Venture capitalists bet on Sublime, a startup bringing AI to email security

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Generative artificial intelligence has helped hackers craft personalized emails more quickly. Now startups are using the technology to block attacks.

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Controversial chatbot’s safety measures ‘a sticking plaster’

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Character.ai is facing legal action in the US over claims a bot on the site encouraged a teenager to kill his parents.

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How to Fix Network Jitter (for Good) in Under 10 Minutes

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Don’t let network jitter ruin another call. Learn fast and effective ways to get a high jitter rate down to a manageable level.

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DOJ asks court to reject TikTok’s bid to temporarily block sell-or-ban law

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

The Department of Justice has asked a U.S. appeals court to reject ByteDance and TikTok’s emergency motion that aims to temporarily block the law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the social network divests from Chinese ownership by January 19.  The Justice Department said the court should not delay the matter, arguing that […]
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Realize Music’s ‘Sing’ wants you to sing out loud by yourself in VR because it just feels good

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Aimed at maintaining well-being, Sing is a VR app that you can sing out loud with when you’re home alone.
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Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

This week on Uncanny Valley, we debate which social media apps are still worth the scroll.

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Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

AI training data has a big price tag, one best-suited for deep-pocketed tech firms. This is why Harvard University plans to release a dataset that includes in the region of 1 million public-domain books, spanning genres, languages, and authors including Dickens, Dante, and Shakespeare, which are no longer copyright-protected due to their age. The new […]
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donates $1m to Trump fund

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

It appears to be the latest attempt by the Meta boss to build a closer relationship with the incoming president.

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Gigs, an ‘MVNO in a box,’ gets $73M to power mobile network services for any company

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Gigs, a platform that makes it easier for any company to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), has raised $73 million in a Series B round of funding. The announcement comes as countless companies have added mobile networking services to their product lineup this past year, including neobanks such as Nubank (a Gigs customer) […]
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Microsoft quietly axes Skype credit and phone number sales to push subscriptions

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Bad news for anyone out there who still uses Skype: the Microsoft-owned phone and messaging platform has quietly stopped letting users top-up accounts with credit and buy Skype phone numbers. Instead, Skype is locking into SaaS mode: it’s pushing users to take monthly subscriptions for regional and global Skype-to-phone plans, for a set monthly fee, […]
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