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DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs

3 minutes of reading / AI, Facebook, Samsung, Tech, Western Digital / By

The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the…

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Meta might train AI with photos from your Ray-Ban smart glasses without telling you

4 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, data privacy, Facebook, Google, Intel, iPhone, Meta, Tech / By

Meta is putting a lot of effort into its AI products as it focuses on the next phase of computing, one in which smart AR glasses might replace your iPhone or Android phone. This won’t happen anytime soon, and AR glasses might initially accompany the iPhone and Android phones. The Orion demo shows Meta’s very…

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You’re going to be bombarded with live footage from the DNC

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Once the 2024 Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago next week, get ready — you’re going to see live DNC footage everywhere you go online.For the first time, next week’s convention at which Kamala Harris will be nominated as her party’s standard-bearer will stream on more than a dozen major platforms ranging from TikTok…

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Meta’s Zuckerberg looks ahead to AI-generated adverts

3 minutes of reading / AI, Facebook, Meta, open source, Tech / By

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has reported second-quarter revenue of $39.1bn, a 22% increase on its first quarter. The company reported that the cost of revenue had increased by 23%, driven primarily by higher infrastructure costs and costs associated with inventory in its augmented headsets division, Reality Labs. In his prepared…

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Instagram users, get ready for an onslaught of AI avatars

3 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, chatbot, Facebook, Intel, Meta, Tech / By

Your Instagram app is about to get another healthy (or unhealthy, depending on how you look at it) dose of generative AI. Meta wants to let anyone create AI avatars that have the ability to chat with users. If the concept sounds familiar, it’s because we’re looking at Meta’s version of OpenAI’s custom GPTs. Also,…

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Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume

5 minutes of reading / branding, Computer, Facebook, Git, GitHub, Microsoft, social media, Tech / By

As global efforts to recover and learn from the Friday 19 July CrowdStrike incident continue, cyber criminals and scammers are predictably lurking on the fringes of the discourse, picking off unsuspecting victims, supported by over newly created malicious domains associated with CrowdStrike’s branding. This is according to web security specialist Akamai, which said its researchers…

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Cloud databases: Base jumping for the bigger picture

8 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, automation, data science, Database, e-commerce, Facebook, internet of things, natural language processing, Tech / By

The way organisations store, manage and analyse data will always be a challenging issue given the constant assault of data on corporate IT systems. It’s as though IT teams are always playing catch-up. According to Veritas, the average company stores around 10PB (petabytes) of data – equating to around 23 billion files – 52% of…

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Public awareness of ID security grows, but big obstacles remain

4 minutes of reading / AI, Facebook, Okta, social media, Tech / By

High-profile cyber attacks and data breaches that make headline news have done much to increase awareness of security issues among the general public over the past few years, but have also caused heightened stress, with 93% of consumers polled for a new study by identity specialist Okta saying they were worried about digital identity theft.…

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In this bizarre new social media app, every user other than you is AI

2 minutes of reading / AI, chatbot, ChatGPT, Facebook, social media, Tech / By

Over the past few years, you might have noticed that an increasingly worrying number of social media users are actually bots imitating humans. They’re usually fairly easy to spot, but avoiding them altogether is virtually impossible. Well, a new social media app called Aspect takes all the guesswork out of the equation with a platform…

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Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites

20 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, Computer, Dell, Facebook, Google, iPhone, machine learning, Meta, programmatic advertising, social media, Tech, web development / By

Dozens of university, charity and policing websites designed to help people get support for serious issues like sexual abuse, addiction or mental health are inadvertently collecting and sharing site visitors’ sensitive data with advertisers.   A variety of tracking tools embedded on these sites – including Meta Pixel and Google Analytics – mean that when a…

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