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Meta fined €390M in Ireland over behavioral ad practices
Ireland’s privacy regulator has issued a fine of €390 million, or about $414 million, to Meta Platforms Inc. over the way the company collects user data for advertising purposes. The Data Protection Commission announced the fine today. Additionally, the DPC ruled that Meta must bring its advertising practices into compliance with privacy rules within three ...
Salesforce and Vimeo announce job cuts
Salesforce Inc. and Vimeo Inc. today both announced job cuts that will affect about a 1oth of their respective workforces. The companies’ restructuring initiatives follow a broader wave of layoffs in the technology sector. According to recently released research from Layoffs.fyi, about 153,160 tech workers were affected by job cuts in 2022. An estimated 1,172 ...
Report: Microsoft will add a ChatGPT-powered search feature to Bing
Microsoft Corp. reportedly plans to equip Bing with a new search feature powered by OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence system. The Information reported the development late Tuesday, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered search feature is expected to launch before the end of March. The feature will reportedly provide natural language answers ...
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to criminal charges
FTX Trading Ltd. founder Sam Bankman-Fried today pleaded not guilty to eight criminal charges brought against him by federal prosecutors in New York. Bankman-Fried is accused of committing fraud, money laundering and campaign finance violations. If convicted, he could reportedly face up to 115 years in prison. Two Bankman-Fried associates, FTX co-founder Gary Wang and ...
Nvidia debuts speedy RTX 40 graphics cards for laptops
Nvidia Corp. today debuted new graphics processing units for laptops that it says are four times faster than its previous-generation silicon. The GPUs are available as part of the company’s GeForce RTX 40 consumer chip series, which also includes its latest desktop graphics cards. Both the laptop and desktop GPUs in the RTX 40 series ...
Intel debuts new laptop processors with up to 24 cores
Intel Corp. today introduced a new series of laptop processors headlined by a 24-core chip that it describes as the fastest of its kind on the market. The 13th Gen Intel Core processor series, which is also known as Raptor Lake, includes more than two dozen central processing units. Some are designed for high-end laptops ...
Shopify introduces new Commerce Components toolkit for enterprises
Shopify Inc. today introduced a new software toolkit, Commerce Components by Shopify, that promises to help enterprises more easily build online stores. NYSE-listed Shopify provides a cloud platform that businesses use to develop and host e-commerce websites. According to the company, its platform has processed more than $475 billion worth of transactions for millions of ...
PyTorch machine learning framework targeted by cyberattack
A hacker has tricked some users of the PyTorch machine learning framework into downloading malware, BleepingComputer reported on Sunday. PyTorch is a popular open-source tool for developing artificial intelligence models. Developers use the tool to create new neural networks, train them and perform related tasks. PyTorch was originally released by Meta Platforms Inc. in 2016 ...
Samsung expands display portfolio with four new devices
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today previewed four new displays that it plans to debut at this week’s CES 2023 consumer electronics event in Las Vegas. One of the new displays features a stand that allows it to tilt 90 degrees. Another targets creative professionals, while the two remaining monitors are optimized for video games. Tilting ...
Google settles DC and Indiana location data lawsuits for $29.5M
Google LLC will pay $29.5 million to settle two lawsuits brought by the attorneys general of Washington, D.C., and Indiana over its location tracking practices. The settlement was announced on Friday. Washington, D.C., and Indiana had filed suit against Google following a 2018 Associated Press report about the company’s location tracking practices. The report focused on ...