World Labs lands $1B, with $200M from Autodesk, to bring world models into 3D workflows: The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs' models can work alongside Autodesk's tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases. Read More |
Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than 6 months: Amazon said Blue Jay's core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to other projects. Read More |
Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features: Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators. Read More |
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Data breach at fintech giant Figure affects close to a million customers: The Figure data breach allowed hackers to steal customer names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. Read More |
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Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein: The Def Con hacking conference banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from attending the annual conference after their reported connections with Jeffrey Epstein. Read More |
Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers' confidential emails to Copilot AI: Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data-protection policies. Read More |
Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app: Users will be able to use text, images, and videos as a reference to generate music. Read More |
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