Canva strengthens AI and marketing automation with acquisitions of Sim Theory and Ortto
Canva on Wednesday announced a dual acquisition of Sim Theory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation provider. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Canva says the acquisition is part of its continued investments in AI and marketing infrastructure. Both companies were founded by Chris […]
AWS Boss Explains Why Investing Billions in Both Anthropic and OpenAI Is Okay to Conflict
AWS CEO Matt Garman said Amazon’s recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI, after years of partnership including an $8 billion investment in Anthropic, is the kind of conflict of interest the cloud giant is used to dealing with. Garman has worked at Amazon since interning at business school in 2005, before launching AWS in 2006, […]
Amazon to end support for older Kindle devices
Amazon is preparing to end support for Kindle devices released before 2012. This means disconnecting your device from the Kindle Store and effectively preventing it from loading new content. The company has set the deadline for May 20, 2026. Amazon sent an email to customers this week announcing that it would no longer support the […]
Meta debuts Muse Spark model with “complete overhaul” of AI
Meta released an AI model called Muse Spark on Wednesday. This represents a “first step” toward a “thorough overhaul of the system.” [its] AI initiatives. ” Muse Spark is the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. Meta Superintelligence Labs was founded last year after CEO Mark Zuckerberg was frustrated with the progress of Meta and […]
Hacking group targeting Android devices and iCloud backups arrested
Security researchers announced that they have identified a hacking group targeting journalists, activists, and government officials in the Middle East and North Africa. The hacker used a phishing attack to access the target’s iCloud backups and messaging accounts on Signal, and introduced Android spyware that could take over the target’s device. This hacking campaign highlights […]
British cryptologist Adam Back denies NYT report that he is Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto
The true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of Bitcoin’s founder, has remained a mystery for many years. However, new research published in the New York Times suggests that Satoshi may be Adam Back, a British cryptologist who did some of the earliest and most influential work on digital assets. Buck denies that he is […]
Hackers steal and leak confidential Los Angeles Police Department documents
Cybercriminals allegedly stole a large amount of confidential internal documents from the Los Angeles Police Department and leaked the data online. According to the Los Angeles Times, the stolen data includes police personnel files, internal affairs investigations, unredacted criminal complaints and discovery documents that may contain personal information such as witness names and medical data. […]
OpenAI releases new safety blueprint to combat rising child sexual exploitation
Addressing growing concerns About child safety online OpenAI has released a blueprint to strengthen U.S. child protection efforts amid the AI boom. of child safety blueprintThe tool, released on Tuesday, is designed to help detect, better report, and more efficiently investigate child exploitation cases using AI. The overall goal of the Child Safety Blueprint is […]
The developer of VeraCrypt encryption software said Windows users may face startup issues after Microsoft locks their accounts.
The developer of popular file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft has blocked access to the account it used to send updates to Windows users, and warned that people who encrypt their PCs with the company’s software could soon face problems accessing their computers. VeraCrypt developer Mounir Idrassi said in an online post on March 30 […]
How nuclear batteries can accelerate the race to fusion power
Fusion power has always been a bit of a contradiction. The fusion part is actually easy in a way. For example, a college student recently built a simple fusion device in his bedroom. However, extracting electricity from a reaction is not easy. “Fusion reactors that produce electricity, and there are a lot of them, they […]