Microsoft puts a steep price on Copilot, its AI-powered future of Office documents (www.theverge.com)
Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take Intel NUC Systems Product... (www.intel.com)
Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can’t be trusted to guarantee AI safety (wtop.com)
The birth of id Software (www.theverge.com)
In 1990, John Romero, John Carmack, and Tom Hall were working at Louisiana software maker Softdisk. There, they had an idea that would change PC games forever.
Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online (www.vice.com)
Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online::undefined
The birth of id Software - In 1990, John Romero, John Carmack, and Tom Hall were working at Louisiana software maker Softdisk. There, they had an idea that would change PC games forever. (www.theverge.com)
ASUS and Intel Agree on Deal for a NUC Future (www.servethehome.com)
Intel announced it agreed to a term sheet with ASUS to manufacture, sell and support the Next Unit of Compute (NUC) 10th to 13th generations systems product lines. The agreement will also see the development of future product lines.
Threads Continues to Copy Twitter's Worst Elements With New Rate Limits (gizmodo.com)
Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone (www.schneier.com)
Modder is hosting his personal website on a 40-year-old IBM PCjr (www.techspot.com)
Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
Wind and solar unbeatable for low cost new electricity (cosmosmagazine.com)
Wind and solar unbeatable for low cost new electricity::Onshore wind and solar photovoltaic technologies have maintained their position as the lowest cost form of new electricity generation, despite global supply
The NYPD is testing drones that broadcast public safety warnings during emergencies (www.theverge.com)
Threads collects so much sensitive information it’s a ‘hacker’s dream,’ experts say (archive.today)
The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree....
TikTok’s new program aims to identify rising artists in the music industry (techcrunch.com)
How to Redeem Social Media (www.theatlantic.com)
Anonymous puts Taiwan flag, national anthem on 2 UN websites (www.taiwannews.com.tw)
Anonymous puts Taiwan flag, national anthem on 2 UN websites::Collective hacks UN to protest Google inactive account policy, Russia’s nuclear threats against Ukraine | 2023-07-18 09:56:00
JumpCloud, an IT firm serving 200,000 orgs, says it was hacked by nation-state (arstechnica.com)
“Extremely targeted” attack involved a data injection into JumpCloud’s commands framework.
In Praise of Phone Numbers (www.theatlantic.com)
Most outsourced coders in India will be gone in 2 years due to A.I., Stability AI boss predicts (www.cnbc.com)
Most outsourced coders in India will be gone in 2 years due to A.I., Stability AI boss predicts::Most outsourced programmers in India will see their jobs wiped out in the next year or two, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque said.
Owner of BreachForums Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime and Child Pornography Charges (thehackernews.com)
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the cybercrime forum as well as having child pornography images.
Meta unveils new AI data centers and supercomputer to power AI-first future (venturebeat.com)
At the AI Infra @ Scale event today — a one-day virtual conference hosted by Meta’s engineering and infrastructure teams — the company announced a series of new hardware and software projects that aim to support the next generation of AI applications. The event featured speakers from Meta who shared their insights and...
Microsoft brings Bing Chat to the enterprise (techcrunch.com)
At its annual Inspire conference, Microsoft unveiled Bing Chat Enterprise, a version of Bing Chat with business-focused data privacy and governance controls. With Bing Chat Enterprise, chat data isn’t saved, Microsoft can’t view a customer’s employee or business data and customer data isn’t used to train the underlying...
Reddit nukes everyone’s pre-2023 chats and messages (www.androidpolice.com)
Reddit nukes everyone’s pre-2023 chats and messages::Shooting itself in the foot again
LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service” (www.theregister.com)
LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you’re ready to cough up after buying hardware
Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert (www.businessinsider.com)
Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert::Children have been found sitting by the front door of random homes, desperately trying to tap into the owner’s WiFi connection.
