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SHANGHAI: Chinese search giant Baidu Inc will set up a venture capital fund of 1 billion yuan ($145 million ) to back start-ups focused on content generated by artificial intelligence applications, it said on Wednesday. The company will also launch a com Pet ition for developers to build applications off its ERNIE large language model (LLM) or integrate the model into their existing products, it added. Chinese tech companies have raced to release their own LLMs following the dramatic success of ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot released by Microsft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI. Almost 80 organisations in China have  launch ed their own LLMs since 2020, with releases this year slightly exceeding those of the United States, a report showed this week. In March, Baidu unveiled Ernie Bot, its own AI-powered LLM. E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd was among the other Chinese companies that followed quickly. In response to the surge of LLMs, China published draft regulations in Apr

Xiaomi Corp's Indian arm will start making wireless audio products in the country through a partnership with electronics manufacturer Optiemus in a push to further localise its operations, the company said on Monday. Xiaomi India will make its first local audio gadget at Optiemus Electronics' factory in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, the company said in a statement, reiterating that it was targeting a 50% increase in the product ion of components locally sourced by 2025. The push comes as the manufacturer of the Redmi brand of smartphones recently lost out to South Korean rival Samsung as India's top smartphones company. The company did not say what kind of audio product it will make in the Indian factory, but it is "committed to forging more such collaborations for a wider range of categories, across our product line-up." Xiaomi, which locally manufactures most of the smartphones and TVs it sells in India, did not say when it will start making the aud

Photos on the phone often take up a lot of storage. There is usually no other option but to delete or transfer them to an online space. If the latter is the option, then Google Photos is a common choice. Google Photos helps you store memories without the fear of losing them or occupying the phone's memory. Here are four tips to elevate your Google Photos experience ; 1. Compress photo size to maximize free Google Drive storage Some photos take up a lot of space due to their image size. To avoid that, you can compress the size of the photos. To do so, tap your profile picture in the upper-right corner of your screen and choose Photos Settings from the menu . Now click on Backup and tap on Backup quality . You can opt for the Storage Saver option to save some space. 2. Search for anything If you want to see random pictures of the sky or anything else you have on your phone, simply type them in the Search bar. You can even search for such photos through emojis. 3. Create Col

Apple customers are being targeted by cyber criminals in a new email scam claiming they could lose all of their photos and iCloud memories. The phishing email claims to be from Apple’s iCloud service, which stores photos , files and backups across all Apple devices, and states the recipient must “take action” or “your photos and videos will be deleted”. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Warning to parents over new social media app aimed at kids and teens. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> The scam, spotted by The Mirror, features an iCloud logo and prompts the victim to update their payment details, claiming their usual method has expired. It also warns the recipient that not updating their details could lead to memories stored on their iCloud service being automatically deleted. “Without iCloud space, you may not be able to store all of your data and files in the iCloud service,” the message states. Recipients are then prompted to click a button to upda

Experienced tech investors are hunting for undervalued opportunities in an over-valued space. At stake is how best to invest in the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which took a leap forward in November when Microsoft-backed OpenAI released its ChatGPT bot, without buying into a bubble. Shares in Nvidia, which makes computer chips that train AI systems, have almost doubled since ChatGPT's launch. The company's stock market value at roughly $940 billion is more than double that of Europe's Nestle. Nvidia surged some 25% on Thursday alone after forecasting a sales jump. Shares in loss-making AI software company C3.AI, which grabbed the stock ticker , have risen 149% this year and Palantir Technologies, which has launched its own AI platform, is up 91% year-to-date. Investors are chasing exposure to generative AI, the technology run by ChatGPT that learns from analysing vast datasets to generate text, images and computer code. Businesses are trying to use genera

Twitter crashed repeatedly on Wednesday during a highly anticipated live audio chat between Elon Musk, Twitter's owner, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, hampering the politician's announcement he is running for the Republican president ial nomination. Since Musk took over the social media platform in October, he has laid off thousands of employees including many engineers who were responsible for fixing software bugs. Current and former Twitter employees previously told Reuters the steep layoffs would put the platform at risk of crashing during times of high traffic. "We've got so many people here that I think we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign," said David Sacks, a venture capitalist and close friend of Musk, while attempting to start the event on Wednesday. Musk attributed the problems to the number of listeners and his large Twitter following. About 678,000 people tuned in to listen as Twitter suffered repeated crashes . The Spac

