Musk threatens to sue Anti-Defamation League over alleged ad boycott
Elon Musk has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over its alleged role in inciting advertiser boycotts that have cost X (formerly known as Twitter) billions of dollars. Musk claims that the ADL has been falsely accusing Twitter of spreading hate speech and that these accusations have led advertisers to pull their money from […]
Verizon to pay $4.1M for cybersecurity lapses
Verizon Business Network Services, a unit of Verizon has agreed to pay $4.1 million to resolve allegations by the U.S. Justice Department that it failed to follow required cybersecurity standards in providing secure internet connections and other external networks to federal agencies. The settlement resolves allegations that Verizon did not completely satisfy three required cybersecurity […]
TikTok opens first European data center
TikTok has opened its first European data center in Dublin, Ireland. The move is part of the company’s efforts to address concerns about data privacy and security, particularly in light of its Chinese ownership. TikTok says that European users’ data will be stored locally in the data center, and that it will not be transferred […]
Amazon customer gets fake core i9-13900K CPU
A Reddit user has claimed that he was sold a fake Core i9-13900K CPU on Amazon U.K. The user, who goes by the name Much_Designer_8417, said that he bought the processor in April for £585 (around $736). When the user received the CPU, he discovered that it was actually a Core i7-13700K. This is a […]
Zoom to release AI assistant to help workers during meeting
Zoom has announced that it is building a new AI assistant into its software. The AI assistant, dubbed “AI Companion,” will help workers get more out of their meetings by providing real-time transcription, summarization, and question-answering capabilities. The AI Companion will be available to all paid Zoom users. It will be able to transcribe meetings […]
Apple, Arm extends chip deal beyond 2040
Apple and Arm have signed a new long-term deal for chip technology that extends beyond 2040. The deal, which was not mentioned in Arm’s previous IPO filing documents, implies that it was signed between August 21 and September 5. Arm is a British chip design company that owns the intellectual property behind the computing architecture […]
AI experts supports the creation of federal AI department
A new survey of AI experts conducted by Axios, Generation Lab, and Syracuse University found that a majority support the creation of a federal “Department of AI” to regulate the emerging technology. The survey found that 37% of respondents favored a federal agency to regulate AI, compared to 22% who favored a global organization or […]
DeepMind’s co-founder predicts AI assistants for everyone within 5 years
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google’s AI division DeepMind, has predicted that everyone will have their own AI-powered personal assistant within the next five years. Suleyman, who is now the CEO of Inflection AI, a tech startup behind an AI chatbot called Pi, said that the technology will become cheaper and more widespread, making it accessible […]
Electric cars catch fire after flooding in Florida
Hurricane Idalia caused widespread flooding in Florida, and some electric cars that were submerged in saltwater have caught fire. At least two Teslas have caught fire in this way, and the Palm Harbor Fire Department is warning all EV owners to remove their vehicles from their garages if they have come into contact with saltwater. […]
Microsoft blames insufficient staff and faulty chillers for Australia outage
Microsoft has blamed a power sag and insufficient staff numbers for an outage that took out its Australia East cloud region last week. According to Microsoft, the power sag tripped a subset of the cooling units in one data center, which caused the temperature to rise and forced the shutdown of servers. Microsoft said that […]
