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TikTok ban: These rival apps will compete for users’ attention

Adult U.S. TikTok users spend an average of 54 minutes on the app on any given day, more than Instagram, Snapchat or YouTube, according to research firm eMarketer. If TikTok were to disappear, those platforms — along with younger, smaller emerging rivals — would

French startup bags €2M to make cancer clinical trials more accessible


Paris-based Klineo has raised €2mn for its AI platform that facilitates access to cancer clinical trials. Klineo’s platform connects doctors and patients directly with relevant clinical trials. It provides trial search, contact with medical centres, as

OpenAI to train LLMs on Financial Times content — with permission


The Financial Times (full disclosure — the owners of The Next Web) have inked a deal with OpenAI. The American firm will use the British publisher’s content to train its generative AI models. The deal is the latest in a string of new partnersh

3 reasons the Global AI Safety Summit can’t live up to the hype

Last year, a who’s who of world leaders, corporate executives and academic experts gathered at Britain’s Bletchley Park for the world’s first global AI Safety Summit, hoping to reach consensus on the regulation of a technology some warned posed a threat to humanity.

Tesla mogul Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rubbed shoulders with some of their

4 reasons why Tesla’s Full Self-Driving rollout in China matters

Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit, where he was expected to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving (FSD) software and permission to transfer data overseas, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Chinese state media repo

New UK cybersecurity law will make weak passwords a thing of the past


Under the UK’s new cybersecurity law, consumer smart devices can no longer allow the use of weak, easy-to-guess passwords, such as “admin” or “12345.” This is part of a set of minimum-security standards the UK is requiring to protect consumers from hacking a

7 tools to help block tech distractions

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here.

Instead of blaming yourself for getting distracted, pick one of the seven approaches to strengthen your focus.

Pause your email

Polestar unveils ‘world’s first’ 10-minute charge EV prototype


Polestar has successfully charged its upcoming EV model in just 10 minutes.    The Swedish car maker achieved the feat using a “silicon-dominant” battery built by Israeli startup StoreDot.  Polestar installed the battery in a fully drivable prototype of its Polestar 5

Politically motivated cyber attacks are on the rise, putting our elections at risk

More than 7 million distributed-denial-of service (DDoS) attacks were launched in the last six months of 2023—and an increasing number of them are politically motivated, a new new analysis finds.

The cybersecurity defense services provider NETSCOUT tracked the sectors in which victims worked, and the time at which they were attacked. It found that DDoS attacks rose 15% in the second half of 2023 compared to the first half. Many

25 WordPress Alternatives Best For SEO via @sejournal, @lorenbaker

Take a look at 25 SEO-friendly WordPress alternatives separated by primary functionality, so you can make the best choice for your needs.

The post 25 WordPress Alternatives Best For SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/best-seo-wordpress-alternatives/408022/

Transcribe anything for free with this privacy-respecting AI tool

There are so many fascinating AI tools out there these days. But most of them rely on a far-off powerful server to do all the hard work. It’s no surprise they frequently require accounts and subscriptions to pay the bills.

Today’s Cool Tool is exactly the opposite: an AI tool that runs completely on a web page in your browser. It’s useful, too. There’s no account needed, and your data doesn’t leave your own device—so you don’t have to wo

Pokročilá umělá synapse funguje v solném roztoku. Úplně jako živá

Iontronický memristor je umělá synapse o velikosti 150 krát 200 mikrometrů, která napodobuje prostředí, v němž probíhají kouzla nervové soustavy, tedy v podstatě solný roztok. Tento typ synpase by mohla využít slibně se rozvíjející neuromorfní iontronika, která sází právě na fyziologický rozměr biomimetických výpočetních systémů. http://www.osel.cz/13452-pokrocila-umela-synapse-funguje-v-solnem-roztoku-uplne-jako-ziva.html

9d | osel.cz
Banning TikTok just puts a Band-Aid over social media’s problems

When President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that it plans to

AI is about to make app subscription fatigue even worse

If you hate dealing with opaque and costly app subscriptions, I’ve got bad news for you: the situation is about to get even worse—and you can blame artificial intelligence for that.

App subscriptions have been a part of the app economy since Google first allowed developers to offer them in the Play Store in 2011. (Apple followed suit in its App Store five years later.)

