Nvidia rivals focus on building a different kind of chip to power AI products

Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialised computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which dominates the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom

Apple releases security patches for zero-day vulnerabilities

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported the flaws

Bitcoin breaches $94,000 for the first time

The growing excitement has taken the global cryptocurrency market’s value above $3 trillion to a record high, based on analytics and data aggregator CoinGecko

Microsoft announces hacking contest with $4 million in rewards

The contest is open from November 19, 2024 until January 19, 2025

Tech companies settle lawsuit alleging they overcharged the U.S. Army

Two technology companies will pay the U.S. government $2 million each to settle a lawsuit that alleged the companies fraudulently inflated the price of computers and other hardware sold to the U.S. Army

Microsoft Teams to get real time language interpretation, note-taking agent, and quick summaries of files

Microsoft, during its Ignite 2024 event, announced a range of generative AI-powered features for MS Teams

Elon Musk’s X adds Twitch as defendant in lawsuit over advertising ‘boycott’

Elon Musk’s X has added live-streaming service Twitch to its lawsuit claiming dozens of companies conspired with an advertising industry group to boycott the social media platform

Android 16 preview rolled out for developers

According to Google’s timeline, the first beta update for Android 16 should be available in January 2025 ahead of the public release in April

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Meta to appeal CCI’s ₹213 crore fine for WhatsApp privacy policy change

The messaging platform had changed its privacy policy in 2021, and urged users to accept updated data sharing terms to continue using the app. Meta insists that there was nothing untoward in the change