Journals

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: Chainalysis: there were more than 2,200 bitcoins, worth $110M+ at today’s prices, in LockBit’s active blockchain addresses identified by law enforcement  —  The LockBit ransomware gang received more than $125 million in ransom payments over the… Read More »Chainalysis: there were more than 2,200 bitcoins, worth $110M+ at today’s prices, in LockBit’s active blockchain addresses identified by law enforcement (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says an image tuning failure and Gemini becoming more cautious than intended made it “overcompensate in some cases, and be over-conservative in others”  —  Google announced yesterday that it disabled image generation of people in… Read More »Google says an image tuning failure and Gemini becoming more cautious than intended made it “overcompensate in some cases, and be over-conservative in others” (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Humane postpones the delivery of its Ai Pin for “priority access” customers from March to “mid-April”  —  Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage.  First-generation products from new startups are notoriously so, regardless of how… Read More »Humane postpones the delivery of its Ai Pin for “priority access” customers from March to “mid-April” (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: Google confirms “a small subset of users” have been temporarily unable to access the News tab filter in search results pages as part of ongoing testing  —  The News filter disappearing from Google search results… Read More »Google confirms “a small subset of users” have been temporarily unable to access the News tab filter in search results pages as part of ongoing testing (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)

Brendan Farrington / Associated Press: Florida’s legislature passed one of US’ most restrictive bills on minors’ use of social media despite 1A concerns; the bill needs approval of Gov. Ron DeSantis  —  A bill to create one of the nation’s… Read More »Florida’s legislature passed one of US’ most restrictive bills on minors’ use of social media despite 1A concerns; the bill needs approval of Gov. Ron DeSantis (Brendan Farrington/Associated Press)

Lauren Goode / Wired: Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about plans for a new type of data center dubbed “AI factory”, foundational robotics, the Mellanox acquisition, and more  —  Tech companies can’t get enough of this tech company.  Earnings… Read More »Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about plans for a new type of data center dubbed “AI factory”, foundational robotics, the Mellanox acquisition, and more (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Booking.com says it is facing a provisional €486M fine from Spain’s antitrust watchdog, which is accusing the online travel group of anti-competitive practices  —  Regulators seek to clamp down on world’s biggest online travel group… Read More »Booking.com says it is facing a provisional €486M fine from Spain’s antitrust watchdog, which is accusing the online travel group of anti-competitive practices (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Aditya Soni / Reuters: Nvidia crossed a $2T market cap intraday on February 23, after adding $277B to its market value on February 22, Wall Street’s largest one-day gain on record  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) hit $2 trillion in market value… Read More »Nvidia crossed a $2T market cap intraday on February 23, after adding $277B to its market value on February 22, Wall Street’s largest one-day gain on record (Aditya Soni/Reuters)

Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet: Microsoft releases PyRIT, a tool its AI Red Team has been using to check for risks in its generative AI systems like Copilot, to the public  —  Despite the advanced capabilities of generative AI (gen AI)… Read More »Microsoft releases PyRIT, a tool its AI Red Team has been using to check for risks in its generative AI systems like Copilot, to the public (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNet)

Paresh Dave / Wired: Yelp says its tests show design tweaks Google made to its search results to comply with EU’s DMA are unfair and make users even more likely to stick with Google  —  Google says its new designs… Read More »Yelp says its tests show design tweaks Google made to its search results to comply with EU’s DMA are unfair and make users even more likely to stick with Google (Paresh Dave/Wired)