The details of more than 77,000 Uber employees have reportedly been leaked online, marking another data breach for the company this year. Uber has been hit with a data breach after a threat actor leaked employee data stolen from a third-party vendor. The data includes the email addresses, corporate reports […]
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Be prepared for Earnings Season. What you need to know.
December 7, 2022 5 min read Even those investors who are vaguely familiar with the market know that ‘earnings season‘ happens four times a year, with companies updating investors about the quarterly progress. However, many of these investors will be unfamiliar with the specifics of Earnings Season, and most won’t […]
The Download: the Saudi sci-fi megacity, and sleeping babies’ brains
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These exclusive satellite images show Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi megacity is well underway In early 2021, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia announced The Line: a “civilizational […]
Hertz survey shows that electric car rentals could help increase EV purchases
Hertz Australia conducted an electric car survey during September 2022 of 1,004 Australian Driver’s Licence holders aged 18+ and it revealed that the car rental industry could be a useful “try before you buy” road test option to ease Australian Electric Vehicle (EV) anxiety prior to purchase. Electric car adoption […]
The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent
Stability.AI, the company that developed Stable Diffusion, launched a new version of the AI model in late November. A spokesperson says that the original model was released with a safety filter, which Lensa does not appear to have used, as it would remove these outputs. One way Stable Diffusion 2.0 […]
Twitter Blue is returning with a higher price for Apple users
The subscription option will let users edit tweets after they’ve been published, upload higher quality videos and get a blue ‘verified’ check mark. Twitter is planning to launch a revamped version of its subscription service with new measures to try prevent misuse. The roll-out of new Twitter Blue subscriptions, which […]
Google releases vulnerability scanner for open-source software, backed by community-editable database
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Open-source security has been one of the hottest topics in enterprise security for the past two years. Ever since the SolarWinds supply chain attack, President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, and the Log4j debacle, securing […]
The Game Awards 2022 annouced two biggest winners today
Game of the Year Nominees A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studios / Focus Entertainment) Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco) God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith […]
Engineering Funnel? 10 Ways For Entrepreneurs To Find And Hire Technical Talent
December 13, 2022 4 min read For startups, especially at the early stages, finding and hiring technical talent is the single biggest bottleneck. This is a post covering 10 ways to do so; we advise entrepreneurs to experiment with all and double down on those that work best. 1) Post […]
Senators ask regulators to investigate bank and crypto ties, citing Washington state bank – GeekWire
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a 2019 campaign rally in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) are pressing U.S. bank regulators to investigate the ties between the banking industry and cryptocurrency firms including Farmington, Wash.-based Moonstone Bank. “Banks’ relationships with […]