Meta (again) denies that Netflix read users’ private Facebook messages
The document alleges that Facebook even cut spending on original programming for its Facebook Watch video service so as not to compete with Netflix, a large Facebook advertiser. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreBuilding a Digital Fortress: How to Strengthen DNS Against DDoS Attacks?
Building a fortress around DNS is a necessity for ensuring the resilience of internet services. Here’s how to strengthen it. Continue reading Building a Digital Fortress: How to Strengthen DNS Against DDoS Attacks? on SitePoint.
Read moreOpen source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cybersecurity Resilience Act
Seven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), regulation adopted by the European Parliament last month. The Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, PHP Foundation, Python Software Foundation, and Rust Foundation revealed their intentions to pool
Read moreNicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry and other musicians sign letter against irresponsible AI
A group of 200 musicians signed an open letter calling on tech companies and developers to not undermine human creativity with AI music generation tools. The list of undersigned artists is so power-packed and wide-ranging that it could make for a great Coachella lineup — it features Billie Eilish, the
Read moreApple Vision Pro’s Persona feature gets collaborative
Much like the headset for which they were designed, Apple’s Personas are very much a work in progress. The original version of the beta avatars were — is “nightmarish” too strong a word? A subsequent update has made them more palatable and truer to life, and Apple says it’s continuing
Read moreAWS unveils new service for cloud-based rendering projects
Amazon launched Tuesday a new service called Deadline Cloud that lets customers set up, deploy and scale up graphics and visual effects rendering pipelines on AWS cloud infrastructure. The new service, which is geared towards the media and enterntainment industry, was timed for the National Association of Broadcasters conference in
Read moreY Combinator’s Garry Tan chastises a San Francisco lawmaker again — this time about an email bill
Garry Tan expressed his displeasure at California State Assembly member Matt Haney over a proposed late-night email bill he authored. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreTesla’s year-over-year sales dropped for the first time since 2020
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Tesla delivered 386,810 vehicles this quarter, falling short of its fourth quarter 2023 deliveries by nearly 100,000 and marking a year-over-year sales drop from Q1 2023’s 422,875 vehicles. As Bloomberg notes, the company hasn’t delivered fewer vehicles than the same prior-year period
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: AT&T data breach prompts millions of passcodes to be reset
Death, taxes, and regular, terrifying cybersecurity leaks. Those are the facts of life, as the latest AT&T data breach is teaching us yet again. A TechCrunch investigation into leaked customer data from the American telco giant has led to AT&T resetting certain customer account passcodes to prevent them from being
Read moreMeta now requires users to verify their age to use its Quest VR headsets
During the congressional online safety hearing in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that mobile app store providers like Apple and Google should be the ones to implement parental controls for social media. Now, it appears Meta is using its Quest VR store to demonstrate how it thinks devices with
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