Named for the winged horse of Greek mythology and often sent by text message, Pegasus can burrow into your phone without your knowledge or even your click, hiding for days or weeks inside, surreptitiously recording everything—messages, photos, encrypted chats, and video and audio—in real-time. Exactly where your data is going often remains a mystery, lost in a tangle of servers. But the deadly impacts of Pegasus and other cyberweapons—wielded by governments from Spain to
Yesterday, Nvidia Corporation announced its Q4 results, which saw a staggering 265% increase from the same quarter a year earlier. The blowout quarter was once again driven by a demand for the company’s chips, which power, among other things, many of the AI technologies used today—like the servers that run ChatGPT.
In the wake of its earnings, Nvidia Corporation shares (ticker: NVDA) are up over 14.5% in premarket trading to $773, as of the time of this writing. But in
Electric vehicle makers are having a bad week. First up is Lucid Group, which announced Q4 2023 results yesterday. While the company produced and delivered 37% more vehicles in 2023 than it did in 2022, its 2024 outlook was pretty grim news to investors.
Lucid said its production guidance for 2024 was only 9,000 vehicles, suggesting the company is struggling to find buyers for its EVs. As TechCrunch notes, that’s just 10% of the 90,000 EVs the company predicted when it went p
It’s been less than a month since Amazon Prime began charging subscribers an additional $2.99 a month to continue perusing its video library without ads—a pricing tactic that feels to some suspiciously like extortion. Anyone hoping the pronounced backlash to this initiative might be enough to convince Amazon to walk it back, however, is about to be disappointed.
According to an Adweek report, Amazon is planning to sunset Freevee, its preexisting ad-supported app, as so
Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre has been pushed out of the top spot. Cofounder Greg Solano, commonly referred to by the moniker Gargamel (or Garga), has taken back control of the company known for stewarding NFT collections including the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Cryptopunks.
“I am stepping back in as CEO of Yuga Labs,” Solano wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “Wylie [Aronow, Yuga Labs co-founder] and I are grateful for all the contributions and operational rigor Daniel
Nvidia, on Wednesday, posted record Q4 revenue of $22 billion, boasting a 265% increase from the same quarter the prior year and earnings that blew past expectations. Yet, in the immediate aftermath of those earnings, the stock fell 3% in the after-hours market.
That dip didn’t last, it’s worth noting. And it’s less a commentary on Nvidia’s earnings and more one about the extraordinarily high expectations investors have for the artificial intelligence mar
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Google revives its open-source game with Gemma models
Google announced today a set of new large language models, collectively called “Gemma,” and a return to the practice of releasing new research into the open-source ecosystem. The new models w
Reddit is seemingly leaning further into its community of users as it closes in on its public offering. The Wall Street Journal reports that the social media site plans to reserve an undetermined number of its IPO shares for its most active users when it IPOs next month. While the number is not yet set, the Journal said it is “a big chunk” of the offering.
Some 75,000 power-users of the site will reportedly be able to buy shares at the IPO price, a privilege thatȁ
Ask Google’s generative AI tool Gemini to create images of American revolutionary war soldiers and it might present you with a Black woman, an Asian man and a Native American woman wearing George Washington’s bluecoats.
That diversity has gotten some people, including Frank J. Fleming, a former computer engineer and writer for the Babylon Bee, really mad. Fleming has tweeted a series of his increasingly frustrated interactions with Google as he tries to get it to portr
If your mental picture of Montana includes snow-capped mountain peaks, a small town with a river running through it, or vast stretches of ranch land, you’ll find them all in Dillon, a small ranching community about 115 miles southwest of Bozeman. What may surprise here is a sprawling Patagonia store, one of only six outlets for the clothing company. The location is perhaps more fitting than meets the eye: Yvon Chouinard started Patagonia by making pitons for rock climbing from an old h