Saturday, June 8, 2024

The New York Times confirms its internal source code and data leaked on 4chan after being stolen using an exposed GitHub token in January 2024 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
The New York Times confirms its internal source code and data leaked on 4chan after being stolen using an exposed GitHub token in January 2024  —  Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories …



Sources detail Siri's new capabilities, along with the prompts Apple used to test the software, in apps like Camera, Mail, Safari, Notes, and Photos (Marko Zivkovic/AppleInsider)

Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider:
Sources detail Siri's new capabilities, along with the prompts Apple used to test the software, in apps like Camera, Mail, Safari, Notes, and Photos  —  We have exclusively discovered how much iOS 18 and macOS 15 will upgrade Siri and improve everything you do.  Here's what the new-and-improved Siri will be able to do.



Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas about Microsoft's big push with Arm-based PCs, AI wearables, Arm's adoption in the cloud, competition from RISC-V and Intel, and more (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas about Microsoft's big push with Arm-based PCs, AI wearables, Arm's adoption in the cloud, competition from RISC-V and Intel, and more  —  Chip designer's chief executive talks about diversification and how AI is changing the devices we use



A look at Japan's role in the global chip battle; Omdia: Japanese companies account for nearly half of the world's six crucial semiconductor materials (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A look at Japan's role in the global chip battle; Omdia: Japanese companies account for nearly half of the world's six crucial semiconductor materials  —  With subsidies and a $6 billion acquisition, Tokyo wants to make its companies indispensable in the global supply chain



Friday, June 7, 2024

The US Veterans Affairs' internal survey: fewer than 1 in 5 VA health employees say Oracle Health's products enable them to deliver "high-quality care" (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
The US Veterans Affairs' internal survey: fewer than 1 in 5 VA health employees say Oracle Health's products enable them to deliver “high-quality care”  —  - Company's $16 billion contract with US agency under scrutiny  — System improving as Oracle makes fixes, Veterans Affairs says



What to expect at WWDC 2024: plans to integrate AI into its apps with a new opt-in service called Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, macOS 15, visionOS 2, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect at WWDC 2024: plans to integrate AI into its apps with a new opt-in service called Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, macOS 15, visionOS 2, and more  —  The company will introduce ‘Apple Intelligence,’ its long-awaited push into modern AI for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.



Q&A with Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on running the world's foremost open source intelligence agency, AI-generated content, legal accountability, and more (Samanth Subramanian/Wired)

Samanth Subramanian / Wired:
Q&A with Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on running the world's foremost open source intelligence agency, AI-generated content, legal accountability, and more  —  Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits …



Wednesday, June 5, 2024

NXP partners with TSMC-backed Vanguard to build a $7.8B chip wafer plant in Singapore, aiming to begin construction in H2 2024 and production in 2027 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
NXP partners with TSMC-backed Vanguard to build a $7.8B chip wafer plant in Singapore, aiming to begin construction in H2 2024 and production in 2027  —  - New facility begins construction in second half of 2024  — Region poised to benefit from drive to diversify from China



SAP plans to buy Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate UIs of other software services, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe raised $300M ahead of a 2021 IPO (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
SAP plans to buy Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate UIs of other software services, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe raised $300M ahead of a 2021 IPO  —  Enterprise software giant SAP is acquiring “digital adoption” platform provider WalkMe in an all-cash transaction worth $1.5 billion.



Twitch says its Twitch Tier 1 subscriptions in the US will increase from $4.99 to $5.99 per month on July 11, the first price rise for US subscribers (Will Shanklin/Engadget)

Will Shanklin / Engadget:
Twitch says its Twitch Tier 1 subscriptions in the US will increase from $4.99 to $5.99 per month on July 11, the first price rise for US subscribers  —  Monthly Tier 1 memberships will go up by $1 in July.  —  Twitch is joining Spotify, Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll, EA and other content services …



Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Sources and leaked documents detail YouTube's gaming leak culture, as some staff watch non-public videos and leak info; YouTube has investigated multiple staff (Tom Henderson/Insider Gaming)

Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming:
Sources and leaked documents detail YouTube's gaming leak culture, as some staff watch non-public videos and leak info; YouTube has investigated multiple staff  —  According to a report from 404 Media, which has allegedly obtained an internal Google database tracking six years of potential privacy …



Sources: E*Trade is considering kicking meme stock leader Keith Gill off its service over stock manipulation concerns; GameStop jumped 60% since Gill reappeared (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal)

AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: E*Trade is considering kicking meme stock leader Keith Gill off its service over stock manipulation concerns; GameStop jumped 60% since Gill reappeared  —  Morgan Stanley's trading platform discusses concerns about possible manipulation in GameStop



OpenAI says ChatGPT has been experiencing a major outage for several hours, starting at around 12:21am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says ChatGPT has been experiencing a major outage for several hours, starting at around 12:21am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23  —  OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT has been down for several users across the globe for the last few hours.  Many users have posted about the issue on X and Threads.



Raspberry Pi partners with chipmaker Hailo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator, available "soon" for $70 (Emilia David/The Verge)

Emilia David / The Verge:
Raspberry Pi partners with chipmaker Hailo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator, available “soon” for $70  —  As the AI craze continues, even the microcomputer company Raspberry Pi plans to sell an AI chip.



Belgium-based Vertical Compute, a memory chip firm spun out of European VC firm Imec.xpand, raised a €20M seed led by Imec.xpand (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Belgium-based Vertical Compute, a memory chip firm spun out of European VC firm Imec.xpand, raised a €20M ...