WhatsApp adds new features to protect against fraud
WhatsApp is introducing new features to help people find fraud on messaging services, the company announced Tuesday. The company also said it has deleted more than 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to crime fraud centres targeting people around the world. The new feature is designed to help detect fraud in both groups and individual chats […]
Three weeks after getting Windsurf, cognition provides staff with exit doors
Cognition, an AI coding startup that acquired rival Windsurf three weeks ago, fired 30 employees last week and is offering the acquisition to around 200 employees on its team, information reports. This is the latest match of whiplash that Windsurf employees faced after the company’s turbulent growth. The startup was initially nearly acquired by Openai, […]
ElevenLabs launches AI Music Generator.
AI Audio-Generation Unicorn ElevenLabs announced a new model on Tuesday that will allow users to generate music. This move marks the expansion of ElevenLabs beyond its previous main focus in its three-year existence building AI audio tools. ElevenLabs is a leader in the company creating AI products for speeches from text, expanding to conversational bots […]
Trump says he will announce tariffs on semiconductors and chips
The roller coaster year of the semiconductor industry continues to develop another major. President Donald Trump said at CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday that his administration plans to announce tariffs on semiconductors and chips soon next week. However, details about these tariffs remain unknown. Such tariffs can cause considerable disruption to US hardware and AI […]
Hackers stole the identity of Cisco customers using voice phishing attacks
Cybercriminal has deceived Cisco representatives to grant access to steal Cisco users’ identity, the company said Tuesday. Cisco said it found the violation on July 24th and condemned the incident involving voice phishing or “Vishing” calls. Hackers accessed and exported “subset of basic profile information” from a database of third-party cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) […]
Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service
Roku has launched an ad-free subscription streaming service called Howdy. The service costs $2.99 per month and has a library of nearly 10,000 hours of content from partners, including Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, FilmRise, and more, as well as original Select Roku titles. The company says subscribers will be able to watch titles such as […]
Deepmind believes that its new Genie 3 World Model will present a foothold towards AGI
Google Deepmind has revealed the Genie 3, the latest basic world model that can be used to train general purpose AI agents. This states that AI labs create an important stepping stone on the path to “artificial general information” or human-like intelligence. “The Genie 3 is the first real-time interactive, general purpose world model,” Shlomi […]
SonicWall urges customers to disable SSLVPN in reporting ransomware attacks
Enterprise security company Sonic Wall is urging customers to disable the core functionality of their latest lineup of firewall devices after security researchers reported an increase in ransomware incidents targeting Sonic Wall customers. In a statement this week, Sonic Wall said there was a “significant increase” of security incidents targeting Generation 7 firewalls where customers […]
Ju’s Rules Meta violates California’s privacy laws by quietly collecting flow users’ menstrual health data.
A California ju-degreement discovered Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class action suit raised by a Flo user who claimed that The Tech Giant collected private menstrual health data without user consent and used it for advertising tracking purposes. The plaintiffs claim to represent millions of FLO users, violating California’s privacy […]
AI-powered Fintech Alaan raised $48 million, making it one of MENA’s biggest Series A rounds
When Parthi Durisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai Office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate expenses are rarely accepted in the Middle East. This forced Duray Sammy to take significant travel expenses out of his pocket and submit an endless expense report. “It was constant pain,” Duray […]