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Financial Times: The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible  —  London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most… Read More »The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible (Financial Times)

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se: Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy  —  I have held back on writing anything about AI or how… Read More »Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy (Daniel Stenberg/daniel.haxx.se)

Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: Peloton partners with TikTok to create an exclusive, co-branded workout content hub on the short-video platform, available in the US, UK, and Canada  —  The hub will be available on TikTok in the U.S.,… Read More »Peloton partners with TikTok to create an exclusive, co-branded workout content hub on the short-video platform, available in the US, UK, and Canada (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: MobiKwik, a Peak XV-backed Indian payments and digital wallet provider, seeks to raise ~$84.2M in an IPO, and plans to raise ~$16M in a pre-IPO round  —  Indian financial services startup MobiKwik seeks to raise… Read More »Filing: MobiKwik, a Peak XV-backed Indian payments and digital wallet provider, seeks to raise ~$84.2M in an IPO, and plans to raise ~$16M in a pre-IPO round (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: Alibaba-backed Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raised $126.14M in its Hong Kong IPO, with the stock falling 2% on its debut  —  – Robosense, a Chinese developer of laser imaging, detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors for… Read More »Alibaba-backed Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raised $126.14M in its Hong Kong IPO, with the stock falling 2% on its debut (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: A look at the MVNO market as eSIM eases distribution; the global MVNO market is valued at $84B and is expected to grow 40% in the next five years to $116.8B  —  Technology is powering a… Read More »A look at the MVNO market as eSIM eases distribution; the global MVNO market is valued at $84B and is expected to grow 40% in the next five years to $116.8B (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: A survey of 2,778 AI researchers: 38.4% support faster development and 34.7% support slower development, AI development’s pace will keep accelerating, and more  —  The “2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI” shows that the… Read More »A survey of 2,778 AI researchers: 38.4% support faster development and 34.7% support slower development, AI development’s pace will keep accelerating, and more (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)