Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Google NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral thanks to its the Deep Dive podcast with two AI hosts — With this Google tool, you can now listen to a show about any topic you could possibly imagine. You won’t believe your ears.
An executive says GM is working on a Level 3 eyes-off, hands-off driving system, but does not provide a timeline for when it might become publicly available (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
An executive says GM is working on a Level 3 eyes-off, hands-off driving system, but does not provide a timeline for when it might become publicly available — Seven years ago, GM became the first automaker to offer hands-free driving when it rolled out its Super Cruise advanced driver assistance system.
Cyber Crimes Center, a division of the US DHS, says it has disrupted 500+ ransomware attacks and seized $4.3B in crypto since 2021, including $180M last year (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)
Jeff Stone / Bloomberg:
Cyber Crimes Center, a division of the US DHS, says it has disrupted 500+ ransomware attacks and seized $4.3B in crypto since 2021, including $180M last year — Homeland Security Investigations is stopping hacks before they occur. — A cybercrime-focused division of the US Department …
Google ramps up efforts to integrate AI across its products in India, where it has 700M to 800M users, including launching Gemini Live in nine Indian languages (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Google ramps up efforts to integrate AI across its products in India, where it has 700M to 800M users, including launching Gemini Live in nine Indian languages — Google is ramping up its artificial intelligence efforts in India to integrate AI across its products for Indians …
Sources: China-linked hacking campaign dubbed Salt Typhoon breached networks of a wide swath of US broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China-linked hacking campaign dubbed Salt Typhoon breached networks of a wide swath of US broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen — AT&T, Verizon are among broadband providers breached in China-linked ‘Salt Typhoon’ hack — A cyberattack tied …
Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud prevention provider ClearSale for $350M; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025 (Reuters)
Reuters:
Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud prevention provider ClearSale for $350M; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025 — Credit data company Experian (EXPN.L) has agreed to buy Brazilian cyber security firm ClearSale (CLSA3.SA), it said on Friday …
In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Harris’ campaign; he endorsed Trump in July (Dan Primack/Axios)
Dan Primack / Axios:
In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Harris’ campaign; he endorsed Trump in July — – At the time, President Biden was still running for reelection. … – He notes that he and Felicia have known Harris …
Apple’s AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Apple’s AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image — Apple’s AI research team has developed a new model that could significantly advance how machines perceive depth …
As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically “neutral”, some argue he’s placating critics like Trump; source: Nick Clegg now makes most election policy decisions (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically “neutral”, some argue he’s placating critics like Trump; source: Nick Clegg now makes most election policy decisions — Meta chief seeks neutral stance ahead of US election but critics argue he is placating critics such as Trump
Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campaign targeting orgs in financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, that peaked at 3.8Tbps (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)
Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer:
Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campaign targeting orgs in financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, that peaked at 3.8Tbps — During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors …