Today's Technology News
Governments and the tech industry around the world have been scrambling in recent years to curb the rise of online scamming and cybercrime. Yet even with progress on digital defenses, enforcement, and deterrence, the ransomware attacks, business email compromises, and malware infections keep on coming. Over the past decade, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has forged its own strategies, both technical and legal, to investigate scams, take down criminal infrastructure, and block malicious traffic. Read more
My Not-So-Perfect Holiday Shopping Excursion With A.I. Chatbots
With Shopify, Mercari and other retailers rolling out chatbots to help buyers, this holiday shopping season is the first to be powered by A.I. Read more
The ultimate app for reading the internet
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 18, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. This week, I've been combing this list for new board games to try, reading about the NFL's obsession with ping pong and the rise of chess influencers and the wacky history of Yahoo Pipes, watching Lupe Fiasco thoroughly explain how rap works, testing Anytype as a Notion alternative, trying to figure out how to justify buying myself a Lego Polaroid, and adding Us to all my words on Threads to welcome my European friends. Continue reading...
Vera Molnar, considered the godmother of generative art, dies at 99
Vera Molnar, considered the godmother of generative art for her computer-aided paintings and drawings that started in the 1960s, died on December 7 at age 99. Experimenting with algorithms, she began to employ the principles of computation in her work even before she gained access to an actual computer. Read more
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