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AKEDO Raises $5 Million Seed Round to Build an AI-Native Content Creation Engine 

Today at 07:28 AM, via Tech Financials

Hongkong (PinionNewswire) — AKEDO today announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding to accelerate development of its AI-native Content Creation Engine and Launchpad, designed to dramatically improve game and content development efficiency through coordinated AI agents. The seed round was led by Karatage, with participation from leading investors across gaming, AI, and crypto, […]

MTN between a rock and a hard place

Today at 07:04 AM, via MyBroadband

Regardless of whether anti-government protests in Iran lead to regime change or not, MTN risks reputational and financial damage because of its subsidiary in the country.

Digitap ($TAP) To Hit $12 By Mid-2026 & BTC to Hit $150K: Why $TAP is the Best Crypto To Buy This Year

Today at 07:01 AM, via Tech Financials

The crypto market appears ready for a strong 2026. Multiple analysts now predict Bitcoin could reach $150,000 before the year ends. This type of price action typically creates opportunities across the broader market.  Payment tokens with real utility tend to perform well during these cycles, and Digitap ($TAP) has caught attention as a potential outperformer […]

How Much Do AI Models Resemble a Brain?

Today at 04:34 AM, via Slashdot

At the AI safety site Foom, science journalist Mordechai Rorvig explores a paper presented at November’s Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference:[R]esearchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Georgia Tech revisited earlier findings that showed that language models, the engines of commercial AI chatbots,...

2026’s Breakthrough Technologies? MIT Technology Review Chooses Sodium-ion Batteries, Commercial Space Stations

Today at 01:41 AM, via Slashdot

As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes “educated guesses” on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances “we think will drive progress or incite the most change — for better or worse — in the years ahead.” This year’s list includes next-gen nuclear, gene-editing drugs (as well as the “resurrection” of ancient genes from extinct creatures), and three AI-related...

Predator Spyware Turns Failed Attacks Into Intelligence For Future Exploits

Today at 00:41 AM, via Slashdot

In December 2024 the Google Threat Intelligence Group published research on the code of the commercial spyware “Predator”. But there’s now been new research by Jamf (the company behind a mobile device management solution) showing Predator is more dangerous and sophisticated than we realized, according to SecurityWeek. Long-time Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: The new research reveals an...

To Pressure Security Professionals, Mandiant Releases Database That Cracks Weak NTLM Passwords in 12 Hours

Yesterday at 23:41 PM, via Slashdot

Ars Technica reports:Security firm Mandiant [part of Google Cloud] has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the deprecated function despite known weaknesses…. a precomputed table of hash values linked to their corresponding plaintext. These generic tables, which...

Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction

Yesterday at 22:41 PM, via Slashdot

Friday a federal judge “cleared U.S. power company Dominion Energy to resume work on its Virginia offshore wind project.” But a U.S. federal judge also ruled Thursday that another major offshore wind farm is allowed to resume construction, reports the Hill. “The project, which would supply power to New York, was one of five that were halted by the Trump administration in December….” In fact,...

Dozens of US Colleges Close as Falling Birth Rate Pushes Them Off Enrollment Cliff

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

A new article from Bloomberg says dozens of America’s colleges “succumbed to a fundamental problem killing colleges across the US: not enough students. The schools will award their final degrees this spring, stranding students not yet ready to graduate and forcing faculty and staff to hunt for new jobs.”The country’s tumbling birth rate is pushing schools toward a “demographic cliff,” where a...

NASA Livestreams the Rocket That Will Carry Four Astronauts Around the Moon

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

“A mega rocket set to take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in decades is being taken to its launch pad,” the BBC reported this morning. NASA is livestreaming their move of the 11-million-pound “stack” — which includes the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft secured to it, all standing on its Mobile Launch Platform. Travelling at less than 1 mile...

What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

A couple months ago, YouTuber Benn Jordan “found vulnerabilities in some of Flock’s license plate reader cameras,” reports 404 Media’s Jason Koebler. “He reached out to me to tell me he had learned that some of Flock’s Condor cameras were left live-streaming to the open internet.” This led to a remarkable article where Koebler confirmed the breach by visiting a Flock surveillance camera mounted...

T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

After “a decade of deep focus on embedded and server systems,” T2 SDE Linux “is back to the Desktop,” according to its web site, calling the new “T2 Desktop” flavour “ready for everyday home and office use!”Built on the latest KDE Plasma, systemd, and Wayland, the new T2 Desktop flavour delivers a modern, clean, and performant experience while retaining the project’s trademark portability and...

As US Officials Showed Off a Self-Driving Robo-Bus – It Got Hit By a Tesla Driver

Yesterday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. One of those trips was interrupted Sunday when the bus got rear-ended. The bus, produced by...

Afrikaans Uber cutting salaries as part of major shake-up

Yesterday at 16:01 PM, via MyBroadband

Wanatu has recently made significant changes to its operating model to ensure long-term sustainability, including reducing drivers’ basic salaries while introducing an incentive system with potential extra earnings for good performance.

Nearly 5 Million Accounts Removed Under Australia’s New Social Media Ban

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Nearly five million social media accounts belonging to Australian teenagers have been deactivated or removed, a month after a landmark law barring those younger than 16 from using the services took effect, the government said on Thursday. The announcement was the first reported metric reflecting the rollout of the law, which is being...

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