Month: September 2023
Apple is reportedly spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ training AI
Apple is investing millions of dollars per day into artificial intelligence, according to a new report from The Information. The company is reportedly working on multiple AI models across several teams. Apple’s unit that works on conversational AI is called “Foundational Models,” per The Information’s reporting. It has “around 16”…
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YouTube is testing fewer, longer ad breaks on its TV apps
YouTube is testing a different approach to ads on smart TVs, as well as its apps on connected devices like Apple TV and game consoles. The platform is experimenting with having longer ad breaks but fewer of them on those devices, which it refers to as connected TV or CTV…
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Clubhouse reinvents itself as an audio messaging app
Clubhouse is back, kinda. The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” with new voice-only group chats called “chats,” as detailed in a blog post from the company. Think of a chat as something like a group Instagram story that you…
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X’s Community Notes feature will now include videos
This might finally be the end of the hurricane street shark phenomenon. X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, updated its crowdsourced fact-checking Community Notes feature to tag videos directly and automatically populate those notes onto any matching videos. The same tagging was recently added to images with Community Notes,…
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Top ASUS routers have serious security flaws that could let hackers hijack your device
Cybersecurity researchers discovered three major vulnerabilities in some high-end ASUS routers, which could be used to hijack endpoints, disrupt connectivity, and deploy malware and ransomware. The routers in question are ASUS RT-AX55, RT-AX56U_V2, and RT-AC86U – all high-end devices used by gamers and other individuals with high-performance demands. The vulnerabilities…
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Slack’s AI tool that can recap channels and threads starts testing this winter
One of the features that Slack AI will offer is channel recaps, which can automatically generate summaries of messages sent on a particular channel. This could likely help you sift through unrelated chatter and catch up on important conversations you might’ve missed. The tool will be able to summarize threads,…
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