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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
CISA is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense; sources: the attackers copied several terabytes of customer data, including credentials — The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence …
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LinkedIn: Evan Roberts and David Kennedy
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple nears production of M4 chips with AI upgrades and memory improvements, coming to new MacBook Pros, Mac minis, and iMacs starting in late 2024 — - Company working on rapid transition to the new processors — Revamp will bring AI capabilities and memory improvements
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is discontinuing its Google One VPN due to a lack of use; Google's free Pixel VPN that debuted in 2022 with the Pixel 7 will remain unchanged — Back in October of 2020, Google One introduced a VPN that later became available on all plans and platforms.
More: Engadget, Android Authority, Guru3D, Neowin, PhoneArena, and MySmartPrice
Forums: r/vpns, r/Android, r/google, and r/GooglePixel
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
X tells users “the hide your checkmark feature of X Premium is going away soon”, after X began adding blue checks to “influential” users with 2,500+ followers — The change comes after X began verifying “influential” users who hadn't signed up for premium.
More: TechCrunch and Social Media Today
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Researchers say they haven't found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoMe discovered — “In the DeepMind paper there are many examples of predicted materials that are clearly nonsensical.”
More: ACS Publications. Threads: @datadrivenmd. Mastodon: @acdha@code4lib.social, @jonny@neuromatch.social, and @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Humane AI Pin review: well-made and easier to access than a phone, but doesn't work half the time, really slow even when it does work, and lacks basic features — For $699 and $24 a month, this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. There's only one problem: it just doesn't work.
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| The Information: |
Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers — TikTok touts itself as a platform where creators can stand out and build a following. But the company has begun discussing with advertisers …
More: The Verge, TikTok For Business, and Social Media Today
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| Ashna Teresa Britto / Reuters: |
Apple changed “state-sponsored” to “mercenary spyware” in threat notifications, a source says after pressure from India for linking breaches to state actors — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has warned its users in India and 91 other countries that they were possible victims of a …
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| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI has fired two researchers on its AI safety team for allegedly leaking information, including Leopold Aschenbrenner, an ally of Ilya Sutskever — OpenAI has fired two researchers for allegedly leaking information, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Google releases Android 15 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, with edge-to-edge app scaling by default, OS-level support for app archiving and unarchiving, and more — Google LLC today announced the release of the first beta test version of Android 15, opening up the upcoming operating system for both developers and early adopters to test out.| Brian Hiatt / Rolling Stone: |
A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts — Weeks after AI-music generator Suno went viral, a new rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights.
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LinkedIn: Conrad Withey, G.I. Sanders, Joshua Slobin, and Kostya Doronin
Forums: r/artificial and r/entertainment
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health lays off ~10% of its workforce; Hinge had an estimated 1,700+ employees, and was valued at $6.2B in October 2021 — Hinge Health, a 9-year-old company that offers a digital solution to treat chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions … | Wall Street Journal: |
In his annual shareholder letter, Andy Jassy says GenAI “may be the largest technology transformation since the cloud” and Amazon is committed to cost-cutting — In his letter to shareholders, Andy Jassy says generative AI could usher in the largest tech transformation since the Internet
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
OpenTable plans to display members' first names and profile photos on all reviews, including past reviews, starting May 22 in a bid to provide more transparency — Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable says that all reviews on the platform will no longer be fully anonymous starting …
Bluesky: @csimon.bsky.social. X: @jranft, @mobileraj, @bleepincomputer, @simonw, @rachelmetz, @simonw, and @simonw. Forums: Hacker News
| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Anrok, which provides sales tax management tools to software companies, raised a $30M Series B led by Khosla Ventures at a $250M valuation — Khosla Ventures led the $30 million Series B, which comes as a rare fundraising success outside the sphere of AI. — In 2019, recovering venture …
LinkedIn: Cameron Ross, Jenny He, and Ethan Choi
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on why Google doesn't need to raise trillions to build a supercomputer, why AI offers a reset in competition, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Kurian joined Google to lead the company's cloud division in 2018 …
More: diginomica and The Information
| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify is developing tools to let subscribers speed up, mash up, or edit songs as a type of playback feature; rights holders would still get paid — Streamer is developing tools that would make it easier for fans to create custom versions of their favorite musicSponsor Posts
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