Data security startup Cyera continues on a growth tear. On Thursday, it announced a $400 million Series F funding round at a $9 billion valuation. The New York-based outfit has now raised over $1.7 billion. This funding comes just six months after the previous $540 million round at…
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The Pioneer Sphera can be installed into a single-DIN space in your dash. I fully believe that once someone hears Dolby Atmos music in their car, they won’t want anything else. The sonic envelopment turns your car cabin into an immersive, engaging experience. Every time I hear a…
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the country will take action against X following reports that the platform’s Grok AI chatbot is generating sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors, as reported earlier by The Telegraph and Sky News. “It’s disgusting,” Starmer says during an interview with Greatest Hits…
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io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Mother’s Hip†by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff. Enjoy! Mother’s Hip By Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff High above the Amazon Rainforest,…
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It has been over a week now since users on X began en masse using the AI model Grok to undress people, including children, and the Elon Musk-owned platform has done next to nothing to address it. Part of the reason for that is the fact that, currently,…
Read MoreFor the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI chatbot. An alarming range of women have been affected by the non-consensual nudes, including prominent models and actresses, as well as news figures, crime victims, and even world leaders. A…
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In the spirit of putting people onto new series before it becomes unfashionable to claim you were on the ground floor before they blow up in popularity, we’ve decided to put a manga series we previously recommended under the microscope and highlight MAD, a manga that’s well, mad—and…
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With attention spans only getting shorter, Disney is looking to lock in more eyeballs on Disney+ by borrowing from TikTok’s playbook. The studio announced Wednesday that it plans to roll out short-form, vertical video content to the Disney+ app in the U.S. later this year. “The experience will…
Read MoreIf you’ve been running several email accounts through your Gmail, you might want to double-check your settings this month—that’s because Google is ending support for the POP3 protocol that can sync emails from third-party accounts. And while there are some other solutions, they don’t work quite the same.…
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Zcash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency based around the use of zero-knowledge proofs, saw its price fall more than 20% overnight following the abrupt resignation of its entire core development team from Electric Coin Company (ECC), according to an announcement by CEO Josh Swihart. The team cited constructive discharge, pointing…
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