Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
A look at some exciting startups from Day 1 of YC’s AI-heavy S24 Demo Day, including estate planning startup Elayne and clinical trial startup Baseline — Famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator on Wednesday kicked off its two-day “Demo Day” event that showcases what the most recent YC batch, S24, companies are building.
Matt Mullenweg says Automattic has “been attempting to make a licensing deal” with WP Engine “for a very long time, and all they have done has string us along” (Matt Mullenweg)
Matt Mullenweg:
Matt Mullenweg says Automattic has “been attempting to make a licensing deal” with WP Engine “for a very long time, and all they have done has string us along” — In short, WP Engine is violating WordPress’ trademarks. Moreover, they have been doing so for years.
At Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg was the whole show, giving it a “Zuck or nothing” feel, and he has never seemed more intent on claiming the mantle of innovator (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Casey Newton / Platformer:
At Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg was the whole show, giving it a “Zuck or nothing” feel, and he has never seemed more intent on claiming the mantle of innovator — The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates
An interview with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, who in recent years has focused on movies and amusement parks, on the new Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and more (Zachary Small/New York Times)
Zachary Small / New York Times:
An interview with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, who in recent years has focused on movies and amusement parks, on the new Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and more — Decades after Miyamoto invented Mario and Zelda, he explains what makes Nintendo special and its transformation into a global entertainment brand.
In a filing, Oracle reveals a 29% stake in server CPU design startup Ampere with an option to own; Ampere’s CEO Renee James is stepping down from Oracle’s board (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
In a filing, Oracle reveals a 29% stake in server CPU design startup Ampere with an option to own; Ampere’s CEO Renee James is stepping down from Oracle’s board — – Ampere’s CEO also is stepping down from Oracle’s board — Oracle says it owns 29% of the server processor maker
Sources: IBM’s AI isn’t up to the job to meet CEO Arvind Krishna’s commitment to replace ~7,800 staff and some of the people who could fix that have been let go (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Sources: IBM’s AI isn’t up to the job to meet CEO Arvind Krishna’s commitment to replace ~7,800 staff and some of the people who could fix that have been let go — So say our sources, who warn job cuts, outsourcing risk depriving biz of seasoned technical talent
A US Senate security office email says a “deepfake” caller posed as the former foreign minister of Ukraine in a recent Zoom call with Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
A US Senate security office email says a “deepfake” caller posed as the former foreign minister of Ukraine in a recent Zoom call with Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin — A figure impersonating Dmytro Kuleba, the former foreign minister of Ukraine, targeted Senator Benjamin L. Cardin …
Study: newer, bigger versions of LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT, Meta’s Llama, and BigScience’s BLOOM are more inclined to give wrong answers than to admit ignorance (Nicola Jones/Nature)
Nicola Jones / Nature:
Study: newer, bigger versions of LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT, Meta’s Llama, and BigScience’s BLOOM are more inclined to give wrong answers than to admit ignorance — – Nicola Jones — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — A study of newer …
a16z is a prosecution witness in the DOJ’s case against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji, who raised hundreds of millions dollars for his failed crypto startups (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
a16z is a prosecution witness in the DOJ’s case against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji, who raised hundreds of millions dollars for his failed crypto startups — Just east of Princeton University in central New Jersey lies Lake Carnegie, a three-mile stretch of glistening …
Google says its transition to memory-safe languages like Rust led to memory-safe vulnerabilities in Android dropping from 76% in 2019 to 24% in 2024 (The Hacker News)
The Hacker News:
Google says its transition to memory-safe languages like Rust led to memory-safe vulnerabilities in Android dropping from 76% in 2019 to 24% in 2024 — Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage …
