Monthly Archives: May 2024

‘Gaslit me so hard’ — Coffeezilla renews his assault on Rabbit R1 AI

YouTuber and investigator Coffeezilla has followed up on his initial blast aimed at the company responsible for the Rabbit R1 artificial intelligence (AI) device. The online personality, real name Stephen Findeisen, who often takes a deep dive into various influencer … Continue reading

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Banish Google’s batty AI from searches with the ‘udm=14’ trick

For those alienated by Google’s new AI search, especially the fact it’s now the default option, with no means of turning it off, there are hacks or workarounds to get it off the page and get you back to browsing … Continue reading

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Popular instant messaging service ICQ to shut down after 28 years

The iconic instant messaging platform ICQ has declared that it will cease operations permanently in June. A brief notice on its website reads, “ICQ will stop functioning from June 26,” offering no further details, and recommends VK Messenger as a … Continue reading

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Dragon Quest 3 teaser surfaces, hinting at more during Summer Game Fest

Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake was announced three years ago, but publisher Square Enix has gone radio silent on the project ever since. Fans on Monday finally got proof-of-life for the game with a teaser post to X confirming the … Continue reading

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Trump backs cryptocurrency, vows to make America its leader

In a recent social media post, former President Donald J. Trump expressed his support for the burgeoning cryptocurrency industry. He said: I am very positive and open minded to cryptocurrency companies and all things related to this new and burgeoning … Continue reading

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Hackers attack banks’ computers with a spoofed version of Minesweeper game

Hackers are reportedly using malicious scripts within a spoofed version of Microsoft’s classic Minesweeper game to launch attacks on financial organizations in Europe and the U.S. Ukraine‘s cybersecurity teams, the Cyber Security Center of the National Bank of Ukraine (CSIRT-NBU) … Continue reading

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Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $6 Billion

Mr. Musk, who founded xAI last year, has said the business “still has a lot of catching up to do” as it looks to compete with well-funded companies like OpenAI.

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EU’s ChatGPT taskforce offers first look at detangling the AI chatbot’s privacy compliance

A data protection taskforce that’s spent over a year considering how the European Union’s data protection rulebook applies to OpenAI’s viral chatbot, ChatGPT, reported preliminary conclusions Friday. The top-line takeaway is that the working group of privacy enforcers remains undecided … Continue reading

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LatAm startups: Apply to Startup Battlefield 200

Here’s a shoutout to LatAm early-stage startup founders! We want YOU to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. But you’d better hurry — time is running out. The application window closes on June 10 at 11:59 … Continue reading

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s teaser trailer sure loves the 1990s

Straight up, there isn’t a frame of gameplay from Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, in the official teaser trailer Treyarch and Activision released on Monday (Memorial Day, no less). It’s still a bananas, paranoid tour of the deep state, … Continue reading

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