Journals

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are already using LLMs to refine and improve cyberattacks, including Russian, North Korean, Iranian, and Chinese-backed groups  —  Microsoft and OpenAI are revealing today that hackers are already using large… Read More »Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are already using LLMs to refine and improve cyberattacks, including Russian, North Korean, Iranian, and Chinese-backed groups (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber plans to buy back $7B in shares, a first for the company, after achieving operating profit and consistent positive free cash flow in 2023; UBER rises 4%+  —  Uber Technologies Inc. will buy back as… Read More »Uber plans to buy back $7B in shares, a first for the company, after achieving operating profit and consistent positive free cash flow in 2023; UBER rises 4%+ (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Harish Jonnalagadda / Windows Central: Nvidia Chat with RTX hands-on: 35GB installer, Mistral 7B and Llama 2 are 70GB, great at summarizing details and targeted questions, but no follow-up questions  —  NVIDIA’s AI chatbot runs locally on your PC, and… Read More »Nvidia Chat with RTX hands-on: 35GB installer, Mistral 7B and Llama 2 are 70GB, great at summarizing details and targeted questions, but no follow-up questions (Harish Jonnalagadda/Windows Central)

Richard Milne / Financial Times: An interview with Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen, as Tencent’s Finnish mobile gaming group seeks its next big hit; Clash of Clans had $10B+ in revenue in 10 years  —  Mobile games maker chief Ilkka Paananen… Read More »An interview with Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen, as Tencent’s Finnish mobile gaming group seeks its next big hit; Clash of Clans had $10B+ in revenue in 10 years (Richard Milne/Financial Times)

James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review: How Reddit, after the catastrophic online manhunt to find the Boston Marathon bomber, quietly became a civilized place to discuss news, due to strong moderation  —  Twitter had been our place.  Where journalists gathered… Read More »How Reddit, after the catastrophic online manhunt to find the Boston Marathon bomber, quietly became a civilized place to discuss news, due to strong moderation (James Ball/Columbia Journalism Review)

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: ASML CFO Roger Dassen says the chip market “has now reached the lowest point of the dip” and “the recovery is nascent”; ASML’s top client spent €8.78B in 2023  —  – ‘Recovery is nascent,’ CFO Dassen… Read More »ASML CFO Roger Dassen says the chip market “has now reached the lowest point of the dip” and “the recovery is nascent”; ASML’s top client spent €8.78B in 2023 (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Sydney-based quantum computing startup Diraq extends its Series A to $35M led by Quantonation, taking its total funding to $120M+, to build quantum processors  —  Australian quantum computing startup Diraq Pty Ltd. said today it has… Read More »Sydney-based quantum computing startup Diraq extends its Series A to $35M led by Quantonation, taking its total funding to $120M+, to build quantum processors (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Financial Times: Chinese factories that transformed rural communities by selling goods on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall are turning to rival platforms like Pinduoduo to stay afloat  —  Rural communities transformed by Jack Ma’s group say buying across sites is the… Read More »Chinese factories that transformed rural communities by selling goods on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall are turning to rival platforms like Pinduoduo to stay afloat (Financial Times)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple’s longest-serving senior industrial designer, Bart Andre, told colleagues this month that he is retiring; Andre joined in 1992 alongside Jony Ive  —  – Bart Andre retiring after three decades on design team  — Departure… Read More »Sources: Apple’s longest-serving senior industrial designer, Bart Andre, told colleagues this month that he is retiring; Andre joined in 1992 alongside Jony Ive (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: A look at Slack 10 years after its launch: early success, going public in 2019, being acquired by Salesforce, and how the service changed work culture  —  A decade later, it’s clear that Slack changed… Read More »A look at Slack 10 years after its launch: early success, going public in 2019, being acquired by Salesforce, and how the service changed work culture (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)