29 February 2024
SleepScore Labs unveils evidence-based Sleep API suite for health and wellness apps - 2024-02-29 23:15:00Z
Title:SleepScore Labs unveils evidence-based Sleep API suite for health and wellness apps Summary: SleepScore Labs has unveiled its evidence-based Sleep API Suite, creating a chance for health and wellness apps to benefit from sleep data. Link: SleepScore Labs unveils evidence-based Sleep API suite for health and wellness apps
HPE reports Q1 revenue down 14% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $7.1B est., Server revenue down 23% YoY to $3.4B, and reduces its FY 2024 outlook for sales growth and profit (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
HPE reports Q1 revenue down 14% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $7.1B est., Server revenue down 23% YoY to $3.4B, and reduces its FY 2024 outlook for sales growth and profit — Revenue will increase as much as 2%, excluding currency fluctuations, in the fiscal year ending in October.
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Dell reports Q4 revenue down 11% YoY to $22.3B vs. $22.2B est., Client revenue down 12% to $11.7B, and Infrastructure revenue down 6% to $9.3B; DELL jumps 15%+ (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
Dell reports Q4 revenue down 11% YoY to $22.3B vs. $22.2B est., Client revenue down 12% to $11.7B, and Infrastructure revenue down 6% to $9.3B; DELL jumps 15%+ — Dell Technologies reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter as the company saw strong demand for AI-optimized servers.
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Google adds Photomath, which lets users solve math problems by taking a photo, to its Play Store and App Store publisher accounts, after buying the app in 2022 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Google adds Photomath, which lets users solve math problems by taking a photo, to its Play Store and App Store publisher accounts, after buying the app in 2022 — In May of 2022, Google announced that it was acquiring a math solver app called Photomath. The deal closed last year …
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Mistral AI makes waves with deals across tech giants including Microsoft, IBM - 2024-02-29 20:45:56Z
Title:Mistral AI makes waves with deals across tech giants including Microsoft, IBM Summary: Paris-based startup Mistral AI has rapidly emerged as an AI leader, securing major partnerships with Microsoft, IBM and others just months after being founded. Learn how this fledgling French company is making waves in natural language processing and conversational AI. Link: Mistral AI makes waves with deals across tech giants including Microsoft, IBM
H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications - 2024-02-29 19:41:06Z
Title:H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications Summary: In the Hellaswag LLM benchmark evaluating common sense natural language inference, Danube performed with an accuracy of 69.58%, sitting just behind Stability AI's Stable LM 2 1.6 billion parameter model. Link: H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications
Embracer to sell Saber, Star Wars: KotR remake dev, for $500M - 2024-02-29 19:58:44Z
Title:Embracer to sell Saber, Star Wars: KotR remake dev, for $500M Summary: Embracer Group is looking to sell Saber and its upcoming Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake to private investors for up to $500M. Link: Embracer to sell Saber, Star Wars: KotR remake dev, for $500M
Stack Overflow partners with Google Cloud to power developer generative AI intelligence - 2024-02-29 19:28:31Z
Title:Stack Overflow partners with Google Cloud to power developer generative AI intelligence Summary: Chandrasekar explained that through the OverflowAPI, Google now has continuous access to the APIs that pull public data from Stack Overflow. These APIs enable access to the same data available to the Stack Overflow community via its public APIs. Link: Stack Overflow partners with Google Cloud to power developer generative AI intelligence
GitHub enables push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental leaks of secrets like access tokens and API keys when pushing code (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
GitHub enables push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental leaks of secrets like access tokens and API keys when pushing code — GitHub has enabled push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental exposure of secrets such as access tokens and API keys when pushing new code.
