The EU regulates, Kremlin thanks.
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Clearsky got a nice UI update. It’s a nice tool to find users and explore blocks etc.
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“Sales and marketing teams can use Tavus to send personalized videos to prospects at scale, or maybe a product team can create individualized walkthrough videos for onboarding new customers — all via simple text-based prompts that leverage the previously created digital replica.”
TechCrunch
Generative AI video startup Tavus raises $18M to bring face and voice cloning to any app | TechCrunch
Generative AI startup Tavus raised $18M and opened its platform to developers looking to enable "digital replica" creation in their own apps.
Expect a sudden surge of suspects
”The bill makes it possible for those under criminal investigation, on trial or already convicted to get the charges dropped or sentence suspended if they sign a contract to fight in Russia’s army.”
Human Rights in Ukraine
Agree to kill Ukrainians and Russia will free all but political prisoners
Russia is seeking a new source of ‘recruits’ for its war against Ukraine, as well as a way of utilizing those ‘veterans’ who have committed...
”The median monthly revenue an app generates after 12 months is under $50 USD.
…only 17.2% of apps will reach even $1,000 in monthly revenue, but after they hit that point, the odds of them growing further increase. For instance, 59% of the apps that reach $1,000 will go on to reach $2,500 and 60% of the apps that reach $1,000 will make it to $5,000. But what may be more surprising is that only 3.5% of apps will reach $10,000 in revenue — the figure that an indie developer may need to hit in order to devote themselves full-time to app development or their mobile-first startup.”
TechCrunch
Most subscription mobile apps don't make money, new report shows | TechCrunch
Investors know that most startups fail, but something that may be less understood is how few mobile apps actually make money. According to a new an...
Is it Kimmel, De Niro or Threads?
160m users and only a few likes and comments
”If you want to ask Google’s AI chatbot a question about an upcoming election, you will have to do it from a country where there are no elections taking place.”
TechCrunch
Google won't let you use its Gemini AI to answer questions about an upcoming election in your country | TechCrunch
Google has started rolling out restrictions on Gemini for election-related queries globally.
”The European Commission's use of Microsoft software breached EU privacy rules and the bloc's executive also failed to implement adequate safeguards for personal data transferred to non-EU countries”
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-commissions-use-microsoft-software-breached-privacy-rules-watchdog-says-2024-03-11/
Seems to be a lot of turbulence with this train wreck
”Apple will allow iOS developers located in the European Union to distribute apps from the web, rather then via its App Store.”
TechCrunch
Apple to allow web distribution for iOS apps in latest DMA tweaks | TechCrunch
Apple will allow iOS developers located in the European Union to distribute apps from the web, rather than from its App Store. The option, which it...
”The attacks are intended on the one hand for public consumption in Russia, to "show" that the authorities there are disrupting life in Western countries, and on the other hand are an attempt to sow confusion and instability in those societies, in the context of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine”
ERR
RIA: Estonia's state institutions hit by largest cyberattack to date
Many of Estonia's state institutions were over the weekend hit by the largest wave of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks seen in Est...
”Western allies can work around toxic decision-making in small countries such as Austria, Hungary, and Slovakia. But Germany is too big to ignore. Germany clearly needs a new security policy. But the rest of us need a new policy toward Germany.”
CEPA
Germany: The Weakest Link
German incompetence and dithering endangers Western military, intelligence, and diplomatic support for Ukraine against Russia's invasion.
Russia and Iran colluding
“The requests have picked up since the beginning of the situation in the Red Sea by around 40 per cent,” DHL said of customer inquiries about rail. “The overwhelming amount is going through Russia.”
Client Challenge
”The fact that the US and UK (and maybe France) would launch between 100-1,000 conventional cruise missiles against Russian targets in Ukraine if they used one nuke in Ukraine”
The i Paper
How the UK and US would respond to Russian nuclear strike
The US and UK would launch 100-1,000 conventional cruise missiles if Russia used one nuclear weapon in Ukraine, says an ex-Nato official
”OpenAI could use TikTok to help train its AI models if a partner such as Kotick could raise the capital for such an acquisition.”
Dance monkey, Dance!
https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-the-new-effort-to-ban-tiktok-caught-fire-with-lawmakers-7cd3f980
”You need your first installation to happen at a Tesla Service Center to attach the tent’s brakets, which support the base of the tent, to the Cybertruck’s vault side rails.”
Electrek
Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled
Tesla has started shipping its ‘Basecamp’, a $3,000 tent designed for the back of the Cybertruck. It’s a bit of...
”The Kremlin’s messaging has an extraordinary reach: In the first year of the Ukraine war alone, posts by Kremlin-linked accounts were viewed at least 16 billion times by Westerners.
Every one of those views is part of a full-spectrum attack against the West designed not just to undermine support for Ukraine, but to actively damage Western democratic systems.”
Foreign Policy
The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia’s Information War
Paralyzed by free speech concerns, Western governments are loath to act.
”RBI made €1.3bn in profit in Russia last year, where it employed 9,942 people in 490 retail branches.
It also took part in a Russian scheme on loan perks for Russian military conscripts…
RBI is one of eight leading EU banks still in Russia.
The others are: Dutch lender ING, Germany's Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank, Hungary's OTP Bank, Italy's Intesa SanPaolo and Unicerdit, and Sweden's SEB.”
EUobserver
EU banks in Russia react to US sanctions threat
The US has threatened Austria
”F-35As being able to deliver nuclear strikes will add major credibility to NATO's nuclear deterrence posture in Europe. The aircraft's unique ability to pierce enemy air defense networks and defend itself on the way to its target will be a standing capability Russia has never had to deal with.
…The situation has even prompted officials in Poland to say they want to join NATO’s nuclear weapons-sharing program. ”
The War Zone
F-35A Is Officially Certified For Nuclear Strike
Confirmation that the F-35A is cleared to carry B61-12 nuclear bombs has come — a revelation that will complicate Russia's defensive planning.
”Russian state-sponsored hackers had been spying on the email accounts of some members of its senior leadership team. Now, Microsoft is disclosing that the attack, from the same group behind the SolarWinds attack, has also led to some source code being stolen in what Microsoft describes as an ongoing attack.”
The Verge
Microsoft says Russian hackers stole source code after spying on its executives
Hackers originally gained access last year.