Sources: Foxconn plans to invest ~$700M on a new plant to make iPhone parts on a 300-acre site in Bengaluru, India; the plant is expected to create 100K jobs (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Foxconn plans to invest ~$700M on a new plant to make iPhone parts on…

Biden administration wants to hold companies liable for bad cybersecurity

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Biden administration on Thursday pushed for new mandatory regulations and liabilities…

Analysis: at least eight companies that went public via SPACs filed for bankruptcy since June 2022, almost 100 are spending unsustainably, and 73 trade below $1 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Analysis: at least eight companies that went public via SPACs filed for bankruptcy since June…

Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an electronic brain with an eyeball. (credit: Ars Technica) On…

Sources: Salesforce is still paying Matthew McConaughey $10M a year to act as a “creative adviser” despite thousands of layoffs and multiple activist investors (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Salesforce is still paying Matthew McConaughey $10M a year to act as…

Google adds client-side encryption to Gmail and Calendar. Should you care?

Enlarge (credit: Google) On Tuesday, Google made client-side encryption available to a limited set of Gmail…

The US Marshals Service suffered “a ransomware and data exfiltration event” on a standalone system; a source says the witness protection database was not hit (NBC News)

NBC News: The US Marshals Service suffered “a ransomware and data exfiltration event” on a standalone…

LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken

Enlarge (credit: Leon Neal | Getty Images) Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted…

Some experts, particularly those advocating for “ethical AI” or “responsible AI”, say Microsoft and OpenAI’s new Bing experiment is dangerous to the public (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Some experts, particularly those advocating for “ethical AI” or “responsible AI”, say Microsoft…

AI-generated comic artwork loses US Copyright protection

Enlarge / The cover of “Zarya of the Dawn,” a comic book created using Midjourney AI…