Promises Made: Qantas Eyes Resumption of Perth – London Flights
Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has promised Qantas CEO Alan Joyce he will open up Perth once Western Australia hits its 90% vaccination target. In turn, this will allow Qantas…
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Cybersecurity firm Mandiant says it has “high confidence” that Belarus is partially responsible for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation in some EU states (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet)
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant says it has “high confidence” that Belarus is partially responsible for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation in some EU states — Mandiant says the government is likely to…
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Robust Intelligence, which helps businesses stress test their AI models, raises a $30M Series B led by Tiger Global (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Robust Intelligence, which helps businesses stress test their AI models, raises a $30M Series B led by Tiger Global — Robust Intelligence, an AI startup that helps businesses stress test…
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Report: March was Twitch’s biggest month to date, with 2B+ hours watched, helped by “sleep streaming,” where popular streamers film themselves while sleeping (Thomas Wilde/GeekWire)
Report: March was Twitch’s biggest month to date, with 2B+ hours watched, helped by “sleep streaming,” where popular streamers film themselves while sleeping — Twitch hit another viewership record last…
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Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann’s new crypto startup TipTop raises a $23M Series A from a16z, Sam Altman, Naval Ravikant, and others (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann’s new crypto startup TipTop raises a $23M Series A from a16z, Sam Altman, Naval Ravikant, and others — Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann’s new crypto startup TipTop…
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A look at Tencent’s TJ Sports, which surpassed $152M in total revenue since 2019 and runs the League of Legends Pro League, the largest esports league by size (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
A look at Tencent’s TJ Sports, which surpassed $152M in total revenue since 2019 and runs the League of Legends Pro League, the largest esports league by size — –…
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At Pwn2Own, two Dutch researchers discovered a vulnerability in Zoom that could allow hackers to execute an RCE attack; Zoom says it is working on a fix (Pieter Arntz/Malwarebytes Labs)
At Pwn2Own, two Dutch researchers discovered a vulnerability in Zoom that could allow hackers to execute an RCE attack; Zoom says it is working on a fix — Two Dutch…
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OpenAI says InstructGPT, its new GPT-3 version, is better at following instructions, producing less offensive language, less misinformation, and fewer mistakes (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
OpenAI says InstructGPT, its new GPT-3 version, is better at following instructions, producing less offensive language, less misinformation, and fewer mistakes — OpenAI has trained its flagship language model to…
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How Tim Cook’s supply chain expertise and diplomacy helped him grow Apple’s annual revenues from $108B in 2011 to $365B in 2021, with profits up 3.7x to $95B (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
How Tim Cook’s supply chain expertise and diplomacy helped him grow Apple’s annual revenues from $108B in 2011 to $365B in 2021, with profits up 3.7x to $95B — Two…
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Bengaluru-based StockGro, a social investment startup with a gamified app for learning about and participating in stock markets, raises a $32M Series A (Sneha Shah/The Economic Times)
Bengaluru-based StockGro, a social investment startup with a gamified app for learning about and participating in stock markets, raises a $32M Series A — Mumbai: Social investment startup StockGro has…
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