Month: February 2023
Twitter Outages Are on the Rise Amid Elon Musk’s Job Cuts
Elon Musk’s repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that there aren’t enough people to triage Twitter’s problems.
Elon Musk’s repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that there aren’t enough people to triage Twitter’s problems.
Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Ventura 13.3 to Developers
Apple today seeded the second beta of macOS Ventura 13.3 to developers for testing purposes, with the new software update coming two weeks after the release of the first macOS 13.3 beta.
Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, with the betas available through the Software Update mechanism in System Settings.
macOS Ventura 13.3 adopts the same new emoji characters that are in iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4, including pink heart, light blue heart, left and right hand, moose, black bird, goose, wing, jellyfish, pea pod, finger, and more.
The update adds the new HomeKit architecture that was initially removed from iOS 16.2 and its sister updates, and the revised version should have fewer bugs that affect HomeKit setups.
macOS Ventura 13.3 will go through multiple rounds of beta testing, with Apple planning to release it in the spring.Related Roundup: macOS Ventura
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Apple today seeded the second beta of macOS Ventura 13.3 to developers for testing purposes, with the new software update coming two weeks after the release of the first macOS 13.3 beta.
Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, with the betas available through the Software Update mechanism in System Settings.
macOS Ventura 13.3 adopts the same new emoji characters that are in iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4, including pink heart, light blue heart, left and right hand, moose, black bird, goose, wing, jellyfish, pea pod, finger, and more.
The update adds the new HomeKit architecture that was initially removed from iOS 16.2 and its sister updates, and the revised version should have fewer bugs that affect HomeKit setups.
macOS Ventura 13.3 will go through multiple rounds of beta testing, with Apple planning to release it in the spring.
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The US Marshals have been hit by a major ransomware attack
A “stand-alone USMS system” was affected, the department confirms, with employee data accessed.
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), a sector within the Department of Justice, has been hit with what it describes as a “major” ransomware attack, in which sensitive employee data might have been taken.
Department spokesperson Drew Wade confirmed the incident, which he said took place on February 17, was a “ransomware and data exfiltration event affecting a stand-alone USMS system”.
That system has since been disconnected from the wider USMS network, while the organization investigates the aftermath. Apparently, employee data was taken, together with sensitive data on the department’s work.
Unknown threat actors
“The affected system contains law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, administrative information, and personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of USMS investigations, third parties, and certain USMS employees,” Wade said.
BleepingComputer reported that sources “close to the incident” confirmed the attackers did not access the department’s Witness Security Files Information System – the witness protection database.
As the investigation continues, other details are scarce. At this moment, it is unknown which group is behind the attack, how much money they’re demanding in exchange for the decryption key, or how they managed to infiltrate the USMS systems.
What we do know is that this isn’t USMS’ first cyber-incident. Back in 2020, BleepingComputer reminds, the department exposed the details of more than 380,000 former and current inmates, including their names, birthdays, postal addresses, and Social Security numbers.
In the incident, the attackers managed to breach one of USMS’ public-facing servers called DSNet. These servers were handling the housing and movement of prisoners, the report said.
Law enforcement organizations in the States are often in the crosshairs of malware operators. Just a week ago, it was reported that the FBI suffered a cyberattack in which a New York Field Office computer system, used by the FBI to investigate cases of child sexual exploitation, was compromised.
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Via: BleepingComputer
Best Smart Speakers for 2023: Alexa, Google and More – CNET
Smart speakers are a great addition to any room. Here are the ones we’d recommend most.
Smart speakers are a great addition to any room. Here are the ones we’d recommend most.
Typeface emerges from stealth with $65M to bring generative AI to the enterprise
Typeface, a startup developing an AI-powered dashboard for drafting marketing copy and images, emerged from stealth this week with $65 million in venture equity backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV (Google Ventures), M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) and Menlo Ventures. Founded by former Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis, Typeface attempts to combine generative AI with a brand’s
Typeface emerges from stealth with $65M to bring generative AI to the enterprise by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Typeface, a startup developing an AI-powered dashboard for drafting marketing copy and images, emerged from stealth this week with $65 million in venture equity backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV (Google Ventures), M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) and Menlo Ventures.
Founded by former Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis, Typeface attempts to combine generative AI with a brand’s tone, audiences and workflows to — as Parasnis rather aspirationally puts it — “reimagine” content workflows and corporate content development.
