Oracle taps generative AI to streamline HR workflows
News June 29, 2023
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Oracle Corp. today announced new generative AI features for its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) offering, making it easier for enterprises to automate time-consuming HR... Read more
The Brave browser will take action against websites that snoop on visitors by scanning their open Internet ports or accessing other network resources that can expose personal information. Starting in version 1.54, Brave will automatically block website port scanning, a practice that a surprisingly large number of sites were... Read more
Adults and teens are being harassed online in record numbers, says a report released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League. Of those surveyed for the ADL’s latest annual report about online hate and harassment, 52% of adults said they’d been subjected to internet harassment in their lifetime, up from 40% in... Read more
The NANOGrav team was essentially able to turn the Milky Way into a giant gravitational wave detector by measuring the signals from these pulsars to determine when a wave nudged them. The collision of enormous black holes—or some other extremely energetic process—generates gravitational waves that ever-so-slightly squeeze and stretch... Read more
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. PlayStation announced which games are coming to PS Plus in July. The new summer batch of titles includes a cross-gen bundle of Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War,... Read more
In some parts of the United States right now, it’s a bad time to breathe. With several metro areas engulfed in an ominous haze, about 87 million Americans face risks from poor air quality, due to drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires that’ve been raging since earlier this month. These... Read more
How Bad Is the Smoke in the Midwest? Check Out This Map
News June 28, 2023
Right now, Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis have the unhealthiest air in the world, save for Dubai. Canadian wildfires are spewing smoke that’s wafting south, blanketing the Midwest in a toxic haze, just as they did earlier this month along the East Coast. Seventeen states—with nearly a third of the... Read more
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Cyera, a data security company, announced that it has secured a $100 million series B investment led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Sequoia and Cyberstarts. Redpoint Ventures also joined... Read more
Fears grow of deepfake ID scams following Progress hack
News June 28, 2023
Enlarge / The number of deepfakes used in scams in just the first three months of 2023 outstripped all of 2022. FT Montage/Getty Images When Progress Corp, the Massachusetts-based maker of business software, revealed its file transfer system had been compromised this month, the issue quickly gathered global significance.... Read more
Apple may have a new set of headphones hitting the market this summer, according a rumor from podcaster Myke Hurley. Beats Studio Pro will arrive on July 19 in an array of colors, including navy, “deep brown,” sandstone and black, Hurley said during an episode of his Connected podcast last week.... Read more