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WWDC 2023 keynote was yesterday. Apple starts its Worldwide Developer Conference with a few hours of straight announcements, usually covering OS, watchOS, and new and updated gadgets. The keynote stream includes a BINGO game. You’ve prepared for our predictions by now. Relax while the team summarizes the biggest news. Mac …

After a 30-minute demo of the major features that are ready to test, I was convinced that Apple has delivered a true leapfrog in capability and execution of XR—or mixed reality—with its new Apple Vision Pro. To clarify, I’m not saying it delivers on all promises, is a truly new …

Hackers exploited a newly discovered vulnerability in a popular file transfer tool used by thousands of organizations to launch a new wave of mass data exfiltration attacks, alarming security researchers. MOVEit Transfer, developed by Ipswitch, a subsidiary of Progress Software, allows organizations to share large files and data sets over …

Boeing and NASA announced Thursday that new technical issues with the Starliner capsule would delay its first crewed flight test. After being delayed from April, the first crewed mission flew two NASA astronauts on July 21. In a media briefing, Boeing’s VP of commercial crew, Mark Nappi, said leadership would …

Between 2022 and 2023, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other app-based ride-hail and delivery companies must reimburse California gig workers millions of dollars for unpaid vehicle expenses. Proposition 22, the controversial law that classifies gig workers as independent contractors and offers them limited protections and benefits, mandates the back payments. Gig …

Generative AI, which translates text into prose, graphics, and videos, is developing in a fragmented tech landscape between the U.S. and China due to the decoupling. China is developing huge language models like OpenAI’s GPT models to minimize its reliance on the U.S. Unlike the U.S., Baidu is one of …

Ring, an Amazon-owned video surveillance company, will pay $5.8 million to settle FTC charges that staff and contractors had unrestricted access to customers’ videos for years. Wednesday saw the settlement filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The FTC verified the settlement shortly after. Reuters reported the …

Today, the Linux Foundation Europe launched the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) project. RISE brings together many software and hardware vendors to accelerate “the availability of software for high-performance and power-efficient RISC-V cores running high-level operating systems for a variety of market segments.” Google, Intel, MediaTek, Nvidia, Qualcomm Technologies, Red Hat, …

Today, end-to-end machine learning platform Predibase announced a $12.2 million Series A funding round expansion. The company also released its low-code, declarative ML platform for developers. Last year’s beta period saw over 250 models trained on the platform. Now that Predibase is generally available, these users can deploy their own …

Theranos was worth $10 billion ten years ago. Wire fraud indicted her five years ago. Holmes began her 11-year-and-3-month sentence today. A defendant is usually convicted and imprisoned soon after indictment. Holmes’ legal team has played every card to delay her fall, which was once hailed as the next Steve …