The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh’s Twitter Was Just ‘Bored’
The breach of the right-wing provocateur was simply a way of “stirring up some drama,” the attacker tells WIRED. But the damage could have been much worse.
Read MoreThe breach of the right-wing provocateur was simply a way of “stirring up some drama,” the attacker tells WIRED. But the damage could have been much worse.
Read MoreBrandy Betz / CoinDesk: Microsoft and decentralized data service Space and Time, in which M12 invested, partner to offer developers real-time blockchain data from the Azure Marketplace — The agreement comes seven months after the tech giant led a strategic funding round for the crypto firm.
Read MoreImage: Ghostwriter / YouTube The generative AI music hype train only needed about 48 hours to go from “oh, that’s interesting” to full Balenciaga pope territory, and while it’s clear someone is using the technology to run a scheme, we’re still not sure who it is. Here’s the short version: Someone made an AI-generated Drake
Read MoreIllustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge If you’re a US Facebook user who had an active account between May 24th, 2007, and December 22nd, 2022, you may be able to receive a portion of a multimillion-dollar class action settlement related to user privacy. Facebook parent company Meta agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Atlassian launches Atlassian Intelligence, an AI assistant that uses the company’s LLMs and OpenAI’s, to offer AI features for Confluence and Jira in the cloud — Atlassian today announced the launch of Atlassian Intelligence, the company’s AI-driven ‘virtual teammate’ that leverages …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Volkswagen’s flagship electric vehicle, the ID.4 crossover SUV, is eligible for the full $7,500 federal EV tax credit, the automaker announced Wednesday. The federal government’s list of eligible vehicles has since been updated to include all trim levels of the ID.4. Volkswagen is currently the only international
Read MoreYou can now change the look of Snap’s My AI. | Image: Snap Snap is releasing its “My AI” chatbot to all of Snapchat’s 750 million monthly users for free, a move that comes less than two months after the OpenAI-powered bot was first made available to the app’s more than 3 million paid subscribers.
Read MoreCyber crimes took a hefty toll on American companies in 2022, with 22% reporting losses ranging from $100,000 to $499,000 and a staggering 4% loss — a jaw-dropping million dollars or more to cyber-attacks. The realm of cybersecurity is in a state of constant change as novel and sophisticated dangers arise with increasing frequency. Future-Proofing
Read MoreAmanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Snap expands its revenue share program to add creators with 50K+ followers and 25M+ monthly views, and says its TikTok rival Spotlight has 350M monthly users — Snapchat is rolling out additional features to help creators get noticed and make a living. — Over a year ago …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Volkswagen’s flagship electric vehicle, the ID.4 crossover SUV, is eligible for the full $7,500 federal EV tax credit, the automaker announced Wednesday. The federal government’s list of eligible vehicles has since been updated to include all trim levels of the ID.4. Volkswagen is currently the only international
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta has started its latest round of layoffs on Wednesday, and they affect employees in technical roles, according to CNBC. It’s unclear how many employees are being laid off in this round, but Vox reported Tuesday that the cuts would be “in the range” of 4,000 people. On
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ditto, which provides a distributed database to let developers sync data across mobile and edge devices, emerges from stealth with a $45M Series A — Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. But the reality is more complex.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google employees repeatedly criticized the company’s chatbot Bard in internal messages, labeling the system “a pathological liar” and beseeching the company not to launch it. That’s according to an eye-opening report from Bloomberg citing discussions with 18 current and former Google workers as well as screenshots of internal messages. In these internal
Read MoreImage: Night School Studio It’s going to be a very supernatural summer. As part of its latest Indie World showcase, Nintendo announced that, after some delays, Oxenfree II: Lost Signals will be launching on July 12th. The game is coming to the Switch but also Steam, PlayStation consoles, and Netflix. Lost Signals is a sequel
Read MoreThis show has a lot of nuns, but not a lot of guns. | Image: Colleen Hayes / Peacock A lot of people right now are wringing their hands about the rapid emergence and popularization of AI. There’s the way it threatens jobs — as anyone working at CNET will tell you — but there’s
Read MoreImage: JLR Jaguar Land Rover will invest £15 billion ($18.7 billion) over the next five years in electric and autonomous vehicle technology, the automaker announced Wednesday. The company identified its Halewood plant in the UK for conversion to an all-EV manufacturing facility. And by 2030, JLR says it will be an “electric first, modern luxury
Read MoreSidney Sweeney as Reality Winner. | HBO When former intelligence contractor Reality Winner pleaded guilty back in 2018 for leaking an NSA report detailing Russian attempts to interfere with the US’s 2016 election, the Espionage Act made it impossible for her to argue that she was acting out of concern for the American public. Even
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Google released Bard despite internal concerns; some employees called the chatbot “a pathological liar” whose answers may result in “injury or death” — Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool.
Read MoreImage: Massive Monster Cult of the Lamb was one of my favorite games of 2022. When I spoke to the developers, they said they had all kinds of new content in the works, and that day has finally arrived. Revealed during today’s Nintendo Indie World event, Cult of the Lamb’s Relics of the Old Faith
Read MoreMassive Monster In case Tears of the Kingdom isn’t your thing or you need something to tide you over until May 12th, Nintendo put on a 20-minute Indie World presentation chock-full of new games, DLC, trailers, and more. Here are the highlights. Mineko’s Night Market In Mineko’s Night Market, you play as Mineko, who’s tasked
Read MoreWashington Post: Analysis: Google’s C4 data set, used to train AIs like Facebook’s LLaMA, includes troubling content from white supremacist site Stormfront, 4chan, and more — AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …
Read MoreBlue, pink, purple, space gray, starlight — they’re all on sale. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The 2022 iPad Air is on sale once again for its best price to date. Right now, you can get a 64GB iPad Air with Wi-Fi for just $499.99 ($100 off) in one of its five
Read MoreGoogle has quickly become a top contender in the affordable flagship smartphone arena. In this Google Pixel 7 vs Pixel 6a showdown, we will look at what sets these two phones apart and see if the fancier Pixel 7 is worth the extra cash or if the budget-friendly Pixel 6a is the real star of
Read MoreFinancial Times: In a joint statement, FBI, Interpol, and 13 other law enforcement agencies say Meta’s plan to expand E2EE on its platforms “blindfolds” them to child sex abuse — FBI, Interpol and UK National Crime Agency among law enforcement groups warning about tech company’s plans
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft is reportedly working on a smaller Surface Pro with an 11-inch display and an Arm-powered Surface Go 4 model. Windows Central reports that the smaller Surface Pro is codenamed Luxor and will be similar in size and shape to the Surface Go, the more budget 10.5-inch tablet
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