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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google adds support for 110 new languages in Translate, up from 133 languages, in its largest expansion ever, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model — Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday.
More: The Keyword, Engadget, PCMag, ZDNet, Financial Express, Android Police, Android Authority, Mashable, TalkAndroid.com, Google AI, Thurrott, KnowTechie, Neowin, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, CNET, Android Headlines, 9to5Google, and NewsBytes. Forums: r/HongKong
| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin falls after a wallet tagged to the US government moved ~3,940 BTC, worth ~$240M and originally seized from a Silk Road vendor, to Coinbase Prime — About 4k bitcoin had been seized from narcotics trafficker Banmeet Singh at his January 2024 trial. — Bitcoin (BTC) fell … | Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one FOIA request to the SEC concerns its views on ether — - Coinbase, which retained consultant firm History Associates Inc. to file the FOIA requests, took aim at the SEC and FDIC in lawsuits filed …
More: Fox Business, Decrypt, Blockworks, Milk Road, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Progress Software discloses a critical vulnerability in MOVEit's SFTP module; hackers exploited a similar flaw in MOVEit in 2023 to breach almost 1,800 networks — A similar flaw last year left 1,800 networks breached. Will the latest one be as potent? — A critical vulnerability …
More: The Record, watchTowr Labs, Progress Customer Community, Progress Customer Community, Censys, Rapid7, SecurityWeek, Dark Reading, ITPro, Qualys ThreatPROTECT, The Shadowserver Foundation, Rapid7, Tenable Blog, DeviceSecurity.io, Help Net Security, Security Affairs, SC Media, The Hacker News, Born's Tech and Windows World, Stack Diary, CRN, Cybersecurity Dive, BleepingComputer, The Register, and Cyber Daily
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces faster Google Sheets calculations in Chrome and Edge browsers on desktop, doubling speeds for running formulas, creating pivot tables, and more — Google is touting significant speed improvements when performing calculations in Sheets on desktop Chrome and Edge.| Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: |
Amazon reaches a $2T market valuation for the first time; its shares have whipsawed since the company's Q1 2024 earnings and have gained 29% so far in 2024 — - Megacap joins Alphabet, Nvidia and more above key level — Company's cloud unit posted biggest sales growth in a year
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| Katie Mettler / Washington Post: |
The US DOJ indicts a Russian national, who remains at large, for his alleged involvement in the WhisperGate malware attack on Ukrainian systems in January 2022 — A federal grand jury indicted Russian national Amin Stigal this week on allegations that he conspired with the Russian military … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta's Oversight Board says it issued 53 decisions in 2023 and that Meta has fully or partially implemented 75 out of 266 recommendations since January 2021 — The board says it wants to weigh in on “demoted content” on Facebook and Instagram. — The Oversight Board has published …
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
An interview with Netflix's VP of external games Leanne Loombe on its push into gaming, focusing on narrative games without ads or in-app purchases, and more — I told my dentist that I was interviewing someone at Netflix later, and she got really excited. “Ooo, what about? Which show?”
More: Mobilegamer.biz and Game Developer
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google Cloud announces deals, including with Moody's, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo, to “ground” responses from its enterprise AI chatbots in real-world facts — - Now, Google is offering an additional option: using third-party data to help ground AI results.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
KarmaCheck, which uses AI for conducting background checks and was founded by LinkedIn's Eric Ly, raised a $45M Series B, bringing total funding to $60M — Background checks, credentialing and compliance software company KarmaCheck Inc. today announced that it has raised $45 million …
More: Reuters
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Orby AI, which is building generative AI agents to automate business workflows, raised a $30M Series A, sources say at a post-money valuation of $100M+ — AI “agents” are generative AI models that can perform actions autonomously, like copying info from an email and pasting it into a spreadsheet …
More: SiliconANGLE
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PortSwigger, the company behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools founded by security expert “Daf”, raised $112M, its first outside investment — Sometimes the most successful startup ideas come from people building tools to solve their own needs.| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon raised $315M in its Nasdaq IPO at $21 per share, the top of its $18-$21 marketed range, valuing the company at $2.7B — Online comics platform prices IPO at top of range for $2.7bn valuation — Webtoon Entertainment, an online comics platform …
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| John Reed / Financial Times: |
The chair of the India Cellular and Electronics Association says thousands of Chinese engineers and technicians are struggling to obtain Indian work visas — Modi's ambitions to create a manufacturing power come up against souring diplomatic relations with Beijing
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's move to cut off API access to Chinese developers sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup and will accentuate the divide between China and the US — - Local AI services from Baidu to 01.AI tout discount offers — The abrupt move sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Figma debuts a major UI redesign, new generative AI tools, and a built-in slideshow feature, which is free in beta but will be a paid product at official launch — Figma is announcing a bunch of new features at its Config conference today, including a major UI redesign …
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| Financial Times: |
Q&A with Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence's Zhang Hongjiang on becoming one of China's leading advocates for AI regulation, US export curbs, and more — One of China's leading advocates for artificial intelligence safeguards says international collaboration is key| Sassafras Lowrey / Wired: |
Telegram, used by half of Russia's 140M residents, has become a refuge for LGBTQ+ citizens, who routinely create new channels to avoid government surveillance — In March, Russia named the “LGBT movement” an extremist organization. In response, activists, human rights groups …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Odaseva, which provides data protection services for large Salesforce customers, raised a $54M Series C, bringing its total funding to $90M — Cloud services continue to be a weak point for enterprises when it comes to security, so companies providing effective solutions to address this continue …
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| The Information: |
Slides shown to Chinese sellers: Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like section featuring cheap items that ship directly from China to overseas consumers — Amazon plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China …
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| Ceylan Yeğinsu / New York Times: |
Testing ChatGPT, Vacay, and Mindtrip to plan a Norway trip shows none were perfect, but the AI chatbots streamlined travel decisions complementing one another — Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation?
More: TechCrunch
| Anton Bridge / Reuters: |
SoftBank announces AI healthcare joint venture SB TEMPUS with Tempus AI, which recently listed on Nasdaq; Softbank invested ~$200M in Tempus' Series G in April — Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group (9984.T) has launched a joint venture with Tempus AI (TEM.O) that aims …
More: TechCrunch, SoftBank Group Corp., Benzinga, and Bloomberg
| Joanna Chiu / Rest of World: |
Citizen Lab: Microsoft censors its Bing translation service more extensively in China than its competitors like Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation — New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft's willingness to comply with demands from Beijing.Sponsor Posts
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