How badly will AI-generated images impact elections?
There’s a very high risk that artificial intelligence (AI) will put the integrity of the election process into question.
Read more7 days left to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is so close we can practically hear the hustle and bustle of 10,000 startup movers, shakers and future unicorns converging on San Francisco’s Moscone West. It all goes down September 19–21, and we can’t wait to see you there! Here’s a shoutout to all the last-minute decision
Read moreWith Postmarks, social bookmarking is back — but this time it’s built on the fediverse
The successor to Web 2.0 bookmarking site del.icio.us is here, but this time, it’s built for the open web and the fediverse — the decentralized collection of social networks that includes the Twitter/X competitor Mastodon and others. Portland-area web developer Casey Kolderup has launched Postmarks, a fediverse-enabled social bookmarking service
Read moreSquare says it has resolved day-long outage
Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company had, up until Friday morning on the U.S. west coast, been battling a prolonged outage that had downed its services since Thursday afternoon. In a
Read moreJustifiable sample size
One of the most common things a statistician is asked to do is compute a sample. There are well known formulas for this, so why isn’t calculating a sample size trivial? As with most things in statistics, plugging numbers into a formula is not the hard part. The hard part
Read moreTesla’s $25,000 ‘next-generation car’ will have a Cybertruck design
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla is reportedly preparing to build a $25,000 electric car built on the company’s next-generation engineering platform. Axios reports that Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson has detailed the plan to build a $25,000 electric car alongside an autonomous robotaxi that could ferry passengers
Read moreGoogle flips the switch on interest-based ads with ‘Privacy Sandbox’ rollout
Google is now rolling out Privacy Sandbox — its tech to replace third-party cookies — to all Chrome users. The company is touting this as a more privacy-forward feature, which tracks topics of interest based on your browsing habits. Advertisers can then use this data to show you relevant ads.
Read moreIndia’s Reliance partners with Nvidia to build large language model
Reliance Industries has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained on India’s diverse languages, the two firms said Friday, as the largest Indian corporate firm expands into the fast-growing but locally uncontested space. The companies will work together to build an
Read moreDream11-backed NFT startup Rario founders to leave a year after $120M funding
The two founders of Rario, the cricket NFT startup in which India’s Dream11 led a $120 million funding round last year, are leaving the firm, people familiar with the matter said. Ankit Wadhwa, who serves as Rario CEO, and Sunny Bhanot, Rario CTO, are being pushed out as investors at
Read moreiOS 16.6.1 fixes a big iPhone security vulnerability used to install Pegasus spyware
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has issued a critical security update for iPhones to address a zero-day bug in iOS 16 that could allow attackers to remotely install spyware on a device without any interaction from the iPhone owner. Citizen Lab, a spyware research group, discovered
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