Finding Ownership in Tech
On senioritis, hating your job, and other flavors of dissatisfactionPhoto by Luis Villasmil on UnsplashAfter returning from 12 weeks of work this summer, I found that getting into the college rhythm I was used to– of classes, exams, and assignments on repeat– was more difficult than I remembered… bordering on impossible.
Read MoreGenerative AI With Amazon Bedrock and Unity3D
Building a cool AI chat with Unity3D and Amazon Bedrock.A few days ago, Amazon made a big announcement: the service Bedrock was finally released.If you missed the news, here it is: Amazon decided to enter massively into the generative AI field and invested in the company Anthropic for $4 billion in
Read MorePure Storage intros new DRaaS, pledges to cover power, rack space costs
Pure Storage has released what it described as “new data resilience offerings” that include Pure Protect//DRaaS, which it said is targeted at VMware sites and is designed to reduce complexity, cost, recovery time, and business disruption in the wake of disasters and cyber disruptions. Also launched were scalable storage services
Read MoreIntegrating AI tools into your workflow
For AI tools to be useful to your team, they have to fit into your existing workflows.
Read MoreGoogle’s AI-powered search experience can now generate images, write drafts
Google’s AI-powered search feature, SGE (Search Generative Experience), is gaining some new skills, starting today. The AI feature, which introduces a conversational mode in Search, is now going to be able to generate images using prompts directly in SGE similar to rival Bing’s support of OpenAI’s DALLE-E 3. In addition,
Read MoreMedium expects to be profitable in 2024 as it climbs towards 1M subscribers
Media is a tough game, and wringing value out of words on the Internet is a never-ending battle. We spoke with Medium's CEO Tony Stubblebine about how Medium got itself back on the right path.
Read MoreNo one suspected the man in a FedEx uniform …
No one suspected the man in the FedEx uniform. He walked into offices in the Phoenix, Arizona area asking the receptionists for directions. Pretty common. But if there wasn’t a receptionist, he quickly slipped a USB stick into the running front desk computer to download malware that spread across the
Read MoreLanch, which creates food delivery brands for influencers, gobbles up $6.9M
Two of the biggest drivers of growth on social and e-commerce platforms have been food and influencers, so it should come as no surprise that startups are now getting in on the act in trying to combine how these two work together. In the latest turn, a startup out of
Read MoreCloud gaming firm Shadow says hackers stole customers’ personal data
French technology company Shadow has confirmed a data breach involving customers’ personal information. The Paris-headquartered startup, which offers gaming through its cloud-based PC service, said in an email to customers this week that hackers had accessed their personal information after a successful social engineering attack targeted the company. “At the
Read MoreAMC CEO was target of blackmail and extortion plot
Illustration: The Verge Adam Aron, meme stock CEO of AMC, sent sexually explicit images in text conversations with a woman who attempted to blackmail and extort him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, as first reported by Semafor Thursday. The plot took place over several weeks of text messages
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