Legal ping-pong in the WordPress world continues as Automattic sends WP Engine a cease-and-desist letter alleging trademark infringement

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Techme101

The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
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Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $21.5M for robotics simulation tech  

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Techme101

One of the most fundamental breakthroughs at Nvidia has been building processors that power and integrate with highly detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations, which can be used in a wide range of applications, from games and industrial developments through to AI training. Now two of the engineers who helped build those physical simulations for Nvidia and […]
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Airtel taps AI to combat India’s rampant spam calls problem

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Techme101

Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, said on Wednesday it’s rolling out an AI-powered spam detection solution to all its customers as it vowed to curb the rising spam calls and messages in the world’s most populous nation.  The company, which counts Google among its backers, announced the launch of what it claims is India’s […]
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Hone Capital, a Silicon Valley firm, is being probed by the FBI

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Techme101

According to the FT, the FBI is now poking around nine-year-old Hone Capital, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm funded by a Chinese private equity firm, to determine whether some of its capital came from the Chinese government — and if it shared sensitive startup data with Beijing. Originally launched with $115 million from China’s […]
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OpenAI just launched advanced voice mode for audio chats with ChatGPT. Here’s how to use it

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Techme101

If you’re a paying customer, ChatGPT will respond to your spoken questions and comments quickly. But there’s a limit to how much you can use it in a single day.

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Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years for role in FTX crypto fraud

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Techme101

Ellison testified as a star witness against her ex-boyfriend and FTX’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.

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CrowdStrike boss apologises for global IT outage

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Techme101

Adam Meyers, a senior vice president with the IT firm at the heart of July’s mass outage, faced a grilling by US lawmakers.

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Sharp rise in problematic teenage social media use, study says

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Techme101

The report says a “continuously online” generation needs more help to live healthy digital lives.

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Salesforce snatches up Zoomin, a tool for organizing company knowledge

Posted on September 24, 2024 by Techme101

Salesforce is on a buying spree. After snatching up data management firm Own earlier in the month, Salesforce today announced its plans to buy Zoomin, an enterprise knowledge platform. Zoomin — which we’ve covered a handful of times before — unifies a company’s docs, like product user guides and tutorials, in one portal. The terms […]
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FTX Insider Caroline Ellison Sentenced to Two Years in Prison

Posted on September 24, 2024 by Techme101

The former chief executive of Alameda Research, the trading company that acted as the vehicle for the multi-billion-dollar fraud at crypto exchange FTX, has been given a two-year prison sentence after cooperating with investigators.

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