The Verge: Sony accidentally spilled confidential information on Call of Duty’s revenue and PlayStation in a court document by making deficient redactions with a Sharpie — Sony has just revealed lots of highly confidential information about its PlayStation business by mistake. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Andrew Brust / The New Stack: Databricks announces LakehouseIQ, which lets companies use natural language to search and query their data, new tools for its Lakehouse AI platform, and more — We review Databricks’ announcements at Data and AI Summit, and how they counter yesterday’s Snowflake Summit reveals. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Proton launches its E2E encrypted open-source password manager Proton Pass, available for free on iOS, Android, and as a browser extension — A couple of months after unveiling Proton Pass, Proton — the company behind end-to-end encrypted email service Proton Mail — is officially launching its password manager to everyone. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: New York-based Slang.ai, which offers an AI-powered phone answering service for restaurants and retailers, raised a $20M Series A led by Homebrew — Slang.ai, an AI-powered phone answering product for the restaurant industry founded by two former Spotify data scientists … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Yogita Khatri / The Block: Report: FTX’s talks with investors on reboot proposals, due this week, include a joint venture, a rebrand, and stakes for certain existing customers — – FTX has a deadline of this week for interested parties to submit their proposals to potentially help restart the exchange, the WSJ reported. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: OpenAI plans to open an office in London, its first office outside of the US, due to “world-class talent”; Sam Altman had floated Poland and France — ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. has chosen London as the home of its first corporate office outside the US, according to a company statement issued Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting, which critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes — British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Analysis: the Clop ransomware group has breached 122 organizations and stolen the data of ~15M people to date by exploiting a zero-day flaw in Progress’ MOVEit — The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached. — The dramatic fallout continues … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kwaku Gyasi / Bloomberg: Chicago-based public cloud infrastructure startup Fly.io, which has data centers in 37 regions globally, raised a $70M Series C led by EQT at a $467M valuation — Fly.io, a tech startup whose public cloud infrastructure enables developers to deploy applications, has raised $70 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: A look at Anonymous Sudan, a self-described hacktivist group that researchers tied to Russia and that has targeted Microsoft, Sweden, Israel, the US, and others — A hacking group responsible for a series of outages at Microsoft Corp. earlier this month had spent the previous months attacking targets … Lees verder op Tech Meme