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Toys for Bob plans to go independent following Microsoft acquisition - 2024-02-29 19:18:10Z
Title:Toys for Bob plans to go independent following Microsoft acquisition Summary: Toys for Bob is splitting from Activision and going independent following the Microsoft acquisition, with plans to work on its first game. Link: Toys for Bob plans to go independent following Microsoft acquisition
Alibaba researchers detail EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, an AI system that can create realistic talking and singing videos from portrait photos (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Alibaba researchers detail EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, an AI system that can create realistic talking and singing videos from portrait photos — Researchers at Alibaba's Institute for Intelligent Computing have developed a new artificial intelligence system called “EMO,” …
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City State Entertainment rebrands as Unchained Entertainment and readies massive battle game - 2024-02-29 17:00:00Z
Title:City State Entertainment rebrands as Unchained Entertainment and readies massive battle game Summary: City State Entertainment, a fantasy game company started by Mythic Entertainment founder Mark Jacobs, has rebranded as Unchained Entertainment. Link: City State Entertainment rebrands as Unchained Entertainment and readies massive battle game
JFrog says it found around a hundred malicious ML models on Hugging Face, some of which can backdoor users' machines (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
JFrog says it found around a hundred malicious ML models on Hugging Face, some of which can backdoor users' machines — At least 100 instances of malicious AI ML models were found on the Hugging Face platform, some of which can execute code on the victim's machine, giving attackers a persistent backdoor.
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Canada's antitrust watchdog expands its four-year probe into Google's online ad practices, with a focus on whether the company engages in predatory pricing (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal)
Canada's antitrust watchdog expands its four-year probe into Google's online ad practices, with a focus on whether the company engages in predatory pricing — The Competition Burea is investigating whether the search giant engages in predatory pricing — OTTAWA—Canada's antitrust watchdog …
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Vibe.co, a self-serve platform that lets SMBs buy video ads on streamers, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Singular, bringing its total funding to around $30M (Alyssa Boyle/AdExchanger)
Vibe.co, a self-serve platform that lets SMBs buy video ads on streamers, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Singular, bringing its total funding to around $30M — Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) want to capitalize on the rise in streaming consumption but lack the budgets for upfront commitments.
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Source: Embracer will sell its subsidiary Saber Interactive to private investors in a $500M deal, making Saber a privately owned company with ~3,500 staff (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Source: Embracer will sell its subsidiary Saber Interactive to private investors in a $500M deal, making Saber a privately owned company with ~3,500 staff — Saber will continue developing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — Swedish gaming company Embracer Group AB will sell …
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How can enterprises achieve AI governance? Collibra offers new solution - 2024-02-29 16:05:11Z
Title:How can enterprises achieve AI governance? Collibra offers new solution Summary: Collibra AI Governance distinguishes itself by offering intuitive management and monitoring of AI projects, ensuring sensitive data protection. Link: How can enterprises achieve AI governance? Collibra offers new solution
Razer unveils pro-grade USB mic with RGB lighting - 2024-02-29 16:00:00Z
Title:Razer unveils pro-grade USB mic with RGB lighting Summary: Razer unveiled its Razer Seiren V3 Chroma, a professional-grade USB microphone with RGB lighting customization. Link: Razer unveils pro-grade USB mic with RGB lighting
Microsoft’s ‘Copilot for Finance’ aims to revolutionize the spreadsheet with AI - 2024-02-29 16:00:00Z
Title:Microsoft's 'Copilot for Finance' aims to revolutionize the spreadsheet with AI Summary: Microsoft unveils AI-powered finance assistant Copilot for Finance, promising major efficiency gains through workflow automation but faces data privacy and security challenges. Link: Microsoft's 'Copilot for Finance' aims to revolutionize the spreadsheet with AI
Change Healthcare confirms that the ransomware group BlackCat is behind the ongoing attack that caused widespread disruptions to pharmacies across the US (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
Change Healthcare confirms that the ransomware group BlackCat is behind the ongoing attack that caused widespread disruptions to pharmacies across the US — - Change Healthcare on Thursday confirmed that the ransomware group Blackcat is behind the ongoing cybersecurity attack that's been impacting its systems since last week.
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Brave launches its AI-powered assistant Leo, which can create real-time summaries of webpages or videos, generate long form content, and more, on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Brave launches its AI-powered assistant Leo, which can create real-time summaries of webpages or videos, generate long form content, and more, on Android — Brave is launching its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all Android users. The assistant allows users to ask questions, translate pages, summarize pages, create content and more.
