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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple schedules WWDC 2024 for June 10 to June 14 as a virtual event with a June 10 keynote, where Apple is expected to unveil its AI strategy, iOS 18, and more — Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Some Apple users report being targeted in an “MFA bombing” attack, in which their devices are inundated with alerts to approve a password change or login — Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature.
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| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Blockchain game Munchables, which offers rewards for looking after digital creatures, loses ~$63M in ETH in a hack; the hacker seems to have returned the funds — - Blockchain-based Munchables game confirmed a security incident — Munchables declared all user funds safe later the same day| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel shares Microsoft's “AI PC” requirements, such as adding a Copilot key, and expands its AI PC acceleration program to help developers and hardware vendors — Meteor Lake dev kits use Asus NUCs optimized for AI development work. — Intel announced two new extensions …
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| Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Sources: blockchain AI companies SingularityNET, Fetch.ai, and Ocean Protocol are discussing merging their tokens, creating ASI with a ~$7.5B diluted value — Three artificial intelligence companies that operate on blockchain are in talks to merge their crypto tokens, a move aimed at helping them develop a decentralized AI platform.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How Phil Schiller, now an Apple Fellow, emerged as Apple's most ardent public defender of its ecosystem, under threat from the US DOJ, the EU, rivals, and more — Former Chief Marketing Officer Phil Schiller has frequently made it clear that Apple doesn't intend to yield to developer criticism| Martin Coulter / Reuters: |
Tech industry group Boardwave, representing 1,300 founders, CEOs, and others, urges the UK to provide more support for the software industry in a white paper — Britain's government has been urged to provide more support for the software industry with measures including tax incentives and talent visas.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says X plans to make Grok available to all Premium subscribers “later this week”, expanding on Premium+ support; X Premium costs $8 per month — Following Elon Musk's xAI's move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday … | Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Israeli officials detail an expansive and experimental facial recognition program in Gaza to catalog Palestinians without their knowledge, starting in 2023 — The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Databricks' new open source model DBRX, which cost ~$10M to develop over several months and, Databricks says, outshines Llama 2, Mixtral, and Grok — Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta's Llama 2.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood launches Gold Card, a 3% cashback credit card for Robinhood Gold members, eight months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95M — Eight months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood announced today the launch of its new Gold Card …
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| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Despite a crypto rally, VC funds focused on crypto are struggling to raise money, as limited partners prioritize tangible gains after the 2022 wipeout — - Funds are struggling to raise cash to put into crypto startups — Limited partners prioritize tangible gains after 2022 wipeout
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated — Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they're vulnerable …
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney launches Hulu on Disney+, after testing the integration in beta in 2023; Disney+ users that do not subscribe to Hulu can still search for Hulu shows — “Content recommendations are going to be more relevant based on your usage,” says Joe Earley, president of direct-to-consumer for Disney Entertainment.| CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ charges crypto exchange KuCoin and two co-founders with violating anti-money laundering laws, failing to register with the US government, and more — The exchange was charged under the Bank Secrecy Act. — U.S. federal prosecutors charged crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders …
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| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
How tech companies' search for AI experts, hampered by a shortage of candidates, led to million-dollar-a-year pay packages, poaching entire teams, and more — The artificial-intelligence boom is sending Silicon Valley's talent wars to new extremes. Tech companies are serving up million-dollar … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
Productivity platform Airtable launches Airtable AI, adding AI summaries, categorization, and translation via GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Anthropic's Claude — Companies like Microsoft and Google have integrated AI features into their productivity offerings. But a recent survey from Slack …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Filings detail Meta's Project Ghostbusters to get data analytics about Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, using Onavo VPN on iOS and Android between 2016 and 2019 — Unsealed court filings reveal Meta's secret plan, “Project Ghostbusters,” to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users' devices.
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| Financial Times: |
A profile of Swedish accounting software maker Fortnox, valued at $4.6B after its stock rose 5x since 2020, as some analysts question its growth prospects — Stock in $4.6bn company has boomed under chief executive Tommy Eklund. Analysts question how much further its niche business can expand| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out Gemini to some Google Messages beta users with RCS enabled on select Pixel and Galaxy devices, letting users chat to Gemini over RCS — Following the announcement a month ago, Gemini is starting to roll out for some Google Messages beta users.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
HSBC releases its HSBC Gold Token, minted on its Orion digital assets platform, via its online banking and app, after testing the service in November 2023 — The bank is claiming bragging rights for being the first bank to create a blockchain-based real world asset aimed at retail investors.| John Markoff / New York Times: |
A look at SRI's Future Concepts division, a research organization comprised of SRI and PARC researchers, as some argue that basic tech research labs are passé — Two research labs known for some of the tech industry's most important innovations have merged in hopes of recapturing their glory days.
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