Monthly Archives: April 2024

Meta AI now has a dedicated website for chats: meta.ai, expands to 12 other countries

Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) announced today the expansion of its AI assistant, Meta AI, to over a dozen new countries outside the US. This update makes Meta AI available in English in countries like Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Singapore. Here is the full list of the countries where Meta AI is being released:  Meta AI has been improved with […]

Xbox Mastercard now available for everyone in the US, Alaska and Hawaii

Last year, Microsoft first announced the Xbox Mastercard under early access program. Today, Microsoft announced that Xbox Mastercard is now available for everyone in the US, Alaska and Hawaii. Xbox Mastercard offers rewards redeemable for digital games, add-ons, and other Xbox ecosystem purchases. Also, this card carries no annual fee. Benefits of Xbox Mastercard: Also, […]

Meta releases Llama 3, the most powerful open LLM model

Meta today announced the release of its next-generation large language model (LLM), Llama 3. According to standard benchmarks, LLama 3’s 8B and 70B parameter models are the most powerful model of its size which is available in the open for free. Meta claims that Llama 3 performs better than Claude Sonnet, Mistral Medium, and GPT-3.5. […]

Google unifies Android and Pixel teams

Google has announced a major restructuring of its hardware and software teams. The newly established ‘Platforms and Devices’ team, led by seasoned tech executive Rick Osterloh, will bring together Google’s Pixel devices and Android operating system under one umbrella. Before this, Osterloh was responsible for Google’s hardware division, overseeing the development and strategy for products […]

Vivaldi browser joins Google Chrome in offering Windows on ARM build

Vivaldi today unveiled a preview version of its browser tailored for Windows on ARM devices. The move follows Google’s recent release of its Chrome browser optimized for the ARM architecture, signaling growing support for the energy-efficient platform. In a blog post acknowledging the experimental nature of the release, Vivaldi stated: “These builds are not yet […]

OfflRouter Malware Evades Detection in Ukraine for Almost a Decade

Select Ukrainian government networks have remained infected with a malware called OfflRouter since 2015. Cisco Talos said its findings are based on an analysis of over 100 confidential documents that were infected with the VBA macro virus and uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning platform. “The documents contained VBA code to drop and run an […]