Hackers planted a Steam game with malware to steal gamers’ passwords
Last week, Valve removed a game from its online store Steam because the product was laced with malware.
After the removal of the game, which was called PirateFi, security researchers analyzed the malware and found that whoever planted it modified an existing video game in an attempt to trick
Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference
Meta on Tuesday announced that it’ll host its first-ever dev conference dedicated to generative AI.
Called LlamaCon after Meta’s Llama family of generative AI models, the conference is scheduled to take place on April 29. Meta said that it plans to share “the latest on [its] open
Bluesky adds a ‘followers only’ reply option
Social networking startup Bluesky, a rival to X, on Monday rolled out a new update to its app that now includes the recently promised addition of a “followers only” option for restricting replies to your posts, as well as a “search posts” feature for user profiles.
While th
Fetii's group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC
When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for the night together didn’t have access to on-demand rides with the same convenience, accessibility, and a
Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers
Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old Google Translate can convert the content of images, audio, and entire websites across hundreds of languages, while newer tools such as ChatGPT also serve as handy pocket translators.
On the back end,
As US newspaper outages drag on, Lee Enterprises blames cyberattack for encrypting critical systems
Newspaper publishing giant Lee Enterprises said an ongoing cyberattack is causing disruptions across its business, and is now in its third week of outages.
In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Lee said it was conducting a forensic analysis to determine if sensitive or pers
Legal tech startup Luminance, backed by the late Mike Lynch, raises $75M
Generative AI is getting better at interpreting dense texts, and this progress has proven to be a boon for startups attacking one of the most complex sets of texts there is: the law. It makes sense then that we've been seeing a new burst of activity in the legal tech space off the back of advan
Elon Musk's xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, late on Monday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, and unveiled new capabilities for the Grok iOS and web apps.
Grok, xAI's answer to models like OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini, can analyze images and respond to question
Thousands protest Elon Musk's DOGE in NYC on Presidents’ Day
More than 10,000 protesters gathered in New York City on Presidents’ Day to speak out against the current Trump administration and the actions in particular of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
It was one of several protests that took place Monday in major cit
Trump fires hundreds of air traffic support staff as SpaceX visits FAA command center
The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, reports CNN. The firings, which began late Friday night, come as Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been tapped to help create a new air traffic
What the US’ first major AI copyright ruling might mean for IP law
Copyright claims against AI companies just got a potential boost.
A U.S. federal judge last week handed down a summary judgment in a case brought by tech conglomerate Thomson Reuters against legal tech firm Ross Intelligence. The judge found that Ross' use of Reuters’ content to train it
X is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers
Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) is blocking links to Signal.me, a URL shortener used by the private messaging app Signal that allows users to send out a link that’s used to contact them directly through the service. The blocks, which impact direct messages, public posts, and profile page
Game maker Polymath aims to make learning math as enjoyable as Roblox
As gaming platforms like Roblox and Minecraft continue to grow in popularity among young children, and with platforms like YouTube consuming hours of their daily screen time, edtech companies face challenges in capturing their attention.
Polymath aims to tackle this by combining gamified mec
Mistral releases regional model focused on Arabic language and culture
The next frontier for large language models (LLMs), one of the key technologies underpinning the boom in generative AI tools, might be geographical. On Monday, Paris-based AI startup Mistral — which is vying to rival the likes of U.S.-based Anthropic and OpenAI — is releasing a model th