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TechRepublic EXCLUSIVE: New Ransomware Attacks are Getting More Personal as Hackers ‘Apply Psychological Pressure”

Ransomware attackers know where your kids go to school and they want you to know it, according to professional negotiators at Sygnia.

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X users treating Grok like a fact-checker spark concerns over misinformation

Some users on X are turning to Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among fact-checkers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Sequoia shutters D.C. office, lets go of policy team

Sequoia will shutter its D.C. office as well as part ways with the policy team there at the end of March, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news comes — and is somewhat in contrast — with the other prominent VC firms … Continue reading

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New World’s Smallest Supercomputer: Pre-Order NVIDIA’s DGX Spark Today

NVIDIA is touting its personal AI supercomputers that CEO Jensen Huang calls a “new class of computers.”

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Scam Alert: FBI ‘Increasingly Seeing’ Malware Distributed In Document Converters

FBI warns computer users to keep an eye out for malware, including ransomware, distributed through working document converters.

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Nvidia reportedly acquires synthetic data startup Gretel

Nvidia has reportedly acquired Gretel, a San Diego-based startup that’s developed a platform to generate synthetic AI training data. Terms of the acquisition are unknown. The price tag was said to be nine figures, exceeding Gretel’s most recent valuation of … Continue reading

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AWS generative AI exec leaves to launch startup

Raj Aggarwal is leaving AWS after nearly three years as the company’s GM of generative AI and revenue acceleration, according to a LinkedIn post Aggarwal published Wednesday. “I’m proud of the pioneering work our team did in generative AI from … Continue reading

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Nvidia’s Huang says faster chips are the best way to reduce AI costs

“Speed is the best cost-reduction system,” Huang said Tuesday, after his keynote speech at Nvidia’s GTC conference.

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Group co-led by Fei-Fei Li suggests that AI safety laws should anticipate future risks

In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that “have not yet been observed in the world” when crafting AI regulatory policies. The 41-page interim report … Continue reading

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Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse

Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run on the protocol ActivityPub, which powers apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, Flipboard, and others, allowing … Continue reading

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