San Francisco’s MobileCoin CPO Robert Lee was stabbed to death. Around 2:35 a.m. Tuesday, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a stabbing along the 300 block of Main Street in SoMa. He died in the hospital. NBC Bay Area later reported that 43-year-old Robert Lee was stabbed. MobileCoin told …
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Former CTO of Square and Cash App developer Bob Lee was fatally stabbed
MobileCoin’s Bob Lee, the company’s chief product officer, was fatally stabbed in San Francisco. The San Francisco Police Department responded to a complaint of a stabbing along the 300 block of Main Street in SoMa on Tuesday morning at 2:35 a.m. Despite being brought to a hospital, he passed away …
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From video-recommendation engines and online banking to the developing AI revolution, data has become one of the world’s most valuable assets. Yet, consolidating data from disparate sources (e.g., databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and so on) into a format usable in real-time scenarios can be a monumental task in today’s …
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A number of security companies have warned about an ongoing supply chain attack that targets downstream clients by employing a trojanized version of 3CX’s popular audio and video calling client. More than 600,000 businesses utilize a software-based phone system created by 3CX, including American Express, BMW, McDonald’s, and the National …
Read More »How quick! Microsoft uses artificial intelligence to promote products through Bing Talk
Bing Chat, Microsoft’s latest search agent powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, “explores” and includes advertisements in its responses. These sponsored results are labeled as such, but it still raises the question of how far we have progressed from the first generation of search engine advertisements. Microsoft’s official blog post today acknowledged …
Read More »Alternative to the TikTok ban? Lemon8, an Instagram rival owned by ByteDance, makes the Top 10 of the US App Store
The parent firm of TikTok, ByteDance, is pushing one of its social platforms into the Top Charts of the U.S. App Store as U.S. politicians advance with their plans for a ban or forced sale of the app. The Instagram competitor Lemon8, which is owned by ByteDance and bills itself …
Read More »Apple is testing language-generating AI
Without last week’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse, AI and chatbots would dominate tech conversations. Microsoft-backed OpenAI released GPT-4, a new language model, in recent days. Anthropic’s Claude chatbot competed. Gmail and Docs are getting AI from Google. Chatbot-enabled Bing search has garnered attention. Missing name? Apple. The Cupertino-based company …
Read More »Meta tracking violates EU data transfer rules
Austria’s data protection authority found that Meta’s tracking technologies violated EU data protection law by transferring personal data to the US, where government surveillance was possible. In August 2020, the European privacy rights group NOYB filed a number of complaints against websites using Google Analytics for data export. Several EU …
Read More »Microsoft dismisses its ethical AI team while promoting OpenAI
At Microsoft, it was the job of a whole team to guide AI innovation toward moral, responsible, and sustainable results.According to Platformer, the elimination of the ethics and society team was part of a recent round of layoffs that affected 10,000 workers throughout the company. Microsoft has recently redesigned its …
Read More »Data on millions of patients was shared with advertisers by the telehealth startup Cerebral
Cerebral has admitted that it gave advertising and social media juggernauts like Facebook, Google, and TikTok access to the private health data of more than 3.1 million patients in the US, including assessments of their mental state. The telehealth startup revealed the security lapse in a filing with the federal …
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