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Google adds support for 110 new languages in Translate, up from 133 languages before this update, its largest expansion ever, aided by the company's PaLM 2 LLM — Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday.
More: The Keyword, Thurrott, TechCrunch, CNET, 9to5Google, Google AI, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, and NewsBytes
| Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: |
Amazon reaches a $2T market valuation for the first time; its shares have whipsawed since the company's Q1 earnings and gained 27% so far this year — - Megacap joins Alphabet, Nvidia and more above key level — Company's cloud unit posted biggest sales growth in a year
More: Silicon Republic, TechRadar, Business Today, CNBC, Fortune, Reuters, Neowin, GeekWire, PYMNTS.com, The Information, MarketWatch, Proactive, Associated Press, Quartz, and Deccan Herald
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Progress Software discloses a critical vulnerability in the MOVEit SFTP module; hackers exploited a similar flaw in MOVEit last year to breach ~1,800 networks — A similar flaw last year left 1,800 networks breached. Will the latest one be as potent? — A critical vulnerability recently discovered …
More: The Record, watchTowr Labs, Progress Customer Community, Progress Customer Community, Censys, Rapid7, SecurityWeek, Dark Reading, Qualys ThreatPROTECT, Rapid7, Tenable Blog, The Shadowserver Foundation, Help Net Security, DeviceSecurity.io, Security Affairs, SC Media, The Hacker News, Born's Tech and Windows World, Stack Diary, CRN, Cybersecurity Dive, BleepingComputer, The Register, and Cyber Daily
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way the Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms, overturning a lower court's 2023 decision — The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate …
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| Katie Mettler / Washington Post: |
The US DOJ indicts a Russian national, who remains at large, for his alleged involvement in the WhisperGate malware attack on Ukrainian systems in January 2022 — A federal grand jury indicted Russian national Amin Stigal this week on allegations that he conspired with the Russian military … | Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands its diagnostics tool for self-service repairs from the US to 32 European countries, including the UK, and plans to launch in Canada in 2025 — Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair is now available in 32 European countries, the company announced today.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces faster Sheets calculations on Chrome and Edge browsers on desktop, doubling speeds for running formulas, creating pivot tables, and more — Google is touting significant speed improvements when performing calculations in Sheets on desktop Chrome and Edge.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Figma debuts a major UI redesign, new generative AI tools, and a built-in slideshow feature, which is free in beta but will be a paid product at official launch — Figma is announcing a bunch of new features at its Config conference today, including a major UI redesign …
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| Anton Bridge / Reuters: |
SoftBank announces AI healthcare joint venture SB TEMPUS with Tempus AI, which recently listed on Nasdaq; Softbank invested ~$200M in Tempus' Series G in April — Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group (9984.T) has launched a joint venture with Tempus AI (TEM.O) that aims …
More: SoftBank Group Corp., Benzinga, and Bloomberg
| The Information: |
Slides shown to Chinese sellers: Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like section featuring cheap items that ship directly from China to overseas consumers — Amazon plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China … | Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's move to cut off API access to Chinese developers sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup and will accentuate the divide between China and the US — - Local AI services from Baidu to 01.AI tout discount offers — The abrupt move sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup
More: South China Morning Post, Rest of World, DeviceSecurity.io, TechNode, Benzinga, Pandaily, Reuters, The Information, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, and DigiTimes
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
An interview with Netflix's VP of external games Leanne Loombe on its push into gaming, focusing on narrative games without ads or in-app purchases, and more — I told my dentist that I was interviewing someone at Netflix later, and she got really excited. “Ooo, what about? Which show?”| Financial Times: |
Q&A with Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence's Zhang Hongjiang on becoming one of China's leading advocates for AI regulation, US export curbs, and more — One of China's leading advocates for artificial intelligence safeguards says international collaboration is key| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon raised $315M in its Nasdaq IPO at $21 per share, the top of its $18-$21 marketed range, valuing the company at $2.7B — Online comics platform prices IPO at top of range for $2.7bn valuation — Webtoon Entertainment, an online comics platform … | John Reed / Financial Times: |
The chair of the India Cellular and Electronics Association says thousands of Chinese engineers and technicians are struggling to obtain Indian work visas — Modi's ambitions to create a manufacturing power come up against souring diplomatic relations with Beijing
More: Skift and New York Times
| Sassafras Lowrey / Wired: |
Telegram, used by half of Russia's 140M residents, has become a refuge for LGBTQ+ citizens, who routinely create new channels to avoid government surveillance — In March, Russia named the “LGBT movement” an extremist organization. In response, activists, human rights groups …
X: @fredpagesf
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 82% YoY to $6.81B, vs. $6.67B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue in line with estimates; MU drops 7%+ after hours — Micron shares fell almost 8% in extended trading on Wednesday as investors looked past better-than-expected results and focused instead on a revenue forecast that was inline with estimates.
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta's new AI translation feature, which is too rudimentary and buggy to be anything more than a novelty — WIRED took Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to French-speaking Canada to trial its AI smarts. Quelle catastrophe! — Imagine you've just arrived in another country …
More: Politico. X: @knibbs, @waterslicer, @andyorin, and @kedkorte. LinkedIn: Kate Knibbs. Forums: r/technews
| Ceylan Yeğinsu / New York Times: |
Testing ChatGPT, Vacay, and Mindtrip to plan a Norway trip shows none were perfect, but the AI chatbots streamlined travel decisions complementing one another — Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation?
More: TechCrunch
| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Activist investor Jana Partners announces an investment in Rapid7; sources say Jana plans to push the cybersecurity company to sell itself — Jana working with investment firm Cannae Holdings — Activist investor Jana Partners has a stake in Rapid7 and plans to push the cybersecurity company … | Zak Butler / The Keyword: |
An overview of China's Dragonbridge multiyear disinfo campaign that uses AI-generated content and spans several social networks to target geopolitical rivals — The most prolific PRC-linked influence operator continues to lean into US social wedge issues, Taiwan and major news events …
More: SC Media, Social Media Today, Pixel Envy, SecurityWeek, Stack Diary, and SiliconANGLE
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Researchers in Rabbit R1's jailbreaking community say Rabbit left critical API keys hardcoded in its code, which would let hackers use Rabbit's internal systems — Members of a community focused on jailbreaking and reverse engineering the Rabbit R1 AI assistant device say that Rabbit left …
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