Morning Brew - August 05, 2024

That’s a lot of layoffs.

“The amount of computing needed to train Llama 4 will likely be almost 10x more than what we used to train Llama 3,” Zuckerberg said.

Coinbase quarterly transaction revenue was $781 million, down 27% from the first three months of 2024.

This year’s halving, coupled with increased global hash rates and equipment failures, greatly affected Marathon Digital’s output, it said.

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DigiCert is warning that it will be mass-revoking SSL/TLS certificates due to a bug in how the company verified if a customer owned or operated a domain and requires impacted customers to reissue certificates within 24 hours.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said hackers are trying to exploit the bugs, giving federal civilian agencies until August 19 to patch them.

A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation

You may not have heard of these ransomware criminals, but according to threat intelligence researchers, they’ve hit a $75 million ransom payday. Meet the Dark Angels.

The UK data watchdog says weak passwords and unpatched software were responsible for the hack.

Over a million domains are at risk from the Sitting Ducks attack, hijacked by cybercriminals exploiting DNS weaknesses.

What once was a strategic, long-term partnership between the world’s biggest software company and an AI startup has morphed into something more complicated.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI is working on an agreement with the U.S. AI Safety Institute to give early access to its next flagship model for evaluations.

The European Union’s risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence has come into force starting from today.

Magellan AI released its Quarterly Benchmark Report for Q2 2024, which noted that podcast advertising continues its upward trajectory, with spending increasing 22% year-over-year in Q2 2024. The report covers podcast advertising data from the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany, and Australia, analyzing English, Spanish, and German content. The company employs AI-driven ad detection […]

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The new features in Google Maps and Waze aims to make apps more useful and relevant for users

Update also improves AI image features, adds OneAuth support on iOS.