Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Following rivals’ criticism, CrowdStrike President says no vendor could “technically” guarantee their software won’t cause an incident like the July outage — Botched update that hit millions of computers leads to claims of ‘ambulance chasing’ by competitors Source link
Google announced that its AI Overviews is getting several new features and being expanded to new regions on Thursday. With this update, the Google Search-based snapshot feature will be available in India and six other countries. The expansion will also include local language support in each country. Notably, AI Overviews was rolled out in May
Amy Or / Bloomberg: Sources: Walmart, JD.com’s largest shareholder, is seeking to raise up to $3.74B by selling its stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm; JD falls 9%+ after hours — – Walmart is offering shares in $24.85-$25.85/each range — Share sale marks the end of partnership that started in 2016 Source link
A cybersecurity group has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in apps developed by Microsoft for macOS that allowed hackers to target users. The security flaws affect apps such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, OneNote and other apps from the Redmond firm, and hackers were able to access a user’s camera and microphone by misusing Apple’s permission framework
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Microsoft releases three Phi-3.5 models designed for basic/fast reasoning and more, available for developers to download, use, and fine-tune on Hugging Face — Microsoft isn’t resting its AI success on the laurels of its partnership with OpenAI. — No, far from it. Source link
HP retained its position at the top of the Indian PC market amidst an ongoing growth in shipments in the second quarter of 2024, as per a report. India has reportedly recorded a 7.1 percent year-over-year (YoY) growth in Q2 2024, noting an increase in shipment volume in all three categories — desktop, notebook, and workstation.
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Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and masquerading “as a legitimate e-commerce ‘marketplace’” — Shein, notorious for being accused of copyright infringement by small artists and big brands alike … Source link
Midjourney, the popular artificial intelligence (AI) image generation tool, recently added a new feature that lets users edit generated images. The new Web Editor feature enables inline editing capabilities for the AI tool, letting users make granular changes to images. The image editor comes with multiple new tools which can be used to make several
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Nick Turner / Bloomberg: Filing: chipmaker Microchip Technology says its servers were breached by an unauthorized party, causing its operations to run at “less than normal levels” — Microchip Technology Inc. said that its servers were breached by “an unauthorized party,” forcing the chipmaker to shut … Source link
Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, claims Moraes secretly threatened one of the company’s legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not
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