Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) A ransomware intrusion on hardware manufacturer Micro-Star International, better known as MSI,…
Category: Global
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading…
AI gains “values” with Anthropic’s new Constitutional AI chatbot approach
Enlarge / Anthropic’s Constitutional AI logo on a glowing orange background. (credit: Anthropic / Benj Edwards)…
A look at Locksmith, which let Apple II users make duplications of floppy disks, kickstarting one of the earliest copy protection battles of the PC era (Laine Nooney/VICE)
Laine Nooney / VICE: A look at Locksmith, which let Apple II users make duplications of…
Feds seize 13 more DDoS-for-hire platforms in ongoing international crackdown
Enlarge / A domain seizure notice from the Justice Department, showing the national seals of several…
Source: Spotify removed ~7% of tracks uploaded by AI music startup Boomy, or “tens of thousands” of songs, over suspicion of bots posing as human listeners (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Source: Spotify removed ~7% of tracks uploaded by AI music startup…
AI vs. Hollywood: Writers battle “plagiarism machines” in union talks
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “an office copy machine in front of a hollywood-style explosion.”…
An interview with Warner Bros. Discovery CTO Avi Saxena and Chief Product Officer Tyler Whitworth on building Max from the ground up, new features, and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: An interview with Warner Bros. Discovery CTO Avi Saxena and Chief Product…
UK competition watchdog launches review of AI market
Enlarge (credit: Sean Gladwell via Getty) The UK competition watchdog is launching a review of the…
Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI’s future, and more (Patrick Kulp/Emerging Tech Brew)
Patrick Kulp / Emerging Tech Brew: Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes…