Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Online card game Balatro, created by a solo Canadian developer who goes by the handle LocalThunk, has sold 500K+ copies on Steam at $15 each in just two weeks — When you first see the new video game Balatro, you may think it looks a lot like poker. You start off
Jio AirFiber is the company’s latest service based on 5G FWA (Fixed Wireless Access), and it is for people who do not have access to fiber broadband in their office or home locations. Reliance officially made the Jio AirFiber available in eight Indian cities, including Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Pune. After
Anna Mutoh / Financial Times: PitchBook: just 14% of US unicorns have a female cofounder, up from 5% a decade ago, while only 5% have a female founding CEO, up from zero over the same time — Women continue to receive only a small fraction of the funding from firms — Earlier this year, venture
Google is set to begin deleting accounts that have been inactive starting next month, as per the company’s timeline that was announced in May. The search giant is set to permanently delete accounts that haven’t been used within a specified period — including all data associated with the account such as emails, documents and files,
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Nilesh Christopher / Al Jazeera: Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures — Political parties are pushing the limits of AI’s use to both ridicule opponents and boost their own popularity. Source link
Google boasts of robust security rules for its Play Store, promising safe downloads and strict action against malicious apps for users. But, with millions of applications hosted on the store front, there’s also a considerable amount of malicious content that can harm Android users. Now, prominent cybersecurity and anti-virus firm Kaspersky has claimed that Android
Simon Willison’s Weblog: The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken, with Gemini 1.5, Mistral Large, Claude 3 Opus, and Inflection-2.5 benchmarking near or even above OpenAI’s model — Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top of every key benchmark, but more importantly the clear winner in terms of “vibes”. Source
Threads was released to the public earlier this year in July. Soon after, possibly to increase engagement on the newly launched platform, Meta started to suggest users Threads posts on Facebook and Instagram. The Home feed of Facebook and Instagram regularly suggest Threads posts from other users. Meta states that this was done to encourage
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Bloomberg: Sources: the Biden admin is weighing sanctions on memory chipmaker CXMT and five other Chinese companies, in response to Huawei’s 5G chip breakthrough in 2023 — – Huawei’s tech progress alarmed Biden administration officials — CXMT is a leading memory-chip maker in China and Micron rival Source link
Apple’s iOS 18 update — expected to arrive next year alongside the purported iPhone 16 series — is more ‘critical’ than usual, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In his weekly newsletter, Gurman states that Apple’s next major operating system update is expected to bring major improvements over iOS 17 and is expected to help the