A couple of weeks ago a Redditor posting under the name levonbinsh on the r/MediaSynthesis subreddit revealed that he’d fallen in love with GPT-2, the controversial text generator developed by OpenAI. Levonbinsh describes himself as a lonely person who “passed through a lot of phases,” including being ‘red-pilled,’ joining the incel movement, and at one point identifying with ‘Men Going Their Own Way,’ after spending a lifetime (he’s 23) sexless and without a girlfriend....

The hashtag, first made viral in Hollywood, ushered in a new era of feminist activism, with hopes to fundamentally shift society around the globe — but thanks to India’s judiciary, Facebook could unravel a lot of the progress made in the country, while also putting survivors at risk. As reported by HuffPost today, The Delhi High Court has ordered Facebook to reveal the identities behind the anonymous account, “Scene and Herd....

Thomas Olunloyo, CEO of Legal & General Reinsurance, said blockchain suited “the long-term nature of annuities business as it allows data and transactions to be signed, recorded and maintained in a permanent and secure nature over the lifetime of these contracts, which can span over 50 years.” For now, L&G is releasing the blockchain platform outside its core markets of Britain and the US, but a spokesperson said the system could be made available in these territories in the future....

This is the 12th investment in Reliance Jio in the last 11 weeks, taking the tally to $15.5 billion. Jio Platforms has raised more money in 2020 than all of India’s startups combined last year. Jio is India’s biggest mobile network provider with more than 388 million customers on board. Jio Platform is an umbrella company for its digital businesses including the carrier. Intel Capital invests in startups with a focus on 5G and communication, AI, and next-gen computing....

— Windows (@Windows) July 1, 2019 As you can see, the 13-second clip appears to be a teaser for Windows 1.0 – and that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. The inaugural version of Windows was released in November of 1985. And nearly 34 years later we’ve survived the horror that was Windows ME and Windows Vista to finally arrive at Windows 10. It seems unlikely Microsoft is going to re-release Windows 1....

If you’ve never heard of ITIL, then you’ve probably never had to venture too deeply into the IT service realm…and admittedly, ITIL is pretty deep-in-the-weeds stuff. For the uninitiated, ITIL has been the predominant framework for handling business IT management for years. And after almost a decade of waiting, the much-anticipated latest update, ITIL 4, dropped last year. But if you have any aspirations of working in high-stakes business IT administration, then ITIL 4 needs to be in your skillset....

The move will see tech-focused fund Silver Lake invest $1 billion in Twitter directly, while Elliott Management enters a “co-operation agreement” with Twitter to be disclosed at a later date. Twitter will then use that money as part of a $2 billion share repurchase scheme, according to the related press release. Execs from both Silver Lake and Elliott Management will also be awarded seats on Twitter’s board of directors. [Read: Trump’s retweet with doctored Biden video earns Twitter’s first ‘manipulated media’ label] Last week, Hard Fork reported that Paul Singer, the billionaire founder and CEO of Elliott Management, had been pushing to oust Twitter’s founder....

— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) March 12, 2020 According to LEGO, this won’t be your traditional set. Instead it says it intends to try and replicate the feel of video game platforming in the physical world: “The new line will let kids experience the playful world of Super Mario like never before. Super Mario will be brought to life in the physical LEGO world and new levels of challenge and styles of play will be part of the iconic LEGO experience enjoyed by generations....

According to the vid creators, both YouTube’s algorithms and human reviewers single out content with words like “gay,” “lesbian,” etc, and put it behind an age-restriction gate. Age-restricted videos aren’t eligible for monetization, meaning the creators can’t make money from them. Age-restriction barriers are intended to be for potentially vulgar or offensive content, but the creators allege YouTube applies them to their videos strictly for their LGBTQ+ content. Bria Kam and Chrissy Chambers, of the channel BriaAndChrissy, claim YouTube has diminished their monthly revenue from $3,500 to $500 by doing this....

