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USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation
The Smishing Triad network sends out up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities.
Thursday, the dating app that you can use only on Thursdays, expands to San Francisco
Thursday seeks to shake up conventional online dating in a crowded market. The app, which recently expanded to San Francisco, fosters intentional dating by restricting user access to Thursdays. At midnight, all matches disappear. The idea is that by restricting usage to one day a week, […]
Nazara acquires Fusebox Games for $27.2M
Nazara Technologies, a publicly traded gaming and sports media company in India, has acquired Fusebox Games in the U.K. for $27.2 million.
‘Force of nature’ genomicist builds world-class center for Africans to help Africa
With vision and a big personality, Christian Happi offers a model of postcolonial genomics in Nigeria
LG unleashes South Korea’s first open-source AI, challenging global tech giants
LG launches Exaone 3.0, South Korea’s first open-source AI model, challenging global tech giants and reshaping the AI landscape with improved efficiency and multilingual capabilities.
Anthropic offers $15,000 bounties to hackers in push for AI safety
Anthropic launches expanded AI bug bounty program, offering up to $15,000 for critical vulnerabilities in its AI systems, setting new standards for AI safety and transparency.
Thirdverse appoints Masaru Ohnogi as CEO to drive VR games forward
Thirdverse, one of Japan’s prolific virtual reality game companies, has appointed Masaru “Nogi” Ohnogi as CEO. Ohnogi will become a representative director and CEO of the company on August 8 under a new management structure to strengthen its overseas growth strategy. Under this new structure, […]
Bitkraft invests in Gam3Girl Ventures to help Web2 devs move to Web3
Bitkraft announced it has invested in Gam3Girl Ventures as part of the latter’s mission to bring more Web2 devs into the Web3 space.
Bilingual dictation assistant Silvia understands ‘Spanglish’ and other language mixtures
Natural language AI assistants tend to be excellent English speakers, and passable in other tongues — but if you are one of the millions who fluidly switch between two languages on the fly, they’re stumped. A new AI helper called Silvia, however, understands “Spanglish” just […]