Author: Hunter

An alleged job scam, led by “Aiden” from “OpenAI,” recruited workers in Bangladesh for months before disappearing overnight, according to FTC complaints obtained by WIRED. Read more

Today is the third anniversary of Valve’s Steam Deck, the handheld gaming PC that all but created the market for handheld gaming PCs. It was a mess to start! But three years later, The Verge has data showing how it has dominated the nascent market. While Valve told us in November 2023 that it had… Read more

A spate of abductions has sent crypto executives and wealthy investors in search of ways to protect themselves. Read more

En el marco de su plan de transformación digital, el Gobierno de Navarra buscaba una solución integral para gestionar sus datos de manera eficiente y segura. Así, de la mano de Telefónica Tech, el Ejecutivo implantó IBM Cloud Pak for Data, creando un hub de datos que centraliza las fuentes de datos, simplificando su acceso… Read more

Prosegur apuesta por la transformación digital del puesto de trabajo de la mano de Telefónica en sus filiales de la Península Ibérica y Latinoamérica. En virtud del acuerdo alcanzado con Telefónica, la compañía de seguridad incorporará la solución basada en inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa de la operadora -Smart Workplace All in One- para la gestión… Read more

A free version of Gemini Code Assist, Google’s enterprise-focused AI coding tool, is now available globally for solo developers. Google announced today that Gemini Code Assist for individuals is launching in public preview, aiming to make coding assistants “with the latest AI capabilities” more accessible for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and startups. “Now anyone can more… Read more

In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally: the man behind one of the biggest insider trading cases of all time. Read more

Google just made AI coding assistance free for everyone. With 180,000 completions per month and deep IDE integration, Gemini Code Assist could change how developers write and review code. Here’s what you need to know. Read more

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Opaque algorithms meant to analyze worker productivity have been rapidly spreading through our workplaces, as detailed in a new must-read piece by Rebecca Ackermann, published Monday in MIT Technology Review.  Since the… Read more

To the best of my knowledge, I am not a robot. And yet, like other humans who spend too much time on the internet, I’m routinely asked to prove this fact by clicking on crosswalks and motorcycles in photos, deciphering distorted numbers and letters, and checking little white boxes that affirm my non-robot status. These… Read more