As part of Microsoft’s cost-cutting measures in response to weakening global market conditions, the popular developer platform GitHub has laid off nearly its entire engineering team in India. According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the developer company has laid off more than a hundred workers in the …
Read More »Microsoft lets cybersecurity generative AI run amok
Microsoft unveiled Security Copilot today as part of its ongoing effort to incorporate generative AI into all of its products. This new tool promises to “summarize” and “make sense” threat intelligence. Microsoft promoted Security Copilot in a vague statement as a mechanism to correlate attack data while prioritizing security problems. …
Read More »Apple Music Classical is now available for download to everyone
Apple’s new app for classical music, Apple Music Classical, is now available for download. The app is free for everyone, but you need an Apple Music subscription. Notably, it is not available in countries like China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan and Turkey. The company said that there are more than …
Read More »Everything about “The Last of Us” is talked about on Wt FX, including the well-known “bloater” and “giraffe” moments
Craig Mazin, co-creator of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” remarked in the official podcast for the video game adaptation series, “Nobody does creature work the way Wt does. You would probably agree with him if you had seen the bloated incident from episode five. It’s understandable why HBO asked Wt. …
Read More »SVB Financial declares it has $2.2 billion in liquid assets as it files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
SVB Financial has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. This comes one week after trading was stopped for the company and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries.As a result, …
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 »Poe on Quora is introducing subscriptions so that you can communicate with a GPT-4-powered bot
Yesterday, rival Anthropic announced Claude, a ChatGPT competitor to OpenAI’s new GPT-4 model. In a related announcement, Quora stated that its Poe chatbot app will soon have a paid version that will allow you to communicate with bots powered by these models. Poe subscriptions cost $19.99 per month or $199.99 …
Read More »This VC was duped out of $10,000 and is now creating a cryptographic security vault
One reason why cryptocurrencies aren’t used by a lot of people is that fraud is common in the industry.Despite the fact that the amount was already almost 50% lower than the year before, an industry analysis claims that over $3.9 billion worth of cryptocurrency was “lost” last year alone. The …
Read More »In a letter to customers, Silicon Valley Bank’s new CEO states, “We are operating business as usual”
Late on Monday night, Silicon Valley Bank’s customers unexpectedly got an email in their inboxes from the bank’s new CEO, Tim Mayopoulos, claiming that the institution was not only open but also conducting business as usual. The email, which TechCrunch got from various sources, stated that Silicon Valley Bank, N.A. …
Read More »Open Health Stack is made available by Google for programmers
Google recently unveiled Open Health Stack, a brand-new open-source platform for app developers to create health-related applications. These resources, which were introduced last week at the company’s ‘The Check Up’ special event, include an Android Software Development Kit (SDK) and design standards for health apps. The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standards …
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