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DuckDuckGo On Thursday, DuckDuckGo unveiled a new “AI Chat” service that allows users to converse with four mid-range large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral in an interface similar to ChatGPT while attempting to preserve privacy and…

SpaceX has completed a mostly successful fourth test of its revolutionary new Starship rocket, a key step toward returning humans to the Moon and, maybe one day, landing on Mars. The flight, integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4), lifted off today…

Niantic’s AR skating sim Skatrix Pro for Apple Vision Pro that adds room-scale mixed reality gameplay, among other features. This means that the little skater boi avatar is free to roam the living room, doing gnarly tricks on your furniture.…

What you need to know Google states it will start “gradually rolling out” 911 texting capabilities through RCS on Android later “this winter.” Users can soon text 911 emergency services and see when they begin responding while also sending images…

Jun 06, 2024NewsroomBotnet / DDoS Attack The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Muhstik has been observed leveraging a now-patched security flaw impacting Apache RocketMQ to co-opt susceptible servers and expand its scale. “Muhstik is a well-known threat targeting IoT…

Robinhood Markets, Inc. — a popular trading platform — announced on Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp Ltd. The acquisition, expected to close in the first half of 2025 subject to regulatory approvals…

Google today is issuing new guidance for developers building AI apps distributed through Google Play, in hopes of cutting down on inappropriate and otherwise prohibited content. The company says apps offering AI features will have to prevent the generation of…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. If there’s one thing doctors agree on, it’s that all of their pregnant patients should take prenatal supplements. As a result, about 3…

Microsoft is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over its deal with Inflection AI, according to The Wall Street Journal. Back in March, the company hired almost all of Inflection AI’s employees, including founders Karén Simonyan and Mustafa Suleyman,…

Making the successful transition to green energy is dependent on rare earth elements (REEs), which are needed to make essential components in things like hybrid and electric vehicles and wind turbines. Despite their name, these elements aren’t actually rare. The…