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A review of court records shows US federal investigators used push alert tokens in at least four cases to arrest suspects in cases related to CSAM and murder (Washington Post)
A review of court records shows US federal investigators used push alert tokens in at least four cases to arrest suspects in cases related to CSAM and murder — The ubiquitous phone feature has powered a surveillance technique used to catch suspected kidnappers and pedophiles.
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Google expands BigQuery with Gemini, brings vector support to cloud databases - 2024-02-29 15:00:00Z
Title:Google expands BigQuery with Gemini, brings vector support to cloud databases Summary: Google is dramatically expanding its database capabilities for AI, with vector search support now coming to all of its cloud databases. Link: Google expands BigQuery with Gemini, brings vector support to cloud databases
Lingokids reaches 78M families with interactive app for preschoolers - 2024-02-29 14:30:00Z
Title:Lingokids reaches 78M families with interactive app for preschoolers Summary: Lingokids said its interactive app has become the No. 1 app for preschoolers, reaching more than 78 million families worldwide. Link: Lingokids reaches 78M families with interactive app for preschoolers
Robotics startup Figure raises staggering $675M and partners with OpenAI - 2024-02-29 15:02:39Z
Title:Robotics startup Figure raises staggering $675M and partners with OpenAI Summary: Last month, Figure showed off its Figure 01 prototype robot making coffee using only neural networks trained on imagery. Link: Robotics startup Figure raises staggering $675M and partners with OpenAI
Immutable Games launches Gods Unchained Web3 game on mobile - 2024-02-29 14:00:00Z
Title:Immutable Games launches Gods Unchained Web3 game on mobile Summary: Immutable Games is launching its Web3 game Gods Unchained in early access on both Google Play and Apple's App Store today. Link: Immutable Games launches Gods Unchained Web3 game on mobile
Couchbase brings new database vectors to AI powered adaptive applications - 2024-02-29 14:00:00Z
Title:Couchbase brings new database vectors to AI powered adaptive applications Summary: Couchbase is aiming to differentiate itself by positioning its support of vectors as part of its overall platform approach which spans from cloud to on-premises data centers, and even on mobile and edge devices. Link: Couchbase brings new database vectors to AI powered adaptive applications
Microsoft outlines the new DirectSR API, which lets game developers integrate super resolution AI-upscaling features from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel (Jon Porter/The Verge)
Microsoft outlines the new DirectSR API, which lets game developers integrate super resolution AI-upscaling features from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel — Microsoft has outlined a new Windows API designed to offer a seamless way for game developers to integrate super resolution AI-upscaling features from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.
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Stack Overflow launches OverflowAPI to give AI companies access to its knowledge base, starting with Google, which will use the data for Gemini for Google Cloud (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Stack Overflow launches OverflowAPI to give AI companies access to its knowledge base, starting with Google, which will use the data for Gemini for Google Cloud — Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is launching a new program today that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API, aptly named OverflowAPI.
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The US launches a probe into possible security risks of Chinese-manufactured vehicles, saying modern cars are like smartphones and could be used for espionage (Jeanne Whalen/Washington Post)
The US launches a probe into possible security risks of Chinese-manufactured vehicles, saying modern cars are like smartphones and could be used for espionage — The Biden administration says software and digital connections in modern cars could be used to spy on Americans or sabotage the vehicles
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Deepdub adds AI dubbing tech that can change a speaker’s accent - 2024-02-29 13:00:00Z
Title:Deepdub adds AI dubbing tech that can change a speaker's accent Summary: Deepdub has unveiled AI dubbing technlogy that can change a speaker's accent. Link: Deepdub adds AI dubbing tech that can change a speaker's accent
The Collective Ace Group acquires By Aliens mobile game studio - 2024-02-29 13:30:00Z
Title:The Collective Ace Group acquires By Aliens mobile game studio Summary: The Collective Ace Group (TCAG), a broad-based gaming company, has expanded its reach by acquiring By Aliens (BA). Link: The Collective Ace Group acquires By Aliens mobile game studio
Humanoid robot maker Figure AI confirms it has raised $675M at a $2.6B valuation and shows off a general-purpose robot called Figure 01 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
Humanoid robot maker Figure AI confirms it has raised $675M at a $2.6B valuation and shows off a general-purpose robot called Figure 01 — - Figure AI raised $675 million from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and OpenAI. — The startup says it will use the money …
