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A Chinese cybercrime operation that used artificial intelligence to defraud “hundreds of thousands of victims” has been sued by Google

A Chinese cybercrime operation that used artificial intelligence to defraud “hundreds of thousands of victims” has been sued by Google

✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Security,Android,cybercrime,cybersecurity,Google,In Brief,scams 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Google has filed a lawsuit to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-driven cybercrime operation. The tech giant on Friday announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses artificial intelligence in its campaigns to send fraudulent text messages impersonating Google and other brands to steal passwords and credit card numbers. Outsider Enterprise financially defrauded “hundreds of thousands of victims” with losses “in the millions.” The group posted 9,000 fake websites, 1 million fraudulent web domains,…
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“Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?”

“Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?”

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Article views: 25,401 In my Ottawa life, every Tuesday evening, I take two gym classes back to back—boxing and the pompously named “body sculpt,” which makes me discover muscles I didn’t know I had. It’s fun. I love it. But a couple of weeks ago, I ended up cancelling my second class—one of those nights when the first assignment landed in my inbox at 4 p.m., another one arrived while I was on my way to the gym, and a third one popped up right…
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SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint about the Tesla merger

SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint about the Tesla merger

✨ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Space,Transportation,Elon Musk,Gwynne Shotwell,In Brief,SpaceX ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: All eyes are on the IPO of SpaceX - the world's largest in history - and its CEO Elon Musk. But lest you forget, there's another publicly traded company in Musk's world that many believe will one day merge with SpaceX. We're talking about Tesla, which has a current market cap of about $1.26 trillion. Musk, who also leads Tesla, has portrayed it as a company specializing in artificial intelligence and robotics, although the bulk of its revenue still comes from selling…
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Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial.

Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial.

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For many journalists, blowback is just part of the business. The irate call to the editor or publisher, often expressed through the promise of litigation. The online pile-on, often expressed through personal invective. Occasionally, the threat of violence, often expressed through all-caps derangement. It’s rare to encounter a novel variant. But on April 21, I received a remarkable email. “Someone has filed an objection against something you wrote,” explained Austin Livingston, pointing me to a web page where Purdue Pharma heir Michael Sackler, a film…
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SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

🚀 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Space,Transportation,Elon Musk,IPO,SpaceX,spacex ipo ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SpaceX has captured the attention of the media, investors, and the public for years now — attention driven by the company's launches of reusable rockets, the rise of its Starlink satellite network, and, of course, its founder and CEO Elon Musk. But in its 24-year history, nothing has matched this initial public offering. Everyone seems interested, and that's probably due to the sheer size of this IPO. The company priced its 555.6 million shares at $135 per share to raise $75 billion, making…
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I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the arguments I made that time because my views on the subject haven' t changed. What has changed, however, is that the number of contributions I receive on my open source projects has gone up, and nearly all are now made with LLMs. The other day…
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‘I think about him every time I go swimming’: David Hockney remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more | David Hockney

‘I think about him every time I go swimming’: David Hockney remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more | David Hockney

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Hockney,Art and design,Culture,Tacita Dean,Jeremy Deller,Rachel Whiteread,Helen Marten,Mark Wallinger 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Rachel Whiteread, artist: ‘It was like he was breathing art’My earliest memories of modern artists were of David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Bridget Riley. I remember seeing a TV programme about David in the 1970s as a young kid and thinking “wow, is that what being an artist is like?” Because my mum was an artist but she wasn’t anything like that!Compared with Bridget Riley, who was very sort of cool, David seemed out…
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Mistral is rumored to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation

Mistral is rumored to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation

🚀 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Fundraising,In Brief,Mistral AI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: French AI lab Mistral is in early discussions to raise about 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion), Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources. The funding round will value the company at approximately €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double the €11.7 billion valuation it received in its Series C funding round last September. Mistral, one of Europe's leading AI startups, launched in 2023 with a stated ambition to “put leading-edge AI into everyone's hands.” The company has taken a more open approach…
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It’s About Time

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Recently, a new type of question has entered the database arena: what did this data look like last Tuesday? Maybe it's the price of a product before the holiday sale kicked in, or which department an employee belonged to before that reorg nobody asked for. Short of adding an entire audit trigger system, how can we know what data looked like before and after a change at that exact date?The SQL:2011 standard formalized a proper solution over a decade ago with temporal tables. Other database…
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SpaceX starts at $150, an 11% increase from its expected debut in history

SpaceX starts at $150, an 11% increase from its expected debut in history

🔥 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Space,Transportation,Elon Musk,SpaceX ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SpaceX broke ground on its first day as a public company, immediately jumping to $150 a share after it began trading on the Nasdaq, roughly 11% higher than the $135 figure it formally priced its initial public offering on Thursday. The stock's pop is no surprise. The company's IPO was four times oversubscribed, according to Bloomberg, meaning many institutional investors did not receive allocations and would likely buy shares on the open market. Demand for SpaceX is also a function of its small float,…
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