Federal judge throws out $32.5 million win for Sonos against Google
A California judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict win for Sonos against Google after two of Sonos’ patents were deemed unenforceable and invalid. As a result, Google has started to re-introduce software features it had removed due to Sonos’ lawsuit. In a decision dated October 6, U.S. District
Read moreEU asks Elon Musk to prove X isn’t breaking Europe’s disinformation rules
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images EU commissioner Thierry Breton warned Elon Musk in a letter today that X, formerly Twitter, “is being used to disseminate illegal content and disinformation in the EU” after Hamas attacks in Israel. Breton also reminded Musk that the Digital Services Act (DSA),
Read moreCoffee Briefing Oct. 10 – AI chatbot ChatGPT reshapes workplace norms amidst trust challenges: report; Meeranda’s human-like AI joins Amazon’s AWS build accelerator; iClassifier unveils AI breakthrough in dairy farming; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. AI chatbot ChatGPT reshapes workplace norms amidst trust challenges: report Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT has experienced
Read moreArctic Wolf acquires cybersecurity automation platform Revelstoke
Arctic Wolf, a cybersecurity company that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and equity, today announced that it plans to acquire Revelstoke, a company developing a security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform, for an undisclosed amount. In a blog post, Arctic Wolf chief product officer Dan Schiappa
Read moreAs misinfo circulates on X amid the Israel-Hamas war, reporters look to other platforms
In the wake of increasing misinformation related to the Israel-Hamas war now circulating on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, a number of journalists are building up their networks on rival platforms. The shift, though potentially small in terms of raw user numbers, could have an outsized impact on
Read moreSamsung Galaxy Z Fold5: Tweaks and refinement of last year’s model
Foldable phones are going from “you’ve got to be kidding” to actually (sort of) practical, with a good half dozen vendors sticking their oars into the potentially lucrative market. However, so far, only one is available in Canada – the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5. The successor to last year’s Fold4,
Read moreU statistics and a new paper by Terence Tao
Terence Tao has a new paper out that relates to a couple things I’ve written about recently. Elementary symmetric polynomials came up when developing the general equations for tangent sum and hyperbolic tangent sum. The latter post goes into more detail. Before that, means of symmetric functions, not necessarily elementary polynomials
Read moreDemos aren’t as important as you think for your VC pitch
Before you start planning how you’ll demonstrate your product, you first need to consider whether you need a demo at all.
Read moreAlameda Research’s ex-CEO Caroline Ellison testifies, claims SBF directed her to commit crimes
Caroline Ellison, the ex-CEO of Alameda Research, took the stand as the fifth witness for the prosecution in Sam Bankman-Fried’s six-week trial.
Read moreTikTok now supports direct posting from AI-powered Adobe apps, CapCut, Twitch and more
TikTok today is introducing a new feature that will allow its users to post directly to the video platform from a range of popular editing apps, including Adobe’s AI-powered video editing software Premiere Pro, its AI creativity app Adobe Express, as well as others, including Twitch, SocialPilot, and ByteDance’s CapCut.
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