Microsoft has added a new AI assistant to Windows 11 called Windows Copilot, which will be available to use from the taskbar across all apps in June. Like Bing's AI chat, Copilot helps users by answering simple and complex questions. Since it is integrated with Windows, the AI assistant will help the user make changes to different technical settings and also achieve tasks like summarizing documents, suggesting music and more. In a blog announcement, Microsoft mentioned, "Once open, the Windows Copilot sidebar stays consistent across your apps, programs and windows, always available to act as your personal assistant . It makes every user a power user, helping you take action, customize your settings and seamlessly connect across your favourite apps." Read:  Netflix expands password sharing crackdown around the world Currently, Windows Copilot is a text-only tool, however, the company plans to make it a voice assistant as well. Windows Copilot will be available for

A judge dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk that claimed he cheated Twitter share holders several times last year in the course of buying the social media company for $44 billion. In a decision on Monday, US District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said plaintiff William Heresniak lacked standing to sue because he challenged "wrongs associated with" Musk's buyout, not the fairness of the buyout itself. Breyer said Heresniak did not show harm from Musk's belated disclosure of a 9.2% Twitter stake, which the suit said let him buy more share s at lower prices before the buyout was announced, or from the closing's taking place 1 1/2 months later than planned. The judge also found no proof that Musk helped two friends then on Twitter's board, co-founder Jack Dorsey and Silver Lake private equity firm managing partner Egon Durban, breach their fiduciary duties by favoring their own and Musk's interests. Breyer said letting Dor

Residents in one of Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs have allegedly been sent letters telling them they are “too wealthy”. The letter was supposedly recently sent to residents in Toorak, with the mystery sender only identifying themselves as “concerned friends”. “We’re concerned about the damage you’re doing to society,” the letter starts off. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> “You’re too wealthy, and that’s harming a lot of people.” The letter goes on to say that the residents should give away “a substantial portion” of their wealth to help fix inequality within society. Residents in Toorak were allegedly sent a letter telling them they were “too wealthy”. Credit: Twitter “Millions of people are struggling to pay their rents, mortgages, energy bills, and to afford Health food.” “They don’t have enough because you and others like you have too much. “That’s because resources are finite. The more you have, the less there is for others, and at the moment you’r

A number of tourists have been criticised online after they were captured on video racing to claim sunbed s at a pool hotel before it had even opened. A TikTok user by the name of Thomas Clifford, who was holidaying in Tenerife in Spain with his family, posted the video with the caption: “Sunbed wars. My wife told me that everyone races each morning to get sunbed s, I didn’t believe her!” Clifford shows his watch in the video, showing the time of 7:47am. A group of people with beach towels in their hands can be seen waiting for the hotel’s pool area to open. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Once the clock presumably hits 8am, the tourists are seen frantically running to secure a sunbed for the day by placing their towels down. In the comments of the video , Clifford said it was “chaos”, with people “throwing their towels off the top of the stairs”. Holidaymaker Thomas Clifford posted about the “sunbed wars” on TikTok. Credit: TikTok He wrote t

A team led by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and from the moon's surface, the US space agency said on Friday, a breakthrough for the company two years after it lost out to Elon Musk's SpaceX in another com Pet ition. Blue Origin plans to build its 52-foot (16-meter) tall Blue Moon lander in partnership with Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co, software firm Draper and robotics firm Astrobotic. NASA picked Blue Origin over a rival bid led by Leidos Inc-owned defense contract or Dynetics that also included Northrop Grumman Corp. NASA's decision to go with Bezos and Blue Origin will give it a second option for sending astronauts to the moon under its Artemis program. NASA awarded fellow billionaire Musk's SpaceX $3 billion in 2021 to build its Starship spacecraft to land astronauts on the lunar surface for the first time since the final Apollo mission in 1972. The first two Starship mission

The pioneering mummy blogger Heather Armstrong, who laid bare her struggles as a parent and her battles with depression and alcoholism on her site Dooce.com and on social media, has died at 47. Armstrong’s boyfriend, Pete Ashdown, told The Associated Press that he found her Tuesday night at their Salt Lake City home. She had two children with her former husband and business partner, Jon Armstrong, before she began Dooce in 2001 and built it into a lucrative career. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> She was one of the first and most popular mummy blogger s, writing frankly about her children, relationships and other challenges at a time that personal blogs were on the rise. She parlayed her successes with the blog, on Instagram and elsewhere into book deals, putting out a memoir in 2009, It Sucked and then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown and a Much Needed Margarita. That year, Armstrong appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and was on the Forb

Astronomers have captured the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed — a fireball 10 times brighter than any known supernova. The explosion , known as AT2021lwx, has been blazing for three years and is believed to have been triggered by a giant cloud of gas being consumed by a supermassive black hole. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: SpaceX rocket explodes minutes after takeoff. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Astronomers are still in the dark about the phenomenon and say more research is needed to properly understand it. A new study, which argued the gas cloud as the likely explanation, says the “extraordinary event” was stumbled upon by chance. An artist’s impression of a black hole pulling material off its companion star, forming a disk called an “accretion disk” around the black hole. Credit: John A. Paice University of Southampton research fellow Dr Philip Wiseman, who led the observations, said the flare-up was initially spotted in 2020. While

