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‘eBay’s Bizarre Cyberstalking Saga Ends With a $56 Million Settlement’
Emma Roth, The Verge: eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga t…
The Verge
Microsoft Will Soon Release an AI Super App
The Copilot super app will span both consumer and enterprise use cases.
gizmodo.com
Apple Says iOS 27 ‘Restricted Mode’ Isn’t for Users Who Miss Payments in New Apple Upgrade Program
Last week 9to5Mac reported on code in the latest iOS 27 developer beta seemingly meant to restrict leased devices after the user had missed one or more payments. When engaged, Restricted Mode limits the device to the following apps: Accessibility Reader App Store Health Magnifier…
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Apple Upgrade — New Program With Klarna for Leasing iPhones, Macs, iPads, and More for Near-Zero Interest
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program provided by Klarna for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad available on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations in the United States. Apple Upgrade makes it even…
apple.com
Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.
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Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A ‘Deal GPS’ For Enterprise Sales
Centralize, an enterprise sales platform, emerges from stealth and shares exclusive news of its $15 million Series A funding round with Crunchbase News.
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International tech
Some people are brilliant one-on-one and invisible in groups
The most perceptive people often disappear in crowds, mistaking their silence for social failure rather than a mismatch between their gifts and the setting.
siliconcanals.com
How ByteDance’s Seedance model empowers China’s nascent AI comic drama industry
At a video production base in Shenzhen, creators are generating so-called comic dramas using artificial intelligence, compressing months of production down to a matter of weeks. The Moli OPC AI Comic Drama Base, located in the northeastern part of the city, brings together direct…
scmp.com
Psychology says the reason attractive, kind people sometimes have no close friends isn’t a personality flaw — it’s that they’ve often spent their whole lives being chosen for what they provide rather than loved for who they are
Some people are very easy to choose. They look good in a room. They remember birthdays, ask the second question and know what to say when somebody’s life comes apart. They are pleasant to be around, useful in a crisis and rarely the person who makes the evening difficult. Their p…
siliconcanals.com
AgiBot WITA-Omni Full-Modal Model Tops DailyOmni Global Leaderboard: Beating Google Gemini, ByteDance Doubao, and Alibaba Qwen at Embodied Cross-Modal Understanding
AgiBot WITA-Omni scores 85.21 on DailyOmni benchmark, 6 of 8 indicators first place, using Thinker-Talker-Actor architecture that synchronizes speech, action, and expression on a single timeline.
pandaily.com
Psychology says the happiest people after 70 aren’t the ones who found purpose — they’re the ones who stopped demanding that every day justify itself, and that permission to exist without producing anything changed everything
The relentless pursuit of productivity and legacy that defines middle age becomes a prison the mind finally escapes—if it can learn to stop keeping score.
siliconcanals.com
Psychology says older parents who insist they’re fine when they aren’t aren’t being stoic, they worked out long ago that the honest answer costs one of their children a day off work
The small lie older parents tell themselves about why they're lying to their children.
siliconcanals.com
Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built. Here's a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observabilit…
venturebeat.com
The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI
It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dext…
MIT Technology Review
Bright Machines says its new hybrid robot cell could help solve a major AI infrastructure bottleneck
Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being has to touch the production line. The San Francisco-based manufacturer announced today the Hybrid BRC (Bright Robotic Cell…
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How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.
bytebytego.com
Use Your Head While Trimming Trees
[Attoparsec] occasionally rides a bicycle for transportation, but with the major downside of doing this in North America, a place where bicycle infrastructure is generally neglected. From snow removal, maintenance, …read more
hackaday.com
FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As a Service
This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat! That’s the third in a trio of Open Source security tools from Boost Security, and this one is the red team …read more
hackaday.com
Using Video Glasses As a Camera Viewfinder Is Harder Than It Looks
[John Dingley] has a Sony ZV-E10 camera that is excellent, but the design lacks a built-in electronic viewfinder. This means it relies entirely on its rear-mounted touchscreen for framing shots. …read more
hackaday.com
Scrap Pinball Parts Become Beautiful Wall Art
[Hans Scharler] came into a neat find recently—the playfield from a 1970s Atari Superman game. It’s the sort of thing that’s too nice to throw away, but isn’t really enough …read more
hackaday.com
Keyboard Lights As An Airgap Attack Vector
What do you do when you need to get data into an airgapped machine? Well, you might find yourself limited to basic input devices to interact with the computer in …read more
hackaday.com
How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
bytebytego.com
Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
bytebytego.com