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Researchers find serious security flaws in cheap video door bells sold by a Chinese company under various brands names on Amazon, Shein, and other sites (Consumer Reports)
Researchers find serious security flaws in cheap video door bells sold by a Chinese company under various brands names on Amazon, Shein, and other sites — The devices are also sold by Walmart, Sears, and other retailers—and big platforms have faced few consequences for shipping flawed products
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Russian-speaking LockBit threatens to release Trump case documents in Fulton County Court that "could affect the upcoming US election" unless a ransom is paid (Davey Winder/Forbes)
Russian-speaking LockBit threatens to release Trump case documents in Fulton County Court that “could affect the upcoming US election” unless a ransom is paid — The LockBit ransomware group is threatening to release Fulton County Court documents related to Donald Trump's case unless …
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As Twitch shuts down in South Korea citing high costs due to new "sender pays" network rules, livestreamers struggle to use Korean rivals like AfreecaTV (Morgan Sung/Rest of World)
As Twitch shuts down in South Korea citing high costs due to new “sender pays” network rules, livestreamers struggle to use Korean rivals like AfreecaTV — The streaming giant attributed its departure to high network fees. — On February 27, Twitch officially shut down business in South Korea.
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Arkham: the US government appears to have transferred out about $922M worth of bitcoin from two crypto wallets that held funds seized from a 2016 Bitfinex hack (Timmy Shen/The Block)
Arkham: the US government appears to have transferred out about $922M worth of bitcoin from two crypto wallets that held funds seized from a 2016 Bitfinex hack — - Arkham Intelligence data showed that two wallets containing the seized funds made multiple transfers to unidentified addresses on Wednesday.
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India approves setting up three chipmaking units worth $15.2B from companies including India's Tata Group and Japan's Renesas (Shivam Patel/Reuters)
India approves setting up three chipmaking units worth $15.2B from companies including India's Tata Group and Japan's Renesas — India on Thursday approved setting up three chipmaking units worth 1.26 trillion rupees ($15.2 billion) from firms including India's Tata Group and Japan's Renesas …
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Filing: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi receives options to buy stock worth ~$136M after hitting a performance target to reach a $120B valuation for the company (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)
Filing: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi receives options to buy stock worth ~$136M after hitting a performance target to reach a $120B valuation for the company — Dara Khosrowshahi became entitled to award after meeting targets set before ride-hailing group's IPO
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Q&A with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair on paying out $15B+ to creators since inception, negative perceptions of the site, hosting sports and other content, AI, more (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Q&A with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair on paying out $15B+ to creators since inception, negative perceptions of the site, hosting sports and other content, AI, more — The platform's boss is proud of its adult-content creators — and dismissive of banks that shun them
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Moonhub raises $1.4M for VR training - 2024-02-29 08:01:00Z
Title:Moonhub raises $1.4M for VR training Summary: Moonhub has raised $1.4 million to expand its virtual reality training. Link: Moonhub raises $1.4M for VR training
Sega appoints ex-Disney exec as head of transmedia - 2024-02-29 07:51:00Z
Title:Sega appoints ex-Disney exec as head of transmedia Summary: Sega announced it has appointed Justin Scarpone, former executive at Disney and Scopely, as head of its transmedia efforts. Link: Sega appoints ex-Disney exec as head of transmedia
AI chatbots designed to help hackers, using manipulated versions of models from companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are being sold on the dark web (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
AI chatbots designed to help hackers, using manipulated versions of models from companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are being sold on the dark web — The dark web is home to a growing array of artificial-intelligence chatbots similar to ChatGPT, but designed to help hackers.
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The UK is piloting the use of ChatGPT and open-source AI models to analyze responses to public consultations and write draft answers to parliamentary questions (Lucy Fisher/Financial Times)
The UK is piloting the use of ChatGPT and open-source AI models to analyze responses to public consultations and write draft answers to parliamentary questions — Initiative is part of Rishi Sunak's drive to boost Whitehall productivity through technology — UK ministers are piloting …
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