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Sources and documents: TikTok employees have regularly posted user data on messaging tool Lark, used by ByteDance, leading some staff to raise privacy concerns (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources and documents: TikTok employees have regularly posted user data on messaging tool Lark, used by ByteDance, leading some staff to raise privacy concerns  —  Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents.

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The US Treasury sanctions four entities and one individual over North Korea’s “army” of illicit IT workers, often based in Russia and China, and cyberattacks (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The US Treasury sanctions four entities and one individual over North Korea’s “army” of illicit IT workers, often based in Russia and China, and cyberattacks  —  The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against four entities …

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Microsoft updates Power Automate’s Cloud Flows with Copilot

At its annual Build conference, Microsoft on Tuesday said that it is adding Copilot to its low-code software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for automating recurring tasks, Power Automate. The integration of GPT-powered Copilot will be available across Cloud Flows inside Power Automate, said Stephen Siciliano, vice president of Power Automate at Microsoft. To read this article in

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Hands-on with Sudowrite’s Story Engine, a generative AI tool for long-form fiction that works better than previous options but still has big limitations (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Hands-on with Sudowrite’s Story Engine, a generative AI tool for long-form fiction that works better than previous options but still has big limitations  —  Thoughts are swarming my mind like a nest of cyber-rats. … Last week, generative fiction tool Sudowrite launched a system for writing whole novels.

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Yugabyte adds multiregion Kubernetes support to YugabyteDB 2.18

Yugabyte has added multiregion Kubernetes support along with other features in the latest update to its open source distributed SQL database YugabyteDB 2.18. The update, which is already in general availability, adds multiregion Kubernetes support to the company’s self-managed, database-as-a-service YugabyteDB Anywhere. To help enterprises eliminate points of friction while deploying Kubernetes, the company has

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Figure, which is developing a humanoid robot that recently took its first step, raised a $70M Series A led by Parkway, following a self-financed $100M seed (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Figure, which is developing a humanoid robot that recently took its first step, raised a $70M Series A led by Parkway, following a self-financed $100M seed  —  I spent a bit of time at Figure’s Sunnyvale offices during a recent visit to the South Bay.  The firm is currently in that

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Istanbul-based AI marketing startup Insider raised $105M at a $2B valuation, up from $1.22B during its $121M Series D in March 2022, taking its funding to $274M (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Istanbul-based AI marketing startup Insider raised $105M at a $2B valuation, up from $1.22B during its $121M Series D in March 2022, taking its funding to $274M  —  Insider, a Turkish artificial intelligence-backed marketing platform, was valued at almost $2 billion in a funding round …

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Samsung’s 2023 smart monitors aim to do it all

Samsung’s Smart Monitor M8. | Image: Samsung Samsung has announced US pricing and release information for a trio of new “smart monitors” — its lineup of computer displays that can also function as small smart TVs. So you get HDMI and USB ports for plugging in peripherals, but also built-in video streaming apps like Netflix

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An influx of digital nomads, mostly from the US, in Medellín, Mexico City, and other cities is boosting local economies, as locals complain of being priced out (Stephen Witt/Rest of World)

Stephen Witt / Rest of World: An influx of digital nomads, mostly from the US, in Medellín, Mexico City, and other cities is boosting local economies, as locals complain of being priced out  —  Cities from Canggu to Medellín are welcoming tech workers, but locals complain they’re being priced out.

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