BianLian bragged that it had hit “the world’s leading nonprofit” and stolen 6.8TB of data — A new low, even for these lowlifes — UPDATED Cybercrime crew BianLian says it has broken into the IT systems …
Read MoreThe Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 are well-known for bringing 3D gaming into the mainstream in a way that preceding consoles just couldn’t. The ZX Spectrum, on the other hand, is known for text adventures and barebones graphics. However, it now has a rudimentary version of a Quake-like engine, as demonstrated by [Modern ZX-Retro Gaming].
Read MoreFinancial Times: A profile of The Raine Group, a NY-based tech-focused boutique merchant bank that is headlining Arm’s IPO filing and has become a go-to advisor for SoftBank — Tech-focused boutique bank Raine Group has had a long and lucrative relationship with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Symantec: Chinese cyberespionage group Redfly used the ShadowPad trojan to compromise a national grid in an Asian country from February 28 until August 3, 2023 — An espionage threat group tracked as ‘Redfly’ hacked a national electricity grid organization in Asia and quietly maintained access to the breached network for six
Read MoreOlga Kharif / Bloomberg: Solidus Labs: wash trading on Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges amounted to at least $2B worth of cryptocurrencies since September 2020 — – Liquidity providers have manipulated prices of 20,000 tokens — Solidus examined a sample of 30,000 pools on three exchanges
Read MoreChinese artificial intelligence startups say uncertain regulation, chip shortages, and a slowing economy will make it tough to compete.
Read MoreFinancial Times: The widely diverging ideas and approaches on how to regulate the AI models across the world risk tying the AI industry up in red tape — The industry and policymakers agree that the emerging technology needs regulating. But no one is quite sure how — In May, hundreds of leading figures …
Read MoreEdwin Evans-Thirlwell / Rock, Paper, Shotgun: A look at the “hectic evolution” of Steam, 20 years after Valve launched the beta, as rivals like the Epic Games Store and Itch.io fail to make much of a dent — “Feedback from devs and gamers is always a huge part” of platform’s success, say Valve
Read MoreWe know many of you will be buying an Apple iPhone 15 series smartphone. This line-up includes the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max. We also know none of these will come with a charger in the box, a tendency Apple started with the release of the iPhone
Read MoreGeorge Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with Alexandr Wang, co-founder of Scale AI that has contracts with the DoD, on why US technologists should help preserve US military and economic leadership — Scale AI’s co-founder wants America to grasp AI’s potential to transform warfare before geopolitical rivals do
Read MoreJagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Mumbai-based Kale Logistics, which offers cloud-based tools to assist airports, seaports, and others with logistics, raised a $30M Series B led by Creaegis — Kale Logistics Solutions, an Indian startup offering a vertical SaaS platform to assist logistics needs, has raised $30 million …
Read MoreJoe Rossignol / MacRumors: Xcode 15 Release Candidate files show iPhone 15 and 15 Plus have 6GB of RAM and iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max have 8GB of RAM, a 2GB increase for the Pro models — Apple never publicly advertises the amount of RAM included in iPhones, but MacRumors has confirmed that
Read MoreCredit: Apple The iPhone 15 Pro’s A17 Pro chip has a built-in Thread radio. That technically means the new Pro iPhones could function as border routers to connect a Thread network to the internet. No Android phone has this capability just yet, but Google could be working on it. With the iPhone 15 Pro and
Read MorePeter Cohen / AppleInsider: The A17 Pro in iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max offers hardware-accelerated ray tracing; Qualcomm and Samsung have released ray tracing-capable mobile chips — Apple’s latest flagship, the iPhone 15 Pro, promises the best gaming experience on any smartphone with hardware-based ray tracing …
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Court filing: the US DOJ claims Elon Musk repeatedly made decisions that likely ran afoul of a 2022 FTC order restricting Twitter’s data security practices — The Justice Department makes the accusation in its response to a motion from X asking that the consent decree be dismissed
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: Bucharest-based Druid, which offers a conversational AI service to companies, raised a $30M Series B led by TQ Ventures, taking its total funding to ~$50M — European AI startup Druid today announced it has raised $30 million in a Series B round of funding, as it looks to double …
Read MoreCasey Hall / Reuters: Alibaba opens its AI model Tongyi Qianwen to the public and plans to make an open source version available for free commercial use “by the whole society” — Alibaba said on Wednesday it would open its artificial intelligence model Tongyi Qianwen to the public …
Read MoreWomen Plus Connect is a new feature in the Lyft app that lets women and nonbinary drivers and riders opt to prefer women and nonbinary drivers and riders. | Image: Lyft On Tuesday, rideshare service Lyft launched Women Plus Connect, an in-app feature that “matches women and nonbinary drivers with more women and nonbinary riders.”
Read MorePowerBoost badge means its a hybrid. | Image: Ford Ford’s F-150 truck lineup is adding more hybrid powertrain options to more trims for the 2024 model year. New tech additions include the line’s first optional heads-up display, so you can check your speed without looking down, and a built-in 5G modem that’s up to date
Read MoreFor environmentalists, hybrid vehicles can feel like a compromise. But demand for hybrid pickup trucks is surging—and they may be the greenest practical option.
Read MoreOlga Kharif / Bloomberg: Binance.US CEO Brian Shroder departs, replaced on an interim basis by Chief Legal Officer Norman Reed, as the company cuts 100+ jobs, a third of its workforce — – More than 100 positions are eliminated in second round of cuts — Platform shifted to a crypto-only exchange after US crackdown
Read MoreReuters: Sources: TSMC is frustrated with its Arizona plant and has growing confidence in Japan, where its $8.6B fab is on track to produce mature-tech chips in 2024 — Taiwan’s TSMC (2330.TW), which is making an unprecedented push into chip manufacturing overseas, is taking an increasingly optimistic view …
Read MorePhoto by Nilay Patel / The Verge SpaceX said Tuesday evening that it fixed an outage with Starlink, the company’s satellite internet service. “The network issue has been fully resolved,” the company wrote at 9:39PM ET. At 8:33PM ET, the company acknowledged the issue and said it was working on a fix. “Starlink is currently
Read MoreThe trouble with fixing electronics is that most devices are just black boxes — literally. Tear it down, look inside, but it usually doesn’t matter — all you see are black epoxy blobs, taunting you with the fact that one or more of them are dead with no external indication of the culprit. Sometimes, though,
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