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The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, announced Friday that it suffered a cyberattack earlier this week. People familiar with the cyberattack told TechCrunch that Heritage is working to remediate the cyberattack, but it's not immediately clear what, if any, data was stolen. Politico, which first reported news of the cyberattack on Friday, said Heritage officials said it had “shut down its network to prevent further malicious activity while we investigate the incident.” The news organization cited Heritage officials as saying the cyberattack was likely the work of state hackers, but provided no evidence for that claim. Heritage spokesperson Noah…

India will introduce an electric three-wheeler passenger vehicle that can charge from 0% to 100% in 15 minutes. The launch of the new EV, a partnership between automaker Omega Seiki Mobility and battery technology start-up Exponent Energy, is part of India's ambition to electrify 80% of all three-wheelers by 2030 in a bid to cut emissions. It was held inside. The new three-wheeler is called Stream City Quick and will be launched on Friday at a price of $3,900 (INR 324,999) and will go on sale in Delhi and Bengaluru from May 15. It is a successor to the previous…

WhatsApp is testing Meta AI, a chatbot powered by a large-scale language model, with users in India and other markets and intends to leverage its large user base to expand its AI services. is showing. The company recently began testing an AI chatbot, but until now it has been available in limited markets including the United States and some users in India, many people said. India is home to over 500 million WhatsApp users and is the largest market for instant messaging services. Mehta confirmed the move in a statement. “Our AI-powered generated experiences are in various stages of development,…

Last year, the social network X, owned by Elon Musk, introduced a feature for paid users to hide checkmarks from others. The company is currently sending a notification to users that this feature will soon be retired. As with many decisions made by X, there is no clear timeline for when the ability to hide the checkmark will be retired. Last week, the company removed a section from its X Premium support page that explained how to hide the checkmark feature before sending notifications to users. This feature was not available to base tier subscribers. “If you are a Premium…

ChatGPT, OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, has received a major upgrade. OpenAI today announced that premium ChatGPT users (customers who pay for ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Enterprise) will receive an updated and enhanced version of GPT-4 Turbo, one of the models that powers the conversational ChatGPT experience. announced that it is now available. This new model (“gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09”), OpenAI claims, brings improvements in writing, mathematics, logical reasoning, and coding, as well as a more up-to-date knowledge base. It was trained on publicly available data through December 2023, in contrast to the previous version of GPT-4 Turbo available on ChatGPT, which ended in…

Hinge Health, a nine-year-old company that provides digital solutions to treat chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, will cut about 10% of its workforce on Thursday, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. It is said that he did. The company said the people who were laid off worked across a variety of jobs. According to an employee posting on LinkedIn, some of them were engineers. Before the layoffs, Hinge had more than 1,700 employees, according to LinkedIn estimates. “As we continue to reimagine musculoskeletal care, we are also committed to building a long-term sustainable business,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. “To accelerate…

The story of warehouse robots is the story of trying to catch up with Amazon. It's been more than a decade since the online giant revolutionized delivery services through his acquisition of Kiva Systems. To stay competitive, Walmart is taking a more gradual approach to automation through partnerships with various robotics companies. On Thursday, the retail giant announced a partnership with Fox Robotics that will bring 19 of the Austin-based startup's robotic forklifts to its distribution centers. Today's news follows a 16-month pilot in which it was revealed that Walmart is trialling the technology at 6020 distribution centers. The Florida…

The US cybersecurity agency CISA has acknowledged that Russian government-backed hackers have stolen emails from multiple US federal agencies as a result of an ongoing cyberattack at Microsoft. The U.S. Cyber ​​Agency said in a statement Thursday that the cyberattack, first disclosed by Microsoft in January, allowed hackers to “successfully compromise Microsoft corporate email accounts” and access federal government email accounts. He said he was able to steal it. The hacker, which Microsoft calls “Midnight Blizzard” (also known as APT29), is widely believed to be working for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). “Midnight Blizzard's compromise of Microsoft corporate email accounts…

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