Ring says new users of Ring Alarm will have to pay for a Ring Protect plan costing $3.99+ per month to access existing free features, starting March 29 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Ring says new users of Ring Alarm will have to…

AI-powered Bing Chat gains three distinct personalities

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, Microsoft employee Mike Davidson announced that the…

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…