Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft bans US police departments from using integrations with Azure OpenAI Service, including integrations with OpenAI’s text- and speech-analyzing models — Microsoft has changed its policy to ban U.S. police departments from using generative AI through the Azure OpenAI Service …
Brazil-based Indicium, which helps enterprises become “data-driven” using data stacks from AWS and others, raised $40M to expand its operations in the US (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Brazil-based Indicium, which helps enterprises become “data-driven” using data stacks from AWS and others, raised $40M to expand its operations in the US — Brazilian data and artificial intelligence consultancy startup Indicium today announced that it had raised $40 million …
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is the right price, fun design, and a good mic, but the best features are all MIA, finicky and slow, and using a phone is better (David Pierce/The Verge)
David Pierce / The Verge:
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is the right price, fun design, and a good mic, but the best features are all MIA, finicky and slow, and using a phone is better — Artificial intelligence might someday make technology easier to use and even do things on your behalf. All the Rabbit R1 does right now is make me tear my hair out.
Microsoft rolls out passkey support for all consumer accounts; Microsoft account owners can generate passkeys across Windows, Android, and iOS (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft rolls out passkey support for all consumer accounts; Microsoft account owners can generate passkeys across Windows, Android, and iOS — Microsoft is fully rolling out passkey support for all consumer accounts today. After enabling them in Windows 11 last year …
Some developers are releasing longer context windows for Llama 3 thanks to Meta’s open-source approach; Llama 3 has a short context window of 8,000+ tokens (Kalley Huang/The Information)
Kalley Huang / The Information:
Some developers are releasing longer context windows for Llama 3 thanks to Meta’s open-source approach; Llama 3 has a short context window of 8,000+ tokens — Developers have been praising Meta Platforms’ Llama 3, the latest version of its flagship large language model.
LayerX, which makes a browser extension to let companies secure their devices and SaaS apps, raised a $26M Series A, bringing its total funding to $34M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
Meir Orbach / CTech:
LayerX, which makes a browser extension to let companies secure their devices and SaaS apps, raised a $26M Series A, bringing its total funding to $34M — The Israeli startup’s Enterprise Browser Extension integrates with any browser, helping enterprises to secure their devices, identities …
Apple adds carve-outs to EU core tech fee, exempting developers of free apps and giving those with annual global revenue under €10M a three-year “free on-ramp” (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Apple adds carve-outs to EU core tech fee, exempting developers of free apps and giving those with annual global revenue under €10M a three-year “free on-ramp” — Apple is tweaking how it applies a new fee that can apply to iOS developers in the European Union as it continues …
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy steps down, as the company lays off ~15% of its workforce, or ~400 people, its fifth layoffs since 2021, when it had 8,600 staffers (The Verge)
The Verge:
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy steps down, as the company lays off ~15% of its workforce, or ~400 people, its fifth layoffs since 2021, when it had 8,600 staffers — Peloton’s CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after announcing yet another round of layoffs, this time affecting about 15 percent …
LA-based wealth management startup Altruist, whose software and app help with trading and more, raised a $169M Series E led by Iconiq at a $1.5B valuation (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
LA-based wealth management startup Altruist, whose software and app help with trading and more, raised a $169M Series E led by Iconiq at a $1.5B valuation — – Iconiq Growth led investment in competitor to Schwab, Fidelity — Altruist provides software for registered investment advisers
Microsoft confirms the April 2024 Windows security update breaks VPN connections across client and server platforms on Windows 11, 10, and Server 2008 or later (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft confirms the April 2024 Windows security update breaks VPN connections across client and server platforms on Windows 11, 10, and Server 2008 or later — Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms.
