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A profile of Brain Krebs, who in the past 20 years has probed and outed some of the worst cybercriminals, including the alleged hackers of Snowflake clients — In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Brian Krebs faces threats, manipulation and the odd chess challenge
Mastodon: @nixonnixoff@infosec.exchange and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @eastdakota. Forums: Hacker News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images; Aurora has disappeared for some users after going live for a few hours — X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant.
More: PCMag, Business Insider, Neowin, UPI, Cryptopolitan, The Verge, and The Decoder
X: @testingcatalog, @chrisparkx, @apples_jimmy, @emollick, @emollick, @mark_k, @jasondigital, @kristennetten, @aaiden35928, @darthjml, @skrrrt5115, @jglypt, @danielgatzonx, @dejavucoder, @benjamindekr, @rowancheung, @mitch0z, @alxfazio, @dejavucoder, @fearlessorator, @umeshonai, @electrik_dreams, @multimodalart, @umesh_ai, @prthgo, and @ivanfioravanti
Forums: r/artificial and r/StableDiffusion
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Broadcom shelves plans to work directly with the top 2,000 VMware customers, focusing on just 500 and giving 1,500 back to partners as a way to stem migrations — Now wants to work with 500 and lean more on partners to defend against migrations - which Dell says are on the cards
More: Ars Technica, TechRadar, Constellation Research, and TechSpot
LinkedIn: Alastair Edwards and Paul Echelmeyer
| Axios: |
Sources: the US has approved the export of advanced AI chips to a Microsoft-operated facility in the UAE as part of the company's partnership with G42 — - Lawmakers have raised concerns over the partnership, saying there is a risk it could open up a back door for China to access the advanced technology.
More: BusinessLIVE, Reuters, Reuters, eWeek, and Tech in Asia
| The Guardian: |
An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M — FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government
More: Balloon Juice. X: @hernandesraph, @porcelinad, @sf_mills, @porcelinad, @rudysdowens, @porcelinad, and @berniesanders. LinkedIn: Raphael Hernandes
Forums: Hacker News, r/somethingiswrong2024, and r/politics
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launches a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials — The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM — ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software … | Bloomberg: |
How the US-China fallout is fueling the rise of boomtowns in Vietnam and Malaysia, as companies and governments rush to develop AI and establish chipmaking hubs — An accelerating influx of tech investment is transforming local economies in Malaysia and Vietnam.
More: Cryptopolitan
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
The Intel Foundry Technology Research team announces breakthroughs in interconnect scaling, gate-all-around transistors, and packaging — Smaller, faster, better. — Today, the Intel Foundry Technology Research team announced technology breakthroughs in 2D transistor technology using … | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant — An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future
Bluesky: @dannygroner. X: @psiquantum, @alexmmmack, and @wsj
LinkedIn: Steve Rosenbush, Alex Mack, Brad Henderson, and Jorge Santiago Ortiz
| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Chatbot Arena, which now ranks over 170 AI models and was launched in 2023 by two UCB researchers who hope to grow the project into a Wikipedia of AI — Ranking AI is tricky, so two students developed a way to make the best bots battle — BERKELEY, Calif.—Record labels have the Billboard Hot 100.| Financial Times: |
Sources: ByteDance has taken an early lead in the generative AI race in China by poaching top talent from rivals and becoming Nvidia's biggest buyer in China — Beijing-based company has lured top AI talent from local rivals while becoming China's biggest buyer of Nvidia chips
More: 24/7 Wall St. and TechRadar
| Yongchang Chin / Bloomberg: |
Ant President Cyril Han will succeed Eric Jing as CEO on March 1; Jing will remain company chairman and Han, who is also the CFO, will continue reporting to him — Han will succeed Eric Jing as CEO on March 1 and be responsible for all business segments and daily management …
More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
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