Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street
Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation in a round led by Jane Street, doubling the $10.3bn it was worth on 23 July. It
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China is removing Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies
China is removing a government version of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies, earlier than planned. The Ministry of State Security recently told some state-linked
Is Apple beginning a privacy reset?
In recent months, hints emerged concerning Apple’s plans to introduce camera-equipped AirPods Pro; the cameras would be designed to pick up details of your ambient surroundings
GitHub restores services after nearly 8-hour outage disrupts Actions, APIs, PRs and Copilot
GitHub has restored services after a nearly eight-hour outage disrupted several of its core developer tools, including Actions, pull requests, APIs, Git operations, Webhooks, and
Meta to Stand Trial Over Claims It Addicted Children to Social Media
California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey have taken the social media giant to trial in the first bellwether federal case over child harm.
Reddit AI videos turn old text threads into narrated clips
Reddit has started converting some text posts into short videos narrated by AI voices. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reported that the test began on Monday
AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws
Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes pains to deliver a slasher fan’s dream
Here’s one for all the kids who were exposed to lurid slasher movies when they were way too young and it kinda messed them up…
X-rays add new twist to narwhal’s spiral tusk
CT scan of a narwhal tusk. Credit: Adrian Rodriguez Palomo/CC BY-NC CT scan of a narwhal tusk. Credit: Adrian Rodriguez Palomo/CC BY-NC Narwhals are toothed
The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs
Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn’t reveal much about the real cost of
Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew
Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet
The Blackout That Could Devastate America
The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.
OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ as Safety Concerns Grow
The artificial intelligence start-up announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users.
New malware turns Microsoft 365 and Azure into its control center
Security researchers are warning of a newly uncovered Python malware framework that routes much of its command-and-control (C2) activity through Microsoft services that defenders already