Artificial intelligence has come a long way since its inception. We are at the brink of a massive change where world leaders are constantly discussing whether AI will take over the world and start controlling us. Even though it might not seem possible at the moment, there are plenty of theories that suggest the deadly impact of AI in the future. And who knows, the coming generation might have AI take the leadership role....

And the latest entrant to the pack? LimeWire. Yep, that file-sharing service where you got your MP3s in high school. Now, it’s making a comeback as a… digital collectible service in the music space? Shockingly, there’s a crypto element to it too. Who would’ve thought? Anyway, we’ll talk about all that later. But first, a bit of context. A brief history of LimeWire The 2000s were an era that saw a ton of peer-to-peer file-sharing services launching....

French President Emmanuel Macron wants to build “a European metaverse” to challenge US and Chinese tech giants. The EU’s digital chief, Margrethe Vestager, meanwhile, is mulling new antitrust regulation. But their ambitions are a long way from being realized. “The reality is there is no European big tech player of relevance in that whole metaverse future,” says Rolf Illenberger, the cofounder of Munich’s VRdirect, a virtual reality platform for enterprises....

But let me break some news to you: after over 40 years in business, I’ve realized that money is everywhere. You only need to reach out for it and let it flow on the path of least resistance. The truth is that if you build the right business, sell the right product to the right customer, at the right price, and in the right way, you can build up a successful million-dollar company in just a few months....

Information technology means a lot of different things to a lot of different organizations these days. Some may be focused on transitioning all of their existing operations to the cloud. Others might be plagued by cybersecurity problems. Still more could be trying to build out customized apps for streamlining efficiency and performance across their entire employee network. Regardless of their direction, few organizations have the resources to employ IT personnel tasked to each individual initiative....

Nyx, a cluster of roughly 250 stars recently discovered within our galaxy, display velocities showing they originated outside our galaxy. This stellar stream likely arrived as part of a dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way long ago. As the cluster approached the Milky Way, this family of stars was stretched out by gravity from our galaxy, pulling the cluster like taffy. The GAIA spacecraft, launched in 2013, is on a mission to create 3D maps of a billion stars in and beyond the Milky Way....

Case in point: Meizu’s new 16Xs checks off almost everything you’d want in a flagship phone in a device that starts around $245 USD. Some of the notable specs (some of which beat more expensive phones) A 6.2-inch Samsung-made OLED panel with super thin bezels (90 percent screen-to-body-ratio) Triple-camera setup with a 48MP primary camera sensor, super-wide angle lens, and depth sensor In-display fingerprint reader 6GB of RAM and 64/128GB of storage 4,000 mAh battery...

[Read: Twitter tests labeling and correcting ‘harmfully misleading’ tweets by politicians] The Seattle-based tech giant said it plans to release the final version of the app later this year. However, it will show off a preview at the RSA Conference next week: Along with this, Microsoft also released a public preview of Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) for Linux. Last year, Microsoft released a version of its protection software for macOS....

The flaws — indexed as CVE-2019-1367 and CVE-2019-1255 — made it possible for a remote attacker to take control of a target system and trigger a denial of service in Microsoft Defender, the antivirus app that ships with Windows software. Of the two, the former is a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer affecting versions 9, 10, and 11 and is the more severe one. The remote code execution flaw, if exploited successfully, could enable an attacker to gain the same user permissions as the current user and execute arbitrary code....

The filing doesn’t reveal much we didn’t already know about the earbuds, although it does include the product’s (sparse) manual. The document confirms the pairing process — surprise, hold down a button for a few seconds — as well as the controls: I went ears-on with the Surface Buds when they were announced in October. I appreciated the large touch area for gestures, and despite their bulky looks, I found them surprisingly comfortable....

Let’s Encrypt is one of the authorities that issues these HTTPS certificates to sites to make sure that traffic to that website passes through a safe route. The organization has issued more than 1 billion certificates and it serves more than 192 million sites today. Since there are multiple certificate authorities, some sites might face compatibility issues if your browser or app doesn’t support a particular certificate. Android users with devices running version 7....