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Meta finally starts rolling out default end-to-end encryption for Messenger
After years of promises and limited tests, Meta has started rolling out default end-to-end encryption protection for Messenger. In an announcement, Mark Zuckerberg...
India’s Paytm curbing low-value personal loans spells bad news for the industry
Indian financial services firm Paytm sent shockwaves through the industry on Wednesday after it disclosed that it plans to issue fewer personal loans...
Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads
Vast Data, to make an obvious pun, is raising vast sums of cash.
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Bitcoin’s rapid-fire ascent to $44,000 comes on the back of roughly 25% gains in the last week. The grandfather of all cryptocurrencies has...
Commercial companies to collaborate for DARPA’s new lunar economy study
Establishing commercial markets on the moon is going to require thinking a little differently.
That’s DARPA’s hunch, anyway. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)...
Your mobile password manager might be exposing your credentials
A number of popular mobile password managers are inadvertently spilling user credentials due to a vulnerability in the autofill functionality of Android apps.
The...
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Respeecher’s ethics-first approach to AI voice cloning locks in new funding
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