Victoria Song / The Verge:
Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, with a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes, shipping October 15, and completely redesigns the Oura app — Oura is giving its popular smart ring and app a substantial makeover. The company just announced the $349 Oura Ring 4 …
Barcelona-based Submer, which submerges data center server racks in its proprietary coolant, raised a $55.5M Series C at a ~$500M post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Barcelona-based Submer, which submerges data center server racks in its proprietary coolant, raised a $55.5M Series C at a ~$500M post-money valuation — The race is on for better chips and data center capacity to handle AI workloads, but all that activity comes with a catch.
Analysis: London’s Met police used facial recognition 117 times in 2024 to August, up from 32 times in total from 2020 to 2023; ~770,966 people were scanned (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times:
Analysis: London’s Met police used facial recognition 117 times in 2024 to August, up from 32 times in total from 2020 to 2023; ~770,966 people were scanned — Force used the technology 117 times from January to August, up from 32 between 2020 and 2023 — The use of a controversial form …
Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC’s top enforcement official since 2021, who oversaw 2,400+ enforcement actions and the crypto crackdown, plans to leave on October 11 (Nicola M. White/Bloomberg)
Nicola M. White / Bloomberg:
Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC’s top enforcement official since 2021, who oversaw 2,400+ enforcement actions and the crypto crackdown, plans to leave on October 11 — – Grewal helped lead WhatsApp probes, crypto industry crackdown — SEC official was previously New Jersey’s attorney general
How chips made by US companies like Analog Devices, Germany’s Infineon, and others helped power a Russian missile used in Ukraine, despite US export controls (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
How chips made by US companies like Analog Devices, Germany’s Infineon, and others helped power a Russian missile used in Ukraine, despite US export controls — On the morning of Aug. 19, 2023, Olha Holynska boarded a train in Kyiv with her 6-year-old daughter, Sofiya, to travel to Chernihiv, an ancient city in northern Ukraine.
Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers triggered by sending emails to the SMTP server (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers triggered by sending emails to the SMTP server — Hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers that can be triggered simply …
As Satya Nadella says AI models are becoming “more of a commodity”, OpenAI faces formidable challenges, including burning through cash and intense competition (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
As Satya Nadella says AI models are becoming “more of a commodity”, OpenAI faces formidable challenges, including burning through cash and intense competition — Latest funding round has boosted the company’s valuation to $150bn, but it faces formidable challenges
An in-depth account of how CD Projekt Red recovered from the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, using a fully parallelized engine to test and resolve issues (Chris Tapsell/Eurogamer.net)
Chris Tapsell / Eurogamer.net:
An in-depth account of how CD Projekt Red recovered from the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, using a fully parallelized engine to test and resolve issues — “We knew we were in deep trouble.” — Follow Cyberpunk 2077 — “Beep.” — On 10th January, 2018, Marcin Momot …
A look at the prevalence of deepfake porn in South Korea, where its parliament has revised a law to make watching or possessing deepfake porn content illegal (Hyung-Jin Kim/Associated Press)
Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press:
A look at the prevalence of deepfake porn in South Korea, where its parliament has revised a law to make watching or possessing deepfake porn content illegal — Three years after the 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she is still being treated for trauma.
Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers’ names, phone numbers, addresses, and more (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers’ names, phone numbers, addresses, and more — The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools …
