Month: August 2024
Amazon’s AI Upgrade for Alexa Could Cost You: Report
The October release, according to The Washington Post, aims to turn Alexa into a more interactive and indispensable household presence.
ShivaDutt Jangampeta’s Role in Advancing Cybersecurity Practices
“The future of cybersecurity involves not just protecting data but predicting threats before they occur,” says ShivaDutt Jangampeta, senior manager of security engineering at JP Morgan Chase. As digital threats grow, advanced and proactive approaches become crucial. Jangampeta’s work focuses on anticipating and neutralizing dangers before they can cause harm. A Journey Rooted in Excellence … Read more
GAM3 Awards 2024 Ceremony To Be Held At YGG Play Summit, Philippines
MANILA, Philippines, August 27th, 2024/GamingWire/–Hosted annually by GAM3S.GG, the GAM3 Awards 2024 will see its first in-person award ceremony take place this November at the YGG Play Summit in Manila, Philippines. GAM3S.GG has partnered with Yield Guild Games (YGG), the world’s largest network of web3 gamers and gaming guilds, to bring the awards to the … Read more
Trump’s Latest NFTs Top $2 Million in Sales—With Only 5% Sold So Far
Former president Donald Trump’s latest NFT collection consists of an astounding 360,000 digital trading cards. Less than 21,000 have sold.
Are Meta’s carbon emissions shrinking? Depends on how you look at it
Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Untangling companies’ environmental claims these days can be a head-spinning endeavor, and reading Meta’s latest sustainability report is no exception. Depending on how you look at it, the company’s greenhouse gas emissions either grew or fell last year. Depending on how you look at it, the company’s greenhouse gas … Read more
One of Bolt’s proposed new backers, The London Fund, has been scrubbing its web page
One-click checkout tech company Bolt is still waiting to find out if shareholders will sign off on a proposed funding round with stipulations that founder Ryan Breslow would return as CEO. In the meantime, Axios’ Dan Primack did some digging around on The London Fund, a firm that is supposed to provide up to $250 million in “marketing credits” … Read more
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Activating ‘DeGod Mode’: 24 Hours in Telegram With the Wildest NFT Cult
“Bridging” DeGods NFT holders to a hype-fueled Telegram chat has reinvigorated the community—and sales too. Can it last?
Yelp sues Google for antitrust violations
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Yelp, one of Google’s most persistent and outspoken rivals, has finally filed its own antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, less than a month after a federal judge ruled Google an illegal monopolist. Yelp alleges that Google has created or preserved its monopoly in local search services by … Read more
How to Monitor Blockchain Transactions in Realtime With dRPC and Web3.js
Blockchain transaction monitoring is important for maintaining the security, transparency, and efficiency of decentralized systems. Accessing real-time insight is important for decentralized apps (DApps), where seamless and secure interaction with blockchain is essential. Blockchain transaction monitoring involves observing and analyzing transactions within a blockchain network. Also known as Know Your Transaction (KYT), this monitoring activity … Read more
Chinese Hackers Suspected of Spying on US Undercover Agents: Report
Custom malware was used to infiltrate ISP networks, tapping a zero-day vulnerability in widely-used management software.
The Open Network experiences another network outage
According to Tonscan, the last transaction on the network came from an address ending in ‘J37’, and the last workchain block at 45,350,522.
OpenAI reportedly in talks to close a new funding round at $100B+ valuation
Whatever size the tranche ends up being it’ll be OpenAI’s biggest outside infusion of capital since January 2023. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Sonos’ latest app update fixes just a fraction of its problems
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sonos has released an update to its app as it attempts to reverse the fallout from a disastrous redesign. But while the update adds enhanced accessibility settings and improved stability during the product setup process, the update addresses just a fraction of user complaints. Sonos is reintroducing the … Read more
Nvidia Q2 revenue beats expectations in record-setting boost to AI sector
The company expects next quarter to be even better with improvement projected across nearly every vertical.
How to Create a Monorepo With Vite, Cloudflare, Remix, PNPM and Turborepo (No Build Step)
Introduction I needed a way to use Remix with Vite and Cloudflare Workers-Pages with minimal configuration. I saw other repositories, such as: The gospel stack, Girish21, Himorishige. But they had some limitations: I didn’t want to pre-build it, as I didn’t want to poison the repositories with more configuration files. Cloudflare Workers/Pages has a different … Read more
AccentFold: Enhancing Accent Recognition – Conclusion, Limitations, and References
:::info Authors: (1) Abraham Owodunni, Intron Health, Masakhane, and this author contributed equally; (2) Aditya Yadavalli, Karya, Masakhane, and this author contributed equally; (3) Chris Emezuem, Mila Quebec AI Institute, Lanfrica, Masakhane, and this author contributed equally; (4) Tobi Olatunji, Intron Health and Masakhane, and this author contributed equally; (5) Clinton Mbataku, AI Saturdays Lagos. … Read more
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Indicted, Cannot Leave France
A French deputy prosecutor tells Decrypt that the investigation could take several months.
Implementing tenant isolation using Agents for Amazon Bedrock in a multi-tenant environment
The number of generative artificial intelligence (AI) features is growing within software offerings, especially after market-leading foundational models (FMs) became consumable through an API using Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and … Read more
Apple Music now lets you easily transfer playlists to YouTube Music
Illustration: The Verge Apple Music subscribers can now transfer their playlists over to YouTube Music, according to a recent support document spotted by MacRumors. Up until now, Apple did not offer native tools for transferring playlists to rival music services, making YouTube Music the first. There are some caveats, however. Only songs available on YouTube … Read more
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Telegram CEO charged in French criminal investigation
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A French investigative judge has charged Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with enabling illegal transactions among other alleged offenses, according to reports from NBC News and Le Monde. Durov had been arrested Saturday as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse material and other criminal activity on … Read more