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Are you willing to hack Chinese websites and take control for random people for up to $100,000 a month? Someone is making that appetizing, strange, and clearly sketchy job offer accurately. The person uses what appears to be a series of fake accounts whose avatars display pictures of attractive women, and slips into the direct message of some cybersecurity experts and researchers in X over the past few weeks. “We are recruiting WebShell engineers and teams to penetrate Chinese websites around the world with a monthly salary of up to $100,000. If you're interested, you can join the channel first.”…

When dating giants like Tinder showcase AI personas for users to flirt, you know that online dating scenes are bad. On Tuesday, the company announced a new game powered by Openai, where users practice interacting with AI bots and flirting, recreating Mart Cute scenarios and receiving scores with suggestions to improve their dating skills. To play Tinder gaming games, tap the Tinder logo in the top left corner of the app. The game offers users a deck of cards, each with a different AI persona and scenario. Users need to respond using their voices and try to flirt their own…

Openai's ChatGpt may be the most popular chatbot app in the world. However, data from Analytics Firms Simorweb and Sensor Tower shows that rival services have won. Chatbot Webアプリを含むWebサイトへのトラフィックを見積もるSimarwebは、GoogleのGeminiやMicrosoftのOpenai駆動のcopilotなどのボット全体で使用された健康的な最近の増加を記録しています。 Gemini's web traffic rose to an average of 10 million visits a day worldwide in March, up 7.4% for the month, while daily visits to Copilot increased to 2.4 million. This has increased by 2.1% since February. Sirsewebは、人類のクロードが3月に1日平均330万人の訪問に達し、中国のAIラボDeepseekのチャットボットがその月に1650万人の訪問をしたと報告しています。 Meanwhile, Xai's Grok, who acquired the web app a few months ago, averaged 106.5 million daily web visits as many as Deepseek's chatbots. 3月下旬に毎週5億人のアクティブユーザーを超えて急増したChatGptと比較して、数字は青白い。 However, David Carr, editor of Sisirweb, said no. He…

Despite Google's intentions for the default image viewing and editing app for Android, the Photos app has become one of the most popular photo backup services for many years. In fact, it was one of the most attractive products for many years, before ceasing to offer unlimited storage in 2020. Tech Giant's strategy changes have left space to grow other photo backup services and showcase their offerings to people. Privacy-focused photo backup services have really become attractive, especially for those who don't want to hand over their lifelong photos to major tech companies. That's where ENTE comes in. The open…

Construct Capital, an early stage venture capital firm investing in startups that apply technology to sectors such as manufacturing, transportation and defense, has shut down its third fund with a $300 million capital commitment. The Washington, D.C.-based company raised a $225 million 2-second fund and a $75 million capital pool for late-term businesses in 2022. While many emerging managers struggle to raise fresh funds, Crustrive's Capital Haul highlights the interest of institutional investors in supporting VCs focused on areas of growth in defense technology, as well as driving forward to increase domestic manufacturing. The company was founded in 2020 by…

Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery platform spun from Google's Deepmind in 2021, raised external capital for the first time. The $600 million round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from GV's parent and existing investor Alphabet. The funding will accelerate further development of Isomorphic's AI drug design engine and support the company's goal of bringing discovered drugs into clinical trials. The isomorphic lab was founded by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis by leveraging DeepMind's software for AI drug discovery, including AI models that predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins. Last year, Isomorphic Labs secured a strategic partnership with Eli…

Retym, a US chipmaker with Israeli roots, has collected a new $75 million Series D, led by James Kuklinski of Spark Capital. Existing investors – Navin Chada of Mayfield and Mamoon Hamid of Kleiner Perkins, also joined in, increasing the total to $180 million. Chipmakers are another startup that will benefit from the brilliance of AI. The chip does not directly handle AI workloads. It is not a NVIDIAGPU competitor. It is working on a new “programmable coherent digital signal processing DSP” chip that allows data centers to communicate faster with both internal and external sources. Data centers needed this…

Tech Giant Oracle faces criticism for how it handles two seemingly different data breaches. It appears that at least one is still unfolding despite Oracle reportedly denying the violation. The other is related to a breach of patient data under Oracle Health, a healthcare subsidiary of Tech Giant. Oracle did not respond to requests for comment on the two TechCrunch cases. Oracle Health Breach affects patient data according to reports This violation involves recently disclosed Oracle Health. OracleHealth provides the technology to hospitals and other healthcare providers with access to their health records online. Oracle Health is a unit combined…

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone manufacturer's suite of AI-powered tools and features, has gained new features. Most notably, the company announced on Monday that priority notifications will be available to Apple device owners. This will allow Apple's AI to highlight the most time-sensitive notifications in a new format. Other updates will arrive on the Image Playground app and on the Mac. Additionally, Apple Intelligence is now available for iPhone and iPad users in the EU, as well as for Apple Vision Pro headsets in US English. With the releases of Apple Software, iOS 18.4, iPados 18.4, and Macos Sequoia 15.4, changes…

Apple announced on Monday that it is launching Visionos 2.4, bringing AI capabilities powered by Apple Intelligence to the Apple Vision Pro. This update also introduces a new spatial experience for the iPhone and the Apple Vision Pro app. Apple Intelligence in Apple Vision Pro gives users access to a writing tool that allows users to rewrite, proofread, and summarise text with the help of AI. Users can also access Image Playground and Genmoji to create images and emojis generated for unique AI. Additionally, users can leverage natural language search in the Photos app to find specific images simply by…