Month: September 2024
Prager Metis to pay $745K to Settle SEC charges over FTX audit misconduct
The regulator alleges that Prager issued two audit reports for FTX between February 2021 and April 2022 that falsely represented auditing standards.
Snap is introducing an AI video generation tool for creators
At its annual Snap Partner Summit on Tuesday, Snapchat announced that it’s introducing a new AI video generation tool for creators. The tool will allow select creators to generate AI videos from text prompts, and soon, from image prompts. Snap says the tool will be available in beta on the web starting today for a … Read more
Snapchat tests ‘simple’ version of the app without Snap Map or Stories tab
Snapchat is rolling out a simplified version of the app to some users, the company announced on Tuesday during its Snap Partner Summit, as part of a test to make the disappearing photo app easier to use. “Simple Snapchat” declutters the app’s home screen, removing the Snap Map and Stories tabs, and consolidates its navigation … Read more
Snapchat’s My AI chatbot is getting new Google Lens-like features
At its annual Snap Partner Summit on Tuesday, the Snapchat maker announced a series of new AI features coming to its app. Most notably, the app’s My AI chatbot is being updated to work more like Google Lens, as it can now respond to more complex Snaps. You can now snap a picture of a … Read more
Snapchat is getting its biggest redesign in years
The new “Simple Snapchat.” | Image: Snap Snapchat is undergoing its biggest redesign in years by simplifying from five to three tabs: one for messages and Stories with friends, one for the camera, and another for a TikTok-like feed of full-screen videos from creators and publishers. The redesign, dubbed “Simple Snapchat,” was announced onstage Tuesday … Read more
Final Fantasy XVI producer wants y’all to be chill about mods
Image: Square Enix Final Fantasy XVI is out today on PC, and its producer is asking players to be chill about it. In an interview with PC Gamer, Naoki Yoshida has woefully underestimated the collective horniness of the internet by requesting that fans not create mods for the game that are “offensive or inappropriate.” Good … Read more
Meta extends its Ray-Ban smart glasses deal beyond 2030
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta and eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica plan to work together on smart glasses “into the next decade.” The two announced a long-term agreement today to extend a partnership that started in 2019 and has yielded two generations of Ray-Ban smart glasses. The collaboration has helped Meta make smart … Read more
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Cambodian Tycoon With Ties to Pig Butchering Scams
One of Cambodia’s wealthiest businessmen has been hit with U.S. sanctions for allegedly playing a role in serious human rights abuses – including human trafficking and torture – tied to a pig butchering scam operation headquartered in the Southeast Asian country.
Bitcoin Gains 5% to $61K Ahead of Fed, but Order Books Suggest Rally Could Be Capped
Wednesday’s FOMC meeting carries uncertainty for the market, with investors still divided on the magnitude of rate cut.
Epic Games Store — and Fortnite — now available on iPad in the EU
Just a day after third-party app stores were officially allowed on the iPad in the European Union, Epic Games announced on X that the Epic Games Store can now be installed on iPadOS. However, you need to live in a EU country and have an Apple account registered for that country in order to install … Read more
‘Hamster Kombat’ Telegram Game Sets Rewards Cutoff Ahead of Airdrop
Before the HMSTR token hits TON next week, Hamster Kombat will take a snapshot to determine airdrop allocations. Here’s when.
ChatGPT slipped into people’s DMs? Viral Reddit Post Sparks Debate on AI’s Growing Initiative
A recent viral post on Reddit took the minds of people everywhere: Did ChatGPT just message me first? This unsolicited contact by AI appeared to raise mixed feelings of being amazed and concerned. Proof that ChatGPT was actually starting to reach out proactively came from a post done by a user with the username SentuBill … Read more
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4 Dumb Habits That Destroy a Developer’s Brain Health
Rapidly With These 4 Stupid Daily Habits People who are software developers spend many hours solving many problems, perpetually trying to always write better code. Long hours of problem-solving are draining even on the most resilient minds. Developers are often so engrossed with screens and lines of code that they never even realize that some … Read more
U.S. Republican Lawmakers Say Crypto Legislation Not Yet Off the Table for This Year
Two of the leading U.S. lawmakers seeking crypto oversight legislation, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), are maintaining their position that a chance remains for a bill to clear Congress before the year is out.
IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost
Tuesday’s announcement follows IBM’s $4.3 billion acquisition of Apptio in 2023, another company in the FinOps space. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Did OpenAI’s o1 Strawberry model just raise the bar for AI in law?
How OpenAI’s new ‘Strawberry’ o1 model sets a new benchmark for AI in law by shifting from imitation to reasoning. OpenAI’s recently announced ‘Strawberry’ o1 model is a significant leap forward that will change how we think about machine reasoning. While previous models like GPT-4o often relied on generating answers in a single pass, sometimes … Read more
Google will begin flagging AI-generated images in Search later this year
Google says that it plans to roll out changes to Google Search to make clearer which images in results were AI-generated — or edited by AI tools. In the next few months, Google will begin to flag AI-generated and -edited images in the “About this image” window on Search, Google Lens and the Circle to … Read more
The Top Java Excel API Libraries
The ideal Java Excel API library for Java applications has all the features you need to perform Excel operations as if you’re using the real thing. They are designed to allow developers to accomplish the greatest tasks with the least amount of work. This post will assess the top Java Excel libraries by examining the … Read more
Circle’s USDC in Brazil and Mexico Now Available to Businesses Via Banking System
Previously, the stablecoin could only be purchased through crypto exchanges.
In defense of the iPhone Action Button
The iPhone 15 Pro Action Button: more than meets the eye. | Screenshot: iOS Action Button setting Apple’s announcement last week that the Action Button is now on all of its iPhone 16 models, rather than just the Pro model that the button debuted on last year, was a little overshadowed by the introduction of … Read more
Exploding pagers kill at least eight and injure thousands in an attack on Hezbollah
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Saida on September 17th. | Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP via Getty Images Thousands of people have reportedly been injured by exploding pagers across Lebanon and Syria in what appears to be an attack targeting Hezbollah members on Tuesday, reports Reuters … Read more
Is Solana following Ethereum? SOL price continues slump vs. Bitcoin
Solana needs to hold above the crucial $120 support to avoid a potential correction below $100, according to market analysts.