Month: July 2024

Ring camera features are down due to AWS problems

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Image: Ring On Monday evening, Amazon Web Services sent a notice about issues in the US-EAST-1 region of its server networks, which support many of the internet’s services. So far, the only problem we’ve seen that appears to be linked to the problem is an outage affecting Amazon-owned Ring, with owners of the security cameras … Read more

Amazon must recall dangerous products properly — even ones sold by third-parties

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon, not third-party sellers, is responsible for properly recalling hazardous items that were sold on its marketplace, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) decided on Tuesday. The CPSC says Amazon failed to adequately notify the public about more than 400,000 recalled products. Even though Amazon stopped selling … Read more

Lineaje raises $20M to help organizations combat software supply chain threats

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The software supply chain faces threats from all sides. A 2024 report by the Ponemon Institute found that over half of organizations have experienced a software supply chain attack, with 54% having experienced one within the past year. Supply chain attacks typically target services from third-party vendors or open source software that make up a … Read more

Meta moves on from its celebrity lookalike AI chatbots

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Image: Meta Meta has shut down its AI chatbots that let you have conversations with alter-ego versions of celebrities, as reported by The Information. The celebrity chatbots were a big part of Meta’s announcements at its Connect event last September, now, you can’t talk with them anymore. View this post on Instagram A post shared … Read more

Stealth AI Review: The Reliable Undetectable AI Writing Tool

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The challenge of maintaining originality and passing AI detection has become increasingly significant, as AI detectors have been increasingly popular to identify writing assisted with AI. Stealth AI emerges as a solution designed to bypass AI detectors and produce undetectable, plagiarism-free writing. With its humanizer technology, Stealth AI promises to transform AI-generated text into content … Read more

AMD is becoming an AI chip company, just like Nvidia

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AMD just announced its second quarter 2024 earnings today, and the highlight was this: nearly half the company’s sales are now data center products — not chips for personal computers, not game consoles, not embedded chips for industry or vehicles. The company’s data center business has doubled in … Read more

How to Deal With the Issue of Toxic Productivity

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What’s one of the most underrated feelings of the modern day? Feeling happy with where and who you are. People today are constantly being pushed to be more successful, effective, and productive. It is not even tied to our work anymore. Thanks to social media, this mindset has seeped into our personal lives. Have we … Read more

Samsung hypes the Galaxy Z Flip as a great police bodycam

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There’s a custom case for this and everything. | Image: Samsung Samsung’s advertising for its Galaxy Z Flip series typically revolves around Gen Z photo shoots and showing off specific features like interpreter mode. But today, the company has taken quite a turn by highlighting the foldable phone’s use as… a policing tool. In a … Read more

Activision’s big contribution to AI is Call of Duty: Warzone data

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Image: Activision Activision is sharing an open-source dataset for Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map for researchers to study and to help support AI model training. “This first-of-its-kind data set release for Call of Duty, now available in OpenUSD, contains the near-complete geometry of Caldera as well as a collection of randomly selected anonymized time … Read more