Twitter Inc on Thursday allowed users who subscribe to its Blue verification feature an early access to its encrypted messaging service. The social media platform, owned and run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, said the service was now available to verified users who have the latest version of the app installed. A Twitter Blue subscription, which has now become the basis for verification on the platform, starts at $8 per month, or $84 a year. "As Elon Musk said, when it comes to Direct Messages, the standard should be, if someone puts a gun to our heads, we still can't access your messages," the company said on a blog post. "We're not quite there yet, but we're working on it." Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-s-verified-users-get-early-access-to-encrypted-messaging-TheFOXposts-22120.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

ISLAMABAD: The social media apps including Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have been gradually restoring across Pakistan after almost six days of full and partial ban. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had suspended internet services and restricted access to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on the interior ministry’s instructions in the wake of violent protests sparked by the PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest. The authority had partially restored mobile internet services were across Pakistan after more than 72 hours of shutdown but social media apps were yet to work properly. It is pertinent to mention that the suspension of the internet services has incurred losses to the tune of Rs2.49 billion to Pakistan’s telecom sector. Also read:  Vandalism, internet shutdown causes Rs3.5b loss The suspension is affecting e-commerce, online services, home delivery and ride-hailing apps to a great extent. In Islamabad and Rawalpindi, nearly 150,000 bike riders have been affected

Elon Musk has named former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO, as the company tries to reverse a plunge in ad revenue at the social media platform. Yaccarino has been a key figure in modernizing the advertising Business at NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast Corp. Here are some facts about the incoming Twitter CEO: AD Chief at NBCU Yaccarino spent a little less than 12 years at NBCUniversal (NBCU), where she was most recently the chairperson of global advertising and partnerships. During her time with the company, she helmed the media network's advertising strategy across television and digital properties and was also instrumental in the launch of ad-supported streaming service Peacock in 2020. Nearly 20 years at Turner Entertainment Before NBCU, Yaccarino was at Turner Entertainment for about two decades in the roles of chief operating officer and executive vice president across its advertising sales, marketing and acquisitions

KARACHI: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were inaccessible in Pakistan on Saturday after having been temporarily restored late on Friday, Reuters witnesses said. The Ministry of Interior suspended mobile broadband services across the country and blocked access to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter on Tuesday night amid unrest after former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested by the country’s anti-graft agency. The social media giants were available again on Friday night but on Saturday were again inaccessible, the witnesses said. The shutdown has resulted in a loss of economic productivity and digital services, including digital payments. Read more: Social media blackout boosts Imran Khan's momentum Owing to the suspension of the internet services, the telecommunication companies in Pakistan witnessed a loss of Rs2.46 billion in revenue, which also means a decrease of Rs861 million in tax revenue for the government as well. According to an official of a telecom company, the mo

The AI-powered news app, Artifact, has a new feature that allows users to follow individual writers . With the help of the latest update, Artifact will prioritise the follow ed writers on the feed. Users can also opt to get notifications when those writers post anything on the app. Like Twitter, writers can also get a verified tick mark on their accounts to avoid confusion. Although the feature is currently available for iOS, as per The Verge, it will soon be launched for Android. Read More Elon Musk says he has found new Twitter CEO Writers can also see the reach of their articles. They will be able to see if anyone has linked their publication. The new update of Artifact makes it similar to Twitter. Considering how Twitter has lost its charm, Artifact has an excellent opportunity to grow. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/artifact-now-allows-users-to-follow-individual-writers-TheFOXposts-22154.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign

Twitter is rolling out its encrypted direct messages, promised to users for quite some time, but with some limitations for users . The feature is currently only available to verified users and Twitter Blue subscribers, who can use the privacy encryption for DMs between two verified users. According to the company, the encryption won't support group messages, or any kind of media, except links. Moreover, users won't be able to report encrypted messages but would have to report the account as a whole. The level of privacy encryption offered by Twitter makes it less secure in comparison to other apps that have the same feature. The company noted that “currently, we do not offer protections against man-in-the-middle attacks” and suggested that it can access encrypted DMs without the participants knowing. Read: OpenAI CEO to testify in US Senate next week amid questions about Technology “If someone–for example, a malicious insider, or Twitter itself as a result of a compuls