“We provide a generative AI application that empowers businesses to develop personalized content,” Parasnis said. “CEOs, CMOs, heads of digital, and VPs and directors of creative are all expressing a growing demand for combining generative AI platforms with hyper-affinitized AI content to enhance the future of content workflows.”
Using Typeface, customers can type in a command like “Write a fun blog post about apple juice” to have the platform execute it, writing a several-paragraph draft piece complete with images. The tone of any images and copy can be customized to target certain demographics, or to align with a brand’s style guidelines.
Certainly, there’s a strong desire among the enterprise to leverage generative AI for advertising use cases.
Over the past few months, agencies contracted by Heinz, Nestlé, Bacardi-owned Martini & Rossi and Patrón have launched ad campaigns using imagery created by text-to-image systems such as OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. Just last week, Coca-Cola inked a deal with OpenAI to leverage the company’s text-writing ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to craft ad copy, images and personalized messaging.
Image Credits: Typeface
There’s a growing industry, in fact, of generative AI startups focused on marketing- and ad-specific applications. Startups like Movio, Copysmith, Copy.ai, Sellscale, Jasper, Omneky and Regie.ai are using generative AI to create (ostensibly) better marketing copy, imagery and even video for ads, websites and emails.
Uptake has been swift. Statista reports that 87% of current AI adopters are already using, or considering using, AI for improving their email marketing. Another report projects that the market for generative AI will be worth over $110 billion by 2030.
But with the increasing competition, beyond early winners like OpenAI, it’s not clear which startups will come to stand above the rest in terms of market traction. Parasnis asserts that Typeface has a fighting chance, owing chiefly to its platform’s safety and governance capabilities as well as its ability to incorporate “brand-specific” visual assets.
Safety is particularly important from a brand perspective where it concerns generative AI. Even the best text-generating AI today have been shown to make up facts and spout toxic content, content filters or no. Image-generating AI, meanwhile, has come under scrutiny for copying elements of the art and photos in its training data without necessarily attributing them. Getty Images among others have sued prominent creators of generative AI image systems for allegedly infringing on their intellectual property.
Typeface isn’t the only platform doing this. But it does have some traction — Parasnis says that the company has customers in industries including marketing, advertising, sales, HR and customer support. One client, Sequoia Benefits Group, is using Typeface to create copy and imagery for marketing and HR teams.
“As we emerge from stealth, we are excited to see strong early interest and engagement from a diverse range of mid-large enterprises,” Parasnis continued. “This level of customer response underscores the rapid market growth and highlights the appeal of our unique enterprise-minded vision for micro-personalized, secure content for teams.”
Typeface emerges from stealth with $65M to bring generative AI to the enterprise by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Disney Plus ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Trailer Reveals Jude Law as Captain Hook – CNET
The live action reimagining looks magical, and scary.
The live action reimagining looks magical, and scary.
Apple Seeds Second Beta of tvOS 16.4 to Developers
Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming tvOS 16.4 update to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming two weeks after the launch of the first tvOS 16.4 beta.
Registered developers are able to download the tvOS 16.4 update by downloading a profile on the Apple TV using Xcode.
tvOS updates are usually minor, focusing on internal bug fixes and improvements rather than notable outward-facing changes. There is no word as of yet what’s included in the tvOS 16.4 update, but we’ll update this article if we find anything new.
Apple shares some information on tvOS releases in its tvOS support document, which is updated after each tvOS launch.
Though we don’t often know what’s new in tvOS during the beta testing process, we let MacRumors readers know when new updates are available so those who are developers can download it upon release.Related Roundup: Apple TV
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Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming tvOS 16.4 update to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming two weeks after the launch of the first tvOS 16.4 beta.
Registered developers are able to download the tvOS 16.4 update by downloading a profile on the Apple TV using Xcode.
tvOS updates are usually minor, focusing on internal bug fixes and improvements rather than notable outward-facing changes. There is no word as of yet what’s included in the tvOS 16.4 update, but we’ll update this article if we find anything new.
Apple shares some information on tvOS releases in its tvOS support document, which is updated after each tvOS launch.
Though we don’t often know what’s new in tvOS during the beta testing process, we let MacRumors readers know when new updates are available so those who are developers can download it upon release.
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