New York is kicking off a broad, decade-long study to better understand how people across the state gamble and where support systems may be falling short. Governor Kathy Hochul says the effort is meant to bring clearer insight into addiction risks and how services can respond. Statewide study aims... Read more

The world’s largest semiconductor-maker is reaping the rewards of a global memory chip shortage driven by AI demand so rapacious that it’s making everyone else miserable. Samsung said in its latest earnings report that it saw record profits, up almost 500% from the same period last year, to $31.72... Read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings call on Thursday that it could take “several months” to meet skyrocketing demand for the Mac Mini, the company’s compact but mighty, screen-free desktop computer. Cook’s remarks come after coders determined in recent months that the Mac Mini was the... Read more

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe compromises inside data centers and on personal devices. The vulnerability and exploit code that exploits it were released... Read more

Instagram is clamping down on aggregator accounts that flood your feed with content they didn’t uniquely create or meaningfully alter. The company’s originality guidelines, which previously applied to Reels, will now extend to photo and carousel posts, rendering more accounts that mainly post unoriginal content ineligible for recommendations. Instagram... Read more

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get into how the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial goes way beyond their rivalry and could have major implications both for OpenAI and also the AI industry at large. Source link Read more

When a trailer popped up at last year’s Summer Game Fest for 007: First Light, fans breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that studio IO Interactive was behind it. Gamers thought that IOI’s beloved Hitman infiltration and assassination games would provide good groundwork for a game about... Read more

All those ports are fairly standard for a power station in this class, and similar to what was on the previous model—although the 140-W USB port is new and very nice to have. Where the new Yeti 1500 shines is the 12-V charging options, which include a high-power 12-V... Read more

Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with participation from Adobe Ventures, WndrCo, Silver Lake Waterman, NAVER Ventures, Metis Strategy and Fin Capital. Jeffrey Katzenberg, managing... Read more

Federal regulators have taken Wisconsin to court, turning up the heat in a widening fight over who gets to police the fast-growing world of prediction markets. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed its lawsuit just days after Wisconsin launched its own civil cases against five companies: Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com,... Read more