Enlarge / OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman walks on the House side of the US Capitol on January 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) Getty Images On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors to... Read more

Ransomware hackers extorted $1bn across 2023, according to data insights company and blockchain platform. The company published a report showing the extent of malicious hacking and developing trends affecting entities across the last year. Chainanalysis provides data, software, services, and research to government agencies and companies across seventy countries.... Read more

Bouqs has a reputation for quickly delivering a diverse array of high-quality flowers, and right now the service is offering 25% off sitewide with the promo code SCOREBIG at checkout.  In select cites, Bouqs offers same-day delivery for orders placed by noon and orders placed by midnight can get next-day... Read more

How long is “forever”? When it comes to digital media, forever could be as close as a couple of months away. Funimation, a Sony-owned streaming service for anime, recently announced that subscribers’ digital libraries on the platform will be unavailable after April 2. For years, Funimation had been telling... Read more

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Is everything okay over at Xbox? That’s the prevailing question this week, as the games publisher/console manufacturer seems to be making some strange business moves this... Read more

Enlarge / A Flipper Zero device https://flipperzero.one/ Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy No. 1 in his new crackdown on car theft: the Flipper Zero, a $200 piece of open source hardware used to capture, analyze and interact with simple radio communications. On Thursday,... Read more

1X lauded the capabilities of its robots, sharing details on various learnings installed through data. The actions in the video above are all controlled by a single vision-based neural network, emitting at 10Hz. The network absorbs a range of imagery to issue commands to control the driving, arms, gripper,... Read more

The rice cookers we tested fell into three loose categories: small, affordable devices, midrange multicookers and specialized, high-end rice cookers. Each mini rice cooker we tested, including the $19 Imusa 3-cup the $25 Dash mini 2-cup rice cooker (currently out of stock) and the $20 Black & Decker 3-cup rice cooker offered decent, small... Read more

Goody-2 also highlights how although corporate talk of responsible AI and deflection by chatbots have become more common, serious safety problems with large language models and generative AI systems remain unsolved. The recent outbreak of Taylor Swift deepfakes on Twitter turned out to stem from an image generator released... Read more

This is kind of a cheap Friday post, but I was struck by the fact that OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder Sam Altman just posted on X/Twitter that he thought the new Apple Vision Pro is the “second most impressive tech since the iPhone.” vision pro is second most impressive... Read more