Amazon, Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and other non-European Union cloud service providers looking to secure an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data can only do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company, according to an EU draft document seen by Reuters. US tech giants and others involved in the joint venture can only have a minority stake, and employees that have access to EU data would have to undergo specific screening and have to be located in the 27-country bloc, the document said. The document adds the cloud service must be operated and maintained from the EU, and all cloud service customer data stored and processed in the EU and that EU laws take precedence over non-EU laws regarding the cloud service provider. The latest draft proposal from EU cybersecurity agency ENISA concerns an EU certification scheme (EUCS) that would vouch for the cybersecurity of cloud services and determine how governments and companies in the bloc select a vendor for their busin

Vietnam is preparing to make it mandatory for social media users of both local and foreign platforms to verify their identity in a bid to rein in online scams, state media reported on Monday. The measure, part of the Telecommunications Law Amendment to be issued by the end of this year, will enable law enforcement agencies to track down offenders using social media to break the law, state-run Voice of Vietnam (VOV) newspaper reported. "There are times the authorities can identify social media account holders that violate the laws but cannot track them down because those criminals use cross-border applications," VOV cited information deputy minister Nguyen Thanh Lam as saying. "Unverified accounts, no matter on local or foreign platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, will be dealt with." According to the report, both individual and organisational users would be subject to the measure. However not all providers currently offer identity verification in

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance halted bitcoin withdrawals on Monday for the second time in a day, citing large volumes. "Our team is currently working on a fix and will reopen ( bitcoin ) withdrawal s as soon as possible," the company said in a tweet. "There is a large volume of withdrawal transactions from Binance still pending as our set fees did not anticipate the recent surge in (bitcoin) network gas fees," Binance said, referring to payments made to cyrpto miners who process transactions on the blockchain. Earlier in the day it had paused withdrawals for about an hour. In March, Binance, the world's large st crypto exchange suspended deposits and withdrawal s citing tech issues. Bitcoin was down about 1% to $28,191, its lowest in nearly a week.   Source: https://thefoxposts.com/binance-pauses-bitcoin-withdrawals-citing-large-volumes-TheFOXposts-21553.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Ca

Google has announced that it will now use passkeys across all its services in order to move forward to a more 'passwordless future'. Users can choose to log into their Google accounts and use passkey logins alongside passwords and 2-step verification methods. Google is striving to eliminate putting in passwords altogether, which has also prompted Apple to follow suit as well. Passkeys are cryptographic keys associated with a device to confirm the identity of the user, consisting of a public and private pair. The former is registered with the service and the latter is stored securely in the user's device. The exchange of keys between private and public will confirm the user's identity and matching records. The user's device ensures user identity confirmation using biometrics, like Face ID or Touch ID. According to Google, with passkeys users can access various accounts by just unlocking their phone through biometrics. While passkey support was available fo

Two Queensland men have been slammed for wading into the croc-infested Jardine River in Cape York with a gun. A TikTok video, posted a month ago, has almost 150,000 views and shows the pair wading in water up to their hips. One man appears to be holding a can of drink, while the other is brandishing a gun. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Queensland men slammed for wading into croc-infested waters at Cape York with a gun. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> The song ‘Dumb Ways To Die’, originally created by Metro Trains Melbourne to promote rail safety but now used as a meme online, accompanied the video. “Checking the depth of croc infested Jardine River,” the caption of the video reads. Comments reveal the pair were checking to see if they could cross the river themselves instead of catching the barge. Two men have been slammed for wading into croc- infested waters in North Queensland with a gun. Credit: TikTok Many criticised the men’s actions. “Two tough thinki

Google is warning billions of users to update their Chrome browsers immediately after more than a dozen security flaws were reported, with many caught by external bug bounty hunters. The new Google Chrome 113 update released on Tuesday enables security fixes for the bugs, and includes “stability and performance improvement,” Google said in a blog post. Of the 15 flaws, 10 were reported by external researchers from Google’s Bug Hunters program, which rewards worldwide security engineers and researchers for flagging problems with Google products. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> The tech giant released $US30,500 ($A45,000) in cash bounties ranging from $US1000 to $US7500 to the external researchers who reported Google Chrome flaws and contributed to the fixes from August 2022 to February 2023. Most security flaws were listed as medium to low risk, though some detected by Google’s internal security team were listed as high risk. Details are curre

 OpenAI is introducing what one employee called an " incognito mode" for its hit chatbot ChatGPT that does not save users’ conversation History or use it to improve its artificial intelligence, the company said Tuesday. The San Francisco-based startup also said it planned a "ChatGPT Business" subscription with additional data controls. The move comes as scrutiny has grown over how ChatGPT and other chatbots it inspired manage hundreds of millions of users’ data, commonly used to improve, or "train", AI. Italy last month banned ChatGPT for possible privacy violations, saying OpenAI could resume the service if it met demands such as giving consumers tools to object to the processing of their data. France and Spain also began probing the service. Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, told Reuters the company was compliant with European privacy law and is working to assure regulators. The new features did not arise from Italy's ChatGP