Collaborate Disseminate
India’s digital payment platforms process trillions of dollars a year through UPI, the government-built real-time payments rail that handles more than 90% of all payment transactions in the country, but one of their largest net revenue line items is no… Continue reading A $10 Plastic Speaker is the Most Durable Revenue Line in Indian Digital Payments
TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with “Made in Vietnam” claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains, and for marketing its devices as secure despite reported firmware vulnerabi… Continue reading Texas Sues TP-Link Over China Links and Security Vulnerabilities
A study of more than 12,000 European firms found that AI adoption causally increases labour productivity by 4% on average across the EU, and that it does so without reducing employment in the short run.
Researchers from the Bank for International Set… Continue reading Study of 12,000 EU Firms Finds AI’s Productivity Gains Are Real
Cleveland.com, the digital arm of Ohio’s Plain Dealer newspaper, has removed writing from the workloads of certain reporters and handed that job to what editor Chris Quinn calls an “AI rewrite specialist” who turns reporter-gathered material into artic… Continue reading Ohio Newspaper Removes Writing From Reporters’ Jobs, Hands It To an ‘AI Rewrite Specialist’
Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and longtime Universal Basic Income advocate, published a blog post this week warning that AI is about to displace millions of white-collar workers in the U.S. over the next 12 to 18 months, a wave he has … Continue reading Andrew Yang Warns AI Will Displace Millions of White-Collar Workers Within 18 Months
Linus Torvalds has told The Register how Linux went from a solo hobby project on a single 386 PC in Helsinki to a genuinely collaborative effort, and the path involved crowdsourced checks, an FTP mirror at MIT, and a licensing decision that opened the … Continue reading Linus Torvalds on How Linux Went From One-Man Show To Group Effort
An anonymous reader writes: Electric buses are proving unreliable this winter for Vermont’s Green Mountain Transit, as it needs to be over 41 degrees for the buses to charge, but due to a battery recall the buses are a fire hazard and can’t be charged … Continue reading Vermont EV Buses Prove Unreliable For Transportation This Winter
Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. From a report: … Continue reading Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails
Ring’s AI-powered “Search Party” feature, which links neighborhood cameras into a networked surveillance system to find lost dogs, was never intended to stop at pets, according to an internal email from founder Jamie Siminoff obtained by 404 Media.
S… Continue reading Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans To Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
WordPress has started rolling out an AI assistant built into its site editor and media library that can edit and translate text, generate and edit images through Google’s Nano Banana model, and make structural changes to sites like creating new pages o… Continue reading WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site