Journals

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI details Stable Cascade, a new image generation model built on a different architecture to SDXL to improve performance and accuracy, now in preview  —  Stability AI, the company behind the popular Stable Diffusion… Read More »Stability AI details Stable Cascade, a new image generation model built on a different architecture to SDXL to improve performance and accuracy, now in preview (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: Samsung announces an upcoming Galaxy S24 series update, adding a Vividness display slider after users complained of a dull display under the default settings  —  – Samsung has announced that the upcoming February update for… Read More »Samsung announces an upcoming Galaxy S24 series update, adding a Vividness display slider after users complained of a dull display under the default settings (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: UK water utility Southern Water confirms hackers stole data on as many as 470K customers; Russia-linked ransomware gang Black Basta claimed credit in January  —  U.K.-based water utility Southern Water has confirmed that hackers stole the… Read More »UK water utility Southern Water confirms hackers stole data on as many as 470K customers; Russia-linked ransomware gang Black Basta claimed credit in January (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post: Uber and Lyft drivers in at least 17 US cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago, plan to strike today over pay; UK-based food app couriers also plan to strike  —  Thousands of drivers for… Read More »Uber and Lyft drivers in at least 17 US cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago, plan to strike today over pay; UK-based food app couriers also plan to strike (Lauren Kaori Gurley/Washington Post)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Slack rolls out AI features to summarize threads, offer channel recaps, let users ask questions, and more to Enterprise users, after testing Slack AI in 2023  —  Slack is launching a suite of built-in AI… Read More »Slack rolls out AI features to summarize threads, offer channel recaps, let users ask questions, and more to Enterprise users, after testing Slack AI in 2023 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: YC releases a new list of 20 types of startups the accelerator wants to join its program, the biggest overhaul of its Request for Startups since 2018  —  The prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator overhauled its… Read More »YC releases a new list of 20 types of startups the accelerator wants to join its program, the biggest overhaul of its Request for Startups since 2018 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Wes Davis / The Verge: DuckDuckGo adds a Sync & Backup tool to its browser to sync passwords, bookmarks, and favorites without needing an account and says the data is E2EE  —  DuckDuckGo has added a new “Sync & Backup”… Read More »DuckDuckGo adds a Sync & Backup tool to its browser to sync passwords, bookmarks, and favorites without needing an account and says the data is E2EE (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Bloomberg: Google partners with the Environmental Defense Fund to help track and attribute methane emissions observed by the MethaneSAT satellite, set to launch in March  —  The tech company will work with the Environmental Defense Fund to track some of… Read More »Google partners with the Environmental Defense Fund to help track and attribute methane emissions observed by the MethaneSAT satellite, set to launch in March (Bloomberg)

Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Google’s TAG says a pro-Palestinian hacking group targeted Israeli software engineers to download malware ahead of October 7, in an attack dubbed Blackatom  —  – Spies used ‘very effective’ tactic, spreading malware  — A rare example… Read More »Google’s TAG says a pro-Palestinian hacking group targeted Israeli software engineers to download malware ahead of October 7, in an attack dubbed Blackatom (Aggi Cantrill/Bloomberg)

Alfred Ng / Politico: Sen. Ron Wyden details the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign, which allegedly tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations  —  The details in Wyden’s letter, sent Tuesday morning, reveal what’s believed to be the… Read More »Sen. Ron Wyden details the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign, which allegedly tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations (Alfred Ng/Politico)