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Researchers find a yearlong ongoing supply-chain attack targeting malicious and benevolent security personnel and stealing over 390K WordPress credentials — A sophisticated and ongoing supply-chain attack operating for the past year has been stealing sensitive login credentials from both malicious … | Reuters: |
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation — The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla …
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An investigation finds Cryptomus, registered in Vancouver, is a payment processor for dozens of Russian crypto exchanges and sites hawking cybercrime services — A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
An analysis of App Store rankings shows how market saturation for AI-based creative apps is making it harder to find good apps that use AI in more focused ways — Many high-ranking AI apps feel like an attempted cash grab, and it's not easy to spot the trash from the treasure.
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
A look at TSMC's $20B Arizona fab, which the company says is “dang near back on the original schedule” and is set to produce 4nm chips at 20K wafers per month — WATCH NOW — TSMC says first advanced U.S. chip fab ‘dang near back’ on schedule. Here's an inside look.
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| Lillian Perlmutter / Rest of World: |
Mexico's Yucatán state says AI-powered app MeMind contributed to a 9% drop in suicides over the past two years by connecting 10,000 at-risk people to treatment — MeMind has connected 10,000 at-risk people with mental health treatment, contributing to a 9% drop in suicides.
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Justin Sun's BiT Global, which recently became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for planning to delist wBTC after launching rival cbBTC — - Justin Sun's BiT Global is suing Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product.| Politico: |
Donald Trump plans to appoint Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes to lead the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees the US intelligence community — Nunes is CEO of Truth Social and will continue leading Trump Media & Technology Group, a public company with a nearly $8 billion market cap.| Nicola Jones / Nature: |
AI companies, running out of conventional training datasets from the web, may be forced to shift from big, all-purpose LLMs to smaller, more specialized models — By - The Internet is a vast ocean of human knowledge, but it isn't infinite. And artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have nearly sucked it dry.
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
How Viam, founded in 2020 by MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz, uses AI to help companies make anything “smart”, including pizza buffets and bathroom lines — Entrepreneur Eliot Horowitz, who founded $22 billion database company MongoDB, is betting on artificial intelligence in the physical world
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @viamrobotics, @eliothorowitz, and @ceverson. LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette
| Financial Times: |
Duolingo has bucked edtech's post-pandemic blues, with its stock price more than tripling from its 2021 IPO price of $102, giving the company a ~$15B market cap — The language learning app sees big growth opportunities ahead — Education technology companies became sought after properties during … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Evinced, which helps companies build accessible websites and apps, raised a $55M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $112M — Making sure your software is accessible is fast becoming a must rather than a nice-to-have, and Evinced is one of a wave of startups helping make that happen.
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