Some users turn to AI therapist chatbots, finding them cheap, quick, available 24/7, and easy to talk to, but experts warn about a lack of emotional connection — It's cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?
A look at Apple's hubris that doomed the electric car project, spring hardware updates without a dedicated event, and Dan Riccio's retirement plans — Apple's belief that it could create a better car than Tesla and the rest of the automotive industry ultimately led to the downfall of the project.
As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips — More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements. Sound clips are ready for their big break.
AMD is unable to release an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021 — One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality …
Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft's research lab, which said GPT-4 showed “sparks” of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI — In his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, Mr. Musk relies on a provocative paper from the start-up's closest partner.
Q&A with FBI Director Christopher Wray on taking down a GRU botnet, Volt Typhoon, critical infrastructure attacks, lessons from surveilling threat actors, more — We have active investigations working with partners into a whole range of cyber units within the different Russian intelligence services …
How quick fixes and old code in systems compound technical debt and raise hacking risks, requiring an estimated $1.52T to fix and costing the US $2.41T per year — Old code piles up and raises the risk of hacks and other breaches, even on new devices. Our compounding ‘technical debt’
Australia's PM threatens action against Meta after it said it would stop paying media companies; News Corp says it threatens the viability of small media groups — Prime minister pledges to respond to move that News Corp says threatens viability of some media groups
India approves setting up three chipmaking units worth $15.2B from companies including India's Tata Group and Japan's Renesas — India on Thursday approved setting up three chipmaking units worth 1.26 trillion rupees ($15.2 billion) from firms including India's Tata Group and Japan's Renesas …
Filing: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi receives options to buy stock worth ~$136M after hitting a performance target to reach a $120B valuation for the company — Dara Khosrowshahi became entitled to award after meeting targets set before ride-hailing group's IPO
Baidu reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$4.9B and net income down 48% YoY to ~$366M, as chatbot Ernie, which has 100M+ users, began to augment its ads business — Baidu Inc.'s revenue rose 6% after its ChatGPT-style service began to augment advertising sales, helping the Chinese AI leader weather a severe economic downturn.
A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500+ floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined — The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought …
Julia Alexander / Posting Nexus : How Epic is transforming Fortnite into a content platform, paying $350M to creators in 2024; 36.5% of t...
