Techmeme 1 year ago

Microsoft says the latest version of Windows 11, version 24H2 now in the Release Preview Channel, is "only available for Copilot+ PCs devices" (Mark Hachman/PCWorld)

Windows 11's latest update is kind of insane, in a bad way | PCWorld

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Microsoft says Windows 11 version 24H2, now in the Release Preview Channel, is “targeting Copilot+ PCs devices” and devices previously using Insider 24H2 builds

By Mark Hachman / PCWorld. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Tether, the top stablecoin provider, says it made a new synthetic dollar that is backed by gold and will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on Ethereum Mainnet (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)

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Tether Announces a New Synthetic Dollar That Is Backed by Gold

Tether Holdings Ltd., issuer of the largest stablecoin in the cryptocurrency market, has created a new synthetic dollar that is backed by gold, the...

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Stablecoin provider Tether announces a synthetic dollar backed by gold that will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on the Ethereum Mainnet blockchain

By María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting Snowflake customers have been extorted with stolen data and face ransom demands from $300K to $5M (Bloomberg)

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Hackers Demand as Much as $5 Million From Snowflake Clients

Cybercriminals are demanding payments of between $300,000 and $5 million apiece from as many as 10 companies breached in a campaign that targeted S...

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Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting Snowflake customers have been extorted with stolen data and face ransom demands from $300K to $5M

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Techmeme 1 year ago

DeepMind is developing AI tech to take raw pixels of videos and generate synced soundtracks; it's not too convincing, and there are no plans to release publicly (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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DeepMind's new AI generates soundtracks and dialogue for videos | TechCrunch

DeepMind claims that its new generative AI tech can take a video and generate sound effects, music and even dialogue.

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Google DeepMind is building AI tech to take raw pixels of videos and make synced soundtracks; the tech is not convincing, and Google has no public release plans

By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Apple says it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the "buy now, pay later" service that launched in the United States last year (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Apple discontinuing Apple Pay Later, ahead of new features launching this fall - 9to5Mac

Apple has announced that it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the “buy now, pay later” service that launched...

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Apple says it will no longer offer Apple Pay Later, the BNPL service launched in the US in 2023, and will focus on installment loan features coming in 2024

By Chance Miller / 9to5Mac. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Finaloop, which offers accounting tools to e-commerce businesses, raised a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed and says its customer base grew 400% in the last year (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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From sperm freezing to accounting tools, Finaloop scores $35M to solve e-commerce retailers' bookkeeping headaches | TechCrunch

Finaloop’s solution is a platform that uses automation in the background to track transactions covering three different functions in one.

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Finaloop, which offers accounting tools to e-commerce businesses, raised a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed and says its customer base grew 400% in the last year

By Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Uber says "tens of thousands of riders" in Phoenix have matched with a "Waymo (AI) driver" and have given "a nearly 4.9 average star rating" (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes) https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2024/06/17/a-robotaxi-business-is-a-dream-for-elon-muskbut-already-a-reality-for-waymo/

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Uber says “tens of thousands of riders” in Phoenix have matched with a “Waymo (AI) driver” and have given “a nearly 4.9 average star rating” since the launch

By Alan Ohnsman / Forbes. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming "consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing" plan terms (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel

The DOJ accuses Adobe of trapping users in subscriptions.

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The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms

By Emma Roth / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind "super-unit" in April 2023, shifting the AI lab from research to products (Bloomberg)

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Google DeepMind Shifts From Research Lab to AI Product Factory

The company combined its two AI labs to develop commercial services, a move that could undermine its long-running strength in foundational research.

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Around two dozen sources detail Google

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Techmeme 1 year ago

Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon aims to raise up to $315M in a US IPO, offering shares for $18 to $21 each and targeting an up to $2.67B valuation (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/navers-webtoon-entertainment-targets-up-267-bln-valuation-us-ipo-2024-06-17/

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Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon aims to raise up to $315M in a US IPO, offering shares for $18 to $21 each and targeting an up to $2.67B valuation

By Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length, after releasing Gen-2 in June 2023 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) https://venturebeat.com/ai/runway-unveils-new-hyper-realistic-ai-video-model-gen-3-alpha-capable-of-10-second-long-clips/

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Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, highly realistic 10-second-long video clips; it

By Carl Franzen / VentureBeat. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

TikTok expands its Symphony ad suite, adding AI dubbing and custom or stock Digital Avatars based on paid actors or created to resemble specific creators (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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TikTok ads may soon contain AI-generated avatars of your favorite creators

And dubbed to speak multiple languages at that.

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TikTok expands its Symphony generative AI ad suite with dubbing, stock Digital Avatars based on paid actors, and custom Avatars resembling specific creators

By Jess Weatherbed / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos | TechCrunch

YouTube is testing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add "Notes" to provide more context and information on videos.

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YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X

By Aisha Malik / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Vietnam's state media says three of its five active international undersea internet cables are down, impacting connections with the US, Europe, and Asia (Khanh Vu/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/three-vietnams-five-undersea-internet-cables-are-down-2024-06-17/

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Vietnam

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Techmeme 1 year ago

Swiss privacy-focused app developer Proton establishes the Proton Foundation to transition to a nonprofit foundation model, similar to Signal and Mozilla (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

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Privacy app maker Proton transitions to nonprofit foundation structure | TechCrunch

Proton is following in the footsteps of Signal and Mozilla by transitioning to a new non-profit foundation model.

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Swiss privacy-focused app developer Proton establishes the Proton Foundation to transition to a nonprofit foundation model, similar to Signal and Mozilla

By Paul Sawers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a "warning label" saying that "social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents" (Vivek H. Murthy/New York Times)

Opinion | Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (Published 2024)

It’s time for decisive action to protect our young people.

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The US surgeon general says platforms should add a warning label saying that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents”

By Vivek H. Murthy / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor EPAM Systems to steal data from Ticketmaster and ~165 other Snowflake users; EPAM denies the claim (Kim Zetter/Wired)

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Hackers Detail How They Allegedly Stole Ticketmaster Data From Snowflake

A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster’s Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-par...

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Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor EPAM Systems to steal data from Ticketmaster and ~165 other Snowflake users; EPAM denies the claim

By Kim Zetter / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

How Terray Therapeutics uses AI to discover and develop drugs, generating 50TB of raw data daily, part of a wave of startups looking to harness AI in medicine (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development (Published 2024)

In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting u...

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How Terray Therapeutics uses AI to discover and develop drugs, generating 50TB of raw data daily, part of a wave of startups looking to harness AI in medicine

By Steve Lohr / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and its screen will grow from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

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Kuo: Apple Watch Series 10 to Get Larger Screen and Thinner Design

This year

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Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have a bigger screen, from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components

By Tim Hardwick / MacRumors. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme 1 year ago

Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a stylus for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3, plus "future headsets", the Quest's first third-party input device, shipping in September (Scott Hayden/Road to VR)

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Quest Gets Its First Third-party Input Device Thanks to Logitech

Logitech today unveiled an XR stylus that comes as Meta Quest’s first third-party motion peripheral, targeting creatives working in both 2D a...

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Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a stylus for the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and “future headsets”, the Quest

By Scott Hayden / Road to VR. View the full context on Techmeme.