They serve a purpose. By charging users a monthly or yearly fee to use their app, instead of selling the

Claros is your AI personal recommendation wizard

Tell me if you can relate to this: The time comes for you to buy something new. Maybe it’s something big and expensive, like a refrigerator. Or maybe it’s something small and insignificant, like a spatula.

Either way, you suddenly feel a sense of anxiety—a need to know: What is the ~best~ possible option I can buy within my budget range? And thus begins the endless rabbit hole of online research.

‘Twas a time when you m

22 Places You Should Be Sharing Your Content via @sejournal, @_kevinrowe

Struggling with content sharing? Get expert tips on where you should be sharing your content to increase traffic and engagement.

The post 22 Places You Should Be Sharing Your Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/content-marketing/places-to-share/

Why TikTok’s technology is special

The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the U.S. ordered its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app’s U.S. assets or face a nationwide ban.

Here is how it works and why it has attracted m

Study shows ‘benevolent sexism’ in startups widens the gender gap


Our understanding of the challenges women face in the startup ecosystem is limited. Past research has focused on overt negative sexist attitudes that question women’s competence and suitability for entrepreneurship. This view overlooks the existence of more sub

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Be careful where you upload files: Cybersecurity researchers highlight a new ransomware threat to browsers

You probably know better than to click on links that download unknown files onto your computer. It turns out that uploading files can get you into ransomware trouble, too.

Today’s web browsers are much more powerful than earlier generations of browsers. They’re able to manipulate data within both the browser and the computer’s local file system. Users can send and receive email, listen to music or watch a movie within a browse

Astronomové našli nové důkazy pro existenci Devítky

Počítačové simulace chování těles Sluneční soustavy s dlouhou oběžnou periodou, které kříží oběžnou dráhu Neptunu a jejich pohyb vykazuje nepravidelnosti, ukazují na přítomnost velké planety, tedy „Devítky,“ na periferii Sluneční soustavy. Na přímý důkaz její existence si ale ještě musíme počkat. http://www.osel.cz/13451-astronomove-nasli-nove-dukazy-pro-existenci-devitky.html

10d | osel.cz
This week in Dutch tech


Hallo, Netherlands! Welcome to TNW’s first weekly round-up of tech news from our glorious home country. As we count down to TNW conference in Amsterdam on June 20 and 21, we’re ramping up our coverage of the Dutch IT sector. We’d also love to he

10d | The Next Web
Why Lithuania is a hidden gem of Europe’s startup ecosystem


In 2022, over 20,000 Lithuanians returned to their country of birth from abroad. A high quality of life coupled with a booming entrepreneurial ecosystem and a collaborative mentality has contributed to what investors are calling a “reverse brain drain.

10d | The Next Web
Google’s dividend upstages its cloud battle with Microsoft

This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission.

Thursday evening’s earnings headlines contained a giant curve ball: Alphabet’s Google announced its first-ever quarterly dividend, twenty cents a share, and also added to its share buyback program another seventy

DeepL launches AI writing assistant for businesses trained on its own LLM


DeepL, which has been rivalling machine translation giants such as Google Translate and Microsoft Translator, has launched an AI writing assistant tailored for businesses. Dubbed DeepL Write Pro, the product acts as a creative assistant for use during the dr

10d | The Next Web
Tech earnings week turns around after Google, Microsoft, and Snap delight Wall Street

Until late yesterday, major tech stocks were having a pretty rough few weeks. But thanks to premarket surges this morning from Google, Microsoft, and Snap, the final week of April could be a very good one for select tech giants. Here’s what to know:

Netflix changes the rules

The tech earnings period kick-started last week in earnest with streamer Netflix reporting its Q1 2024 results, which saw the company

AI deepfakes framed this Maryland school principal for being racist

A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said Thursday.

Authorities said the case appears to

AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable

Meta has flooded its social media platforms with artificial intelligence. Soon enough, Meta AI will be everywhere: In your Facebook news feed, Instagram search bar, and even your conversations with friends on Messenger. The company’s Llama 3 large language model is also perhaps the most powerful open-source model on the market (though its

What Is Personal Branding? Here’s Why It’s So Important via @sejournal, @AdamHeitzman

In this post, we’ll explore the ins and outs of personal branding and walk you through the fundamentals of building your own personal brand.

