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Cluely, which wants to help users “cheat on everything”, including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago

Banning Plastic Bags Works To Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
25 days ago

DHS Warns of Sharp Rise in Chinese-Made Signal Jammers (news.slashdot.org)
25 days ago China

Amazon ends an experiment started in 2023 to make same-day deliveries with drivers in Kia Souls and will rely on Amazon Flex drivers who use their own cars (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Amazon

Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals (www.axios.com)
25 days ago AI

AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests (slashdot.org)
25 days ago AI

NYC Sets Smaller Driver Pay Bump After Uber, Lyft Pushback (news.slashdot.org)
25 days ago Uber

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors (t.co)
25 days ago

NYC announces new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a 5% increase after Uber and Lyft strongly opposed a proposed 6.1% pay hike (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Uber

Uber expands its data-labeling platform Uber AI Solutions to 30 countries, and adds new offerings like tools for developing AI agents and ready-to-use datasets (www.forbes.com)
25 days ago Uber AI

Windows Parental Controls Are Blocking Chrome (it.slashdot.org)
25 days ago Chrome

Snap acquires Saturn, a calendar app for high school and college students, and says 80% of US high schoolers attend schools that support Saturn (www.engadget.com)
25 days ago

BitoPro exchange links Lazarus hackers to $11 million crypto heist (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
25 days ago

Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago Google Startup AI

Coinbase says it has secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the EU, and will shift its European base from Ireland to Luxembourg (www.cnbc.com)
25 days ago Europe Ireland Coinbase

Sources: Meta held discussions with Perplexity about a possible takeover before moving ahead with a $14.3B investment in Scale AI (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago AI

Can users reset their own passwords without sacrificing security? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
25 days ago

Microsoft to remove legacy drivers from Windows Update for security boost (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
25 days ago Microsoft

These refurbished touchscreen Chromebooks are only $80 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
25 days ago

Microsoft investigates OneDrive bug that breaks file search (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
25 days ago Microsoft

Cloudflare blocks record 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack against hosting provider (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
25 days ago

Aflac discloses breach amidst Scattered Spider insurance attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
25 days ago Insurance

Trust in AI Strongest in China, Low-Income Nations, UN Study Shows (slashdot.org)
25 days ago China AI

Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity's World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous (www.semafor.com)
25 days ago Reddit

Microsoft Is Deleting Old Drivers From Windows Update (tech.slashdot.org)
25 days ago Microsoft

Silicon Valley is pushing senators to follow the House in reviving a favorable tax benefit that disappeared because of a US tax law Section 174 change in 2017 (www.axios.com)
25 days ago Tax

Semicolon Usage in British Literature Drops Nearly 50% Since 2000 (news.slashdot.org)
25 days ago U.K.

Sources: an official told Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC that the US wants to revoke waivers that let them ship American chipmaking equipment to Chinese factories (www.wsj.com)
25 days ago China U.S. Samsung

Meta doubles down on security, introduces passkeys: Here's how to set up (indianexpress.com)
25 days ago

Broadcom's Answer To VMware Pricing Outrage: You're Using It Wrong (it.slashdot.org)
25 days ago VMware

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