The post What Is Personal Branding? Here’s Why It’s So Important appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/what-is-personal-branding-her

Darktrace agrees £4.3B sale to US investor in blow to UK stock market


British cybersecurity flag bearer Darktrace is set to leave London’s stock market after agreeing a £4.3bn sale to US private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Shareholders will have to approve the takeover before it’s rubber-stamped. The chair of Darktrace, Gordon Hur

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Vision Pro sales are really tanking, new supply chain data shows

Earlier this month I started looking into whether anyone was buying the Apple Vision Pro after I noticed that social media discourse about Apple’s spatial computer seemed to have all but disappeared within weeks of its launch. To me, this suggested that Apple’s first major new product in years wowed a lot of people in the tech world, as expected, but then failed to generate interest from

Apple’s Swift Student Challenge honors student coders for concept apps

Software engineers will soon descend on Cupertino to hear about potential updates to Apple’s operating systems and developer tools, get advice from company experts, and mingle with others working to build apps for Apple’s platforms.

The company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off June 10, showcasing advances in the company’s technology. Last year’s event saw the first public appearance o

Why IBM’s dazzling Watson supercomputer was a lousy tutor

In the annals of artificial intelligence, Feb. 16, 2011, was a watershed moment.

That day, IBM’s Watson supercomputer finished off a three-game shellacking of Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Trailing by over $30,000, Jennings, now the show’s host, wrote out his Final Jeopardy answer in mock resignation: “I, for one, welcome our computer overlords.”

A lark to some, the experience galvanized Satya Nitta, a longtime computer researcher at IBM’s Wat

To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money


Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtai

11d | The Next Web
Ring customers can expect a payment from the FTC, thanks to a video privacy settlement

The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access.

In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its

Supporting the world’s most-used database engine through 2050

Dr. Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite, shares how he taught himself to program, the challenges he faced in creating SQLite, and the importance of testing and maintaining the software for long-term support. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/26/supporting-the-world-s-most-used-database-engine-through-2050/

The FCC votes to reinstate net neutrality rules, reversing Trump

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 on Thursday to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and reassume regulatory oversight of broadband internet rescinded under former President Donald Trump.

The commission voted along party lines to finalize a proposal first advanced in October to reinstate open internet rules adopted in 2015 and reestabli

Alphabet and Microsoft earnings show AI is still Wall Street gold

After Meta’s stock meltdown late Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, the tech sector is roaring back in after-hours trading on the strength of strong earnings reports from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Snap.

Snap shares were up more than 30% after its earnings release and Alphabet was up 13%. Microsoft shares, meanwhile, jumped 5.5%.

There were numerous reasons for the surges. Alphabet announc

Google’s New Infini-Attention And SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google's Infini-attention is a plug and play technology that can be added to existing models, including core algorithm systems

The post Google’s New Infini-Attention And SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-infini-attention/514869/

Rekordní výsledky ve výzkumu jaderné fúze

V uplynulých dvou letech zažil výzkum jaderné fúze dva významné úspěchy: překročení vědeckého vyrovnání v americkém laserovém zařízení NIF a uvolnění rekordního množství fúzní energie v tokamaku JET. Nedávno byly publikovány zajímavé detailní údaje z hlavních experimentů v roce 2022 (NIF) a v roce 2023 (JET). http://www.osel.cz/13450-rekordni-vysledky-ve-vyzkumu-jaderne-fuze.html

11d | osel.cz
Cyberattacks on Poland surged after election of pro-Ukraine government, NetScout says


Cyber attackers battered Poland after the country’s change of government late last year. DDoS attacks at the end of 2023 were nearly quadruple the country’s average, according to cybersecurity firm NetScout’s observations. The surge began when the Law and Just

11d | The Next Web
The EU just showed us another way of reining in TikTok

You probably saw the news that TikTok’s time could be up in the U.S., with a nine-month countdown triggered by the signature of a bill that would require TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to divest the app by Joe Biden. But while the U.S. TikTok ban could likely be batted down in court, an equally consequential decision has hit the app in Europe.

On Monday, the European Unio